JP: Ensign Nilsen, Ensign Kovacs, Lt Herrick, LT Arlill, Z.Johnson, Ensign Yinn, 2Lt Maxwell - JOPA: Insert Coins To Play. (Part 5)
Lhandon Nilsen
(Holosuite 1, Deck 5 USS Oumuamua)
As the party/very important JOPA meeting was coming to an end, Maxwell’s advice was still ringing in Nilsen’s ears. The Marine was right, he needed to rip the band-aid off. He caught Arlill’s attention. Most of the games were now reset to theirr insert coins here screen. Lhandon took a stool next to Arlill at the smooth curved metal bar that was lifted out of an American diner from the 50’s.
Nilsen: Yo Tox, you got five.
Arlill: For you, anytime.
Lhandon started with an update that Arlill had a stake in, worth starting on a positive noe.
Nilsen: So me and Herrick, we're talking again. I erm…it was my fault, that whole thing.
Arlill: Yeah?
Nilsen: Well, I shouldn’t have snapped at him, I should have taken the time to hear him out. :Pausing for a moment:: There's somethin’ else though.
Arlill: That’s never good.
Here it comes, the admission.
Nilsen: When I was with the Bajorans, I became, what's the word? They told me stuff I shouldn't know. I was given memories and words that are not mine, and erm…one of them is for you.
Arlill: For me?
Nilsen: I'm still translating it but ::sigh:: find me after everyone had gone. I don't want to worry you…even though by not showing you the full translation now, I am worrying you which is not what I want to do.
Arlill: And you thought this little teaser wouldn’t worry me? ::giving his friend a look of concern::
Lhandon’s heart sank, he didn’t want to worry Arlill, but he had to be honest, he could make the jump to the end of the topic but the translation wasn’t fully done. There was enough, however.
Arlill’s concern is justified, particularly when Lhandon skirts around a topic and when he doesn’t go directly there.
Nilsen: No, it’s not that, it’s just…this stuff is trippy, and i don’t understand it myself. o0 Max said to dive right in 0o I think…you’ve got…I don’t think you’re an only child.
There is it, there’s the thing Lhandon has been holding on to since the mission.
What a way the end JOPA eh?
End JP
Ensign Lhandon Joseph Nilsen
HCO
USS Oumuamua
O240007LN1
He/Him/His (Both player and character)
&
LTJG Toxin Arlill
Helm, Operations, & Communications Officer
USS 'Oumuamua NCC-81226
Writer ID.: O239910TA4