SD961022.19 Justin has a disturbing nightmare.
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~Lox? Was that one of your memories?~
Lox seemed just as upset as Justin ~no, I don't know what that was. A
nightmare.~
Had the symbiote been able to shudder it would have. As it was Justin shuddered
for both of them. They went over the dream from their collective memory. One
of the downsides of a joined Trill, is that because of the shared mind, they
could not forget even a nightmare.
"Computer, begin recording... private log, full encryption to my voiceprint with
additional password to be given at the end of the recording."
"I was some sort of mental doctor. Councilor was the title, but I didn't act
like any Doctor I have ever heard of, outside some horror novel. I was Jobel
Lox... a joined person that could not communicate with my symbiote. I was in a
hospital, my life threatened by the lack of symbiotic communication."
Justin shuddered again. "Time passed, I recovered quickly, like it was just a
short gap and things returned... but it was a full joining, unlike Lox and I
have now. From there we went back to our duty. Our job was to figure out how
to deal with the lesser races, such as Vulcan, Andorian, Telerite, and all the
other non-human races. I mean that as not from earth human. Even the Betazoids
are being persecuted. I seemed to have been accepted with my Symbiote for some
odd reason. I had done something in the past to assure my loyalty or some-such.
That is hazy, as if I knew it happened but not what it was. Probably makes the
nightmare seem worse."
Lox spoke up ~Who knows what it was, probably you are human in that nightmare
and somehow infected by my dream counterpart.~
Justin shook his head "I think not." He said aloud, though the recorder could
not hear Lox could not know he was answering a different question.
"What had happened was Jobel first patient of the day was a part-Klingon. She
was half and half. Her mother was Klingon her father, human. Her father was
her mother's master. It was know that he had several children from his slave
pens. He used them for all sorts of strange experiments. This one has been
intentionally set loose in a schoolyard with other children her age. The
outcome was as expected. She had been taunted, jeered, attacked, and in the end
she lost her Klingon temper and started attacking back. She had been caged and
brought to Jobel for assessment. I...um Jobel put her through several cruel
tests to see how she reacted and what her pain, heat, cold, and asphyxiation
tolerances were. He had just sent her away when something happened and he
passed out. We woke to a medic checking us over and saying something about Lox
coming out of it. Whatever 'it' was."
"The tests were cruel. First she was subjected to beatings, then to beatings
with sharp edged items, then with pain sticks, then... " he shuddered yet again
"Then with direct neural pain induction. The next test was heat. First they
burned her with phasers set on low, then with burning sticks, laser scalpels,
and then again by direct neural induction. Cold was done using liquid nitrogen,
while asphyxiation was done in a hypobaric chamber. Jobel seems quite satisfied
with the results, and relished in inflicting this on the child."
"Computer, end recording, encrypt to my voiceprint with a password of
x-t-2-3-delta-sigma-4-2-4." Justin said. He and Lox agreed, they didn't want
ANYONE knowing that they weren't a fully joined single minded Trill. It gave
them an edge most Trills didn't, though this nightmare was enough to wish they
were single minded and could buy the nightmare. As it was this mostly joined
state of mind meant that they would go over and over this nightmare to figure
out each and every tidbit to learn what they could.
With that out of their system, Justin and Lox started their day, albeit a few
hours earlier than normal. "Computer, pull up records of Lt Nix for review for
our Special project. Also pull all details on Civilian Engineers Ted Frakes,
John Gelik and Engineering Apprentice Heyla Lannin for review."
Justin grabbed a quick sonic shower. He had to fix it their first day. He
hated going without the cleansing such a shower would do early each day. It
helped him clear his mind, as well as clean his body.
After the shower he grabbed his breakfast, replicated steak and eggs. After a
nightmare like that, he needed something that would fill him up and slow his
mind down a bit.
He moved over to his small table, and sat down to eat and look over the details
on Lt. nix and his chosen Engineers, and Apprentice. They were all candidates
for his special AFS team. He wanted to make sure they would fit in. He needed
a scientist with a knack for technology and thinking outside the box for those
occasions when they hit something completely new and unexpected. He wanted at
least 2 Civilians on his team, to show that it wasn't just Starfleet that can do
a job. He expected them to measure up though, and these four did.
"Computer, send a request to Captain Dharmajiva for 2 shuttles, a Type 13 for a
complete refit and redesign the other a Danube class if possible for general
transportation." Justin asked.
With that he went back to his reports.
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Engineer Justin Lox