25Scott spent an hour with Donna in the medicenter, then put his CORE Battlenaut through its paces on the Training Deck to let off some steam. By the time he was done, he'd gone through five hundred rounds of dummy ammo and racked up perfect scores against every solid and holographic target generated for the exercise.
Unfortunately, he didn't feel much better when it was all over. Having memories of Iridess Chasm and Penitent Peak brought so strongly to the surface made him feel lousy. Knowing Cairn Barrie was back from the dead and holed up in a cell a few decks away stuck a black hole dead center in his belly. It was one thing to have nightmares about his experience; it was something else altogether to have the past brought to life and shoved in his face in the middle of a crisis.
