The Beach, Saturday Morning

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

Another slow, slow week had passed on by, irrelevant and tedious.

While River continued her operation on Artika, Kerrigan's forces had been trying to hunt down Zeratul, but the Protoss proved elusive, his path... troubling.

Yet again, Kerrigan hence made her way to the quietest part of the island, where there was the least chance of interference through the chattering thoughts of others. (Yesterday had been particularly annoying, with strains of song drifting in and out of her consciousness.) She took a deep breath, and looked to the skies, and listened.

By now, she didn't need to drop an inch of her disguise to do so: that was a good discovery. But the airwaves of the mind were quiet, and even the scratching-burning sound of the Dark Voice seemed more distant, and harder to grasp.

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[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't me," she said, and reached up, scrubbing at the side of her head. "The Zerg are run by a hive mind, or at least they were. The Overmind. I fought it off for months, but in the end, it got me."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Telepathic creates, he remembered now.

"You never said," he replied, his voice softer now. "And this Overmind is dead now? What happened to the Zerg then?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I didn't know what was happening until it did," Kerrigan said, her mouth curling up into a wry little smile. "Some of them went feral and wandered away. Some of them were strong enough to assert some power over themselves and the Zerg around them. And some of them were taken in by stronger Zerg, or the Earth human force that blew through Koprulu a while back. They put an end to those plans pretty quickly, though."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"And what happened to you?" Roy asked as she seemed to have left that out.

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I've always been one of the Overmind's experiments," she said, spitting out the word. "He left me some level of autonomy. His death didn't strike me as hard; it just gave me back my own free will."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Roy hummed quietly, processing her words. "What did you do with it?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Made sure River was safe. Came here."

Kerrigan pushed some hair back behind her ear. "Did my best to look human, as you can tell."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

Roy nodded slowly. "So where's she? I didn't hear that she returned as well."

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Back in Koprulu," Kerrigan replied. "Safe. She doesn't belong here any more, she'd be... restless."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"I'm a bit surprised that you'd leave her there," Roy admitted. "What made you decide to come back?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"She's safe," Kerrigan repeated. "That's all I'm saying about that. As for Fandom, well..."

She sighed.

"It's Fandom."

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

"It is," Roy agreed slowly. "Are you glad to be back here?"

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"I didn't have a lot of places left to go, if I wanted to make something of myself," she said, frankly. "So yeah, I guess I am."