Left Ear to-Ennien
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Post by Left Ear to-Ennien on Nov 12, 2021 16:16:54 GMT
[ Left Ear - Personal Quarters --> CO's Quarters] Left Ear grumbled from within her little cocoon when she heard the captain's voice summoning her. The Sivaoan didn't want to talk to anyone; she just wanted to hide for awhile and work through her feelings. But ignoring a summons from the highest-ranking officer on the station, especially as a lowly cadet, was not a good career move. Even being naive to most of the ways of Starfleet still, Left Ear understood that. With a groan, she pushed off her blankets and replied briefly, =/\= ' On my way, Captain.' =/\= She rolled off the bed and did an elaborate stretch that started with her whiskers and ended at the tip of her very long tail. Left Ear stared at the harness she wore as a uniform and debated putting it on, then decided she'd better. She wasn't sure how official this request was. Finally, she was making her way through the corridors, ears and tail drooping. She didn't dawdle, but also didn't rush, acknowledging greetings from others with only a small nod or wave. Eventually, she reached the captain's quarters and rang the chime, staring down at the floor while she waited to be admitted. Tag Judith Eastman
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Judith Eastman
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Post by Judith Eastman on Nov 12, 2021 23:30:08 GMT
[Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams), PhD - CO's Quarters]Judy was busy cleaning her glasses when the chimes rang. "Enter!"In order to grab onto both dogs, the Captain had to set down her glasses onto the coffee table, which meant she was seeing at a rather low resolution when Left Ear entered the room. Such were the drawbacks of being dependent on those glass lenses.
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Left Ear to-Ennien
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Post by Left Ear to-Ennien on Nov 13, 2021 18:23:30 GMT
[ Left Ear - CO's Quarters] Left Ear stepped through the door when it opened, taking in the sight of the captain restraining her excitable corgis with not even a hint of humor as she might have had in the past. They had taken some getting used to, but Left Ear liked Bridge and Tunnel. ' You wanted to see me, captain?' she said dully, coming to a stop a far enough inside for the door to close behind her. The Sivaoan stood with her arms at her sides, tail trailing along the floor. She looked straight ahead. It was attention of a sort, but it lacked the crispness that one would usually have. Left Ear also hadn't paid attention to how mussed her fur was from huddling under the blankets. Tag Judith Eastman
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Judith Eastman
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Post by Judith Eastman on Nov 17, 2021 2:28:51 GMT
[Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams), PhD - CO's Quarters]"Yes, that's right."With the door closing again, Judy released the dogs (though they stayed near her) and donned her glasses once more. She could now recognize that the Cadet was in a bad state. "This isn't something I want to impose on you, but there are guests here, from Sivao, your father and your sister, and, well, they're aware that you're going through something," Judy explained, with apparent guilt over her own inability to protect the young woman's privacy. "You're going to have to decide how much you'd like to tell them, or how much you'd like myself, or someone else, to tell."
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Left Ear to-Ennien
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Post by Left Ear to-Ennien on Nov 23, 2021 17:24:34 GMT
[ Left Ear - CO's Quarters] Left Ear stared blankly at Judy, blinking only once as the captain explained the reason she'd called for her. ' M-my...Brave Tongue is here?' It was completely outside of anything she might have expected to hear. ' And my sister? Which sister?' None of her full siblings, as they were all male, but in her mother's next youngest litter she had two sisters. Then Left Ear went on with hardly a pause. ' I don't know. What...Why are they here? Did...they already know something happened?' She was confused and consequently less articulate than usual. She couldn't reconcile her own emotional state with the unexpected arrival of family, didn't know what to think about it. If she'd been less traumatized, she might have immediately demanded to see them. She'd missed her family. Tag Judith Eastman
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Judith Eastman
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Post by Judith Eastman on Nov 27, 2021 22:09:46 GMT
[Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams), PhD - CO's Quarters]"Brave-Tongue, yes, and Berry," Judy clarified. She then went back over the course of events. "I think they might have already suspected something wasn't right even before they arrived, but if they didn't, well... I think you're already aware how hard it is for humans to conceal anything from your people's noses."Judy sighed. "Aware or not, I think they just missed you. I know I miss my sons back on Earth."
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Post by Left Ear to-Ennien on Dec 2, 2021 18:18:26 GMT
[ Left Ear - CO's Quarters] Brave Tongue and Berry, Left Ear thought. Dear little Berry, the sibling Left Ear had missed most, and who had maintained the most steady correspondence, both written and video. Her young sister loved to send long, chatty videos expounding everything that had happened on Eeiauo since the last message and long, detailed explanations of some thing or other that she'd decided to research. Berry was still young, but she was showing great aptitude for the sciences. Unconsciously, Left Ear gripped her tail, torn between her distress and excitement at seeing two of her favorite family members. ' They must have wanted to surprise me,' she finally said, her voice rough. ' I had regular letters from both of them not that long ago and they would have had to have known by then that they were coming, or even been on their way.' Her brain was too muddled to do the math. Now Left Ear took a moment to be confused about why the captain was involved. ' May I see them?' she asked hesitantly, wondering if there was some rule that disallowed family visits while one was a cadet. Tag Judith Eastman
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Post by Judith Eastman on Dec 2, 2021 18:26:28 GMT
[Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams), PhD - CO's Quarters]"Yes, yes, of course you can," Judy answered. Had that not been the case, she wouldn't have presented it as a possibility... which she was sure she had. "They're staying at the Twilight. Here's the room number."Judy wasn't going to impose her presence on a private family meeting. That wasn't her way.
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Post by Left Ear to-Ennien on Dec 6, 2021 23:13:15 GMT
[ Left Ear - CO's Quarters --> Twilight Hotel] ' Thank you, Captain,' Left Ear said quietly. When she left the captain's quarters, it was all she could do to not race through the corridors to the promenade. Even walking at an almost measured pace, Left Ear still reached Brave Tongue and Berry's room in short order. The door opened and the cadet practically leapt on her father with a wail. If he hadn't recognized her scent from outside the door, Brave Tongue might have thought he was under attack. Berry joined the fray and the three Sivaoans dropped to the floor in a furry pile. Though neither of them knew exactly what was wrong, Berry and Brave Tongue fell to the only comfort they knew to give and cuddled Left Ear. Berry pushed up next to her sister's face and offered a few consoling licks to her cheek. Some time later, Left Ear haltingly explained what had happened. Over the next few weeks, whenever she wasn't working or studying, Left Ear spent time with her family. In addition to a counselor, the cadet's family did more to help her reconcile her actions than anything else could. It would still take some time for Left Ear to stop seeing that Klingon's face every time she closed her eyes, but healing was beginning. FINTag Judith Eastman
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