Silver Merit Award "Coming Storm" (4)

[Lawliet 0]

Silver Merit Award

 

Stardate 1211.02

Ensign Lawliet

Assistant Science Officer, Sky Harbor Aegis

2130 Hours, Aegis Relative

 

"Coming Storm" (4)

 

"Why have you brought me here again?"

 

Lawliet stood on the familiar shoreline, with the sun setting over the horizion. Although it felt as real as it did last time, he knew everything around him was a false image. He was about to walk away, before an old friend stood in his path.

 

"This place is for you. I have no influence over what I cannot control." Guinan spoke with a calm composure.

 

Lawliet knew well where he was. In this place, where nothing was true, and everything was permitted. Few thought, that the cosmic string that traveled through the cosmos, was simply acting as a doorway into our own imaginations. Nothing was limitless. Lawliet knew this wasn't the case. Traces of temperal energy form the ribbon still lay dormant his genetic code, effectivly slowing his internal clock to a hault. Or was it?

 

"You said...if I didn't manage to control it, the result would become unkown." He turned around to see Guinan crouched down by the water's edge; watching the small fish swim about.

 

"I said nothing. It was you who came to that conclusion." Never faulting her gaze.

 

"That's what happened. I fell victum to the Nexus."

 

"No. You fell victum to the confines of the universe. What you hold within you has no constrictions."

 

Guinan slowly raises to her feet and begins to walk off. Lawliet waited for a moment, and started to walk after her. They continued to talk for a few minutes before arriving at the homestead that was Lawliet's prior to the incursion. As they both took a seat on the front pourch, Guinan continued with the conversation.

 

"What you felt prior to returning here, was what one might reffer to the echos of the past. In this place, time has no meaning...and neither do you."

 

"So, what your trying to tell me is: I can look into the past?"

 

"Not only the past, but the future as well. You should also tread carefully. The essance of the lifeforce present in those times will also carry to you as well."

 

Lawliet looked out into the metropolis skyline of his home. That was what happened in his quarters. He was recieving images and feelings from the attack. This was something he had to look further into.

 

"The time is close at hand now."

 

Lawliet turned to Guinan who was looking up into the sky. He turned his gaze to find a black cloud creeping over the land. As he stood, Guinan grabed his arm.

 

"If you don't act soon, someone else will make the decision for you."

 

Before Lawliet could question his old friend, the dark void of the cloud consumed the entire of the world and all he could do was listen. Listen to any familiar sound.

 

There was none.

 

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