SIM:Adarnis - A Mind Unhinged

(( Promenade, Deep Space Six ))

::His feet barely made it onto the ground, stumbling as he tried to walk. His hands reached out for the railing, grasping and trying to hold on and keep the failing body up right. He could feel his stomach lurching to vomit, forcing the contents through his gullet and into his mouth. He swallowed. It burned. ::

::The world was a mix of colours; white, black, red and blue. A yellow light flashed in the distance. He tried to focus on that. His head surged with a millions thoughts and images at once. Frak. His palms shot to his eyeballs, forcing them to stay inside his head as the images exploded like pinpricked landmines onto the inside of his eyelids. He couldn’t shut them out, he couldn’t stop them.::

::He heard them talking, heard them whispering about the images, about the body on the slab. He saw them carve symbols into her pale skin, trace the edges of her tattoos and remove them piece by lifeless piece. He’d smashed his fist on the force field. It had seared his flesh.::

::A dark voice whispered tauntingly in his ear.::

Agent: Beg and plead all you like, she’s already dead.

:: No.::

Agent: You will spend your life reliving this, day after day, knowing that you could have saved her. ::his head bent closer:: Hnafiv'arhi, bhudt?

:: NO! ::

::They made him watch so he would know, so he wouldn’t question it, so he wouldn’t try to find her. He could smell the green blood lingering in the area, wrapping itself around him; a butchered death. He tried to stretch out the Deltan part of himself across the countless lightyears that separated them but he couldn’t feel her.::

::She was dead. She was lifeless. She was gone. The mantra continued uninterrupted. He vomited in Technicolor streams on the shiny black floor. The world went silent and he was left with his dreams.::

Computer: Your brain has encountered a problem and requires a restart. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Major Dade Adarnis
Marine Officer
USS Indria-A