Babylon 5: Outrageous Fortune

[Shayuri]

Ashley scratched her cheek, suppressing a flare of irritation. The truth was it was herself she was irritated with. It wasn't like her to be so on edge...and Kirth's statement hadn't really been inflamatory.

"I'm sorry," she said to him after a second to swallow her pride. "I didn't mean to snap like that."

With a deep breath and a nod to acknowledge Croft...though she discretely takes a step to maintain her personal space from his sidling...Ashley suggests, "I think we need to find this other telepath and talk to whoever it is. The truth is that I don't know that they're hostile...what we're experiencing may be the result of a very powerful unshielded mind that's projecting randomly around it. Whatever it is, we don't want to leave it at our backs though."

"It was this way."

She starts guiding the team towards the location she'd sensed the foreign mind at.

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

A...and Kirth's statement hadn't really been inflamatory.

"I'm sorry," she said to him after a second to swallow her pride. "I didn't mean to snap like that."

Kirth follows Ash, perhaps a bit too closely. "Think nothing of it, Ashley! We're al doing well not to 'snap' in a more serious way, all things considered." And Kirth immediately drops back to a more respectable distance.

 

[Dr Simon]

Guided by Ashley, you make your way to the front of the ship, down what is essentially a long corridor past staterooms. At the end is a doorway wth Markab writing over the top; you recall from the plans that this leads into a panoramic recreation lounge at the very front of the section. As you approach, the images of two little girls, identical twins, suddenly appear before the door. They hold out their hands and look imploringly at you, then fade away.

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All of you see the figures, but each of you sees them as your own species.
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[Shayuri]

Ash frowns and touches her temple. She didn't feel a telepathic contact, but...what other explanation could there be?

"I just got a sort of image. Two girls. Children. Twins. But they were human, not Markab."

She looks at their Markab guide.

"These ships wouldn't have had humans on them, would they? They couldn't have."

 

[Vertexx69]

Croft raises an eyebrow at Ash's statement. "Of course its hard to tell before we have grown up, but those were most definitly Centari children. An easy mistake for the untrained observer though. The whole fading away bit was quite odd however, regardless of race."

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

"No, I must agree with Ashley. The children that I saw were definitely human waifs, no mistake."

 

[Vertexx69]

OOC - pesky humans ;p the only thing they have going for them is numbers! Like cockroaches!

 

[Blackrat]

I agree that humans and centauri are hard to tell apart, but what I saw was definitely neither. Sarhat points to the three. There was two little girls, I agree on that, but they were certainly minbari. Unlike with your species, there is no other that can be mistaken for one of us.

 

[Dr Simon]

Cheshana juts his jaw forwards. "I saw Markab children," he says. "What this mean?" He looks at the group quizically. "We go on?" He points to the door.

 

[Shayuri]

Ash chews on her bottom lip, feeling a superstitious prickle on the back of her neck.

What kind of telepathy would it take to hit us all with slightly different images at the same time, through my and Croft's defenses, without even feeling like telepathy? Is there even a P-rating that goes that high?

But the alternative was even less believable.

"Yeah," she replied. "We go on."

With a deep breath, Ashley thumbed the control to open the door...and hopefully meet the maker of these strange events face to face.