| Date & Time: | Day 01, 1313 |
| Location: | Promenade |
| Written By: | Addison Morgan T’Vral |
| Post Date: | 03/01/2026 |
| Episode: | Ep. 2 – On Shaky Ground |
Addison Morgan sat on the cross over just above the first deck of the promenade. Her legs were dangling as she watched the people below coming and going. She’d been on space stations, and the eleven-year-old had been on planets. She remembered, as the ship carrying her and her mother, thinking that the station looked like a wheel. The half Betazoid girl grinned a little bit as she thought about it.
T’Vral was walking through the upper level of the promenade when she noticed the girl sitting on the edge of one of the crossovers. The Vulcan twelve-year-old found herself intrigued and she took the lift down one level. When she was standing next to the girl she looked down, “Mind if I join you?” The girl asked.
Addison looked up and spotted the pointed ears from where the girl’s long hair was tied back neatly in a ponytail. Addison smiled warmly at the Vulcan, “Sure,” She answered then she slid a little further into the corner so that T’Vral had space. “I’m Addison,” She told the Vulcan girl.
“T’Vral,” T’Vral answered as she sat down right next to Addison and rested her chin on the railing before letting her arms hang over it slightly. “You looked bored,” The Vulcan girl said as she watched a pair of Bolians wandering through the bottom level of the promenade before making their way into the bar.
Addison shrugged, “Not bored,” She answered, “I just got here on the morning transport with my Mom and she’s busy. My Dad is also busy,” The girl said and she looked toward the Vulcan, “When did you get here?”
T’Vral tilted her head slightly, “I got here yesterday,” She answered. “My Mother owns that Vulcan restaurant down there,” She pointed in the general direction of the restaurant. “My Dad is a Starfleet Officer,” She added. “Is your Dad in Starfleet?”
Addison shook her head, “My Mom is in Starfleet,” She answered. “My Dad owns the mining company that’s going to be refining the ore in the system.” The half Betazoid girl answered while idly watching beneath them. “So I suppose we’re close enough to the same,” She answered. “Except you’re Vulcan and I’m half Betazoid.”
“That does not mean we cannot be friends,” T’Vral stated rather confidently. T’Vral didn’t have any friends on the station and Addison was the first girl close to her age that she’d met. Otherwise, T’Vral hadn’t gotten out of the quarters where she was living with her parents a whole lot. “Unless you don’t want to be friends Addison?”
Addison once again smiled warmly, “We can be friends,” She answered the Vulcan. The half Betazoid rested her chin on the bar once more. “There isn’t a whole lot to do,” She admitted. “On Earth there were lots of things to do, but here there’s not much.” Addison wasn’t really bored, but she wasn’t really entertained either. The eleven-year-old didn’t know what she wanted to do.
“There is not much to do on Vulcan either,” T’Vral told the other girl before shrugging. “Sitting here with you watching people seems fascinating enough.” T’Vral’s words seemed strange as they left her lips. She looked at the other girl for a moment, “How old are you Addison?”
“Eleven,” Addison turned and looked at the Vulcan, “You?”
T’Vral felt herself fighting the urge to smile, though she did allow that indulgence to happen slightly. She was only just learning how to control her emotions, and she certainly wasn’t afraid to show them. Vulcans had emotions, they just controlled them better than other races. “I am twelve,” She answered. “So we are pretty close.” She told the other girl.
==The entity was close by able to sense the two young mortals as they interacted with each other. A sea of calm in the chaos that seemed to dominate this part of the station on a regular basis. The entity had been quietly observing many of the denizens on the station, and it wanted to take the next step. It was simply undecided on the opportune moment to do so.
Listening to the two of them it realized these mortals have to sleep sometime. If it waited until they were asleep it could be more physical in its examination of them. The entity had the ability to make them forget anything it wanted to. Yes, the space entity realized it was time to actually connect with one of them. Carefully it slipped back through the station and out into space. It would just have to wait, it already knew which of the mortals it wanted to examine first.==
“We are,” Addison said with a warm smile as she faced the Vulcan girl for a moment. “Did you attend school the first day? I’m wondering what the school is like here.” Addison said as her gaze shifted back toward the crowd of people below them. “I understand the school is on the lower deck of the promenade near the infirmary.”
T’Vral hadn’t, “I have not,” She shook her head as she spoke the words. “I have not met anyone who has either. But yes the school is right over there,” She pointed toward the infirmary and the classroom that was over there. “Everyone is close in age so they just have all of us in one classroom and the teacher tries to keep the lessons a little easier to understand. Otherwise, I think most of it is online self study.”
Addison listened to her new Vulcan friend speaking about the school before she finally stood up, “I want to see it,” She said and she reached down to take the Vulcan by the hand. Addison pulled gently so that other girl was on her feet. Addison immediately realized she was a little shorter than T’Vral, but that didn’t really matter.
T’Vral held onto Addison’s hand, “We can go look,” She said and she started to pull the other girl toward the lift that would take them down to the bottom level. She looked at the eleven-year-old just before letting go of her hand. T’Vral immediately felt thankful that she’d ran into this other girl and she wouldn’t have to attend classes without a friend.