Lieutenant Is’Kah Xiron - Lovely Ball Pit
Kaitlyn Kalor
((Naledi Quarters, Deck 5, USS Thor, Little Alpha, Gamma Quadrant))
After nearly running into Naledi while looking for Tam’s quarters and conversing for a moment, Is’Kah requested a place to talk that wasn’t in the middle of a corridor. After being invited to the Commander’s quarters, a warm room with a ball pit and other items for sensory input.
Naledi: Crick Pop Snap Hiss Tick… Please come in, make itself at home.
Is’Kah: Thank you, Commander.
Naledi rose before driving taurus-first into the ball pit, the balls sticking to its exoskeleton.
Naledi: Crick Snap Tick Pop… Does it wish to join? The ball pit is cosy under the heat of the lamps.
Is’Kah: Thank you for offering. It would be delightful.
After removing zhen shoes and placing them by the door, Is’Kah dropped zhen backpack by the door. The warmth that permeated the room felt delightful to the Vulcan hybrid, reminding zhen of the dry heat zha had grown up with. Sitting on the edge of the pit, zha felt zhen muscles relax from the heat. Human Standard Temperature always left the Trican slightly chilled, even in zhen own quarters, as zhen Andorian partner couldn’t handle temperatures above 45 °C.
Naledi: Tick Pop Snap Hiss… Does it appreciate the temperature calibration?
Is’Kah: It reminds me of the sands of Vulcan, dry and comfortable. In my quarters on the Valkyrie, I have set up a meditation area with a heat lamp, but it’s not as amazing as this.
Naledi: Crick Snap Pop Hiss… ****It appreciates your words. Is’Kah is welcome to venture further inside the pit.
Is’Kah: Oh, I don’t know if I could climb out if I went all the way in. I am rather small, and you’re quite large. Anything designed for your height would swallow me whole.
Naledi: Hiss Pop Crick Snap… It is lying at an angle, the pit is not so deep as to infringe on the conduits constructed around this rooms frame.
The petite officer pondered for a moment before smiling.
Is’Kah: Then I shall join you.
Zha slid off the edge and into the ball pit. The warmth of the balls surrounded Is’Kah, relaxing the muscles they touched, but zhen head had gone under. It took a few moments for the petite woman to find a place to rest that didn’t cover zhen.
Naledi: Hiss Crick Snap Pop… It wanted to talk, right? What did you wish to talk?
Is’Kah: I wished to get to know you, as you are very friend-shaped. Did you have any topics in mind?
Naledi: Hiss Pop Snap Crick Pew… It is interested in your security career. What has your career been like? Does it know Lieutenant Seleya of Khanda? It met briefly in the past.
Is’Kah: She was my junior officer before being cross-decked to Intelligence. She transferred to the Amity not long ago. Lieutenant Seleya is a brilliant officer who will do very well at her new command.
Naledi: Response
Is’Kah: As for my security career, I transferred from engineering to the department a year ago. Since then, I’ve had my katra, or soul, transferred to an alternate 2264 to help fix and returned to our timeline. The next mission, we raced for a cure for a respiratory illness that was killing a neutral world against the Romulans. All I did was crowd control and protection before we lost and had to retreat.
Naledi: Response
Is’Kah: We then had a first contact in which proto-Romulans attempted to take over a planet shortly after the Sundering. They interbred with the native population and had skin tones within the human norm, along with shades of pink. I was investigating one of their old ships that had crashed into a mountain when we ran across some terrorists. They captured us, and after nearly beating our CMO to death, we managed to escape, but I took a bullet from a slug thrower to the shoulder blade. That’s about all the exciting security work I’ve done.
Naledi: Response
Lieutenant Is’Kah Xiron
Chief of Tactical and Security
USS Valkyrie, NCC-76418-A
R240101I14
Pronouns:
She/Her (Player and Character)
Zha/Zhen (Character)