<USS Avalon> <Avalon> Catching Up Part One

Catching Up  Part One
It will take just over a full solar day to catch up to the Avalon at the Zeta 
Retucli VII Station using the Defiantâ??s maximum warp.

Karg and Kira get to have one "normal" day to get to know each other better. 
"Tell me about your family Karg."
"Father is Commander Kâ??Ehloch late of the Tiger's Paw. I heard he was the 
best tactician in the fleet but not from him. After a distinguished career he 
had 
the opportunity to go to Earth as a Military Attaché and that is when he met 
mother. She is Sara Ah oh no ma of the Burning Arrow clan of the Diné - that's 
the word in our language. Navajo is a Spanish word for knife wielder. Mother 
is a home maker."

"There are four children. Kâ??Ehneth is now a major on the Dragon Claw then Kâ??
Ehleyr, you've heard of her, then me and the youngest is an adopted brother, 
Bock Rual who is part Klingon and part Romulan."
"Did you go to Star Fleet Academy?"
"No, Kâ??Ehneth and I graduated from the Klingon Warrior Academy."
"How did you do?" Karg holds up three fingers. "Third? You were third in your 
class" How many students?"
"272 graduating, sometimes I feel like I had to fight them all."
"Why?"

"Racial prejudice, they used to call me â??half bloodâ??. Some of them would 
argue that we didn't belong there because only Klingons could attend the 
academy."
This memory is making Karg very pensive and sad. Seeing this Nerys asks, "Why 
did you need to have so many fights?"
Karg thinks for a moment, "They used words to try to dominate me. They wanted 
me to feel less than a person just to make themselves feel superior. Ignoring 
them would not make the problem go away but would actually exacerbate it 
since they would assume that I was afraid of them. I used to think of an old 
20th 
century song by a singer named Kenny Rogers - â??Sometimes you have to fight 
when you're a manâ??. Somehow, father found out and called us at the school. He 
said we must never let them challenge us when they were in a group but we must 
seek them out one at a time. We had never done them any harm and still they 
hated us. It made me very angry and to the ones I fought I showed no mercy. 
Especially the ones who always felt that they had to have a gang at their back. 
Kâ??
Ehneth and I both placed first in our hand-to-hand combat courses. We had 
motivation and plenty of practice."

"How were you able to let go of all that anger?"
"Mostly through Uncle Joseph. We would have â??Healing Way" sings every summer 
when we came home. The Diné use it when someone has been among the Belangana 
(the Diné term for outsider) too long. In our case, it helped us to regain a 
sense of balance in our life." Karg is a little misty eyed. "We would take long 
walks with Uncle Joseph. When we were kids they hated us because we were 
Klingon and now they hated us because we weren't enough Klingon. He helped us 
to 
feel sorry for people who allowed hate to separate them from the joys of the 
world."
"He sounds like an amazing man. I would like to meet him."
"You will my love, someday you will."

Nerys knows exactly how Karg is feeling. She has been there many times. Her 
loving embrace is all the medicine that Karg needs but still, it is some time 
before he is himself again.

Lt. Karg
Chief Tactical & Chief Covert OPS Officer
USS Avalon

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