1 ✧ A Night at the Opera

[jadzia]

WHO: Jadzia Dax
WHERE: The opera house and the lab
WHAT: Poking around in some of the city's outskirts.
WHEN: This takes place after the 'air rows' signs appeared.
WARNINGS: None at the moment!

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If it weren't labeled in Klingon, it wouldn't have been as interesting.

While she's been something of a cultural connoisseur over her assorted lifetimes, Jadzia won't deny that she'd inherited an enduring fascination with all things Klingon from Curzon--and one most of her crewmates sadly didn't share.

Seeing the label here made her wonder, not for the first time, about what the Agrii were like, and how much they knew about their chosen champions. Had they put the sign there to entice her? Because of course it was working. With her bat'leth tied to her back using a vine as a makeshift rope, Jadzia forged a path through the overgrown lawn to the check out the building.

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These signs weren't quite as simple to read as the Klingon had been, but she got the gist after riddling out the binary code. The row of buildings seemed to have been laboratories once, though they and the equipment within is all derelict, some salvageable and some clearly beyond repair.

Maybe she can find tools here to help her repair Julian's tricorder; having a tool like that would make things much easier on them, especially if she'd be able to easily scan their food items for compounds that might be harmful to her symbiont.

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Wildcard!

Comments

[brooklyn_boy]

Steve has flashes of a female Tony as Jadzia speaks and has to reign in the feeling of nostalgia and longing. He smiles warm as she picks up on his title and decides to just embrace it right now. "Superhero name," he explains in a drastic summarization. There's some rock in front of them and he picks it up like it was a pillow and tosses it. Some animal scurries out but it doesn't look dangerous. Steve walks on.

"I fought under Captain America back when propaganda needed someone to center around. Just kinda stuck after that." He shrugs a shoulder. "Technically my boyfriend is Captain America too, in his universe.

"Long story."

[jadzia]

Watching Steve heft the sizable rock and casually cast it aside like a pebble is... well, it's impressive. Being in Starfleet, she's seen plenty of incredible feats performed by humanoid aliens of every stripe, but for a human it's another thing entirely. The effects of the serum must be profound to give him that kind of physical ability.

His comment about his boyfriend has her arching a brow at him. "We've been aware of the existence of alternate universes for some time in the Federation. On more than one occasion, there have been incursions into one we've dubbed 'the mirror universe,' which is ruled by the Terran Empire, based on Earth." Then she changes gears. "How did you two meet, then?"

[brooklyn_boy]

Steve is about to ask about the Terran Empire before Jadzia successfully details the conversation by asking about Bucky. He smiles wide and looks at the ground as his cheeks redden.

"He was my best friend my whole life. I mean. That part of our universes are the same, at least, even if he specifically wasn't my best friend." It's complicated but Steve figures Jadzia will get it. "He saved me from some bullies and for some reason kept hanging around me. We stuck together ever since."