Val had been ordered to sickbay to help in the calculations...  He waited to dematerialize with everyone else, it did not take long, the shimmer of atoms in transit between matter and energy all around him was beautiful but did not enhance his calm.  It seemed like only seconds had passed before he was flesh and blood, a whole real person again.  Sitting on the edge of a biobed where he had been before.<br/><br/>Looking around...<br/><br/>"Did it work?" he asked the room at large.