Better Days . . .

[Pneuma 0]

As Pneuma searched the mirror ship, once again he was drawn to the reality of what had happened here. These people were slaughtered. Echoes of their past emotions seemed to intensify to the point where he nearly lost control. Anger, fear and Pain, the vicious cycle seemed to pick up speed. It was all Dom could do just to push forward. Was a new energy source so important that people would go through this just to acquire it or defend it for that matter? On and on the ancient emotions did their dance this slow waltz of anger, fear, and pain.

Just when Dom was about to lose it he remembered a trick he had learned. Way back when he was growing up on Earth. It was a trick that he had used to fight his own emotions when he learned of his parents' disappearance. Being only a child when he learned of this he grieved horribly until one day he decided that e was not going to do it any more and he was gonna fight it with his better memories. Of course being a child he didn’t have a whole lot of memories to think about but he did what he could with simple things. Fishing, catching frogs, picking flowers for his adopted mom, swimming and so on. Hopefully this could work in his predicament.

Pneuma started thinking back to his time on Earth, at the academy, and of course on Risa. He remembered playing phaser tag with his friends and snickering at the Doc when he said to quit doing that! He remembered his friends that he had made at the academy. He thought back to Risa and that very nice Risan woman that just was an amazing person! He even thought of that smart mouthed Vulcan who thought he could best him in 3d chess.

Dom Took a deep breath and smiled completely forgetting where he was. In an instant the cycle was broken by the feelings of peace and joy that he had remembered. But even that was shattered. There was a new set of emotions in the air, only these were coming from the living. Excitement, Curiosity, and fear but not like the fear that the dead were throwing off. Pneuma was instantly pulled out of his memories and looked around and spotted Mr. Angelis. That was it! That was where the new emotions were coming from. Dom than proceeded to walk over to Angel.

"What’s up?"