<USS Avalon> "Shouldn't Be Here"

Shouldn't Be Here

John Forester


"I'm not meant to be here," John said to the reflection.  For months he'd felt 
like something was wrong, something had been twisted in side him somehow.  He 
stared at himself long and hard, touching every line of his face.  His blue 
eyes weren't as blue as... when?  Before?  Before what?  Before he'd woken up 
one morning and suddenly everything was wrong.

He slipped his comm-badge from his uniform and then the ensign's pin.  That 
wasn't the pip he was meant to have.  It felt wrong in his hands, looked wrong 
in the mirror.  There was a crewman's badge he'd had replicated lying on the 
side and when he picked it up and tried it on, it felt right, better somehow.

With an angry swipe, he threw the badge across the room.  Grabbing his case, he 
tossed his comm-badge to the floor and stamped on it.  For now and for a long 
time, he didn't want anyone to know where he was.  He might come back, but 
right now all he wanted was to leave and never come back.


"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can 
imagine."
 
 ~~ Sir Arthur Eddington

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