He takes a sip of the tea. Not because she's told him to, because he, after all, is the captain here. But because it's hot and soothing and she got it for him. Besides, taking a sip gives him a few more moments to browse through some of the information she's saved to the flexi for him. Numbers of worlds. History. Politics.
It wakes the old ache that's been there every day since the Maru pulled him out of the black hole and Harper told him what happened to the Commonwealth. It brings it all back, seeing this parallel version summarized for him: the majesty of Tarn-Vedra, the links of friendship tying it to a million other worlds before it was lost, the might of the High Guard, the promise of justice and freedom across three galaxies.
He always aches deep inside for what Known Worlds have lost with the fall of the Systems Commonwealth, but the Federation of Allied Planets brings it right back to him, seeing it here, sends a stab of longing through him.
He's sure to let out a slow breath, keeping his smile fixed on his face for Trance, as she points out that the possibility he'd arrive here had been growing stronger, and that ... is probably the best he'll get from her.
She's certainly spoken about seeing possibilities before, however and whyever that is.
"I'd just like to point out that if Beka and the rest of you are planning to kidnap me and sell me to a museum, you've got a fight on your hands," he quips, because it's easier than admitting what her flexi just sent through his heart.
"Of course, in the 24th century, the Commonwealth was there in our world, too." As impossibly strange as it sounds to say those words.
"So, what do you think the purpose of us being here is?"
Re: WEIRD THINGS GOING ON? Look for a Trance!
It wakes the old ache that's been there every day since the Maru pulled him out of the black hole and Harper told him what happened to the Commonwealth. It brings it all back, seeing this parallel version summarized for him: the majesty of Tarn-Vedra, the links of friendship tying it to a million other worlds before it was lost, the might of the High Guard, the promise of justice and freedom across three galaxies.
He always aches deep inside for what Known Worlds have lost with the fall of the Systems Commonwealth, but the Federation of Allied Planets brings it right back to him, seeing it here, sends a stab of longing through him.
He's sure to let out a slow breath, keeping his smile fixed on his face for Trance, as she points out that the possibility he'd arrive here had been growing stronger, and that ... is probably the best he'll get from her.
She's certainly spoken about seeing possibilities before, however and whyever that is.
"I'd just like to point out that if Beka and the rest of you are planning to kidnap me and sell me to a museum, you've got a fight on your hands," he quips, because it's easier than admitting what her flexi just sent through his heart.
"Of course, in the 24th century, the Commonwealth was there in our world, too." As impossibly strange as it sounds to say those words.
"So, what do you think the purpose of us being here is?"