Posted by Lieutenant Laraan (Counsellor) in post-sim: Laraan in sickbay

Posted by Fleet Captain Ghubari Koraia (Captain) in post-sim: Laraan in sickbay

Posted by Lieutenant Laraan (Counsellor) in post-sim: Laraan in sickbay
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After only a few minutes Benjamin was back outside wearing the same white coat but under it was his grey-blue uniform. On his waist was now attached his Medical tricorder, the same he had been wearing only a few hours earlier, it was still a bit dirty and scratched but functional nonetheless. He went to a nearby Cabinet and gathered a case with supplies and attached a shoulder strap and slung it over his left shoulder, wincing slightly as he raised his arm for the action. He moved over to the two Officers clearing the grimace of his face “We ready?” He asked.

Dr. Grey - CMO

“No” Stark said emphatically slowly getting to his feet, “but when has that ever made a difference”.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Ghubari surveyed them in turn, but focused her pale amber eyes on Stark. “it will be okay,” she said softly, her voice full of certainty. “Let’s all stand close to Laraan t make this simpler.”

When they were ready, Koraia reached her mind out. *Alright Shaleah, we are ready. Bring us over.”

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

They didn’t see any lights or twinkles. At first nothing happened. Then, the air around them seemed to shimmer as if you were looking at a stretch of boiling hot asphalt on a hot summer’s day on Earth. The shimmering warped their surrounding more and more until everything around them got hazy and then it became clearer again, forming another picture.

They were standing in a room as round as a sphere. The walls around them and even the floor seemed to shimmer and it felt soft like a carpet. Blue light was pulsing through it like veins. In the center of this huge room was a central pillar formed like the massive trunk of an ancient tree, spreading out blue pulsing veins like roots into the floor and above them like branches into the rounded ceiling.

And the center of this trunk was formed by the form of a woman, whose arms melted into the branches above and whose legs into the roots below, an integral, ingrown part of the trunk, half humanoid, half the central pillar and ‘bridge’ of the ship. And her eyes were the same as Laraan’s.

Laraan lay on the floor in front of her, while they were standing in a semi circle around. The almost-white large eyes looked at each of them in turn. They were old, full of the centuries she had lived, but there was a soft smile on her face. Where her skin was still Heleen, they could see the same tattoo-like filigree designs and swirls (frillings) on her skin, only on Laraan’s mother they were silver on a bronzed skin. When she spoke it was with the same multi-layered vocice as Laraan’s, just a cadence deeper.

“Welcome to me. It is good to see you again Captain Ghubari Koraia and you, Stark. Dr. Grey, meet my caretaker Filiah, she’s a healer like you, Heleen style so to say.” she said. At her words a Heleen woman appeared from behind Shaleah-the-ship. She was taller than Laraan and had a stronger built and she had dark brown skin with light green frillings. She was also naked, with only a waist belt, but, as with all Heleen, her frillings made her appear clothed.

She looked at Benjamin with large bright green eyes and nodded to him, smiling. Then she knelt down to Laraan and touched her hand to Laraan’s arm lightly, closing her eyes for a second. She then looked up and reached over to Stark, touching him as well. As soon as she did, Stark could feel her channeling energy entering him. It felt utterly different to Laraan’s but welcome, because her channel was healing and she evaoprated the lingering headache from the blast within seconds… and anything else that had not been 100% healthy.

Then she got up and looked at Shaleah seriously. “Her body is fine, but her mind is shut down in self-defence. For some reason she is holding a vast amount of energy inside herself, it is unnatural, I have never felt such. She feels like… like…” she stumbled for words, looking deeply troubled.

• Laraan, CNS

“Like there are two of her displaced across time but linked?” Stark said quietly in the hopes it might help.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Filiah’s large green eyes looked at Stark considering his words. “No not quite… but that concept of two of her sounds right. It’s almost like she holds the life energy of two of herself. You see, Laraan-husband, our universe in this plane of existence holds a certain amount of energy. Energy becomes matter, matter becomes energy in the cycles of life as in the cycles of stars being born and dying and being reborn differently. But all in all the amount of energy/matter stays the same even though it changes its form as time progresses. As you know, when we channel energy we never create new energy or matter, we simply transform one kind of energy or matter into another kind, by channeling. In a way we simply fasten up any physical cycle, but within us we keep up the balance, as it is universal law.

Laraan’s balance is off, there’s way too much, as if there are two of her, but one exists only as pure energy within her.” FIiliah sang and while the universal translator had a bit of trouble with her words, her voice behind the words still sounded etherically beautiful.

“Makes sense,” Ghubari said quietly, glancing briefly at Stark and Ben.

Shaleah’s eyes met Ghubari’s. “What happened to your ship Captain? I can read remaining traces of chroniton particles.” she sang.

• Laraan, CNS

Koraia exhaled in an almost sigh. “Very long story short we… did a bit time travel to prevent a major disaster. The ship was destroyed and we escaped to a planet where my my crew fought a desperate battle on the surface while Laraan, Stark, myself and others went back in time using… a time portal, to a moment from before the ship was critically damaged to prevent its destruction. Which we did, and then we were able to beam up the rest of my crew, but now all those of us from the… future, that survived had a duplicate. In order to correct that imbalance, we each merged with ourselves, with one version remaining as the continuing version.” Gods this was convoluted! “Because we are forbidden to create time paradoxes by allowing multiple versions of ourselves to exist in the same Universe.” She gestured, turning her palm upwards. “Again, balance must be achieved. But I can understand how that could be a problem now for Laraan. What can we do?”

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

Both Shaleah and Filiah frowned in unison and gave each other a look, very likely mind-talking through Shaleah’s channel.

After a bit of awkward silence, Filiah turned back to them. “We need to keep Laraan here for a bit and work with her. My healing channel and Shaleah’s telepathy channel combined will probably get her out of the shut-down and then… then she’ll just have to learn how to live with that extra energy. It could be that her channel will be extraordinarily strong for a while… or it may have other side effects. We don’t know because there is no recorded incident of something like this in all of Heleen’s history.” she sang.

Shaleah’s deeper voice tuned into Filiah’s soprano “You do know about our tabu.” she sang, looking at Stark. “The tabu that only I am allowed by the government to disregard. Laraan might show… signs of it. You can not put that into your reports or logs. If the Heleen government finds out they could arrest her.” she sang.

• Laraan

Benjamin listened intently, this was way beyond his pay grade. He took a step forward, raising his hands slightly “Hi, yes sorry. Is there any way I could get access to Heleen Medical journals and texts, this isn’t like searching for information on Vulcans or Andorians, knowledge on your kind is not part of the basic medical curriculum in the Academy. I’d need detailed records from physicians.”

Dr. Grey - CMO