Musings

Posted on 28 Jun 2020 @ 6:39pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim

885 words; about a 4 minute read

Computer please open personal log

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I was going to say all sorts of things but what is there to say? The ship manages still, we are still here?

Computer halt, erase last sentence

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Now where was I?

Ah yes, it has been awhile since I have put something in my personal log though more recently I have put various little tales of childhood in there as well. Funny how at the time when one learned them they were fascinating, then one grows and they seem childish but now far away from home and hearth they seem so dear and close yet again.

Sometimes I feel like I am like Rhailya. It comes from our myths. It is about a group of mythical beings that were thought to come from mist on the days when the fog would roll from seas. The were called mist maidens, the Ul'iawi. Anyway, one tale of the Ul'awi is about one mist maiden called Rhailya and the poem goes something like this:

It is I Rhailya, who touches with mist the crystal pane of your window lit by the pale rays of the moon.
Rhailya begged her lover, the man of the land, to place a ring on her finger and come live with her in her home beneath the sea.
He refused, saying that he now loved another.
Rhailya lauhged, then cried, and disappeared in the sweeping wind of mist.
Rhailya who had been denied a soul unless she could win forever the love of a mortal man.
Alas, a task which she could never achieve.
For the gods and goddesses had been cruel, for a man being mortal could never love forever.

*pause*

Sometimes I wonder if I am like Rhailya the Ul'wai, trying to find the love of another. Like her I still hope though and hope that the task is not one that will be like her endless quest.

I know silly. However, as I have said, though I have traveled far there is a part of me that yearns all too much for home. Yes, there is definitely a part of me that is a child of sea and sky. The scientific part of me knows all too well that physiologically we are mostly children of a water world with scattered islands and our ancestors traveled those seas and skies and still do with the great sailing sky ships and on our own wings. If it had not been for House Warraquim pushing the Council, I would still be there still. Now as Mother of the House of Warraquim I want to know how things have all worked.

I mentioned the Fold Ship before. A wonderous thing, but it reminds me that caution is always the watch word. We have a word, Arbriatitu but one also some hears whispered A'ksu. It is a word that comes from our past. It means Dangerous.

As the story goes, it was determined that certain individuals could make great intuitive leaps, pulling concepts and data together to make astonishing advances. It was also determined that this trait could be inherited and so it is said that Akkadia entered upon a period of breeding for the trait. Because of that inherited ability we advanced far and fast, but the A'ksu while brilliant had no forethought. They did not see the consequences nor cared for what their advancements might lead to.

What exactly happened no one knows the details, but suffice to say that it is said we nearly destroyed ourselves and our world. So out of the chaos, Akkadia went back to simpler times and those showing the signs of being A'ksu watched closely. I learned a phrase that came from those times, it goes: 'Ua haʻalele mākou i nā mea i hala ke hala e mālama i ka wā e hiki mai ana'. In Federation standard it means: 'We put away the past in order to preserve the future'.

Most say that it means we destroyed most of that technology, but I learned from a few old Mothers especially the Na'ania in the high peaks that come down periodically to sell their silks they have gathered from the Trillium spiders, say that it still exists. That 'put away' means exactly that, set aside but not destroyed. I must admit it thrills me to wonder what some of that is. I know where some is and have used it. The Fold Ship is exactly one of those marvels.

Well my thoughts have wandered so I should bring this to an end.

Let me close this with this:

'Haku ala Hakuina ena A'oe ea po'lealu, Houniana eta hap elalu pillia'tu din'atu L'ani. Mai Po'lealu'."

It translates into Federation as: 'Lords and Ladies of Light and Darkness, from earth you raised us up so we could touch the sky. From earth we came, to sky we go, and then return back to earth. Accept my thanks for the gift of flight and grant that another year be given unto me.'

And I hope that there will be another year, not just for myself but for the rest on this ship.

Hoʻomaikaʻi iā mākou a pau mau māhoe

May the Twins bless us all.

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