Dec 23, 2003 17:31
I suppose I should begin by explaining why I am still alive. Perhaps I would do so, if I understood it myself.
I only know that I fully expected to die - to starburst in an enclosed space is fatal. It was fatal, for Talyn, as far as I can tell. The link that lay between us is certainly dead.
I ... found myself elsewhere. I can only assume that a wormhole opened and I passed through it, although how I survived such an experience without a ship I do not know.
Without a ship, I may no longer have the right to call myself a captain. Yet it is a rank that I earned over many cycles of hard work, and if I despise those who bestowed it on me I do not yet despise the achievement itself.
For now, I will keep it.