Joshua and Melee entered the darkened stasis room. "Light, stasis tube 1A." Admiral Janith Solana floated in the stasis tube in her uniform, her eyes closed. "She's very beautiful, Josh. Too bad she's totally nuts, huh?" Peering into the tube, Melee examined the tattoo on Solana's forehead. "Does that tattoo have some special meaning big brother?" Joshua nodded. "It has a deep religious meaning." "What does it mean?" He smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea." Melee punched him in the arm. "Oh, funny." "No, it's true. She's a Serene. It's a pacifist belief system." Joshua told her. "When one becomes a Serene, the first thing they do is design and apply a tattoo to their forehead, so that everyone knows what they are. Every tattoo is different, and only she or he knows what it means. They don't tell anyone what it means. They will not write it down, they will not record it in audio or video logs. It stays in their heads and they take it with them to the grave." "Well this head there is a bit screwy." The girl said, laughing. "You won't get an argument from me. I think her problems started when she joined Starfleet. It was incompatible with everything she was raised to believe in. Then you throw in the incident between Ralia and myself. And then the war came and she found herself in charge of ships that had one purpose: death." "Or maybe it's because she's a clone grown in a Spartii tank, and is just nuts!" Melee said with a grin. "Maybe. I'm of the belief that people like her should not be allowed to serve in the military side of Starfleet. War does things to them. Especially when it's with an enemy like the Dominion. That was a cruel war. Even the Family was affected in some ways. When you face an enemy like the Jem Hadar, you sometimes find yourelf doing things that civilized people don't do." Melee put her hands on Joshua's arm. "Did it happen to you?" He nodded, still staring at Solana. "You saw the gray boots I wore to the singing on Sora?" Melee nodded. "Yes." "Well they're made from Jem Hadar skin." The girl backed away in disgust. Kirk turned to her, tears welling up in his eyes. "I don't blame you. Gond was the one on our side who started it. You see, Klingons used to do it to an enemy that they viewed with contempt. But we were not the ones to start it in this war. They did." "Gond's fleet liberated a prison camp once. The prisoners said that if the bastards found someone with skin they liked, they would kill and skin them on the spot. Then they would force the prisoners to dispose of the body." Tears then started rolling down his cheeks. "That's what happened to my uncle Jacob and the other men under my command. This Ka'alu even had a pair. Made from my uncle!" Melee threw her arms around Joshua and held him tight.Joshua Kirk shook his head hard. "But they're all just so much radioactive dust now on Teros 6." Joshua lead Melee to the door. "Let's go. It's time to rescue Moscow."