Utopia

Posted on 19 Feb 2014 @ 8:45pm by Lieutenant Teth Miir
Edited on on 19 Feb 2014 @ 8:49pm

559 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Episode 05 - Solstice
Location: Utopia Planetia Shipyards
Timeline: MD 26 2320

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The Utopia Shipyards were an expansive complex of permanent and mobile satellite builds. Filled with the most brilliant, socially regressive, disagreeable engineers in the federation. Teth Miir only cared about the location of one very specific one.

He arrived early and decided to pace the halls. Or at least the ones he was authorized for. Much to his surprise, the architectural design and construction reminded him warmly of Starfleet Medical. Carrying the fruit basket the entire time. Given his civilian clothing and ridiculous basket of tropical fruit and his civilian shoulder case, he drew the attention of many of the facility's crew. This made Teth quite nervous, he knew he seemed suspicious to every person there.

After about and hour, he decided to head to his office. Fruitbasket in hand, he descended to Deck 38, room 2377. Those lower decks always seemed lonelier somehow. Darker, but just slightly. The dark narrow hallways were also difficult for him. All too reminiscent of dark alley ways in distant worlds.

The longer her walked the more he could feel his adrenaline levels increasing and his pulse rising and hoping to burst the the arteries in his skull. He quickened his pace only to turn to a full sprint. Somehow he managed to cradle the fruit and his case and not smash into a wall trying. He arrived at room 2377. The hall was empty for as far as he could see.

He found the door panel to be unlocked, so with great hesitation, he managed to go inside. The desk light was on and there was an engineer with dark hair sitting at a desk in front of him.

"Hello." he baited, urging himself to walk closer.

"Oh, hi there. I didn't hear you come in." the young human ensign said and he stood up to greet his visitor.

Teth feld a murmur in his heart at the sight of the human and not the person he came to see.

"Is the commander in?" he asked as calmly as he could.

"No. He went to Risa for the week. Is that basket for him." the human nodded at the bundle of fruit the caitian was still hugging.

"Oh." Teth realized just how tight of a grip he still had on the thing.

"Yes, could you please just leave it for him?"

"Sure." the ensign said, "Who should I tell him it's from?"

"No one." Teth said before turning and walking away. Hoping desperately the kid would be lazy and not make an issue of it.

No one followed him back to the transport center. Feeling defeated for missing the person he came to visit, he decided to take the shuttle to Vulcan as planned. He knew he could regroup there.

He sighed as the shuttle left orbit. He was now wearing the clothing he purchased from the old Ferengi woman, his suit and shoes left at starbase waste reclamation. He had also used the knife he previously purchased to cut his long mane of hair to a frizzy, free standing, three inches of fluff. He was still a huge black Caitian traveling alone. But at least this way he isn't easily identified.

The flight to Vulcan would take five hours in the archaic shuttle in which he was currently a passenger. He wanted to try to sleep again. The less conversation, the better.

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