"Crewman" Henri - Discovery
Toxin Arlill
(( Somewhere and Nowhere, USS Octavia E Butler ))
Henri took full advantage of the extensive exploration time during this shore leave. With Nilsen no longer competing for Toxin's position—having been reassigned to night shift—Henri shifted his focus towards expanding his influence. He’d spent some time on the holodeck learning about the various cultures of the crew on board, of course this all occurring when no one else was booking the holodeck. He didn’t want to run into too many people and make anyone suspicious.
When Henri wasn’t spending time on the holodeck he’d visit the areas of the ship with visual sensors, keeping to the public areas for a few reasons. Henri didn’t want to invade anyone’s privacy and he also didn’t want to trigger any alarms in more secure areas where the sensors were more likely monitored and secured. He was slowly getting to know the crew through his travels, he just wished he could meet them and interact.
There was no need for sleep, the only time he felt, well tired if you want to call it that, was when he’d spent too much time traveling through the data systems between areas of the ship. This was one such time.
Checking the sensors he found that Toxin had returned to his quarters and was sleeping. Toxin had been gracious enough to Henri to install a few holo emitters in their quarters, with the expressed rule that they never be used when anyone else was around. Henri was a bit annoyed by this because, as said before, he’d love to meet new people, but he understood how that would create a lot more questions.
Normally when he was re-cooping from his travels he’d find a holo novel to read or a game to play with Toxin, but he’d read all the recent novels and, again, Toxin was sleeping. oO Wait, Toxin is sleeping. Oo Henri was thinking back to a few weeks ago when Toxin had passed out and he’d gained some ability over Toxin’s physical abilities and called for help. He wondered if that control was only when Toxin was sleeping or just unconscious.
Putting his feelers out there, as he came to call them, he felt Toxin’s connection to the computer and made his way back into the computer that was Toxin’s “enhanced brain”. It was dark, as it was when Toxin’s eyes were shut, but he could hear the gentle hum of the ship’s engine. He prodded around and found a nerve that controlled the eyelids, but before he could try it, he found the one that controlled the signal from the optical node to Toxin’s consciousness and blocked it, for now.
A hand rose in front of a face, Toxin’s face, his eyes opened and stared at the appendage…
[[ End Scene for Henri ]]
Henri
”Civilian” USS Octavia E Buttler NCC-82850
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