#16 Everyone Has Limits

Posted on Tue Nov 15th, 2022 @ 4:20pm by Captain Sean Silk & Chief Warrant Officer Niraasha "Nira" Whisperwind & Lieutenant JG Ainkara "Kara" {Meji}

Mission: BUGS OH NO!!
Location: Sickbay
Timeline: current/somewhere in between

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Doctor Silk was hard at work seeing to the incoming civilians. Long had her own hands busy so they worked on separate sides of Sickbay to see to more patients in a quicker manner. He had stabalized those who needed it and then dug into burns, cuts, scrapes, etc. Then, after the Romulan Bird of Prey did its damage they had crew coming in, or beamed directly to Sickbay; some wounded, some deceased. It was heart wrenching working on some of them, since the quarterly physicals had just been finished and he had personally spoken to a few of the dead just a few days ago, face to face. The main entrance opened and in walked Nira and the Voran, Ainkara. By the set to her face Sean could tell that Nira was unhappy about something, something that bothered her enough to crush her spirit. Her ears and eyebrows seemed to droop a little more and her eyes showed that whatever was weighing her heart down was serious. Silk called over another medical officer to attend patients before moving over to Nira and Ainkara, gathering them in a quiet corner.

"Are you two okay?"

"Seh seh and neh neh," said Nira, knowing that Sean knew it meant 'yes and no'.

Ainkara began to do charades, motioning to Nira here and there, a form of sign language. The best that Silk could make of it was that she was saying that Nira had a broken heart. Broken by what was still unclear. "What is bothering you, mate?" Being Puazi, being called mate was par for the course.

"It has become too much. Too much fighting, too much violence and death in this Milky Way. I return home, to Andromeda and to my tribe. To live on Puaza in peace and serenity." Nira's eyes were set, her ears and eyebrows perking back up as her tone said she was not going to reverse that decision.

Many a night after a raucous lovemaking session and easing back in her pool in her room, Nira had confided in him the amount of violence that Humans and others still held, even when they call themselves evolved and advanced. Every day she sensed the hatred for the Romulans from certain members of the crew, and that was understandable from a certain point of view. But, it still did not take away from the fact that according to its own rules Starfleet did not cater to bigotry of any kind, yet it was on display every time Romulans were mentioned. Did they not see that it was their culture, for Romulans to be this way? From all the history she had read since donning a Starfleet uniform and rank she had come to see that the relations between the Romulan Empire and the Federation had thawed a great deal. Whereas the Romulans used to not speak to them at all, and only on audio communications when necessary, now they were visible and in the open. That was quite a stride for an empire that dispised weakness, as they perceived it.

Silk was heart broken as he heard what she had to say. "What about us? You're just going to leave that all behind?"

"Neh neh," said Nira, stepping in and taking his hands. "I want you with me. To leave this place and discover something extraordinary. To see a planet and people living in harmony, as one. There are tribal and clan squabbles and fighting, but it is usually short-lived. You think on it, what you want. I have made my decision." She kissed his cheek and off she went.

Ainkara stood by and watched the interplay. ~Curious~ she thought. Her brain now understood Federation Basic fluently but the synapses for speech was still hindered by the logjam of Iconian re-education she had undergone. Iconians did not want servants to speak, they wanted them to work and do as they are told. So, having let those thoughts pass through her mind she then motioned at the patients around the room, using sign to ask if she could help.

Silk, still taken aback by his lover's announcement brought his eyes back into focus around him. "Hmm? Oh, yes, of course. Come, I'll show you what to do to help. You understand me, right?"

Ainkara gave a few positive nods.

"Okay, come this way." The two of them went off together as he showed her how her extra hands were a Godsend for handing him devices at request. All the other nurses were still busy so it was nice to have someone not squeamish to aid him.

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