Star Trek: Starbase 777 - t’sanga’s-quarters

S'anra sat on a stool in front of the vanity on the far wall, surrounded by the chaos of four people who had to share a relatively small space for an extended period of time. Her head was in her hands.

Knock knock, Maggie poked her head in as she looked at the assistant. “Hey um, do you need anything? Glass of water, a candy or something? I’m not going to be of much help to the security team so I figured I could uhm, help you out. If you need it.”

"No, I'll be alright, thank you," S'anra promised, her affect much flatter than it had been this whole time. She didn't look up from where she was hunched over.

Maggie nodded as she moved to stand in the room quietly without disturbing the grieving assistant, although she did quickly take a look around the room without disturbing her. “Okay, I’ll be here if you need anything.”

While S'anra failed to respond, Maggie could take a quick look around. Aside from the average cargo of four people, on one of the lower bunks there were several boxes of tea, marketed to be soothing for the throat. That must have been T'Sanga's bunk, probably?

Hm, neat! And something to try and talk to her about. “So you uhm, you like tea?”

"It's not mine," S'anra said, before looking up into the mirror as if she realised something, and then she caught her head in her hands again. "That's T'Sanga's."

“Ah, I’m sorry.” She said sadly. “I was only ever a fan and it still feels like my hearts been ripped out, i’m sure it’s even worse for you. I’m so sorry.”

Abruptly, S'anra stood up, grabbing the tea, and holding it out to Maggie. "Scan this," she said, her eyes sharp in a way they really hadn't been before.

She blinked, looked at the tea and then to S’anra. “Oh shit.” She said, taking a tri-corderout (thank god for leaving in the middle of the work day) and scanning.

All things considered, a fairly standard tea, indeed intended for soothing sore throats. And it didn't have any traces of KCl, the compound found in T'Sanga's stomach, but... there was something. Maggie, as a scientist, could recognize it as a synthetic molecule, not something that was likely to appear in nature naturally. It was slightly basic, and did contain a potassium atom...

Maggie hummed as she looked at the readings. “There’s a synthetic molecule in here, it’s slightly basic, but does contain a potassium atom.” She said with a hum. “Which is odd..”

"I don't know what that means. What does that mean," S'anra pushed.

“It means that something was added to the structure.” She said simply. “It doesn’t appear naturally.”

"Then why is it in the tea? It's just normal tea, we bought it on Mol'Rihan. I don't think that's on the ingredient list." S'anra sounded like she was on the brink of an epiphany, but she just didn't have the pieces to put the entire puzzle together.

“Well when was the last time she drank some of this?” She asked. “I know what you’re driving towards, but it could be so many things. People sometimes don’t reveal everything about their products.l

"All the time, it was- where is your security- oh, Elements," S'anra snatched the box away from Maggie again, marching out of the quarters and into the cargo hold, to Saros and Kirio.

“Hey-“ Maggie said as she marched out after the other woman.