2nd • [ voice → visual ] • In which caution is ignored

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[ voice • filtered : enterprise crew ]

We will be conducting a survey of everything within the city to broaden our understanding of the environment we are in. Lieutenant Uhura and Ensign Gaila, you will be assisting me in gathering tricorder scans on objects native to the city. Ensign, you will focus on botany and any other organic life forms aside from the Extras. Lieutenant, focus your efforts on native buildings and items obtained from the hatches. Discussion and analysis will be conducted once we have established some data.

Spock Out.

[ voice ]

After his conversation with Jim, Spock was quick to make the necessary arrangements to begin collecting data in the city for analysis. Originally his objective was to seek out the Extras and take preliminary scans before a complete medical study could be conducted, but establishing a survey of the city seemed a better course of action prior to beginning the experiment. Surely his crewmates had a thorough understanding of the city and its establishments, but Spock had spent little time outside of Castle Summer and the Enterprise since his arrival when there was no need for it.

It wasn’t long before he passed it; a dwelling that stuck out on the particular block he happened by. This one, however, was not like the other buildings that surrounded it. Not that the entirety of the city didn’t fall into a level of illogical anachronistic mixing of architecture, but Spock avoided jumping to irrational conclusions by just assuming it was the stylistic choice of whatever being happened to control this place.

Improbable, but not entirely impossible.

The building reminds him of Shi’Kahr, a city on Vulcan where he spent most of his life, and he approached it without second thought once the connection was made. Peculiarity aside, the press of his hand against the panel made the door slide open and eliminated his uncertainty in taking this as his home here in Taxon. It was well furnished and decorated, all of which was decidedly Vulcan. Not that it held much significance to him beyond being...familiar.

Or so he told himself.

“I believe I have found an adequate living space,” he said to the Tablet after having a look around. “I extend my gratitude to Miss Summers for offering me lodging.”

[ ooc • backdated to before the Master's kidnappings. ]

Comments

[ visual ]

[sonofsarek.livejournal.com]

Had Kara informed him of her reasoning behind not settling, he would understand the sentiment. His other self who had arrived in the city before seemed whisked away by Uhura's account, and then he arrived once more with little recollection of what had passed. It happening to anyone else is not entirely improbably.

"Understandable," he says with a nod. "I felt similar in my prior living arrangement."

[ visual ]

[skort]

"So it's not as bad now?" Her curiosity shows on her face. As much as she loathes settling down in this place, there's a part of her that would rather that than living each day feeling out of place and such. She has enough of that back home, she really doesn't want to have to deal with the special form of not fitting-in she's found here on top of all her normal insecurities that she keeps hidden.