"Truth" pt. 2

[Travis Kroells 0]

“Truth” pt. 2...Kroells’s logs

Mogg finished his stare at him and opened his mouth and drew air signaling that he was about to make a long speech…“Look Kroells, you can’t just run away from this even if you want to.  I’m not going to lie to you; you’re in deep this time.  Not only are you going to have to deal with Kayla’s and Andrew’s families, your going to have to deal with Starfleet, your father, and just about every one since this isn’t one of those ‘Simple’ affairs.”

 

Travis looked back at him with a sort of understanding look.  “You think I’m just going to run?  I think you’re the one that thinks to narrow, I know I cant just hope for a slap on the wrist this time, but until my judgment comes I just want some solitude.”

 

The Ferengi simply shook his head.  “You can’t simply do that.  This is the time when you need to find something to believe in.  You’ve lost the people most dear to you right now and I don’t even want to think what is swirling in that head of yours.  The thing you need to find now is faith.”

 

Travis gave him an odd look.  “Faith in what?  There’s nothing left out in this, this hell hole of a life.”  

 

“That’s not my problem.  What you find and believe in is your choice.  But let me tell you this…Look good and hard for that truth because I know human behavior.  You simply find something that gives you so enjoyment, pleasure and self confidence.  You stand by it fight for it, that is until something comes around that shakes that confidence, that belief.  And then you simply discard that “Truth” that you so firmly stood behind in search of something better, more satisfying.”  

 

Travis looked firmly at him.  “So you’re saying that I have to stick with what ever I chose through the think and thin?”

 

“Exactly.  They say a man is judged by his actions and choices, but he is also judged by his faith.  A man who would readily discard what he believes in for something more promising is no better than a man that doesn’t believe in any thing at all.”  

 

Mogg slowly raised his hands and placed them on Travis’s shoulders.  “Travis your wife and best friend are dead; I’m not going to lie to you.  The first thing you need to do is realize that and accept it.”  

 

He slowly patted Kroells’s shoulder and then let go.  

 

“Now you have to find something else to live for.  If not your self or your family then what your think is “Truth”…wither or not it truly is the “Truth” dose not matter.  What matters is that you believed in it enough to put your faith in it.”  

 

Mogg slowly looked down back to his height level.  He slowly walked off leaving Travis standing alone in the gentle rain…