ST TOS - 123 - Exodus - Vulcan's Soul 1 by Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Author:Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780743463584
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00
Thirteen
Memory
âThis is your fault!â Skamandros shouted at the high priestess. He flung himself forward until he crouched beside Surak like his shadow. âIf my master diesâ¦â
âYou will extract my katra from this crown and bring it, if you can, to the Halls of Ancient Thought,â came Surakâs level voice. âFor now, however, you will apologize to this worthy priestess for your lack of control.â
Surak rose to his feet, the crown glowing on his head.
Not even a âthee.â Skamandrosâs face went dark. âI ask pardon,â said Surakâs shadow.
The Unbonded clustered around the high priestess, clearly prepared to defend her. Most of them, Karatek remembered, were Healers-in-training. Who better to know a manâs vulnerabilities than those who knew best how to preserve life?
âThee had great provocation.â The high priestess inclined her head, accepting Skamandrosâs apology despite its patent insincerity.
Karatek reached out to take the crown from Surakâs brow, then let his hands fall.
âI didnât think such a thing was possible,â he whispered. âItâs a telepathic recorder, isnât it? Night and day, I would not have thought the te-Vikram were far enough advanced to develop such a thing!â
Everyone knew that the adepts of Seleya and Gol could touch oneâs thoughts-and more. But for that skill, for an intimacy that profound and secret to reside in the gems and wires of a machineâ¦
The adept of Gol, who had long forgotten his own name, cleared his throat in what Karatek, to his amazement, recognized as disgust.
âThy wonder is ill advised,â he rebuked Karatek and Surak. âConsider what this⦠this instrument cost. Not in gems, but in the total number of minds the te-Vikram violated in creating it.â
Karatek flinched at the thought. In his passage through the desert, he had seen enough of te-Vikram violence by conventional means. All he wanted now was to survive the trek home to ShiKahr and take up his old life. He had not needed Surakâs calculations to know how improbable that second ambition was, especially now.
âAn interesting moral point,â the high priestess cut across his chill voice. âSacrifice was inflicted on many Vulcans to produce this device, which records thoughts, memories, and even emotions-although TâKehr Surak hereâ- her voice went ironic-âwould claim we should suppress them. I myself am reluctant to destroy what is a work of great craft and, potentially, much use, for good or ill.â
âIt should be smashed beyond the ability to reconstruct!â snarled the adept.
âWhy?â asked Surak. âIf, out of a sense of moral outrage, you destroy it, you pay no tribute to the sacrifice forced upon the men and women whose minds were violated in creating this coronet. If you use it, however, in the enhancement of science or philosophy, it would seem to me that you create a memorial.â
âI do not doubt,â said the high priestess, âthat this is a fascinating new ethical speculation. I can think of no one better equipped to pursue it than Surak of Vulcan. It can be the subject for thy Second Analects,â she added with a bleak smile. âI shall look forward to them.
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