Posted by Civilian Sair Songz (Counselor) in Holodeck 2 - A Musical Introduction

Posted by Fleet Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in Holodeck 2 - A Musical Introduction

Posted by Civilian Sair Songz (Counselor) in Holodeck 2 - A Musical Introduction
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Her brown eyes lit up and she beamed. “Oh, that sounds like a wonderful thing to do!” Sair couldn’t remember the last time she had done anything like that. Not certainly since she had returned to Kobliad after her first stint with the exchange. In the back of her mind, the setting they were in and he described was not unlike the music they had composed and there was something deeply satisfying about that knowledge.

~Sair Songz, CNS

“Ok. I’m game if you are.” He ordered the appropriate footwear for them both and then set out, leading her closer and closer towards the edge of the rim of the valley. “Mt. Cavender was named for Horace Cavender. He was a Scottish explorer and the first European to meet the Indigenous people of the area. He lived with them for almost a decade, learning their language and customs. When he returned to Scotland, he became an professor of anthropology specializing in North American Indigenous cultures. A strong proponent of equality and Tribal autonomy, which was a huge issue in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Mt. Forreton was named for a politician that represented this area in the former United States government as a Senator. She was instrumental in legislation that kept the land clear of development and mining and such. And Tacilakika… that is the name the indigenous people called the peak. Legend has it that if you suffer from a broken heart because your love is lost, if you throw yourself from the peak you will be reunited with them.” He srugged and said “I don’t know if there is any validity to the legend, but over the years more than a few have put it to the test.”

Cochrane, CO

For some reason, Sair hadn’t actually been expecting him to want to do on the hike now, but the spontaneity of it made her smile and she just went along with it. She liked being out in nature and in large settings like this even more. The city parks that she had grown up around in Sonrey had been lovely and as a doctor, proved a necessary respite, but it was not the same as being out in a place like the one before her.

Still, as Alex gave her the little geography lesson, his last statement made her pause. It was easy for such a legend to be romanticized, and she was sure that for many it was. For Sair though, it was heartbreaking, and most likely because she had seen enough people be in similar places of desperation and loss. She slowed her pace but kept walking. “That’s incredibly sad, but I imagined they wouldn’t have tried it if they didn’t have a strong enough belief system, especially in an afterlife.”

~Sair Songz, CNS

“Not an afterlife. Here, now. The belief is that just before you hit the ground, time stops and your love grasps your hands, lifts you up, and you remain frozen in that moment for eternity.” He led her down a narrow path of gray stone and dirt, a steep drop-off to their left. “Oddly enough, there have been some scientific anomalies in the area as well. And there actually *is * a spot at the base of the mountain that generates a chrontional disturbance, albeit on a quantum level. No one has been able to explain it or even define its parameters.”

Cochrane, CO

All legends, stories, myths, you name it, had a small basis in reality and truth. A tiny spark that morphed into something greater and more extraordinary. She understood that and yet her very logical mind had to work a bit harder to buy into the idea of rejoining a love one even if there was an added scientific mystery involved.

Sair stepped carefully as the path wound downwards. “I try not to scoff at the unexplained. I’ve seen too much to do so. But I think I’m more disturbed by how more skeptical I am these days. I used to want to find all the romanticism in life. I know I’m a bit jaded, but when you tell me a story like that there is a part of me that wants be excited at the possibility for those people,” she said with a chuckle. “The therapist part of me if giving me side-eye.”

~Sair Songz, CNS

Cochrane smiled slightly and said “Tell the therapist part of you that they need to lighten up. Some things in the galaxy are supposed to be mysterious. It’s what keeps us exploring and learning.”

Cochrane, CO