<USS Avalon> "Getting a Feel for Things"

"Getting a Feel for Things"
Yeoman Amelia Renaldi
 
With everything put away in her own quarters Amelia decided that it was  long 
past time to get herself familiarized with the ship. She’d read over  
everything she could get her hands on. She knew all about the modified Intrepid 
 
calls starship as far as the specs and text was concerned, but she liked to 
have  
a more personal feel for things. After putting on a fresh uniform and braiding 
 her long blonde hair into a tight French braid, Amelia headed out to 
explore.  She grabbed the nearest turbo lift and took it all the way down to 
deck 
fifteen  and then worked her way up. She checked out every inch of the ship she 
had  access too and took notes on the padd that was always present on her 
person. 
 
It took several hours to work her way up the fifteen decks to the bridge,  
but it had given her time to learn the quickest routes to take to get to the  
places that Commander Skyler could, and most likely would, be sending her.  
According to the ship’s specs the Executive Officer’s officer was on deck 
one  
just off the bridge. Amelia found this odd since that was normally the 
Captain’s 
 ready room, but what she found even more odd was the fact she had to go to 
not  only security but to forensics to get clearance to enter the officer. 
 
It had taken nearly two hours to get clearance to enter, and apparently  
reclaim, Commander Skyler’s office. Apparently the office had been claimed by 
 the 
pervious captain, taken right out from Skyler’s nose, and then had turned  
into a crime scene. Amelia had gotten quite a bit of information out of several 
 
officers about the goings on around Avalon, it was remarkable what a shapely  
blonde could find out when she had the skills to do so, things were pretty 
much  a wreak and Skyler was on edge. 
 
After gaining permission to reclaim the office off the bridge for Skyler,  
Amelia went to the Commander’s current office. She wasn’t there and neither 
was 
 the yeoman she was replacing. Amelia slipped in behind the small desk that 
would  have been her work station and signed onto the terminal. She was pleased 
to see  that she’d already been granted access to the systems. She read over 
Skyler’s  file again and then at little notes that weren’t considered 
confidence to get a  feel for some of the things Skyler liked. She then took 
the time 
to go over  Skyler’s office. She wouldn’t touch or move a thing until 
she’d 
meet and talk to  her commanding officer, but she wanted a general idea of how 
she was going to  plan the move.  
 
Once Amelia made it back to the ready room off the bridge she had a pretty  
good idea how the Commander would like it set up. She’d make out a floor plan 
as  she cleaned up. She wasn’t sure of the condition the office would be in 
when she  entered it, but past experience told her it was going to be a job 
within it’s  self to get it cleaned up. As the doors opened Amelia was hit 
with a 
rush of  stale air and she frowned. The cleaning system and air curricular had 
been  turned off. Amelia walked over to the control panel on the replicator 
and  quickly set all the perimeters back to standard issue settings.  
 
There was dust all over the furniture and some kind of hard sheen covering  
the floor. Amelia sighed as she put in the maintenance request to have the  
carpet replaced and odd looking and ill fitting furniture removed. She then  
added a order or a decon treatment on the room. Something told her that the  
Commander would most likely not want to work in a room where a dead body had  
been. 
 
By the time Amelia was satisfied that she’d done all she could without  
reporting directly into Skyler, it was well past 0200 hours. After returning to 
 
her small quarters Amelia checked her agenda for the next day and then crossed  
it with Skyler’s. She wanted to make sure to be in the Commander’s 
temporary  
office at least a hour before the Commander reported on duty. 
 
As Amelia laid in her bunk, she actually found herself looking forward to  
meeting Commander Skyler. From everything she’d read and done during the day 
she 
 knew that the older woman would be someone she liked and hopefully enjoyed  
working for.

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