Hell and Bordom

Posted on Sun Feb 23rd, 2020 @ 7:22pm by Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 2: Casino Royale
Location: Various Locations - USS Kearsarge
Timeline: 2000Hrs - July 8th, 2388

Lt Commander Torilla Yamaguchi was lying in the bathtub,
enjoying a hot soak as she sighed softly as she did not
get to do this every day, she saved this special luxury
for really bad days or really good days and today was shaping
up to be a good day.

Not a Gorn insight which on some levels bothered her but
on others didn't bother her at all as her thoughts turned
to the woman who would very shortly become her daughter-in-
law, Savannah Desmoulin who was a smaller than average
woman with a slender build but she was a fellow cadet
alongside her son, both of them were graduating this year
and would soon be off going to who knew where.

besides the thought of Savannah who was so unlike her son brought a smile to her face and a twinkle to her eyes,
she was going to become a grandmother in less then a
year and the thought didn't bother her in the least.
The thought of the Gorn preying aboard Federation ships
and the like, however, did bother her but so long as she
could enjoy the soak in the scalding hot water, she would
be fine but unfortunately, life, as usual, interrupted her
reverie.

"Clifford to all hands. Commanders Lokran, Yamaguchi and
Brislan and Colonel Hurd to the bridge".

"Merde" Yamaguchi muttered to herself as her training kicked
in, she sighed softly as she took a moment to slowly climb
out of the tub as she stepped out into the larger bathroom
without donning a towel but since there was nobody else here,
she did not feel the need.

Yamaguchi grasped a towel and began drying herself off, a few minutes
later she was wearing her uniform as she rushed out the door.

A few minutes after she had been summoned, she walked onto
the main bridge as she relieved the Ensign who had been manning
the tactical station next to turbolift one, this bridge had the
standard Intrepid-class layout which meant when addressing the
Captain, she turned her head forty-five degrees to the left and
she spoke to the back of his head or neck, whichever was available
to her at the time.

Yamaguchi was feeling almost paranoid as she looked at the sensor
display, all was quiet as they approached the Cestus system, not
a Gorn in sight or mind and truth be told, it bothered her that
they were not sticking in an appearance but the sight a status
of the abandoned USS Buraq gave her pause.

Something about this seemed weird to her, the ship had no life signs
and no Gorn insight, she wondered if the Gorn had bothered to take
any prisoners or if they had just killed the entire crew but the logic of the Gorn's attack eluded her. But then was the Gorn even responsible for this incident in the first place. Last time Yamaguchi had checked, the relationship between the Federation and the Gorn Hegemony was quite good. So this was something totally new.