Time for Reflection

[lytaalex.livejournal.com]

After having her injuries--as superficial as they were--treated in the medbay, Lyta had gone immediately to get some much needed sleep. Her encounter with the inquisitor in the sensorium had been grueling, nerve-wracking and painful. She'd suffered a multitude of bruises, several lacerations and one of her ribs had been cracked. However, she had thankfully survived. She had gone through what the Vorlons liked to call "the crucible" and she had come out the other side. She had, like all that had before her, come out changed. She had more doubts, more questions, more uncertainties than she had when she had gone in. But instead of doubts concerning her safety, questions of the superheroes humility, and uncertainty over whether she could trust them, all the new ones were about her.

This was why, when she finally woke back up from her rest, Lyta made her way down to the city and headed directly for one of the few places she had discovered that was peaceful here: the Garibah Tree. The tree under which she had first met Ax, the one that reflected a person's feelings back to them. And that was just what Lyta needed, for her emotions to be shown to her in the hope that, perhaps, she may gain some sort of perspective.

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[ravaged-rose.livejournal.com]

"It's not still bugging you? What we all saw?"

Rose's mouth pressed into a thin bloodless line, nervousness crawling up into her posture and bringing her hands together to wring one another in her lap. Was she seriously the only one this bothered by the whole thing?

[lytaalex.livejournal.com]

"Of course it does," Lyta admitted with a nod. "But it's not exactly the first time I've seen something like that. I can't say that you ever get used to it, but it stops shocking you after a while."

[ravaged-rose.livejournal.com]

Rose sighed, pressing a hand to her forehead.

"I've seen a lot of things but that one is just... it's eating at me more than most." Her tone had bypassed grousing and gone straight into full on aggravation, but it was obviously not really directed at Lyta. She was just so tired...

"How the hell do you sleep after you see something like that?"

[lytaalex.livejournal.com]

"It's part of our training," she explains. "As telepaths, we're bound to see some pretty terrifying things. So, we're taught how to sort of 'file' them away in our memories and block off our minds access to it. Basically, we bury somewhere to keep it from just coming up whenever it wants. It's not easy and it doesn't always work, but it helps."