Ten Forward

[thesurlyone]

In the busy evening of Ten Forward, a new arrival seems to appear in a swirl of white lights, already irate at something or someone from her tone of voice.

Already, the brunette had a finger up in that classic position of a mother about to chastise her child and half of her sentence tumbled out of her lips.

"--you orb me, young ma--"

And immediately, Piper stopped in the middle of her sentence.

"Oh...kay...where did you orb me to now, Wyatt?" she quietly asked herself.

Piper took in her surroundings. Looked like a bar but it was definitely not P3. She hadn't thought about remodeling it lately and was pretty sure mock ups were not in the books for today. The furniture looked futuristic and, as she slowly made her way around, a small sense of panic rose in her chest. She couldn't call Leo right now. Oh no.

"Paige?" she called out cautiously. Piper reached up and tucked her hair behind her ears, hands at the ready.

Just in case.

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[empathic_pathfinder]

That's a familiar feeling. The twisting of confusion and worry. Being an empath sucks sometimes, but... Well, Terzen has a duty.

Standing from his table, he makes his way over to Piper. To the witch, he'll look like a tall man in a yellow and black Starfleet uniform. He looks human... until you notice the spots running from his temples, down the sides of his head and straight down, seemingly down his entire body. His eyes are black, but not cold.

"Excuse me... I might be able to shed some light on this."

[thesurlyone]

And that was definitely one of the odder sights for her to see today. Piper kept her hands raised, just in cased.

"Yeah? Got some info from some of the people around here. What light can you shed?" she asked.

[empathic_pathfinder]

Terzen is going to keep his own hands visible, but lowered, aiming to show he's not a threat.

"My name is Lieutenant Commander Terzen T'Karr, you're on-board the Federation Starship USS Enterprise, and the year is 2368." That's the basics. "If you let me know what others have told you, I can try to fill in the blanks."

[thesurlyone]

"Oh."

She lowered her hands cautiously.

"Should I be saluting, then, Lieutenant?"

And yes, he confirmed her belief that this was definitely in a future. Though, it definitely sounded like it wasn't Chris' future. Either one.

"Uh, just some omnipotent being is grabbing people left, right, and center to this place? Q, I think he was called?"

[empathic_pathfinder]

A smile, there. "No, you don't need to salute. We don't do that any more." And back to the task at hand...

"Yes, that is the long and short of it. Q is a powerful being from a higher dimension who has full control over ours. He delights in causing mischief and mayhem... And, ultimately, that's all this is." He frowns. "Even this isn't my timeline or, as it turns out, reality. Q pulled me from my ship over a year ago, and the point where he pulled me from has been and gone."

[thesurlyone]

"You were a part of a ship, too? Was it like this ship?" she asked. "Were you Lieutenant there too?"