Settling In

Posted on Wed Feb 22nd, 2023 @ 1:47am by Ayla Bawden

713 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: Ethics, Morals & The Prime Directive.
Location: Dreadnought

It felt different being on a Fleet ship and out of uniform with no responsibilities of duty nor position. Ayla had watched her mate, Mark, take off for the bridge and meeting with the Captain.

Grabbing Miracle's hand in hers, slowly headed down the corridor towards their new home. She walked slowly so that her daughter could keep up with her and take in everything as she moved with the flow of Crew, Civilian Specialists and other dependents of the crew. The excitement of being on a new ship rose within her as she ambled along. She overheard some of the single crew complaining about finding a Daycare for their offspring's that were either too young to be in school and Daycare. Or the parents weren't too trusting of the Daycare people.

Ayla and Miracle rode the various turbo lifts to their new quarters and entered them. It was very nice and a viewport to look out into space, where majority of the crew had no view of space at all, just holovids of the stars.

Arriving at the assigned quarters, Miracle and her entered them and saw that their stuff had arrived neatly stacked in the common room of the suite of rooms that was going to be their home as long as the assignment lasted.

Ayla let Miracle's hand loose, letting her explore the rooms at her leisure. "Computer! Keep Miracle inside of our suite of rooms until further notice."

"Complying," Came the voice from hidden speakers about the room.

With that taken care of, She herself looked over the spacious rooms. She could definitely hold nice sized groups of people for impromptu gatherings whether they were social or business. Once She had gone through the rooms and giving Miracle her assigned room, had her grab her stuff and move it into her room and to unpack as she had to do Marks and herself stuff to get put away also.

"Mommmaaaaa!" Miracle wailed as she grudgingly grabbed the lightest package of her stuff to drag it to her assigned room. "I wanna go exploring the ship!"

"Iz have to do the same with papa's and mine stuff, honey." Ayla spoke softly to her daughter. "After wez get settled in. Wez can head to the Promenade of the ship to eat out. Maybe even do a little shopping."

"Squeeeee!" Miracle responded, grabbing another case of her stuff to move it to her new room. "Will Daddy join us?" As she disappeared into her room.

"I'll send word to him. Hez has to report to the captain of the ship and check out whom he'll be working with in his Security Department." Ayla responded back, loud enough that Miracle could hear.

"Will it be that big Caitian? Sirra?" Miracle called back as she came out of her room for another piece of her luggage.

"No, mez little miceling! It's someone else." Ayla replied as she came out to grab another piece of luggage to unpack, seeing her daughter. "I believe he has been assigned to another location." Watching her daughter struggle with her luggage. She scampered over and assisted her in getting it into her room.

She looked around the room, taking the time to help Miracle put stuff away.

"He was scary!" Miracle spoke as she unlatched the suitcase still on edge, watching it flop open and spilling her stuff onto the floor.

Ayla gave a soft squeak/giggle as Miracle went scampering to avoid getting her tail trapped under the now opened suitcase laying on the floor opened. "Hez could be intimidating when he wanted to be."

"Iz wanna to fly ships of all sizes!" Miracle spoke nodding her head as she grabbed a bunch of underclothes to put away.

"Iz sure yooz will make an excellent pilot." Ayla spoke softly as she helped her daughter refold her clothes as they were put away in drawers.

"Squeeah," Miracle nodded. "Iz gonna be the bestest pilot and be in great demand."

"I'm sure yooz will be one of the best when the time comes." Ayla spoke encouraging her daughter as they moved onto hanging up her daughter's dresses and other garments that required to be hung up. Showing how to do it and letting her do the majority of the work.

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