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[no_exaggeration]

[B'Elanna has one of Aleera's pictures in her hand, and she's holding it up for the camera. It's one that says 'I AM GORKON!' and B'Elanna looks incredibly less than impressed. Perhaps even insulted. She's trying to reign in the insulted bit, but, you know. Not happy.]

Is this some kind of joke? This doesn't look even remotely like Gorkon. Why are they all over the ship?

[And she's paused to scowl at the picture again, shifting to hold her thumb over one of the figure's eyes. Then she snorts.] This looks more like Chang than Gorkon. [Who she still doesn't know is on board. Hi Chang. She snorts again, and faces the camera.]

Who drew these? [So she knows where to direct her ire.]

Comments

[vampish_aleera]

Why not?

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

Because I do not wish it, Warden.

[vampish_aleera]

It is now ordered as your task.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

I care not.

[vampish_aleera]

Do not force me to make things difficult for you.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

I do not force you. [But he's not afraid of 'difficult'.]

[vampish_aleera]

Your unwillingness forces me.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

No. Your choice and your choice alone.

[vampish_aleera]

Because you are being stubborn! Unable to compromise!

I was not this way with the one who guided me!

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

[He outright snorts at that last.] Now, Warden, you do not expect me to believe that to be true?

[vampish_aleera]

Believe what you wish. I cannot teach you without a willingness to learn.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

I never asked for teaching. I do not desire it.

[vampish_aleera]

Then you wish for oblivion. Stagnation brings only this, here.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

Acceptable.

[vampish_aleera]

No. Not acceptable.

You speak of saving your people when you are incapable of saving even yourself.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

[And you just get a shrug.] I failed.

[vampish_aleera]

Your Empire swallowed the nations and worlds of others, did it not?

You assume others to be like this, I think. Yet, if this 'Federation' is so weak, it would do a poor job at doing so... To believe both things is impossible. Both cannot be true.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

'Weak' does not mean it lacks cunning, Warden. You were strong, hmm? Yet, you still died to be brought here, no?

[vampish_aleera]

But while I lived, I ruled with talons clenched!

If your people are not strong enough to survive mere fleeting adaptations, why should you even have tried?

Let them stand for themselves.

Think upon it as a proving, General. A test they must pass.

A test in which you meddled without right.

[general-chang.livejournal.com]

Fleeting adaptions? But that is just it, Warden, these adaptations are not fleeting. I had the right. As did any Klingon.

[vampish_aleera]

Then you also have the right to be wrong