Pavel's mind struggles to break through the whirlwind of chaos, grabbing desperately at every last fragment of memory he can grasp in the storm to hastily reconstruct an explanation for what exactly just happened.
That gemstone with the mysterious energy signature—
Blue light so bright and blinding he had to screw his eyes shut as it flooded the room, radiating off that mysterious gem—
Air rushing around him, the feeling of his body being both stretched and compacted at the same time as the ground fell out from beneath his feet, sending him plummeting down—no, flying—across space—
This is not the Enterprise, Pavel notes immediately upon seeing the floor-to-ceiling windows offering a view to an unfamiliar sky.
Groaning, he attempts to take command of the body that feels light-years away, perhaps left back on the Enterprise, to pick himself up off the ground. He cannot wait around to be captured and interrogated or worse. Wherever here is, somewhere in the vast expanse of the universe—there must be something he can latch on to, create a guiding star out of—it is very far from home.
There is no choice; he must get control of himself, he must figure out where he is so he can contact the ship, he must make sure that whoever commands this station knows that he is no enemy.
Moving his arm is a struggle, but once his body and his mind fully resync, the latter once again aware of the physical presence of the former, moving the other three comes easily enough.
Suddenly, a small figure dressed in blue appears down the hall, hurrying towards him, and Pavel blinks, scrambling even faster to drag himself to his full height.
Where is that gem? It will help me prove that I am not here with hostile intentions!
"I—I, ah," Pavel stammers, looking at @hcrwish as she closes the distance, tripping over his own tongue as he tries to explain and explain quickly. "I am not here to try and hurt anybody! I was studying this unknown gemstone we discovered on one of our expeditions and it"—Pavel's hands are clumsy as he punctuates his hasty explanations with wide, albeit shaky, gestures, drawing a circle and quickly pulling his hands apart to simulate the strange flash of unknown light—"I have never seen anything like this before and somehow it transported me here."
Finally, he pauses, if only to catch his breath. "Where—where is here?"
