Solitary

Posted on Wednesday 27 July 2016 @ 00:31 by Commander Cale Llewellyn DSci

Mission: Old, New Ship
Location: Llewellyn's quarters
Timeline: MD 7 later that night
314 words - 0.6 OF Standard Post Measure

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After the day he had had, Cale Llewellyn was glad to be home. His chest still stung and his head still hurt, but all in all he felt a great deal better. He had great respect for Caroline's medical skills before when he wasn't in need of then but now that he had “minor” surgery, he felt a brand new understanding for her. Llewellyn felt that he had come to see her nurturing side in the operating theater. He now knew how she felt as a healer.

He had only to “decipher” the captain and his motives for promoting him from lieutenant, junior grade all the way to lieutenant commander. He wondered if that promotion would hold up when he felt that his time on board the Merlin was through or if he would returned to his rightful rank. He still didn't know how he himself felt about this promotion. He wished there was someone for him to talk to but he didn't trust counselors.

Llewellyn suddenly felt a flood of emotion wash over him though from where these emotions were coming. After dimming the room's ambient lighting level, he sat down in the middle of his main living chamber and began to meditate. Cale attempted to enlarge his mental awareness as he had been taught to by Saalok, a Vulcan friend from the Academy. Feeling his mind start to take flight, he reached out with his limited mental abilities and that's when it happened.

He felt an emotion that he knew wasn't his. How could this be happening? He was growing frightened and unsure of himself for the first time in his life. He needed a sympathetic ear. So he said, "Llewellyn to Lieutenant Jones. Can you come to my quarters at you earliest convenience?"

To be continued...

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Lieutenant, jg Cale Llewellyn
Chief Science Officer
USS Merlin