<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Mission: The Flames of Purity</span></p>
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<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">(USS Exeter – Morgue – Nurse – CPO- Ewan McDonald - 1145)</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Ewan looked down at the body of Ensign Kyros Ryelle that was lying out
on the mortuary slab and paused before opening his tricorder. He had been
tasked with cataloging his possessions and any forensic material that was on
his body. After that he would be put into one of the mortuary pods for storage
until they reached home. Normally he would have help but Sickbay was rammed
with new patients, so he was here by himself. </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He knew that Bajorans had specific rituals and rights when it came to
their dead but unfortunately, he had to do this as part of the protocol with
the sudden death of a member of the ships company. </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Hallo Ryelle. My name is Ewan, I am a nurse and I am going to scan you
with a tricorder and take a few readings if that`s okay?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He paused for a moment before starting the scan. He knew that some
people would think that he was strange to talk to the dead as if they were
still alive but when he was a student nurse all wide eyed and eager. He had assisted
the Senior Sister of the Operating Theater Department in caring for a patient
who had died on the operating table. They had carefully cleaned the patient placed
her in a shroud and then waited for the porters to come and take the patient to
the morgue. He had remembered that she had not left the patient even though it
had taken a long while for the porters to arrive with the gurney. She had then
escorted the patient out of the department and to the doors of the morgue. On
the walk back, she had told him that just because the patient had died does not
mean that you stop treating with the respect and dignity that they deserve. As
a nurse you care for patients from before they are born to after they die. She
had said that if she he was not able to do that for every single patient then
he did not deserve to have the responsibility and the honor of caring for
people in their time of need.</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">The tricorder beeped as it completed the scan.</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Thank you for that. Now I am sorry, but I am going to need to remove
your uniform. Don`t worry I`ll keep you decent throughout okay.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He took a laser cutter and carefully cut along the uniform arms and along
its sides so that is was split into two. He then covered Ryelle`s whole body
with a shroud which he tucked under his shoulders.</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“I am going to remove the top part of your uniform top and trousers.
Sorry about this.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He pulled on the bottom edge of the uniform top then he had left
uncovered which slid out and then careful put it into an evidence bag. He the
same with the trousers which he tagged and placed in the corner beside him. </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“I need to role you slightly to get the other half`s sorry.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He rolled Ryelle carefully off the slab and quickly pulled the other
parts of his uniform and placed them also into evidence bags. The bags were
then taken to a storage container where they were sealed inside waiting for
further analysis. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Sorry about that.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He quickly pulled the shroud that had slipped off Ryelle`s shoulder while
he was rolling him.</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Now that unpleasant bit is over. Let`s get you cleaned up a bit shall
we. I am sure some of your friends will be visiting in a bit and we need to
make sure you are ready.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He moved over a bowl with warm cleaning water and a cloth. The bowl had
a particle analyzer which would scan any matter that was removed from him when
he cleaned him. He began going from Ryelle`s head to his feet working slowly
and methodically talking to him all the time explaining what he was doing
talking about his experiences before joining the Exeter, about his family and
friends. When he had finished he placed the cloth back in the bowel and moved
it back into the corner. He stepped back and placed a hand gently onto Ryelle`s
shoulder. </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“I am Ewan McDonald from the Clan McDonald may my ancestors watch over
the spirt of Kyros Ryelle on his journey to the prophets.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He carefully pushed the slab back into mortuary pod opening which was
inserted into the wall. There was a soft click as the hatch came down and
sealed in place. </span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Rest now my friend. Your journey has ended.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp497fa1a1MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He paused for a moment paying his respects before he turned and headed
for the door towards the living patients who would also need his help.</span></p>
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