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It is Lucien's first time in space and he's nervous. This is not really the best sign considering that the reason he's going to space is to join Starfleet but presumable his nerves will settle and it will be fine. It's only a six-hour trip anyways. His nerves not particularly settled he sits down for the acceleration to warp, which is completely pointless given the inertial dampeners but it makes him feel better.
Despite all his worrying takeoff goes smoothly-
He can do that. Also now that she's not there to be pressured by it he can cry.
The good news is they know what the necklace does now. The Dean will get back to them with more updates.
The bad news is that he has no money and nowhere to stay and people are pretty skeptical of his story, because it's a much simpler explanation that he touched an artifact somewhere which did both of [made him delusional] and also [made him able to teleport, if apparently not very well].
The good news is that the tracker/necklace combination equips him to go chase down an artifact which has been the scourge of the region for quite some time now!
The university'll handle the expedition preparations since he's indigent. He's just got to take the necklace to where the knife was last seen - they can have some precautions in place if it turns out the necklace isn't strong enough to fend off the knife, but if it is he can go up to the flock of people it's taken and bap them all with the necklace and then get the knife embedded in some cement so it can be dropped in the ocean. There's a large bounty, he'll be set for life, it's a great solution to his problem.
That will do.
As it turns out, so long as he is thinking about his love's face or voice or general demeanor, he can mostly distract himself from how horrible he is for not telling her everything. So he spaces out doing that for a few hours until he realizes that this is probably creepy and rude and that it's probably wrong to obsess this much.... possibly the thing to do is limit his time spent doing so to a reasonable amount and spend the rest of the time thinking about other things, like how he's a terrible a person for not confessing all his secrets to her. ... yeah, realistically that's the only other thing he's going to think about.
In the morning he and a safety escort can head out for the last known location of the golden knife. They're going to have him on what is basically a leash, so he can go to within knife radius and be dragged back if it calls him.
Sure.
He's saving his thinking about his love time for later in the day. Does anyone want to talk to him about astronomy now?
That doesn't seem to be anybody's job nor directly related to securing a portion of the knife bounty.
The next day he and his escort can set out. They have to go quite a long way and take a train most of the way there.
He distributes his thinking about his love time evenly throughout.... She was so very pretty. The prettiest. She had eyes that were really good. And a nose that was really good. And lips...oh no that's rude to imagine but he can just imagine the lips on their own for a bit that's probably fine.
It transpires, when they arrive at the evacuated village that the knife is passing through, that Lucien is in fact immune to the call of the knife; they can detach his leash and he can go in and bap people with the necklace. The cut might be violent but they're mostly not in very good physical health and shouldn't be too dangerous; still, he can have a long stick to put the necklace on the end of for added safety margin.
Lucien is in shape even if he hasn't had any actual combat training yet, he does fine.
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