Knows Wrinkles Part 1

Posted on Tue Aug 15th, 2023 @ 9:17am by Lieutenant JG Keti Korcus & Lieutenant Durzo Sheela

Mission: Getting Ready (Character Development)
Location: USS Chuck Norris
Timeline: current
Tags: Knows Wrinkles, Part 1, Bajoran,

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Keti left entered the empty sickbay wearing his hessian satchel bag and took out the small ceremonial dustpan, carefully opening the brass coloured hinge that had kept the incense ash safely stored and marked 3 separate locations as he muttered a prayer and sprinkled a line from the door diagonally to the opposite side of the sickbay that he had marked and smeared it into the floor with the brush. As he left he paused at the doorway and at approximate head height dabbed a little ash there too before packing the ceremonial dust pan and brush away and walked off toward engineering.

A few minutes later, the new Chief Medical Officer, Lieutanant Sheela walked in, a datapad in her hand. As she reached the side door to her office, busily typing away, she noticed the ash from the corner of her eye. Looking up, she gasped, recognising the code instantly. Meet 2nd Floor backside, at 2:00 hours. She could tell that it was signed by someone, but she was unable to recognise the encoded signature. The insurgency had contained thousands of members, too many for anyone to remember. And due to its nature, the data wasn’t stored anywhere either.

Suddenly, Sheela realised that of course, she was now on a ship. And that meant, that it has to have been written by one of the crew members. Rushing to her computer, she searched up for any Bajorans, and sure enough, after less than a second it pinged with two entries. The former was of course herself, Lieutenant Sheela Durzo. The latter was the Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Junior Grade Keti Korcus.

She had never bothered to actually check this before, or even research about the other Senior Officers on board, focusing only on the officers under her command.

She did some conversion in her head, calculating that 2:00 hours would be in around half an earth rotation. Checking her datapad, she was happy to notice that there was a convenient hole in her duties right around then.

With a couple minutes left until her meeting with the CO, she rushed down to Engineering, with her own small ceremonial saucepan, which she had taken along for the memories. Making sure that the room was clear, she brushed a small moonlike shape with two slashes going through it on top of the door.

Several hours later Keti arrives back in engineering glancing at the doorframe before he enters he pauses to bend down and adjust the end of his trousers and glanced up for a better look at the ash mark. standing up and going about his planned duties, he smiled inwardly, the meet had been acknowledged.

30 minutes before the appointed hour Keti went to his locker and took out a small thin square box containing a COMM badge in. opening it he removed his own and placed it on top of the other COMM badge waiting several seconds until the 2 small lights went green on the box before putting his badge back on and quickly closing it and putting it in his pocket. He then took out his diagnostics and repair kit and began making his way to several criss-crossing points on the way to the meeting point performing short diagnostic scans.

Making his way to shuttlebay 3 he went to the Jeffries tube access door hidden behind an inspection panel next to the rear wall and crawled up and into Deck 3. Pausing on his belly Ket leans back down and takes the thin square box out attaching it between both decks before holding his COMM badge down for 5 seconds until the one in the box chirped in unison with it. Satisfied he moved into the shadows of the small throughway and waited.

- TO BE CONTINUED -