But - here, where it's quieter, Jim is quieter, too. He answers questions, but it may be obvious after a few minutes that what he's doing is listening to the ship. The strange low unearthly hum of it, nowhere near the loud noises fiction may inspire of science-fiction engines, something more subtle. Something more alive.
He has a hand on a bulkhead, back a small ways from the warpcore itself, just looking at her. (Her. The ship, the Enterprise, Alan is still being referred to as 'him'.) ]
Huh?
[ Sickbay, he thinks, but a part of his mind is thinking about something else, an echo of an echo. Not him dying, but still his memory, a death not his own. He's seen it before, during, after - thankfully not now. The warp core remains as she is, behind doors and shields, beating its nuclear heart. ]
I don't know if I can actually control this, [ he admits, sounding perhaps strangely subdued. Letting instincts belonging to someone else guide him in matters of psychic traveling. Jim's not actually sure it's working, but at least his head hurts less. ]
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But - here, where it's quieter, Jim is quieter, too. He answers questions, but it may be obvious after a few minutes that what he's doing is listening to the ship. The strange low unearthly hum of it, nowhere near the loud noises fiction may inspire of science-fiction engines, something more subtle. Something more alive.
He has a hand on a bulkhead, back a small ways from the warpcore itself, just looking at her. (Her. The ship, the Enterprise, Alan is still being referred to as 'him'.) ]
Huh?
[ Sickbay, he thinks, but a part of his mind is thinking about something else, an echo of an echo. Not him dying, but still his memory, a death not his own. He's seen it before, during, after - thankfully not now. The warp core remains as she is, behind doors and shields, beating its nuclear heart. ]
I don't know if I can actually control this, [ he admits, sounding perhaps strangely subdued. Letting instincts belonging to someone else guide him in matters of psychic traveling. Jim's not actually sure it's working, but at least his head hurts less. ]