Silver Merit Award Collateral Damage

[Jylliene 0]

Silver Merit Award

 

[Following the duty shift after the events in Shattered]

 

The door to Jylliene’s quarters slid open, and she entered - and sighed. She had nearly forgotten about the glass all over the corner of the room. Walking to the control panel by the replicator, she pushed a few buttons to signal the cleaning cycle,* then walked over to the desk to examine the damage to the console.

 

Thankfully, it was minor. It looked like her wrist took the worst of it. Some blood, a crack in the desk’s surface, but other than that, fine. Fetching a cloth from the bathroom, she cleaned up the blood, and then activated the console.

 

Still in proper working order. That was a relief. She did NOT want to fill out a requisition form to replace that. Jylliene could see it now:

 

Part: Quarters personal console

Damage (give details below): Cracked.

 

It turns out that there is an inner Klingon in all of us, waiting to emerge if sufficiently enraged.

 

The desk cleaned, and the carpet apparently so as well, Jylliene rinsed out the washcloth and sat back at the desk to look for any incoming messages. There were a few of the usual, she saw, as she scanned the screen - then one notification caught her eye.

 

It was from her mother.

 

It was the book she had asked for at the beginning of their conversation.

 

Jylliene hadn’t cried after their argument. She did now.

 

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*based on an assumption that by that time period, they at LEAST have something akin to a Roomba they can start up to vacuum.