Setting in?

Posted on Wed Feb 21st, 2024 @ 9:47pm by Captain Mira Rodale

Mission: Visit to Eden
Location: Eden ship
Timeline: Present

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{Eden, Trill Village}

Mira was barefoot as she walked along a path to the village. Her hair was down in long ringlets. She would guess nothing from the outside biome could be placed here. Entering the village, it looked old. The architecture was maybe four hundred years ago? That was one subject she hadn't paid attention to. An old man was tending a garden outside. Mira made a little noise as she approached so as not to startle him.

He turned his head with a smile that slowly turned into a frown. He stood up slowly, looking her over. "I know everyone here, but you are new. That is not possible."

Mira smiled, wondering how much to tell him. "I wasn't born here in the village, but I came from Trill."

The Old man nodded. "So they have taken more." he looked sad for a moment and then looked up in the sky. It will be dark soon. Let's get indoors. It's not safe at night. Come child." He patted her arm with his withered old hand. "There is much information I need to pass onto you."

Mira nodded as she followed him into the little cottage. It was like someone had a dimmer switch, and the light was slowly gone. Weird, Mira thought.
The old man opened a little panel built into the wall of the house. Then, he handed her a piece of coal. "Put your name and any other information you must remember before it is taken from you."

"What do you mean taken from me?" Mira frowned but wrote her name, ship, rank, Vaytoc, Kronnelti, and Kevin. Those are things she didn't want to lose. She closed the panel once she was done. Then looked at the Old man as he made a meal.

"What do you mean? My memories would be taken?" she asked as she walked towards him. Seeing him working, she asked "Can I help you?" She was his guest, but he was very old, so she felt like she should be doing something.

"No sit child, my name is Verad. The beings that live on the ship came to our village on Trill. The next morning we were all here." He sighed, "and the rest of Trill was not with us. We had no choice but to live ours lives here. A few generations ago we decided not to have children anymore and to end this capacity. We built those hidden panels to write messages to ourselves because when we sleep at night some how we forget things. We wake up and look at what we had wrote to remind us."

Mira's blue eyes widen, but she remained silent. Her eyes darted to the panels. What else did she need to write?

Verad continued "I am the keeper of the symbionts perhaps that would be a good job for you since I am getting very old. Once I pass, this can be your home and you can take care of the Symbionts.”

"My ship will rescue us. How many others are here?" Mira said confidently.

"Oh my dear we are only 4 now well 5 with you. Our hope is they don't do with us as they do the animals." Verad whispered.

Mira leaned closer "What do they do with the animals?"

"They are clone and replaced as needed. We are expecting to see ourselves walking around as younger people soon but hopefully not." Verad added.

Mira turned pale. Her hand went to her forehead to rub the headache she was getting. She looked at her arm again. "The lizardman that brought me here did something..." but before she could finish she was told their name.

"The Keepers." he nodded "You were tagged and your DNA collected."

Mira was starting to freak out. She was locked in this Biome and they had a way to clone her.
"Eat your food dear, before it gets cold." He told her.

"Mira Rodale. Commander Mira Rodale of the USS Chuck Norris." She told him as he smiled and nodded at her.
She ate the surprisingly delicious soup, then the lights in the cottage started to grow dim. She heard Verad sigh. "We are being told to sleep. You may have the bed I'll sleep on the couch."

Mira shook her head no. "I am smaller. I will take the couch." he gave her a smile then gathered a blanket and pillow for her.

Mira laid in the darkness determined not to sleep no one was messing with her mind! She wouldn't let it happen.

Mira's eyes snapped open to the birds singing and her father in the kitchen.....Wait a minute she didn't have a father. That was Verad in the kitchen. She looked around the room was slightly different. Running her fingers through her long hair, Mira slipped out from under the blanket. What was going on? Where was she?
Verad smiled and pointed to the panel. Mira opened it up and read. Blinking, she frowned. Ok, she was the executive officer of the USS Chuck Norris. The Captain was Michael Intermeezo. Lt. Commander Kevin Lance was someone important to her. She had a Klingon brother, Lieutenant Awal Kronnelti, and she had a companion named Vaytoc, who was a Tuok.
She frowned. What was a Klingon? and why wasn't Vaytoc here? Her eyes meet Verad's eyes. "Any of that ring a bell for you?" he asked as she was handed hot tea. Mira took a sip, expecting it to taste completely different she frowned.

"That would be your taste buds telling you that's not what you normally drink. That will pass in a few days." he told her slowly "Let's eat and I'll show you the cave.

Mira sat struggling with her memories. What was true, and what was placed to make her complacent? "I need Kevin and Vaytoc." she whispered. And why wasn't her brother with her? Why had she called him a Klingon?

"I am forgetting things." Mira told Verad worried.

"It happens, Mira. As soon as you are done eating we will go to the cave. Is your symbiont feeling ok?"

Mira's eyes widened "I don't have one. I didn't want to be joined."

Verad nodded. "Then that explains how fast your memories are changing. Our symbionts keep reminding us of things." he studied her for a moment then went back to eating.

Mira couldn't remember why she hadn't wanted a symbiont. She ate her porridge and drank her tea. She was ready to .... exercise? What was it that she did every morning before the others got up? And who was the others?

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Commander Mira Rodale
XO
USS Chuck Norris

 

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