<USS Cervantes> "Truth's Prelude"

"Truth's Prelude"
Ashne'e Al Kiara
 
            Ashne'e returned to the bridge from the transporter room,
echoes of laughter still convulsing her diaphragm. As she stepped out
onto that lonely, empty room, it suddenly struck her how deeply she had
been avoiding the central issue predominating her unconscious mind.
Terror settled like a blanket of ice on her shoulders as she considered
the possibility of sitting on the bridge, waiting for something to call
her attention away from the deformed maze of endless corridors that had
trapped her with a new life feeding off her soul.
            "Please hail the Ss'thla," Ashne'e asked Koe, her voice
sounding tremulous to her own ear. "Ask them to let me know when I can
return."
            "Sure." A brief moment later, Koe turned to Ashne'e with a
shrug. "Ss'thla named Risah says you can go down right now."
            Mercifully, the time for contemplation was fought off for
another breath.

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