Mess Hall -- Day 46 (afternoon) -- [private]

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The mess hall was unusually crowded this shift. Saval sat down at a table with a cup of strong black coffee to ponder why that was. Maybe there was some work being done in other departments that required more exertion and burned more calories than average, making more people hungry right now. Or perhaps there had been some slight shift in the

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[miss_gaila]

Gaila felt much better after talking to David, but she no longer had any desire to work on the programing. In fact, the moment he left she realized that there was only one thing she really wanted at the moment: food. With a flash of surprise she realized that she hadn't eaten breakfast Whatever has this ship done to me? she wondered, a little amused. I don't think I've ever forgotten to eat before.As she wasn't on shift anyway, she left the lab and walked down to the mess hall, acutely aware of the fact that she was famished. When it was her turn at the replicator, the first thing she ordered was chocolate cake, which was a definite necessity after the last few days. Then, not feeling up to trying anything too adventurous, she requested fruit salad and a turkey sandwich

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Saval found himself rather intrigued by the piece of chocolate cake on her tray, before she sat down. He'd always wondered what it would taste like, but he knew perfectly well it wouldn't take more than a few bites of that to knock him flat on his ass.

Lost as he was in idle non-academic pondering, Gaila's approach took him by surprise. Most people didn't voluntarily choose to socialize with Vulcans. If he wanted to chat with someone, he had to seek it out himself, and there was always an awkward balance between saying something stiffly scientific and logical and having his crewmates think of him as a pretentious ass, or saying something friendly and accessible by human standards and feeling like a sellout, like some kind of v'tosh katur. It was nice to have someone making an overture

[miss_gaila]

"Thank you," she replied, smiling a little wider as she sat down.

"That's me," she confirmed, "but I prefer just Gaila off duty." She wasn't really surprised that he knew her name even though she was sure she didn't know his. She had an excellent memory for names, and almost never forget them. He courteously noted that they hadn't met and introduced himself. "It's nice to meet you, Doctor Saval. Are you a medical doctor?"

She picked up the fork and started on the chocolate cake first, even though it probably meant she'd end up getting another one afterwards. Terran desserts are absolutely fantastic, certainly some of Earth's best inventions.

"Orions and Vulcans are both pretty rare on the Enterprise," she agreed. In fact, she sometimes forgot that there were other Orions. David was raised on Earth and Marla was a being she preferred to think about as little as possible. The only other Vulcan she'd seen on board was Spock. "And in Starfleet, for that matter. Is it difficult to live among so many... illogical beings?"

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"Very well