From: Margie Benham (madhron_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2008 - 15:37:39 PST
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"Pain"
(Continued from Sarah's: "Empty Vessel")
Eilean Velsu Peri was currently beating several hells
out of a vague sort of humanoid shape. She had long
ago stopped feeling the pain, and no longer took
notice of the blood running from her knuckles.
The pain in her hands after all did nothing to dull
the pain in her chest. A pain she knew that she was
unable to cope with.
'The child is going to do herself a serious injury.'
'Hush, Asknish, she must go through this.' M'grethe
tried to quieten the the shade of her husband. 'There
are some things that only pain can help.'
'Despair is not one of them wife of mine.' Asknish
countered his wife. 'She should go questing.'
'How and where?' M'grethe taunted.
'True, true.' Asknish sighed, 'Sometimes I wish I
could just take the child's pain away.'
'She has more than us to watch over her now.' The
doors to the gym had opened and Neos stepped through
the door, Elbereth padding close to his side. 'We
have done our duty for now, come.' Together the two
shades faded from view and disappeared into the ether.
Neos put his arms around Eilean and held her close
against his body. Elbereth padded around her ankles,
rubbing her silky head against Eilean's legs.
Gently the Viskulan turned his wife around and led her
to a chair. "Here let me do your knuckles."
**Again.** But Neos held the final word within his
mind. "Elbereth has been pacing our quarters, I think
she will wear a hole in the carpet before too much
longer."
He had carefully extracted the medical kit from his
pocket and was using the dermal regenarator on the
broken skin of her knuckles. "You have to stop doing
this Love."
"I can't." Eilean swallowed and closed her mauve
eyes, "I have to make penitence."
"Xana wouldn't want you to be hurting yourself every
single day, E'l'n." He spoke her name softly, chosing
to use the Xenexian pronunciation to try and emphasise
his words.
"I let them down." Eilean started at the top of her
husband's head. "I let them both down so badly. And
now....."
"Shhhhh...." Neos put the medical kit away, "You need
to get some rest, M'grethe gave me a headache the
other day by trying to talk to me about it."
"You can't talk to Grandmother." Eilean shook her
head.
"I know, but you try telling her that." Neos smiled
wryly. "Hence the headache."
"I'm sorry Neos."
"So am I." He replied.
"For what?"
"For this my love." With that he placed the hypospray
against Eilean's neck and depressed it.
"Neos?" She thought against the effects of the drug
as it spread through out her system.
"You have to rest." He kissed her gently on the
forehead and then rising to his feet, lifted her up
into her arms.
Elbereth growled slightly.
"You don't need to change Elbereth, she's just to
sleep." Neos hurried to assure the changing Lerion.
"After all we can't have our Chief Security Officer
starting her first day of duty and then promptly
falling asleep."
Neos sighed, the Viskulan man, closed his eyes briefly
and dropped another kiss onto his wife's forehead. "I
just hope you'll forgive me when you wake up."
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NRPG: Short but I wanted to get something out. ;-)
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This post was brought to you by me:
Margie Benham <madhron_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Speaking for:
Lt E'l'n (Eilean) Peri Velsu
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS MCINNIS (Novella Unit)
-and-
Captain Rharn Alcedo
Commanding Officer
USS STONEHENGE
NCC 12507
-and-
Captain Mad'hron Zanders
Temporary Commanding Officer
E4
-and-
Commodore Morelia Amethystina
Director Of Advanced Command Training
Starfleet Academy, EARTH
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