[With that reassuring bit of instruction, Wash puts a hand on the guy's shoulder.]
[For Keith, the memory sharpens and clarifies: colors become brighter, sounds become clearer, and details he may have overlooked become obvious but not blatant. As much as zoom and enhance is a cliche, that's about what happens - the months-old memory now feels fresh, as though it happened only yesterday.]
[For Wash-]
["You're the only one who can do this" and he's off, racing through an asteroid field inside a giant mechanical lion, in hot pursuit of a group of cons who never should've gotten the better of them in the first place, but Lance doesn't think with his head sometimes-]
[He's dodging gunfire and huge rocks and balancing the urgency of the mission with the pure joy of fast, unfettered flight-]
[He yanks his hand away, and coming back to reality leaves him feeling shaky. Happy as the memory was, it's only a matter of time before the wrongness of seeing a memory not his own through its owners eyes creeps up on him like panic in his throat.]
[This is going to be half learning what he's capable of and half unlearning the reactions Epsilon installed in him, isn't it. Great.]
no subject
[With that reassuring bit of instruction, Wash puts a hand on the guy's shoulder.]
[For Keith, the memory sharpens and clarifies: colors become brighter, sounds become clearer, and details he may have overlooked become obvious but not blatant. As much as zoom and enhance is a cliche, that's about what happens - the months-old memory now feels fresh, as though it happened only yesterday.]
[For Wash-]
["You're the only one who can do this" and he's off, racing through an asteroid field inside a giant mechanical lion, in hot pursuit of a group of cons who never should've gotten the better of them in the first place, but Lance doesn't think with his head sometimes-]
[He's dodging gunfire and huge rocks and balancing the urgency of the mission with the pure joy of fast, unfettered flight-]
[He yanks his hand away, and coming back to reality leaves him feeling shaky. Happy as the memory was, it's only a matter of time before the wrongness of seeing a memory not his own through its owners eyes creeps up on him like panic in his throat.]
[This is going to be half learning what he's capable of and half unlearning the reactions Epsilon installed in him, isn't it. Great.]
What did you see?