A vignette of desert meditation--a moment where the separation between the two Dukats became just a bit clearer.
Skrain and Ziyal Dukat are within minutes of freedom from Bajor. Will they survive their escape from the planet of the Pah-Wraiths? And at what cost?
This story follows the events of "Exits in the Haze" and "A Door to the Soul," and precedes "The Guide."
Inspired by Ad Astra prompt #55: "Escape."
Ready for more of the alternate Cardassia you saw first in TNG's "Parallels"?
Here is a collection of writing prompt responses from this universe.
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Spoilers abound. I will try to indicate when each prompt takes place and what stories it follows.
This is the tale of how darkness fell over the Mirror Universe, as remembered by one who is of the Prophets, in the presence of a very different Dukat who is of neither his universe nor the Mirror.
(Story begins with an excerpt from The Lightless Ends of the World, co-authored by myself and Gul Re'jal--section written by NG, though there is one mention of Gul Jarol, who is Re'jal's character. Originally submitted as a writing prompt response on the forum.)
How do you hear the voice of the divine even in the chaos of a tormented mind?
In the wake of the darkest moment of his young life thus far, thirteen-year-old Skrain Dukat takes the first steps on the journey that will define an entire lifetime.
Two Cardassias. Two completely different fates. An experimental weapon sweeps resistance fighter Skrain Dukat into a world violently uprooted from all that he knows.
In that world, Gul Atira Jarol must face the painful shadows of her own past when she suddenly finds herself looking into the eyes of a man who in her world was at the center of it all..
Cardassian resistance fighter Skrain Dukat has escaped from captivity and torture at the hands of Pah-Wraith Vedek Tora Naprem. Now, one step closer to the hope of home, Dukat finds he is not the only one who has struggled with faith...
Twenty-year-old Skrain Dukat has prayed hard and worked hard to bring himself to this place, but now that he's here at Yavenn Pretam University in his home city of Culat, there's tension in the air: the forces of Bajor are pressing closer and closer to the Cardassia system and there's been no stopping them yet.
He believed he was destined for the art of the courtroom. But now--might justice for an entire world someday rest in his hands?
A young Cardassian with a difficult spiritual gift must bear the burdens of his double life as well as those of a wounded hero and friend.
(Written for the February 2009 TrekBBS Writing Challenge)
A prominent Cardassian rebel has been imprisoned on Bajor by a vedek of the “True Prophets,” and subjected to an awful degradation. Yet sometimes it is in weakness when one becomes strong...it all comes down to the choices that you make.
(January 2009 TrekBBS Writing Contest Runner-Up. “Exits in the Haze” takes place 18 years prior to “Sacrifice,” almost 19 years before "Captives' Ransom.”)
They have given every last reserve for the freedom of their people. Now, a Cardassian resistance fighter and his daughter face the final test of their spirits. And though no eye may behold and no scanner may detect its presence, there is hope and there is triumph even in this desolate place...
(November TrekBBS Writing Challenge entry.)
