“Captain! Get a medic now!”

Mmm, those voices, where are they coming from? They keep addressing me….I am right here, you know.

“She is not reacting! Check her breathing and pulse!”

Stop yelling at me. I can bloody hear you. Why is there such a bright light? It is blinding me. Can someone turn the bridge lights down? Or maybe it is coming from outside?

“Shields are down! The Devore is not doing anything?” 

Ah, that is some good news, the Devore being the pain in the ass as they are right now. But what are they thinking? What are they up to? It is such a mystery for sure, but knowing their records, they are up to no good. 

“Doctor, please tell me what is going on with her. Her pupils have turned red, and she is not responding to anything?”

Is that Silina? Girl, you don’t have to worry about me. I am wonderful. Right? Wait, why can I not move? What is happening to me? Where am I? Help? HELP!

Planet Trill – Unknown forest

In a blink of an eye, the scenery had changed. Trees meters high, blue skies as a fresh wind hits her face. Sazra blinked a few times. What is she feeling? That tickles feeling at her ears as she turns her head to the left and sees a field of grass. Was she not on the Damascus a second ago? What is going on?

“Wake up, lad, no time to rest” A young girl came from Sazra’s back.

Looking confused and directly at the sound where the voice was coming, her eyes met those of a young girl “Who…who are you” She sat slowly but kept her eyes focused on the young girl. She stood there with her hands behind her back, looking curiously at her, “Where am I?” 

“Now, don’t insult me. I am curiosity myself” She winks at Sazra. 

Taking a better look at her, she dusts off her clothing only to stop midway and notice she is wearing traditional Trill clothing, “This is impossible. This can’t be. I was at the Damascus” looking back at the girl as Sazra now get flashes of memories, she closes her eyes. She grabs her left eye as a surge of pain goes to her. “Argg…. What is going on!”

“You are remembering who you are, what you are, and it’s coming hard” The young girl said rather cheerfully. “Embrace it. Let it come”

Planet Trill – Market Unknown Location

The pain slowly faded as she opened her eyes and lowered her hands, only to notice that they were now in a busy street of people. Sazra looked around, there were shops with clothing hanging outside, food ready for sale, and market people trying to bait the people into their shops, “We are at Trill. Why are we here?” Her eyes fell upon the young girl who stood there, “You are me when I was younger?” 

She points the finger at her, “Bingo, you are sharper than I thought. Makes it easier to explain” She giggles as she starts to walk, placing her hands behind her back. “You see, this is your history, who you are, what you are” The girl turns around. “That makes you interesting. That makes you a possibility” she continues her walk with a half spin back to the front.

“Wait, what do you mean….” Sazra walked after her “Care to explain what is going on? Why am I he…mom…” Sazra stopped in her walking. In front of her, she saw her mother with her younger self looking over some goods of books. Sazra saw herself begging for the books to her mother. 

“You were interested in the unknown from a young age. Your mother supported this endeavor. It made you who you are today” The girl spoke, standing next to Sazra, looking at the whole ordeal being cast in iron. “So if your mother didn’t intervene, you would never be in the Delta Quadrant, interesting.” She hops to the door next to her as it closes slowly.

Sazra broke her focus and looked at her side. “What do you mean by that? How do you know that I am in Delta Quadrant?” She quickly walked through the door only to find herself in a new location. 

Mellstoxx III – Starfleet Academy

Sazra’s eyes gazed around, seeing young cadets walking through Starfleet Academy. The sun was high up. The people were cheerful. Some students rushed past her as they were late. 

“You were popular and yet distant. A model student and yet not many friends. Have you lived with the idea that studies would make or break you?” A more young adult voice came from Sazra’s side. 

“What…” Sazra looked in the direction of the voice and saw herself again, a young student in her senior cadet uniform. “What is going on? Who are you, and why are you probing my memories?” Sazra felt afraid and yet curious at the same time. What was she dealing with here?

The young cadet pointed in a specific direction, “You seem interesting and open-minded for anything that might cross your path. You don’t take a no for an answer. That is how that happened.” 

Her eyes followed the direction of where her younger self was pointing at. Sazra saw once again herself. In the distance, she saw herself jumping in the air celebrating something, “I received the news that I was accepted in the Raven program. A daring adventure was ahead of me” Sazra saw Silina hugging the other Sazra, who was happy and only noticed now that she was blushing. “Heh, it is funny. I never understood the concept of love until she did that to me, she hugged me, and I felt like my heart was going to pop out.” 

“It was her that shaped who you are today, taking over the torch from your mother. Fascinating” The young cadet gave a soft smile. 

USS Jaxartes – Bridge

Sazra didn’t have the time to change around, as she had already noticed that she was on the Jaxartes bridge in the back. “Why am I on my old ship?” She looked at her side, seeing herself with the teal uniform leaning against the wall.

“You are qualified, more than we expected. I am a reflection of you. Species tend to understand better what they know. Giving us the ability to screen them” Looking back at Sazra “You are pulled into a situation with your crew that you didn’t want to be in, in the first place, right?” The ship shakes a bit.

“The Liberty is gaining on us!” Rami yelled as he focused on the controls of his system. 

“Vance, this was the time that Vance shot us out of warp, and if it were not for the Discovery, we would have been killed by that maniac”. Sazra said, focused on the screen “What do you want from me? Who are you?” 

“Well, you are struggling with yourself. The ways of communication are not compatible with others. It takes a lot out of them. But we are not there yet. We want to know more about you, what makes you tick, ahhh that looks interesting”.

Planet Delta Velorum – Broken Wings Prison

Sazra turned to her side, seeing the shape of everything change once again to the dusty and cold area. Sazra’s breathing became heavier and faster, “Get me out of this…” Looking now at a guard with a helmet on that shook its head, pointing in a specific direction. Sazra shrugged and followed the direction only to see a severely broken down humanoid shape on the floor, “Why do you bring me to the location I wanted to forget”.

“It is here where you became cold, daring, and distrustful of others. It is here you lose who you truly are” A distorted voice came out of the helmet. “Your mind is full of guilt, pain, and grief of what happened to you right here”.

Her glare was cold. She looked at the motionless body beaten down by the Romulans of the Broken Wings. She bold her fist as her lips were shaking, “I might not have been here for long, but they showed their ways to pull out the information in the most savage ways you can think. I…you know them already, seeing my memories. Please get me out of here” 

“You almost broke under the immense pressure they were putting you under. They wanted to get some simple coordinates, and you refused to give it to them. Why” The voice was creepy in every sense to the memory that Sazra could remember.

Closing her eyes as she could hear herself on the ground starting to cry, and it got into her bones “Get me out…” She slammed the door next to the guard’s head and looked with vicious eyes “Get me out of here….if I had given that information, the possible consequences would be endless. Those people would be dragged into another civil war, and the lives of millions would not outweigh my life!” Tears started to form in her eyes. 

The room became dark as the guard faded into the darkness. “Unexpected, fascinating, and yet worrying.” The voice echoed all around Sazra “When the time comes, lower your walls and embrace it” The voice faded away as Sazra would slowly fell, as suddenly, it all moved quickly.

Sickbay – USS Damascus (current time)

Sitting up on the biobed, Sazra felt her heart beating very fast as if she had been running a marathon while trying to breathe slowly. She noticed a nurse rushing to her bed but chose to pull off the wires on her head and wanted to get off the bed. 

“No, no, no, Captain, please stay on the bed” The nurse pushed Sazra back. “Doctor Th’shrithel! She is awake!” 

Noticing some ruffling sounds from her side, Sazra looked at her side and saw Kossaal rushing to her bed. “I am fine, doctor. Please let me get back to my duties. You got better things to worry about. What is the status of the other crew members?” 

Shaking his head, Kossaal pushed her back onto the bed. “You stay here, Captain. You collapsed on the bridge and didn’t respond for nearly two hours.” He checked her eyes. “The red pupils are gone, don’t know if that is good but some of your veins popped from the huge amount of stress on your body” He got a scanner to test her head again.

“What are you talking about, I was two hours out cold?” Sazra was trying to puzzle herself. What was going on? Did she mess something up? “I remember that the shields …went down, and I woke up right here” 

“You were hit by the sheer amount of the blood dilithium force the moment the shields dropped. If you were a fully telepathic Captain, I would be dealing with nothing but a plant at the window, unable to speak or think for itself. I highly advise Commander Ruslanovna to back away from this area as fast as possible or keep those damn shields up if she wants her Captain back in one piece” Kossaal was not amused with the situation. “Medical scans stated that the more dense the area is conveyed with this blood dilithium, the heavier the symptoms get. Well, we are at the source of it, and it is burning hot here. Now we got some of that crap on our hull and growing, consuming the Damascus!” 

“Thank you, doctor, for your update, I feel like I am more needed on that bridge” Sazra noticed the blood on her uniform and checked her face, not noticing any pain. “Who’s blood is this?” 

“Yours, Captain. The bridge crew found you bleeding from your nose, ears, and slightly your eyes. We feared permanent damage to your eyes as your right eye pupil was red. We don’t know what the cause is, but we can’t find any damage other than that your brain and body were under great amounts of stress” The nurse spoke with some concern in her voice. 

Looking at her, Sazra nodded and lay her head down, knowing when she was defeat “When can I get back on duty….”

“If it was me, not until we are out of the system. But it seems you are highly required to get us out of this situation” Kossaal grabbed a device and placed it on Sazra template. “This will protect your brain from whatever is going on for a good 20 minutes. If the shields are not backed up by then, you have a problem. You are dismissed after 30 minutes of staying here. I just wanted a final check. I better report back to the Commander about your status” Kossaal nodded to his Captain and walked away, tapping the combadge “Doctor Th’shrithel to the bridge”