((ooc: If anyone’s interested, I’m playing Jadzia during early season 4, just after the events of Rejoined.))
Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax walked into the great hall, tricorder at the ready. Not moments ago, Jadzia had been working contently in one of Quark’s holo-suites, running a simulation meant to examine some recent energy fluctuations in the
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Jadzia had never truly realized what a mouthful the process of symbiosis really was. On Trill, it was so natural, such a part of their culture, that for years no even bothered trying to explain the process to outsiders. It would be the equivalent of explaining that you had a mouth, and it was for communicating and taking in food, or that you had a bum, and while it was a bit superfluous, it was really nice to look at,
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"It helps when you've had a couple centuries to warm up to it. Jadzia Dax. Lovely to meet you."
"So, Thomas Raith, where the hell I am?"
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'Archaeology? Is that digging up things like old art? Can I see some, please?' the nine-year-old asks, eyes fixed firmly on Jadzia's.
Yes, Rose has misheard. You think that will stop her pestering for more art to look at?
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"That's the gist of it! Although, instead of 'old' we usually say 'historic'" Jadzia crouched down a bit, so that she was eye level with Rose. "Which is just another name for 'old'! Unfortunately, I don't have any artifacts with me today."
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'Well, since I come from this time and I don't think you do--because you have posh electric stuff--I think that might be my sort of art you're on about.'
She crosses her arms, and, with a dignified air, 'I know what historical is. We had to do a project on Egypt in History, and they were old.'
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"What's your name?"
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How can you've been both husband an' wife, or both mother an' father?
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Jadzia shrugged. “Different genders, different labels.”
"I’m a Trill," Jadzia said. "Do you know what that is?"
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Jadzia smiled, apologetically. "It's a bit complicated, I'm afraid."
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"I'm a Trill. We're a symbiotic race, and a small portion of us are joined with organisms called symbionts. When we die, the symbiont gets a new host. Dax, the symbiont I host, has the knowledge and memories of seven previous Trill."
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And if you've got seven different lives in your head, don't they all get jumbled up?
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"My transition to life as a host has been relativly smooth, but there are times when the personalities that Dax has absorbed influence my behavior. I expected that going into the whole thing, though. As Jadzia Dax, I'm a completely different entity than Jadzia the Trill."
"If you don’t mind me asking, how are you ‘bonded’ with another entity? Are you human?"
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