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Kallah Ramson

Studies

Ensign Ramson stood at the Engineering consol, filing her duty report. It was brief, simple, to the point as she liked to keep them. But, one errant line slipped in "Maybe Mother was right and I am trying to study too many subjects at once." Pausing a moment Kallah looked over the text on her screen. "Computer, delete last line."

 

The report submitted, she walked slowly down the Excalibur's corridors. "Maybe she was right" still echoing in her head. She had tested out of almost all her piloting requirements before she even arrived at Starfleet Academy. Security training as well was completed almost entirely during her elective hours. Engineering was a huge focus for her but somehow she still managed to get the odd medical or tactical class in. And it was always like this......

 

::Kallah flashback ripples (patent pending):::

 

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Little Kallah sat cross legged in front of the small desk. The book's old pages made a pleasant crinkling noise as she turned them. With the turn of the last page she gently closed the book and looked up. She blinked as she saw the sun had set and stars twinkled through the windows. Her brother N'Rhyse lay buried in his pile of floor pillows sound asleep. Sensing outward she could feel her mother too asleep in the other room as well as her younger brother K'Syia. Stretching a little more out her father was still on duty up at the station.

 

{{Kallah! Why aren't you asleep?}}

 

{{I'm sorry, I got caught up in this book. It talked about....}}

 

{{Daughter....sleep, please...}}

 

{{Yes Daddy}}

 

Kallah took the book and put it on the small shelf to the side of the room. Standing she picked up the tiny folding desk and put it in it's place beside the shelf. Then she stretched, raising her arms high into the air and just about standing on her tiptoes. Moving over to her sleeping area she took off her psionic verbilizer and placed it on the shelf that ran around the edge of the room. Taking her clothes off and folding them neatly into the bin under the shelf she then slipped on her long nightshirt.

 

Arranging the pile of pillows she glances up at the bookshelf. There was a question in her head. Maybe if she reread...no, Dad told her to go to sleep. She told herself that as she looked back down and finished arranging the pillows for sleep. Laying easily into them, the Minaran pillows gently cradled all around her body. Tiredness crept over her, starting at her limbs and slowly working it's way inward. But her mind still was nagged with the question. She stole a quick glance at the books again.

 

No, she needed to sleep. Kallah rolled over with her back to the books. There was time enough later. No there wasn't.... she had to figure this out or she'd never sleep. Raising herself up from the pillows she moved on tiptoes back to the shelf.

 

An hours later, the question answered but that led to another tangent.

 

Sound asleep on the edge of a large pillow, clutching a book in one hand and a PADD in the other D'Mysus found his daughter. With a gentle kiss on her cheek he freed the items from her grip and left her to her dreams.

 

And likewise, Ensign Ramson lay in her bed now with the PADD of the latest multi-phasic shield theories slowly sliding out of her sleeping hands.

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