The Past, The Present, The Future

Posted on 20 Dec 2017 @ 9:25am by Lieutenant JG Eelim Galan

584 words; about a 3 minute read

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Eelim walked over to the shuttle window. They would be on Betazoid soon. Varro had insisted that he come with him. Sighing Eelim sat down and called for the computer, "Computer start personal log."

The chirp told him that the computer was ready to record his thoughts.

"Eelim Galan personal log. It has been a year of trials for me. A year of tremendous joy and a year of pain, sorrow, lost friends, growth and anything else you want to name," Eelim sat down by the window looking up at the stars.

"I am currently on a shuttle with Varro, we just left Allyndra's planet and are speeding towards Betazed. My brother and Varro's wife will be there. It appears that Gul Galan is causing trouble, namely for my half sister. The girl I only found out about a while ago. Half Bajoran and half Cardassian, the only sibling of my real father. I have to protect her. All these years I've been secretly funding her education, making sure she wanted for nothing but now is the time where I might have to reveal who I am. I dread the conversation, not because she is a disappointment to me but because I might be to her."

It had been something that weighed heavy on his mind. "Well enough about that. A quite unexpected development is Varro. I swore I would never be friends with him when I first met him but here we are. There is more depth to the man then I knew and I would say that he is more a brother to me then the one I grew up with. He feels the same for me. Who would have thought the two of us could have so much in common. Both from dysfunctional families, both out to prove ourselves not just to others but to ourselves too. "

Eelim sighed, "Over the course of the talks with Allyndra's world I have gotten to know him a lot and we've shared secrets buried deep within our souls. I trust him." He paused as if the words were unfamiliar on his lips.

"I haven't said that in a long time. Trust was not something that I gave easily yet here I am, trusting Varro, trusting Allyndra. I think neither of them would betray that trust yet I wonder what I did to deserve it."

He paused the recording for several minutes lost in thought and then restarted it, "I have changed a lot since the incident in the nebula. There are moments where I don't recognize myself. I thought I was mature before this incident but now I feel as if I am a thousand years old. Varro calls it the soul's advancement to the next level. I just don't know I call it ...well I don't know what to call it."

He sighed again, "I have been doing a lot of thinking about my future. I am not a poor man, I have been selling my paintings for a long time now to galleries through an agent and earning quite a nest egg. Varro has asked me to partner with him and Blaze in the bounty hunting firm. I have been giving it some thought. I don't want to leave Starfleet but wouldn't it be nice to have a business to fall back on?"

Just as he was about to continue the com chimed telling him they were approaching Betazed and a Family Reunion that he was not looking forward to.

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