[Scar]

"Mind Over Grey Matter"

“Neptune, you take left, I’ll go right. Beware the electric barrier”
“Yes, sir” as they float past the clearance. “I see the sphere; There it is”


Her leg, a thin branch of winter pale, peeked through the cover,
which was a few inches too short for Nancy’s measurement
hand reeking of iodoform, the nurse lowered her palm and softly pressed against
Nancy’s forehead. Warm but stable; occasional coughs and shortness of breath

“Neptune, stay along the grid! No time for heroics”
She floated near the glowing strips. Staying close as not to expose her ship.
Attached to the globule, a strange matter of ever-expanding hue
Stygian solvent rapidly evolving into a monstrous, massive "goo"

“How is this possible?” the Doctor ran another analysis
As the scanner reveals a dark spot attacking her thalamus

She was always imaginative; infatuated with deep space
“I'm a pilot like Luke and Han, mom!” those words hung on her sweet face
“You’ll have plenty of time, but first, let’s get ready for school, ‘kay?”
“Mom, wanna know what they're gon call me?” .. Every pilot needs a cool name

“Neptune, split into twos and slip towards each side of the core”,
ordered the Captain as he eyed the large dark sludge thing laying traces of iodoform
Neptune led the first wave. Dropping plasma grenades
As the captain took the west entrance looking for the chance to engage ..
The detonator, but it was left to fate. They were left to faith.
A belief short-lived as Cap’s ship was caught and absorbed in its wave
“CAPP!!” she saw it all. His starfighter wasn’t the last to fall
One by one, all of them would succumb to its massive pulse
She was alone. Like she’d always been. The fall. The spring.
The bald. The thing she was called - “Nancy no-hair” she was all those things.
She knew it. “But Luke never gave up, did he?” She conjured all she could muster
A concentration so intense, it illuminates the grids around her
It was a tempest of emotions. Hatred, love, sorrows, excitements
The voices, the violence until all around her were swallowed by lights.

She opened her eyes.

“This is a miracle. How .. how can it just disappear like that?
Nancy, can you tell me a little more about the dream you had?”

The doctor stood in silence. The Minutes pass. “I need answers”
then turned to his nurse and said “this little girl just beat cancer”