His comm badge beeped heralding a message from a unlikely but familiar voice. "Q to Picard. I hope you're listening Jean-Luc because this mess.

Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear. 'I had at that time very vague ideas as to the course I should pursue. My first was to secure some safe place of refuge and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could.
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McKie's visual centers conjured a borderline sensation a feeling of distant life whose rhythms danced unfleshed within the colorful oval like the sea roaring in an empty shell. He recalled a one-eyed friend and the difficulty of focusing the attention on that lonely eye without being drawn to the vacant patch. Why couldn't the damn fool just buy a new eye? Why couldn't. . . . He swallowed. "That's the oddest thing I ever saw " Furuneo whispered. "You see it?" McKie described his visual sensation. "That what you see?" "I guess so " Furuneo said. "Visual attempt fails " the Caleban said. "Perhaps I employ insufficient contrast. " Wondering if he could be mistaken McKie thought he detected a plaintive mood in the Caleban's words. Was it possible Calebans disliked not being seen? "It's fine " McKie said. "Now.
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