<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Mission:  An End and a Beginning</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Day: 2</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Stardate:  2446.03.17</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Vulcan - Capital City - Nivar Institute - </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ACEO Ensign Tegian Pex - 1244</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tegian's mind froze at the idea that Sath had been inside T'shalaith for eight years.    He almost didn't ask the next question, but he knew he had to do so.  Gently he said, "T'shalaith, how long were you aware of Sath's Katra inside of you?"</font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">(Reply T'shalaith)</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tegian leaned over and kissed the top of her head.  "Well, I think if we can find her, we can explain what happened.  If there's one thing I can tell you about us emotional beings, we can be stubborn, but also forgiving, especially if there are extenuating circumstances.  And having another Katra inhabiting your brain certainly qualifies. as an extenuating circumstance."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tegian considered the extra information about Teresa Jackson, storing it away for when they returned to the Illuminar.  <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">"It will certainly make it much easier to start there at the Colony.  If she's not there, we should be able to find where to go from there.  There will be records."</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"Now, we have to figure out how to get you out of here."  Tegian looked for someone in the vicinity.  The others from their party had wandered off and there seemed to be no one in the room with them.  "Are you okay here, if I go find a nurse or a doctor?"</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">(reply T'shalaith)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;mar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