Babylon 5 Crusade Book I Out of the Darkness, Come of the Light

-Chapter One- Danger Zone

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-the interior of Galen's ship-

The recent events at the path of the sorrows had reopened old wounds inside Galen, wounds he had thought healed a long time ago when laying Isabells Ashes to rest at the Well of Forever. As the ache ran through him again, he realized he had been fooling himself.

He had hoped that fulfilling his promise to lay her peace would have helped heal him and some much-needed closure.

The creature from the path of sorrows had shown him just how wrong he was. He was forced to push forward. He had to hide his true self from those on the Excalibur. If only they knew. His real self, he would never achieve his goals.

There was a stone out there in the cosmos with his mission engraved into. he Circle themselves had put this task on him with clear and easy instructions. He could not fail.

The Terrors of the Drahk must be defeated even at the cost of his life and friends.

He sat in the darkness of his ship deep in hyperspace meditating, a soothing rhythm filled the small craft, leading his thoughts through the multiple possibilities. Often he would have to stop his mind racing on the what if's. Even though he was strong in his technomancy and his mind, he often wondered what if he failed. He was still mortal after all. He came to a conclusion that maybe he should have a backup, someone to continue this task and watch over Gideon and the universe in the event of his untimely demise.

He was so deep in thought that he did see the message repeatedly sent to him in the form one of many forms of communication Techno-mages had with one another.

The sound of the ocean hitting rocks on the shore scraped through his mind as he opened eyes to see standing stones. The light of the sun was almost blinding causing him to squint at the figure who stood looking out to the sea covered in a red and black cloak with lace trims. He moved his eyes over the creature, the bare feet with scales, large claws which dug into the ground made him pause before he moved his sight down, to take in the Wight tail. There were the tell tale signs of technomancy embedded in the pale skin and up the tail, the rest was covered by there hooded close; which covered their main features.

He moved forwards treading carefully on the wet pebbles under his boots. He didn't have to move much to know they were only just shorter than himself with their body turned towards him. The deep red hair caught his attention first followed by amethysts eyes, but it was the emotionlessness of the eyes that caught his attention the most, there k9's.

He had to stop as a shiver went up to his spine as he felt like her lunch right now.

She had the outer appearance of a female, but not everything as was seen she was Yune-dari no fixed gender and with assuming gender when he was younger, tough him to never judge a book by its cover. Still, his memory tickled at the back of his mind before he came to the realization, he knew who this was.

This soul had been thought to be lost. They had gone through the initiation, years before his own trials. They had left to explore the unknown and had refused to come back.

His mind took in more of the world around him. The crashed waves against the granite colored rocks. The sweetness of the air and rich greens of the moss. He was in a place he had once called home, but there was no sweet reunion, out of everywhere they could have taken him; why? Why here?

"Win-rei..." his voice was choked a little as he tried to control his feelings as always.

Winn-rei seemingly tried to crack a smile; as she pushed her hood back her black laced crimson hood.