After leaving the medical bay, Flint started to look around for a turbolift for his next meeting in Engineering, he was hopeful he would be able to fit in without issue here, he was known to knock heads a few times with his own views and standing out.

With the ship still virtually empty, he hoped to meet a fellow Engineer to see where he could be needed.

Taking the lift and following the guidance, he made it. In all the haste, he had noticed his bag was still on his shoulder, but he kept it with him until after.

Flint walked into the room, the low hum of the core was flowing through his head and the dimly lit glow from the surrounding interfaces was visible, he called out in the hope someone was there.

“Hello…” he said, his voice bouncing off the surrounding walls

Hina poked her head out from around an access panel at the sound of the new voice echoing through Engineering. She was currently one of the few people still working at the moment and was surprised to see someone else enter, let alone still carrying their bag.

“Hi. Can I help you?” she asked.

Flint jumped, even in all the dark spaces and areas he has been in, his nerves still take over at the wrong possible moment.

“Oh… new engineer I guess?” she asked.

He started to walk over to the officer, noticing all the tools laid out around her. It seemed he had found someone who liked to work, even in off-hours like himself.

“I’m Hina. Welcome to the Valkyrie.” she said, extending her hand.

Flint took her hand and smiled. “Nice to meet you, Lieutenant.” he said. “I had just come aboard and was hoping to check in before the crew returned to the ship. I see you’re knee-deep in work. ”

“Well… I’m sure the chief or acting chief is around here somewhere… they’ll be who you want to check in with.” she said, looking around. She shrugged, looking at the tools she had scattered around where she was working. “I was just finishing up actually… just tuning the plasma distribution systems…” she said, letting the new ensign take a look.

He nosed in at the sight of the work. Being such a fanatic about how plasma could be pushed to its limits made him study it and play around in depth during his time in the fleet. Also, having to clean the ducts was not something he ever enjoyed doing.

“Have you had issue’s with it then?” he said

“Oh it was fine before… but its a bit more efficient now… should give us a little more power if we ever need it.” she said.

Flint admired the care the Lieutenant took in her work, the area was already spotless and back to normal so you wouldn’t even notice it had been touched.

He grabbed his bag and went to head off in search of the chief. “Nice to meet you, perhaps we will bump into each other soon?”

Hina nodded.

“I’m sure we will.” she said with a smile.

Flint hunted around for the Chief but could not locate his reporting line, he was dubious of getting to his room and dumping his bag so he headed for the door in the hope of coming back later.

She watched the Ensign leave, dimly realizing that she hadn’t actually asked his name. She shrugged, turning back to finish cleaning up the area. She pocketed her tricorder and scooped up her tools, setting them into the tool kit before wiping her hand on the gold overcoat she wore, heading off in search of her next project.