Ensign Yinn/Loq: Two Heads Beat as One

[Mike Vago]

((Shuttlecraft Imago, above New Bajor))

Loq... Yinn... they still weren't sure how to think of themself, but they were already feeling better about what had happened. The situation had become a challenge to overcome, and a problem to study, and that was firmly within their comfort zone.

Even their vision was starting to get clearer. They were still seeing double, but their brains were starting to process it. They found that if both sets of eyes were pointed in the same direction, they got a stereoscopic image — quadroscopic, more accurately — that was immediately headache-inducing. But if they looked at two completely different things, they were able to process both, like listening to music while having a conversation. They tried to keep Yinn's eyes focused on Brzezinski and Loq's eyes focused on Fer'at. So much so that it was a surprise when the shuttle touched down in the Butler's docking bay.

Fer’at: Perhaps it would be best to request gurneys to assist both of you to the lab.

 

Loq: I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it.

Loq and Yinn's bodies both rose from their seats, but they misjudged their varying weights, so Yinn shot up and nearly fell over, while Loq only rose a few inches off the chair.

Loq: Perhaps I could still use some assistance after all.

Brzezinski: We did alright on the ground after all.

 

Fer’at: Yes, but we did not have to walk far.  I am strong enough to assist without concern, but would you be able to do so, Brzezinski?

 

Brzezinski: I can handle one petite Bolian for the walk to the labs.

Loq: And the lab isn't far. We really just have to walk a few meters to the turbolift.

Fer’at: As you wish.

They tried to lean less on their colleagues and walk more upright. The trick of it wasn't to move both bodies in unison, but to take into account how the two were different, Yinn light and agile, Loq strong and sturdy. But they were both bodies they had been in their whole lives, it was just a matter of making two familiar motions at once.

 

Brzezinski: Nothing doing, just down this corridor and to the turbolift!

 

Yinn: We should alert Commander Katsim, if she isn't already in the lab.

Brzezinski: Should we call someone from medical as well?

 

Yinn: Agreed. Notify Dr. Toz, she can decide who's best suited to help.

 

Fer'at: responses

 

Brzezinski: If time is of the essence, I suggest we begin with a full-spectrum molecular scan.

 

Yinn: We can try, but if my quantum entanglement theory is right, whatever's happening is happening on the subatomic level. Thankfully, I've already been working on...

The lab was so familiar, they had to hold back from bounding around with both bodies, pulling up their previous work on the Antari and Brenkevi phantoms. But a dizzy Klingon could do some real damage in a lab. They remembered the broken ribs from the night they had spent with... themself. They made themself put that whole mess of confusing emotions out of their heads for the moment. Maybe forever. Focus on the work.

They found that if they kept their Klingon body still, they could move their Bolian body around the lab with only moderate difficulty. It was odd watching themself at their workstation through another set of eyes. But then, if they stepped back to think about everything that was odd about this, they'd never get anything done.

Yinn: Here it is! ::a transparent aluminum cylinder rose up from the countertop:: My tachyons! They're entangled with other tachyons somewhere else, and my theory is that their counterparts are still orbiting the moon of Alpha Brenkevi, and that the incorporeal aliens we met there had these entangled particles as their neural network. So if we can observe the neurons in my brains, we should be able to see the same— ::she stiffened up for a moment:: I'm getting ahead of myself. We should probably wait for Commander Peri's thoughts.

Fer'at: responses

 

Brzezinski: Right. And we can cross-check with the previous scans of both subjects.

Yinn: Scans. That reminds me, what about our previous idea...

Loq: Of sending this body to sickbay for a full diagnostic. I'm also curious as to how the entanglement will work if I'm separated by several decks. If this isn't quantum entanglement, perhaps it's restricted by distance, like Betazed telepathy. 

Fer'at/Brzezinski: responses

Loq: An excellent point. Although...

They turned their heads towards each other. Being able to see themself from across the room was still unnerving, but it was an experience almost no one had ever had. Maybe they shouldn't be in a rush to let the moment end.

Loq: It would be a shame to break the connection before we've had a chance to fully study it. ::beat:: Not that I want to spend too much time being the experiment and not the scientist.

Fer'at/Brzezinski: responses

Tags/TBC

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Ensign Yinn/Qurgh'Loq

Science Officer/Diplomatic Corps

USS Octavia E Butler

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