LT Tamio K'Wara - Two Grizzela Opera Singers in a Shuttlecraft

[LT Tamio K'Wara]

(( Main Shuttlebay - Deck 11, USS Artemis-A ))

The shuttle bay looked pretty standard that day, with engineers and operations officers walking about with purpose in their step, but at a far rarer rate than would otherwise be commonplace. Obviously, that was because today wasn’t business as usual. It was shore leave, and as such far more people were taking breaks than was customary while the Artemis was underway. This was the whole point of shore leave after all - to give the crew a chance to stretch their legs and loosen up a bit, to catch up on projects they had otherwise not had the time to do.

And arguably, some took that more literal than others. Even to the casual observer, a suspicious berth was given to one of the five Type-11 shuttlecrafts currently docked in the sizable shuttlebay - the Kerynitis - and to one of keen hearing, a peculiar sound could be heard from inside the shuttle’s open doors. It sounded like something between the half-stuck door to Main Mess Hall on Deck 3 (reparations pending!) being forced open and two Grizzela officers having a Klingon Opera battle in Elysium. Which, as I’m sure you can imagine, had proven quite an effective deterrent to all but the most determined of crewmen, who might be interested in learning what was going on inside there.

The source of the horrific sounds was, unfortunately, neither a frustrated reparations crew nor two Grizzela opera singers, but instead a certain Cygnian Operations Officer, who - at this very moment - was doing their best impression of celebrated pansol singer, Reiti Sanate, while arms deep in an open wall panel of the shuttle.

K’Wara: Mi ú tu zeyon cí, gon zyo gon tan jodí, mei lai danja o shínjo... ::unintelligible mumbling:: FU AN’NA NAJA!

Tamio was wrapped up in their rendition of Sanate’s most famous power ballad, Í Fu An’na Naja - roughly translatable to ‘A Girl of Rose and Pearl’ - that they didn’t notice the otherwise rather conspicuous sound of someone trying to get their attention. 

Bergmen: Response

An impassioned and very poorly executed attempt at the belt during the bridge of the chorus later, Tamio finally realized that they - in fact - were very much not alone in the shuttle, and they tipped their head backwards, their full head of brown hair poofing up like a pufferfish due to the change in posture.

Tamio generally always had to look up at people, but from their position seated on the floor of the Kerynitis and leaned backwards, the person they were looking at seemed positively enormous.

K’Wara: Oh, hello there! Sorry, kinda stuck. ::moves elbows emphatically:: I’m new! Lieutenant Tamio K’Wara. Pleasure to meet you. ::gauges appearance:: Do you need something?

Bergmen: Response

K’Wara: Right, just gimme a moment and I’ll get the circuits closed up. ::quiet inaudible mumbling:: Don’t think this girl’s had a proper EPS grid stress test for ages.

Bergmen: Response

TAG/TBC

LT Tamio K’Wara

Operations Officer

USS Artemis-A

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