EXETERRPG: (2 0232) Nurse Ewan McDonald

[Robbie Gray]

Mission: Space Was Cool Before It Mattered
Day: 2
Stardate: 2446.04.26

(Exeter - Mess Hall - Nurse – Ewan McDonald - 0232)



Ewan liked doing night shifts. There was a calmness andquietness to the shifts when most people were sleeping. The lights in sickbaywere lowered and he had heard the soft breathing of the patients. He had spenta couple of minutes eyeballing them to make sure that they were actually breathingeven though the monitors were showing that they were.

 

He had managed to take a brake and decided to go for a wanderthrough the ship rather then getting his head down for a little bit. He haddone longer shifts on less sleep before and he didn’t mind. He was humming softlyto himself as he entered the deserted mess hall. 

 

He was remined of a time when a friend of his had been wanderingthough the refugee camp and all of the sudden she had been swarmed by fireflies.She had sat there in the dark surrounded by the fireflies singing to herself untilshe had been found by security and told to go back to her tent.

 

Ewan smiled to him self as he moved across the darkened room andstood at the large windows illuminated by the light from the nebula. 

 

~Why not~

 

He took a deeper breath and began to sing. It was one of his mothers’favourites and she had sung it to him when he was a child.



 

“Oh the summertime is coming

And the trees are sweetly blooming

And the wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go, lassie go?”

 

“And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather

Will ye go, lassie go?”

 

A smile began to creep across his face  

 

“I will build my love a bower

By yon' cool crystal fountain

And on it I will pile

All the flowers of the mountain

Will ye go, lassie go?”

 

“And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather

Will ye go, lassie go?”

 

He grew louder as his confidence came back.

 

“If my true love she were gone 

I would surely find another

To pull wild mountain thyme

Grows around the blooming heather

Will ye go, lassie go?”




“And we'll all go together

To pull wild mountain thyme

All around the blooming heather

Will ye go, lassie ........”

 

He heard the doors open behind him as the words caught in his mouth asthe song dissipated into the sounds of the ship. He turned feeling very self-conscious.

 

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