Ensign Roy Bancroft - Getting Munrover
Carter Schimpff
(( Deck 7, USS Artemis-A ))
The thing about morning runs, Roy decided, was that they were best undertaken by people who had either never known suffering... or were actively seeking it out for sport.
He ducked beneath a dangling conduit, hopped over a cluster of EPS relays, and narrowly avoided colliding with a startled repair crewman holding a plasma torch.
Crewman: Sir! This section's still under–
Bancroft: ::jogging backwards:: –active repair, yes, I noticed the flames. Just trying to outrun my thoughts. Carry on.
He’d heard that both Cole and Tho’Bi had been on the bridge when most of this damage had been done, which surprised him exactly not one bit.
The corridor lights flickered overhead. Behind him, something sparked loudly and then hissed like an angry targ trapped in a jeffries tube.
This had been, if he was being honest, a bad idea. But he’d woken up at 0430 with too much adrenaline and not enough sense, and for reasons still very unclear to him, his first instinct had been ‘cardio’.
And now here he was. Running through the shredded innards of Deck 7 like a man who’d lost a bet with his own coping mechanisms, dodging hazards and hallucinating something dangerously close to optimism.
His heart rate hovered somewhere between ‘moderate exertion’ and ‘trying to deliver a baby in a shuttle during a warp core breach.’
He turned the corner at the next junction–
–and nearly collided with someone coming from the opposite direction.
Someone who was moving with both the pace and precision of a quantum torpedo.
Someone whose ponytail swung behind her with the kinetic threat of a metronome set to violence.
Roy inhaled sharply. Bad move. His lungs were now on fire.
He pivoted and fell into step beside her – faux-casually. Like someone who wasn’t already in a losing negotiation with his cardiovascular system.
Bancroft: ::wheezing cheerfully:: Sorry about that – er… actually, I don’t know your name. I’m new here. Ensign Bancroft, Medical.
Munro: Response
TAG/TBC!
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Ensign Roy Bancroft
Medical Officer
USS Artemis-A
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