Scott gave her a blank look of disbelief, while Fischer looked decidedly unamused. ''Perhaps...'' Scott began, trying to overcome his concern for the younger woman in front of him ''Perhaps you could tell us about this 'rebirth' you speak of. I'm sure you can explain what you mean by that and what, if anything, happened.''
Fischer came close to his colleague and whispered ''Perhaps we should send for Father Brown? and possibly a medical team''
''No'' came the sharp, yet hushed reply ''We mustn't risk violating the medical code until we are absolutely certain, be patient my friend''
Fischer conceded the point and waited for her reply.
"What are you whispering there?" she asks frowning.
"Anyway... I wonder why people are always so intrested in that story.
It was when I was still a young girl onboard of a Kusari transport vessel. They came out of nowhere, the nomads.
They opened fire on the ship and the explosion killed everyone. I was at a sealed off compartment at the time when the doors locked due to emergency protocol, but everyone else there was dead due to the shockwave knocking them into the side of the ship."
She stands up and reveils a bad scar running across her abdominal region.
"I have been nearly evicerated myself. But it did not end there. While I drifted there into the dark void, all alone covered in the blood of the corpses around me, help never came. I drifted for hours, and the oxygen started running out. Minute by minute the air became more toxic.
My vision started to blur and that was when I heard her voice. Soothing but strong. She said: "Just like the creatures of light have emerged from the shadows, so will the shadow emerge from the light."
Next thing I knew I woke up on a Kusari cruiser, damaged but alive. She spared me and made me more than I was. I had become one with eternity itself."
''And who do you think 'she' is?'' Scott asked while Fischer wrote ''Do you think that she is another entity? or do you think she was a Nomad, or something else?''
Again, Fischer gave Scott a concerned look and again, Scott ignored it. ''Explain to us how you are a 'goddess' and how you know you are one?''
Scott wasn't usually a cynical man, but the longer this conversation progressed, the more certain he became that there was something seriously wrong with this woman. Fischer had already noted down a number of possible explanations, if nothing else the Rheinlander was thorough. Both men did agree that she could not leave here until the woman in front of her had undergone a CAT scan and a number of other tests to ensure she wasn't suffering from some element of brain damage, if she wasn't then they would diagnose her with some form of mental disorder, but asking more questions wouldn't hurt.
"How else would I have survived such Cataclysm, other than to be reborn as something better? This world needed a god, and it created me. I exist for the simple reason that a being such as I needs to exist. It demanded my existence."
She looks up at the antique clock behind the two men, then looks back at their faces.
''Any traumatic accidents lately?'' Fischer asked without looking up ''Knocks or blows to the head? Long term exposure to radiation or the vacuum of space? A psychological experience perhaps?''
Scott was somewhat horrified by his companion's bluntness, but he had to admit, the thought of such things had crossed his mind as well. ''I think what my colleague is trying to say is; would you be willing to undergo a few scans of a neurological nature? We're not trying to be rude, just thorough''.
"No, nothing. Only that incident I just recounted to you. The one where I was still mortal. I am eternal now and nothing can damage me long term. But I guess I could do that to prove my divinity, your scan I mean."
She watches the clock again
"We still got an hour and 11 minutes."
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