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[directives]

[ today finds captain janeway hit with her very first curse. she's young again, standing at the threshold of change wherein a tragedy that has yet to occur will help drive her into the captain's chair. but for now, she's simply a scientist, a recent graduate of the academy who, from her perspective, has found herself sucked into some temporal anomaly while in the midst of her first assignment. at this point in her life, she's very dedicated to her field, and has no aspirations of setting her sights on command. in fact, when commander chakotay insisted that she'd one day be wearing red with four pips pinned to her collar, she laughed, because that's not her. maybe that's another kathryn janeway, one who doesn't mind being called by her first name,but it's certainly not the one who prefers to be called katie.

after being ordered out of her uniform, katie found a decent change of clothes, pocketed her combadge and grabbed the archaic device the commander had insisted was the primary means of communication in this place, and set out on a morning jog around the city. later in the afternoon, she'd stop for a breather in xanadu and pull out her older self's cell phone to fiddle with it some and ask the network a very important question. ]

Does anyone know where a girl can get a decent bowl of ice cream in this place?

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[sleepingstar]

[Not as simple as Kathryn might think. Hei wants her to go by Xing again, so she can be whoever she wants to be, not just a weapon of the Syndicate. But Xing is dead. She died the night the real stars vanished and Contractors were born. A name is just a word, nothing particularly special about it, but if the point is for her to choose her own identity...]

Pai.

[Her most precious memories, of Amber and Carmine and her brother, are all connected with that name.]

Truth or dare.

[deuterium]

Let's go with truth this time.

[sleepingstar]

[The whole point of the game is to make it a challenge, but it's hard when the other person is a complete stranger. After a moment's contemplation, she goes with something traditional.]

What is your biggest regret?

[deuterium]

[ at this point in her life, kathryn doesn't have very many regrets. she's rather comfortable with the decisions she's made, hasn't yet begun to regret prioritizing studying over spending time with her father. she will, though. soon. in just a few months, he'll perish in a shuttle accident and send kathryn spiraling into depression. ]

Easy. Not taking GenChem with Alsufyani. Truth or dare?

[sleepingstar]

[Meaningless words to her. Oh well.]

Truth.

[deuterium]

Do you want to go home?

[sleepingstar]

No. [To go home means her death, a fact which doesn't bother her. It also means leaving her brother -- whether it's in the City or the shattered remnants of South America. Having seen the effect that her loss had on him, she refuses to let that happen.]

Truth or dare?

[deuterium]

Really? [ that's — interesting. unexpected. ]

Truth again.

[sleepingstar]

Would you kill someone for the chance to go home?

[deuterium]

No. [ the answer's firm, clear -- sharp in ways that make her sound like the captain she ought to be instead of the ensign she is. of course, katie is blissfully unaware of how command-like she's able to sound with the uttering of a single word. ] If I had to choose between murder and life in this place, I'd damn myself without a second thought.

[sleepingstar]

[So she's one of those humans. All right.]

Your turn.

[deuterium]

[ she crosses her arms. ]

Truth or dare?

[sleepingstar]

Dare.