Reyhana Tahan was also sitting in the rec room, by herself. She saw the Comms Chief enter and start hammering away at the machines. Personally, she had little time for such things. Reyhana didn't bother to nod or speak, she just concentrated on her work.
Today, her ensemble included a bright fuzzy orange scarf and a belled anklet. It was an eyesore, but she loved it all the same. It usually helped to cheer a sour mood, but it could only do so much...today had been trying.
Some of the plants in the Solar Dome were dying-for no reason she could figure out. Was it pathological? Atmospheric? Solar? Perhaps some fool had brought a pest with him when he boarded the colony, violating quarantine procedures...generally, they could hope to rely on food transport from Planetside to keep from starvation, but if everyone was forced to eat that freeze dried onion dip they brought with them in the supply ships for three months at a time, the colonists would probably riot. The pleasure of simple foods like a tomato sandwich or a corn-on-the-cob did wonders for morale around here, reminding people of home.
But, that was the shift. Now she was off, and currently trying to tune her Sitar again. For the last week, she couldn't help but feel something was...off. She tried an experimental twang.
Bi-dooom...dwang...boom...bwang...broong...
Something was wrong, she thought again. She just couldn't put her finger on it. It left her fairly irritable and short tempered. She was used to relaxing to the steady pattern of the Sitar in her off hours, hearing it all come together under her skilled hands-ordered and precise, of course.
Maybe...no. That wouldn't work at all...her reverie was momentarily interrupted at Sarah cursed at the game after losing all her lives. Well, everyone had their own way of releasing pressure. Better she dent the side of the arcade machine then someones head!