Times on the Sea

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Times on the Sea

 

Ensign Ron Lunn

Assistant Engineer

USS Agincourt, NCC-81762

 

It was almost agonizing when you stood on the shore like this, just far enough so that the water would lap at your feet. The agonizing part was when the water went out and the darkened, wet rocks and small tidal pools were left behind, it made you so thirsty you felt like you could drink the ocean. Then the next wave rolled in and the thought was washed away as you smiled at this simple pleasure.

 

Later on, he headed over to the cove and sat on a dock that extended out into the water and drank tea from the little Peg's Place Cafe. Peg was a friendly old woman that everyone in town knew, no replicators used in her place, it was all made by hand, even the ingrediants were all natural, and her strawberry rhubard pie was heaven.

 

He headed off to Star Fleet Academy in San Francisco two weeks from now. He knew the water wouldn't be the same there, not like this cold and unpredictable ocean. He'd miss the cove, on days like this the sun reflecting on the surface made it look like glass. He wondered if he jumped on it would he just slide around its surface, never actually breaking the water.

 

...Simpler times... God what was that smell? He didn't sign up to stand in Klingon waste...