Part 7: All things Allyndra

Posted on 01 Sep 2016 @ 9:49pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim & Lieutenant JG Eelim Galan
Edited on on 09 Sep 2016 @ 1:42am

2,306 words; about a 12 minute read

Mission: Episode 12 - Recluse
Location: USS Galileo - Deck 3, Sickbay
Timeline: MD -05 1300 hours

[ON]

The blinding light faded and Eelim was back in sickbay. This time it was Allyndra that was sitting by his bed side. He felt the presence again and turned. There, one of the Prohpets stood, in the form of Allyndra with her beautiful outstretched wings. He bowed respectfully. Just as with Tuula he knew this one was going to show him all that is Allyndra. He smiled as he walked over to the scene of Allyndra talking to his motionless body. He wondered how long it would keep him alive.

Eelim looked at the Bajoran God. "I can't hear what she's saying." Just as he finished the sentence he began to hear her words.

"She is saying a prayer to her gods and the Twins. Do you know who the Twins are to her and her people?"

"Not really." Eelim said.

"I thought not," the being said. "It is said that a long time ago there were two lover. The lovers danced and sang in their joy with one another so much so that their gods grew jealous. They decided to punish the two and they took the lovers and fixed them in the sky so that they could see each other but they could not touch. A cruel fate, and one designed so that their love would fade and die. However, instead of fading and dying their love grew and grew until it shone with a light so great that their gods turned away from the sight. One goddess realizing that they had made a terrible mistake and one that could not be undone made it so that when the two great planets the Akkadians call the Lock and Key aligned the lovers could kiss. She then took the moon and fashioned it into a set of great rings that would shine in the night as a promise that the gods would not commit such a folly again. It is said that when the Twins kiss that it means a time of change. It was for her and it that change is still evolving."

Eelim gave a nod. "I want to know more about her...like you or the other God told me about Tuula." He felt humbled that she was praying for me. He tired to put his hand on her shoulder but it just passed though. "She is a beautiful soul."

"And you are not?" The being questioned.

"No. I am not." Eelim said.

"You both have tragedy in your lives. Perhaps the kiss of the Twins affected you as much as her. Come, take my hand, let me show you." The being held out a slim fingered hand.

Eelim took her hand and this time closed his eyes to prevent the light from blinding him. The light still got him though.

There was a momentary flash of light so white it hurt the eyes but then resolved into a silver lit landscape full of tropical like vegetation, but quiet. The area was open and covered in grass surrounded by broad leafed plants that waved gently in a breeze that brought a touch of cool to the tropical like evening and smelled of salt. If one listened, one could hear the lap of waves in the distance. Above was a titanic silver rainbow that stretched from horizon to horizon and sitting on a small outcropping was Allyndra in a flight dress and in front was a male Akkadian painting in water colours. He had fine features, the touch of sensitive to his lips and his nimble hands quickly worked with the medium making a painting.

"This was the last evening she would ever see her husband Gerrin. He had travel in the morning and she would in a few hours be going to the sea to bear their children."

Gerrin stabbed his brush toward the sky. "Look Allyndra the Lock and Key align and in the morning the Lovers will be kissing. A time of change."

Allyndra looked wistful as he said such things. She did not believe was obvious.

"In the morning the Twins, the Lovers would indeed be kissing, and he would be in an accident that would claim his life. Their children would never return from the sea. Her Guild considered her A'ksu, a thing they considered dangerous, and with all the tragedy and loss they best thought to send her away. She has lived alone and away from her people for many years. The A'ksu, once loved, once feared, a people that reached far and fell far."

The being grew pensive for a moment and then intoned solemnly, "We must hide the past in order to preserve the future."

Eelim's heart broke for Allyndra. He knew about hiding pasts.

"Come, take my hand, let me show you." The being held out her hand again.

Again, that bright white flash of light so pure it hurt the senses.

They stood inside a cave, a large one and in front lay a craft. It was saucer shaped and seemed to glow faintly. "A pinnacle of their achievement, they call it a Fold Ship. Now mostly forgotten and put away from the past. How long Eelim to go from Cardassia to the other side of the galaxy? Years, decades or more. Yet this ship can do that in the blink of an eye. Their A'ksu figured out that time is not like what most of you think, it it not linear."

"It's hard for us to see time as anything else. I've never seen a Fold Ship!" Eelim said. "It's beautiful but why bring me here and before you ask like the other being I am a bit dense." He smiled. "I am Cardassian after all." He chuckled at his own joke. But it wasn't a joke. Now that he as nowhere near Gul Galan he insulted and demeaned himself.

"You must find the brightness within you. You are like a shadow latern, there is a bright light but you always shudder it so only a tiny bit shows. All these forms are just that, a shell, a coat, something that is slipped on for a bit of time. As to your question, why? So you can remember Eelim Galan. So you can remember."

Eelim was intrigued. Eelim sighed. He was sort of getting used to these images this travel and all the other things. "Okay, okay. I will remember. Can I ask a question?"

"A question? A single one? Very well if it is withing my power to grant the answer ask."

"Okay well I have a thousand questions. Allyndra is such a wonderful person. Why did her husband have to go...why did not their gods help him live?" He really was worried about his friend.

"Universe upon universe, and all things possible. A thing that could have happened changed otherwise. A spot where she died, he lived, neither happened, both happened, this is the outcome here in this experience."

"Yippie skippy." Eelim said. What was with the riddles. "Okay. Show me more about Allyndra."

The being smiled. "In this verison? It is that tragedy the sent her away. Her Guild thought for her to turn that into something else and she has tried. A Counselor and a Healer, to try to give sympathy to others that have had tragedy and to try to heal so that others may not have to deal with loss." The being moved a bit. "She tries to help others, but still there is loneliness there, she covers it but in the stillness of times there are the tears."

Eelim sighed. "She's lonely...like me." He looked at the being that had her form. "She does so much for others as a doctor." He thought. "She should be happy. Will she be happy?"

"Time my not be linear but so many events, nuances, changes can make things different. In one, yes, in another no. You must understand that all choices have consequences. However, it is the mere fact that you have choice. Use that gift."

"Okay then. Here's a question. How do I choose?" He smiled and risking being vaporized he asked. "I did ask for help didn't I?"

The being turned and then placed a hand on his heart and then on his head, "Follow these, they will guide you as much as anything can in this universe. Trust you own feelings and judgement."

Eelim felt himself spinning and then a blinding light. He felt the weight of his body and then searing pain. He gasped for air his eyes flying open desperately trying to focus.

Allyndra jerked herself as her patient suddenly moved. "It is alright! Alright! You are alive, safe. Calm yourself."

Eelim looked around wildly. Sickbay...he recognized sickbay. His eyes swept the room. His body couldn't stop shivering...the pain in his abdomen started. He groaned, turned his head and his eyes locked onto the person next to him. "A...Allyndra."

"Here let me get you something for the pain." She got up and dialed up a mild anaglesic. She thought that after all that barbituate induced coma that one would not feel much but then again Cardassian physiology was only covered briefly in classes. She pressed the hypo home. "There that should help. Welcome back. You have had quite a shock to the system. Thanks to Tuula you will recover but you had some swelling in the brain and I had to induce a coma." Allyndra got a blanket though the room was perfect tempreatrure and the bed would also compensate, but there was still a deep psychology built in about such items in most species minds. She covered him and tucked it in.

"There that should help with the chills." She glanced up at the readings and nodded, "Those are looking really good."

Eelim looked at her sceptically. His voice was horse, "A...are you the real Allyndra....where is...the ship?"

"As far as I know there is not another and we are on the Galileo yes indeed. I know coming out of medical coma is disorientating but just take some breaths and relax."

"No...I was with the Bajoran Gods...one of them took your form." He looked at her. "You're sure you are you?" Eelim asked.

Allyndra just patted his hand. "There, there. Might be some after effects from the barbiuates but no Bajorans gods or otherwise around here. You have been out for quite some time and either I or Tuula have been here."

"No but the ship...the Fold Ship it was so real." He said.

Allyndra sat bolt upright. Her mind went into overdrive. There were a few that knew what that was, but she had asked for them not to say anything. Mott was gone, Lamar possibly, perhaps Tuula, the later more likely but it did not seem to be her, even though eccentric she knew how to keep a confidence.

She recovered and then smiled, though it was a plastered on one. "Yes, yes, a bold ship, the Galileo is that, a bold ship. Now get some rest sir."

"No...not bold. Not the Galileo." He swallowed his lips dry. "In the Cave the Fold ship. I saw it.... You... they showed me."

"Must be a reaction to the medications. It will be fine." Allyndra responded. She wondered where he had gotten that from. The only one that she had ever shown anyone was the one located in the archives and certainly that was not a cave. Once when she was young she had found one hidden away in a cave. How he got to that she could not explain but she was not going to confirm that. At least not yet. Yet, she could not help but wonder how he had gotten that idea and the babble about someone looking like her but a Bajoran Prophet instead. Could it be true she wondered.

"The next thing you will be telling me is about the Twins kissing."

"Well yes... they did the night you lost your love...or the next day." He said softly.

Allyndra looked at Eelim pointedly. She then shook her head. "Computer please put privacy screen in place." She waited a moment while the screen shimmered into existence and then added. "Exclude all others without my authorization."

[Acknowledged]

"I am not sure where you really got all that from, but Eelim promise me that you will keep it to yourself please." She said it quietly but there was strength behind the words.

He looked at her. "I will... I saw it Allyndra. You...the Bajoran God that took your form. She took me there. I know about the Guild and how lonely you are and how he died...I"m so sorry." He rasped. He held her hand gently. His eyes fluttered. "I'm so tired...stay with me?" He asked not wanting to be alone, fearing to be alone.

"Of course I will. You need rest, we will talk later once you a better recovered." She patted his hand remained still a bit puzzled how he had come to know a lot of things and if what he said was really true or not. She was not a big believer in such things. Oh she sometimes said somethings to the Twins, and she knew all the old stories and everything but religion or belief was not high on her world. A thought entered her mind and she leaned forward and whispered, "Oh and if she comes visit you again, ask her what went wrong in the past that we ended up on the path we did rather then figure something else out."

Eelim's eyes fluttered and he fell asleep holding her hand.

[OFF]

Cmdr Allyndra illm Warraquim
Chief Medical and Second Officer
USS Galileo

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Lt. JG Eelim Galan
Security Officer
USS Galileo

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