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Shadow

The Return

The Return

A Shadow Log

 

In the grand scheme of things, one energy being made little difference. For a particular energy being, however, it made all the difference in the universe, whether it was his own or the one into which he had been thrust.

 

Shadow had adapted, in a manner of speaking, to the universe into which he had been drawn when Agincourt returned from the Perseus Arm. The shock overcome, he turned to survival. He was a seeker. He would learn. He would survive.

 

All energy in this new universe seemed the same as in his own - except for the corporeal beings who befriended him. He learned to identify each one by sensing their energy signatures and classifying them as either friend or foe - that is, one to be avoided or one to embrace (figuratively speaking, of course).

 

As awkward and misunderstood as it often was, Shadow first learned, for the sake of his friends, to form a corporeal shape. Then he learned to communicate. He identified the corporeal being then traced its energy waves to its energy center, what they called the brain. He read the synapse patterns used to produce what they called thought and speech. In common terms, Shadow had learned to "listen" to brain waves and respond in one way or another. He had also learned to decipher the sound waves they produced and to produce them himself by compressing the atmosphere at various frequencies.

 

In short, Shadow had adapted as much as he could to this universe. He had learned, in the absence of his positive energy bonding mates, to swarm with positive energy wherever he found it. He existed. He was. He endured in this alien reality.

 

Until the Soltan. Until Corianis, where dark energy lurked long after their departure. Until the Alpha Quadrant front line skirmish that stirred the Soltan dark energy into fury until it overflowed and disbursed what little cohesion Shadow had left. Without the aid of his cohorts to swarm and protect him from the Soltan massive dark absorption, the positive energy being known as Shadow dissipated.

 

Since he knew not time he could not gauge how long he drifted, each particle separated from the other. He only knew that at one point he wasn't, and then he was. Soon he sensed others. The Hefner. The Grafton.

 

He was home.

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