Lt. Commander Ayiana Sevo - The Hills Have Eyes
Aaron Schimmel
((Moss Fields, Gateside Dimension))
Vylaa had just discovered that the environment had some sort of psychic interaction with them, at least enough for her to make one of the nearby trees think it was on Andoria. It was relatively easy for Vylaa with her pronounced telepathic abilities. Ayiana tried a similar experience, making a leaf sprout from the ground, but she nearly had a stroke doing it. It couldn’t have been that simple. There must be more to it.
Sevo: Maybe there’s an overarching intelligence controlling the place, and it is far too strong to overcome, even locally.
Kairis: Response
Ayiana addressed Vylaa.
Sevo: I wonder if your stronger mental powers made it easier for you to affect that sapling? I wonder what would happen if a Vulcan or Betazoid tried.
zh’Tisav: Aren’t Vulcans touch telepaths? It’d be hard to do that with these things on.
She held up a hand encased in it’s clunky, radiation resistant glove.
Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: I imagine a mind meld would end like what happened to those scientists back at the station. Dead, and very puppet-like.
Sevo: Eh, maybe not. I was thinking more akin to their ordered minds and mental physiology that gives them telepathy. There have been numerous cases of Vulcans being affected by psychic effects without being touched. Maybe that’s enough.
Kairis: Response
Vylaa paused, looking at one of the nearby saplings. She bent down and looked at a cluster of berries on it. Ayiana approached to join the others.
zh’Tisav: Hey, you see these berries?
Sevo: I wouldn’t suggest eating them, if that’s what you’re asking.
Kairis: Response
zh’Tisav: I don’t think they’re berries. I think they’re some sort of eye. Watch.
She waved a hand in front of the nearest cluster. The tiny stem they hung from twisted, following her movement. Okay, that was legitimately creepy. Ayiana did the same to another cluster, and it followed her hand. She quickly pulled away as if the thing was going to grab her.
Sevo: Okay, that is freaky. But it could be some sort of natural reaction, too.
zh’Tisav / Kairis: Response
Sevo: Well, it seems like every life form here is part plant, including the animals. Maybe this…plant uses these berry-looking parts to “see” and it just instinctively moves towards nearby things; kind of like how normal plants in our world move their leaves along with the sun.
zh’Tisav / Kairis: Response
Sevo: ::Shrugging.:: It’s just a hypothesis. There’s no way to know which it could be. We’d better be cautious, just in case something is watching us.
zh’Tisav / Kairis: Response
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Lt. Commander Ayiana Sevo
Mission Specialist
U.S.S. Gorkon
V239109AS0
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