"Two days." Virtually none of it spent here, on the station.
He holds her with that same desperation. Maybe even a little more, because it was worse before it was better. Crawling into that tiny space with Garak and trying to pull him out while the panic clawed his throat shut. Davik's death as they escaped, Worf near collapsing into fatal shock that even his Klingon physiology wouldn't come back from.
His room, lived in by something that pretended to be him for over a month, a no one noticed. It was, arguably, better at being him than he had ever managed to fake.
He lets her look and knows what she's seeing. He hasn't slept, he's stressed and over worked and he's tired in his bones. "Space-time has a way of smoothing itself out. Quantum reality studies suggest that in a situation like this, as the event which caused your reaction was yet to happen, it couldn't be something you reacted to, therefore it effectively didn't exist. Until it did."
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He holds her with that same desperation. Maybe even a little more, because it was worse before it was better. Crawling into that tiny space with Garak and trying to pull him out while the panic clawed his throat shut. Davik's death as they escaped, Worf near collapsing into fatal shock that even his Klingon physiology wouldn't come back from.
His room, lived in by something that pretended to be him for over a month, a no one noticed. It was, arguably, better at being him than he had ever managed to fake.
He lets her look and knows what she's seeing. He hasn't slept, he's stressed and over worked and he's tired in his bones. "Space-time has a way of smoothing itself out. Quantum reality studies suggest that in a situation like this, as the event which caused your reaction was yet to happen, it couldn't be something you reacted to, therefore it effectively didn't exist. Until it did."