Role Models

[tm_carolyn]

I'm tempted to say Casper the Ghost these days. Okay, seriously: there are several people I admire. Anna, who went through everything I did and much worse and came out on the other side. Each time I'm tempted to feel sorry for myself, I remind myself of this. Varzil, who fights the most difficult struggle of all - trying to stop the people on his

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[shaman_x]

*a faint scan, curious, barely a surface brush, and then the background 'voices' of Babylon 5 get louder, closer, as if he's warping psychic space by focusing his attention on her*

[Hello.]

[tm_carolyn]

She is surprised at the brush with the unknown telepath; a powerful, trained mind, but unlike any of the Psi Corps members that scanned her. Still, there is something familiar, a vague echo of... The old fear rises in her, together with the memories of the operations and the aliens performing them. She tries to surpress it. She must not jump to conclusions. Perhaps she is wrong. She needs a more extended contact to be sure.

((lowering her shields just a bit and focusing on the other telepath so she can sense more of him))

Hello. Who are you?

[shaman_x]

*the other voices get louder but he remains oddly the same; a single point of focus in a crowd, like looking thought an etched outline on a shop window at passers-by; and, very faintly, she can hear her own thoughts too, reflected back at her*

[I'm Mike. I think I've met your... husband?]

[tm_carolyn]

I am not married, but I take it you are referring to my lover, Al Bester.

*pause*

I'm Carolyn.

While she 'casts, she tries to adjust to the eerie form of communication, so unlike any other telepathy she has encountered, honing in on that vague sense of familiarity among all the voices in the background. Finally she allows the voice of the machine that whispers to her, still, when she's not consciously surpressing it, and then she's certain. He has been in contact with them. The ones who carved her inside out and wanted to use her in their ships. He even has been in contact with a ship itself. But has it been as a victim, like Anna and herself, or as an ally, like those who sold out her and the other frozen telepaths to the Shadows? Trying not to be carried away by the horror and rage, she decides she must find out more. Besides, he mentioned Al. What if they intend to do this to Al as well, once they discovered he fights against them?