01-06-2025, 08:48 PM
== NRC – Lt(jg) Papaver – Science ==
The sound of Prokofiev's fourth movement of his Opus 60 could be heard gently playing Papaver walked toward the dock observation lounge. Like the rest of the crew she assumed, she'd received a formal invite to the now official commissioning ceremony for the ship. Almost two months after its actual launch.
The invite had stated formal dress attire. And so out came the whites. Stiff collar, slightly too small in the waist, and shoes that were so slippy it was like walking on ice. And the medal bars. She had only a few, but a couple she didn't feel too comfortable holding given the losses of others who deserved them more.
Still, as she entered a waiter handed her a glass of white wine before gesturing her to step deeper into the room and mingle with the others who were already present.
She wished Black would have been here too, but her friend had obviously very personal reasons to head back to Earth in a hurry, and despite Papaver offering to accompany her, she had convinced the younger woman to remain and act as her proxy in the meantime until her return in a few weeks time. Hopefully.
The lounge itself felt a little closed in with the windows that would have looked out across the dry docks and out in to open space obscured. So she took a sip of her wine and headed toward the gaggle of others dressed in white.
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The sound of Prokofiev's fourth movement of his Opus 60 could be heard gently playing Papaver walked toward the dock observation lounge. Like the rest of the crew she assumed, she'd received a formal invite to the now official commissioning ceremony for the ship. Almost two months after its actual launch.
The invite had stated formal dress attire. And so out came the whites. Stiff collar, slightly too small in the waist, and shoes that were so slippy it was like walking on ice. And the medal bars. She had only a few, but a couple she didn't feel too comfortable holding given the losses of others who deserved them more.
Still, as she entered a waiter handed her a glass of white wine before gesturing her to step deeper into the room and mingle with the others who were already present.
She wished Black would have been here too, but her friend had obviously very personal reasons to head back to Earth in a hurry, and despite Papaver offering to accompany her, she had convinced the younger woman to remain and act as her proxy in the meantime until her return in a few weeks time. Hopefully.
The lounge itself felt a little closed in with the windows that would have looked out across the dry docks and out in to open space obscured. So she took a sip of her wine and headed toward the gaggle of others dressed in white.
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