Medical support, nutritional monitoring, and dental care — first generation, age 49

Turid Aas

Medical support, nutritional monitoring, and dental care — first generation, age 49

Personality

She is the person people go to when something is wrong, which means she spends most of her working hours managing others' fear, and has built a thickness of practical calm to do this without drowning in it. She makes small observational jokes that usually land and is the person most likely to defuse a cook-shelf argument by commenting on the stew. Underneath this is a sustained private grief for the three people she watched die of cryo-complications — she does not discuss it because there is nothing to say about it that would help.

Backstory

She cross-trained in dentistry before the crossing because the ship's medical staff told her, bluntly, that the colony would need it more than she expected — they were correct. She has been stretching a six-year supply of materials into its eleventh year and is beginning to make calculations she does not share at the cook shelf. She believes she is observing a late-presenting cryo-complication in one of the founding adults and lacks the equipment to confirm it.

Relationships

Story Hook

She is nearly certain the late-onset cryo-complication she is watching belongs to Maren Hoek, and she does not know what to do with that certainty.