Spirits of the Ice Forest - Part One

Posted on Sat Jul 31st, 2021 @ 5:02am by Commander T'Lin McKnight & Department Master Chief Petty Officer Stephen "Orthos" McKnight & Major Daisy Rohr-McKnight

Mission: Mission 106: Restitutions and Resolutions
Location: Various Locations - Utgarde IV
Timeline: 2200Hrs - October 23rd, 2393

T'Sara huffed a soft sigh as this had been the furthest thing from her mind when she resolved to start this little trek, she had no wish to make issues for the natives of this reality as she had decided that she was going to lay low for a time, the snowstorm had been unexpected as had the three-foot of snow it had dropped in less than twelve hours, she had not expected to end up being snowed in or trapped without food or water.

T'Sara was a Vulcan woman from a desert world but right now, she felt like she was stuck on Andorian's northern ice cap, or around its tundral wastes rather than a world with varied climates and deserts. She wanted some time to come to terms with the fact she would never go home again, but she had outsmarted herself and now she would die here, trapped in this freezing hell.

"Trapped and freezing at the roof of the world..." T'Sara said aloud as she sighed softly.

"Hello!" came a voice. "Is someone there!" the voice shouted at her.

"I'm in here!" T'Sara shouted back, her breathing was now coming in great plumes of smoke, signs that she was slowly freezing to death as she blinked, she shivered as the door to the room she was in suddenly vanished and a man with a large flashlight looked at her. T'Sara's inner eyelids automatically retracted closed in reaction to the light as she blinked away the surprise. She had not been expecting anyone to find her ever, even months later, she would be a corpse, slowly rotting away and she would leave only bones to bleach in the sun before turning to dust.

"Holy cow." he turned. "Ben, I got a live on here... Looks like she's heading for the Medcenter... Vulcan I think from the look of her."

The second man approached and they gently wrapped T'Sara in a jacket before they evacuated her, a short time later as she slept on her bed at the Medcenter. The Doctor was able to find her closest living relatives since this woman had no identification on her. He contacted the home in question which as luck would have it, was located here on Utgarde itself, He found himself face to face with a young woman who was wearing civilian clothing, she had the look of a Klingon which he knew could easily ruin his evening. "Hello, Ma'am. I apologize for bothering you... But I have your husband's mother here. I can't contact him so I am contacting you to advise you that she is here."

Daisy was not happy that a stranger from the civilian side of the Federation had called her home at such a late hour. She was even less amused that this guy thought they had her mother in law. "Hello." Daisy was annoyed but was going to be nice. It probably wasn't this guy's fault that there had been a mix-up.

"My mother in law is Fleet Admiral T'Sara McKnight. I would be surprised if she was here on Utgarde." Daisy told the man.

The Doctor nodded. "Fair enough... We'll check out her identity and get back to you tomorrow morning..." the Doctor explained.

"Is there a reason why you need to wait until tomorrow? Is she that badly hurt?" Daisy asked.

"She very nearly died, due to hypothermia... As she is from a hit desert world, she did not react well with the cold." he paused. "Give me a couple of minutes to run a DNA check on her... and then I will inform you of the results." and with that, the Doctor rose to his feet after putting the handsome young Klingon-looking woman on hold, he moved into the next room after picking up his medkit.

A few minutes later he returned, he sat down with a PADD in hand. "Ms. Rohr-McKnight?" he inquired. "Thank you for waiting... Yes, this is your mother-in-law... DNA says she is Admiral T'Sara McKnight... I can release her in the morning... I suspect she will need a few days to recover from her ordeal..."

"Thank you. I'll tell my husband that his mother is here." Daisy told the man.

"Thank you. I should be releasing Ms. McKnight at about zero eight hundred hours. Local time." the Doctor explained. "Will you send someone to come and collect her?"

"Yes, we want to bring her home to recover. It's better to be surrounded by family after a trauma. Thank you, I need to call my husband now." Daisy politely told the man.

She then stepped outside and tapped her comm badge. "Orthos, this is Daisy. Your mother is in the hospital. She is alright but needs to stay there overnight."

There was a silent pause as Orthos was seated in his office. He heaved a soft sigh in the general direction of the com system, he knew his mother liked to surprise him and her other children and grandchildren with various surprise visits, but this was something new. "Alright, thanks for letting me know sweetie. I'll collect her tomorrow. Maybe hanging around the kids will help her heal."

"Alright, just thought you should know about T'Sara," Daisy told Orthos in a comforting voice.

"Thank sweetie." Orthos smiled as he paused to consider the matter. "I should be home in about an hour or so."

"Thanks, the kids are already asleep. I want to bring them tomorrow when we pick up your mother." She told him.

Orthos smiled. "That sounds good. I'm sure seeing the kids will help mom recover," he answered. "I should be home in a couple of hours when my relief shows up. That's assuming he can even show up at all, something about his wife in the Medcenter..."