Keto Goes A-Hunting

Who: Keto
Where: Medibay
When: After Sirus' Transformation
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Keto sat in his office, feeling rather proud. He'd actually
performed a highly complex and relatively sensitive operation on a
member of the crew who wasn't even originally the species in which he
had his doctorate, and so far he hadn't heard of anything going wrong.
Okay, so the operation had only taken place thirty seconds ago, but
that timespan already eliminated several possibly errors (like
accidentally having killed the guy outright).
Life was good.
And then Keto's eyes lit upon something - or rather, they didn't.
The thing that they DID alight upon was the space that existed where
there should have been something for them to alight upon.
"Excuse me," called Keto out to the main room, where Coffey and
Vanessa were still cleaning up, and Wildflower was still lying
mutely, "Does anybody know where my medipack is?"
"No," replied Coffey instantly.
"Mmph," replied Wildflower instantly.
"Uhh..." said Vanessa. Coffey sighed.
"We can tell you're new here," she whispered, as Keto leapt up from
his chair and stepped out.
"Nurse Chrysler, where is my medipack?" he asked sweetly, with a
very, very faint tone of ice in his voice. Vanessa sighed.
"Well, the Tree had it..."
"Yeeees..." murmured Keto, nodding slowly.
"And you were in Big Brother..."
"Yeeees..."
"And it bet it on you winning."
"Y...IT DID WHAT!?" yelled Keto, leaping in the
air, "Wh..wh...WHERE IS THAT TREE?"
"It's, uh, not here," replied Vanessa. Keto froze, then raised an
eyebrow and looked around.
"Oh my, you know, I think you're right!" he exclaimed, "It's NOT
here! Wow, and all this time there was I thinking that it was right
next to me. I can see that you're one really observant nurse. I
KNOW IT'S NOT HERE! WHERE *IS* IT!"
"How should I know? It ran off to hide!" snapped Vanessa. Keto
growled.
"Right," he said, "Where did it run off to last?"
"The diesel decks," informed Coffey, "But that was for it's..."
Keto stormed out.
"...vacation," finished Coffey, then sighed and continued cleaning
up. Vanessa glanced after Keto.
"Shouldn't we try to warn the Tree?" she asked. Coffey shook her
head.
"The Tree won't be in the diesel decks, and Keto has about as much
tracking ability as Wildflower has the ability to fly."
"Mmph Mmph."
"Yes, or speak. So there's nothing to worry about," said Coffey.
Then she smiled.
"Who knows, if we're really lucky, Keto might get lost."
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OOC: Well, I'm outta here for two weeks. Feel free to have Keto
wander back up out of the diesel decks and use him as an NPC if you
want. Just gives him something to do when he's not being used. ;)
Ciao (no matter how cliched that is).