005 ♠ ACTION ♠ LOCATION: Pedestrian Plaza

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This has been Puck's first experience with a city-wide incident, and to say the least he's not pleased at all. That, combined with a few less-than-stellar conversations with some other people prior to the forced muteness, has left him exceedingly restless and wanting to get out of the Sanctuary for a while. So with his guitar in its soft case over his shoulder, he's found his way to the Pedestrian Plaza where he can sit and watch the other soundless people mill about and try to conduct their business without voices.

008: It Sounds Like Home [Text]

[aklingonside.livejournal.com]

Like most of the city, B'Elanna had been paying close attention to the unpredictable radio transmissions of the last few days. With the disappearance of Captain Kirk, she had redoubled her efforts to trace the source and work out exactly what was happening. There was a chance - slim, but better than nothing - that solving that mystery would solve some of the other mysteries surrounding Taxon.

It wasn't the first time that she'd lost a friend she'd made in the city - she still missed Aximili from time to time - but Kirk had been from a world very close to her own. To him, the concept of space travel was a part of everyday life and Starfleet had been more than just another oddity from another universe. He'd understood. (So did Spock, but he wasn't exactly easy to talk to. He reminded her of Tuvok rather than Tom.) She worked furiously because it was a lot better than dwelling on his absence.

If you're keeping score, the last transmission was in klingon. I can provide a translation for anyone who wants it.

Unfortunately, it tended to generate more questions than it answered.

I'm still trying to work out the source of the broadcast.

And she certainly hadn't expected to hear that language in Taxon, of all places. It wasn't her native tongue, but it was a part of her heritage that she'd worked hard to distance herself from.

No luck yet, but I'll keep trying.

The first time she tried to type that out, she ended up slipping into klingon herself. Fortunately, she managed to return to federation standard - recognisable as english to most people - on her second attempt.