[Medlab....]
After mulling the thought over for most of that day, Rylan heads to the medlab to find DT. As tr`Rogel and Emni had brought in a few more people, D`Tarik is rather busy at the moment going from crew-member to crew-member in medlab, working at his usual insanely fast pace. Rylan halts a bit, looking a little hopelessly at all the chaos, and waits for an opening to talk to the Chief Medical officer. Ry settled himself down for a wait, shifting from foot to foot in an almost impatient manner...but waiting quietly in an out of the way spot just the same.
As it turned out, Ry didn't have to wait very long before DT had everybody in the room taken care of, except for one patient that tr`Rogel was busily working on repairing the large gash across her face, and Aehmig who still lay unconscious in the biobed. Turning to survey his surroundings, DT spies Rylan, and greets him with a grin on his face, "Ah! Rylan, au are here...." he pauses a moment, remembering the two girls from earlier, and adds, "May I help au?"
Ry nods almost eagerly, "Ie, that au can." and motions the boy over.
"Well....tr`Rogel, do au have all this under control now? Sure au do!" DT nods before the boy could answer, "Everything is okay here....and Emni is taking care of people around the ship..." he informs the xo as he heads closer. As soon as DT comes close enough, Rylan suddenly grabs the boy by the collar and takes off with him out into the less crowded corridor before they could be stopped. "Au seem less then happy, Rylan!" DT exclaims as he's pulled along after the taller boy.
Glancing at DT, and still dragging him off down the hallway, Ry answers with, "Do I?" he paused slightly, "And au seem ecstatic for some io who may have destroyed us all."
"I have na killed us all....have I?" DT asks confused, still smiling the same smile.
"I hope na." Ry shrugs, "But I intend to find out if au did." he looks around the empty corridor then quietly adds, "What's say we go back and find out that girl's name?"
"Na. We won't." DT says with finality, "Because if it's bad, au will kill her."
Ry sighs and leans up against the wall. "Na, DT. I won't kill her. Au will." he raises a brow slightly, "Isn't that what au promised the Leih? That au would kill her if au made a mistake?"
"Ie..." DT nods hesitantly, "But we already decided that I did na make a mistake...okay?" an odd look creeps on to his face.
Not paying attention to this, Ry shakes his head, "Na. We decided to find out if au made a mistake. We said we'd find out and go back. The only way to be sure, is to find out if that girl was supposed to live. How can we do that, without her name?"
"I never heard that part, young Rylan..." DT shakes his head and protests.
Ry shrugs again, "Forget it then," he heads off, "I'll do it myself...."
"And what will be our excuse for going back?" DT asks the back of the retreating figure, "We left our wallets?" he smirks. When Rylan didn't answer, he persisted, "Well?! What are we supposed to say? Just walk up there and say 'what's the name of the girl whose life I saved...so if it's something bad we can kill her'?!"
Rylan shakes his head and pauses further down the hallway. "Na. Na exactly." he turns around, "Why na just ask her, herself? Haven't au ever thrown a pebble at a girl's window to talk to her without her parents knowing?" he asked curiously, "Don't au think she'd want to at least say 'hann`yyo' to the person who saved her?"
"Throw a pebble at a window...." DT's brow knits together in confusion, "Wouldn't that break the window? And why are we talking about rocks?"
Rylan pauses a moment to stare at DT as if the boy was suddenly mutating into some strange creature. "Um....are au all right, DT? Au seem...." he pauses a moment more, trying to put it diplomatically, "...I don't know...out of it, or something."
"I'm okay...just in a over-all good mood. For once, I have na-thing to be sad about!" he declares happily, then pauses again, "I'm na really sure how to handle it...."
Rylan looks confused himself by this point, and he shakes his head to clear it. "Well...I leave au to ninte...happiness...then." he turns, still mulling over his own thoughts, and walks away.
"Woah! Woah!!" D`Tarik runs after Rylan and comes to a stop in front of him, "I'm na letting au go there without me. Just give me a little bit to make sure my assistants can handle all the injured on the ship?
Ry seems to look a little blankly at DT a moment, then seems to suddenly snap back into himself. "Ie..ie.." he nods, "Go ahead..."
"Okay! Meet me outside the ship in about 20 surien-a."
Ry nods and resumes his walk again, "Fine, fine, fine. But if au are na there....I'm leaving myself!"
"I will be! Don't worry!" DT calls back over his shoulder, trotting off back to the medlab.
[Outside the Ship....]
Waiting impatiently outside, Ry looks at his chrono and mumbles something incoherient, then starts to walk off. He had gotten four or five paces away, when DT suddenly comes climbing down the ladder that is now used to get out of the ship. As he climbs down he yells, "I'm here! How late am I?"
Glancing to his chrono again, Ry answers, "Late by....30 seconds." he smirks. DT doesn't respond to this, just steps off the ladder. Ry grows quiet as well, and the two head off toward the farm in the early evening twilight.
[Near the Farmer's house]
After a quiet walk sometime later, Rylan finally breaks the silence with, "So....if she's supposed to die...how will au do it?"
"We will see, Rylan." D`Tarik answers cryptically.
"That we will..." Ry agrees, his hand moving a little forlornly to the hilt of his dagger.
D`Tarik sees the gesture in the dimming light of the early evening, "Rylan, if she has to die, I will do it. Au are na going to kill her brutally."
Ry shakes his head and looks a bit helplessly at the smaller boy, "It's na like I want to, DT. But I can't let her live if she's na supposed to." he looks down and becomes quiet again.
"Ie, au can." DT says a little resentfully, "But we will see. I don't want to talk about this."
Cresting the hill, Rylan crouches down low to the ground and whispers, "Everybody turned in for the night, then?"
Ignoring that, D`Tarik says, "Rylan, au stay here, I will handle this..."
"Na." Ry shakes his head, "I need to hear it for myself." he pulls out a scanner from his jacket pocket, and begins to get readings off it, "And if au won't scan for lifesigns, then I will."
"Na au don't...au will have to trust me, Rylan." D`Tarik almost pleads with the taller boy, "Look, stay back here, it will be easier for me to talk to her because I save her life and all. I will leave my com on so au can hear it if au want."
Having seen the strange blip on the scanner, Ry decides not to inform DT about their tag-along. Looking back up at him, Rylan whispers angrily, "I trusted au to do the right thing before, and au didn't do it." looking back down to the scanner to make sure he wouldn't bump into the cloaked Vyynd, Rylan creeps through the darkness around to the side of the house.
"Ie...but au will be able to hear it all." D`Tarik still whispers to him, "And I did do the right thing, Rylan, and I would again. If she needs to die...then I will do it. If this is going to happen, we are doing it my way, okay?"
Rylan pauses in his movements to turn a furious face to D`Tarik. Whispering back angrily, he shakes his head, "I'm *na* going to kill her, DT! What kind of monster do au make me out to be? It's ninte mistake, if there was io that was made! *Au* will correct it! I'm just here to make sure that au do."
"Ie. And au will. But au are staying here, and are going to hear it all."
"I'm going." Ry nods again, "And I will hear it all as she says it." he resumes creeping closer to the house.
"Au will do it that way by the use of the com...okay?" D`Tarik tries once more in all seriousness, "Rylan, let me do this my way...please!" he looks over to the taller boy.
Rylan suddenly stops, the look on his face ending further argument from the smaller boy. "Au will do this *my* way! Learn ninte place, Daise ch`Hiifvehi!" (chief of medical) Rylan once more resumes creeping towards the house, and after a few minutes, the three reach their destination. Rylan perches himself in the shadows under the girl's window then points up and whispers, "Go for it. I'll stay here in the shadows and she won't see me."
D`Tarik stands up without saying anything to Rylan. Vyynd, standing to the side of D`Tarik, further forward towards Rylan, goes completely unnoticed and cloaked. Deciding to take his own approach, and give this whole encounter the D`Tarik touch, he throws a pill at the window instead of a pebble.
After a slight pause, the soft glow of candle-light appears in the window, and D`Tarik whispers "Psst...Pssst..."
The girl beyond moves the curtain aside cautiously and whispers back, "Who's there?"
Not being good at all at this sort of thing, he decides to be blunt. "I'm the guy who saved ninte life." D`Tarik whispers to her. Vyynd begins memorizing the girl's face, speech pattern, and attire. Ry looks up at DT from where he crouched down low to the ground, waiting for the boy to get to the point of the matter so they could go back to the ship.
The flash of metal appears briefly as the girl readies a weapon to throw at the unseen voice. Hearing DT's words, she pauses with a slight frown. "Come closer then, so I can see au." she demanded quietly. Carefully, D`Tarik steps forward and looks up at her. Narrowing her eyes slightly, the dagger in her hand still clutched in a ready position, the girl stares at the boy silently a moment. "Why did au come back?"
"I just wanted to check on au, and see how au were doing. Probably introduce myself..."
Glancing over her shoulder, the girl interrupts him. "My father says that au are a Nobel. Come to take S`Task's place." she narrows her eyes a little more, "Is that true?"
"Umm...." D`Tarik grabs for an answer and stumbles upon, "Na. I'm na...na, my brother...is?"
The girl tilts her head, "Ninte brother is going to take S`Task's place?"
"Na....na really." D`Tarik says a little confused.
Letting that matter pass for the time being, the girl nods, then her face softens deceptively, "Why did au save me?"
"Because I'm a doctor. It's what I do. I'm D`T..." he pauses, figuring it's not a good idea to give his real name, "D`Tshibby..."
"Ie." the girl nods again, "Hann`yyo....D`Tshibby..." she frowns over the strange name, "I will take my leave of au now." she turns away from the window.
In a panic, DT blurts out, "Wait! I um....never got ninte name. I'd at least like to know whose life I saved? And make sure au are feeling okay..."
The girl pauses a moment, then turns back, "Why am I so important to the likes of a Nobel?" she then adds with cynicism, "Nobles care na-thing for me and my kind."
"Well, I think au may be wrong, since I'm a Nobel and I care." he smiled to the girl hopefully.
"What, exactly, do au request of me then, My Lord?" she spat out the last two words as her eyes narrowed in suspicion again.
"Just ninte name...and to tell me how au are feeling. And, au don't need to call me that...."D`Tarik offers a smile again. Ry hears a faint whisper across the wind, of grief about the diplomatic ineptitude of the medical staff. Ry smirks at the almost unheard comment, and bites down on his lip to keep from laughing.
"I am better." the girl nods slightly, "And I have na-thing to repay ninte...kindness with." she motions out the window towards him, "As au can see, we are only farmers, and our crops are blighted with the drout." She raises a brow almost mockingly, "Unless au and ninte brother can do something about that as well?"
"All I ask in return, is to know au`rh well, and ninte name." D`Tarik tries once more. "I wish I could help with the drout...well....." his mind kinda wanders on the possibility of the ways to control the weather.
"I have already said I was well." the girl answers impatiently, playing with the tip of the dagger a moment before looking back to him. "As for my name...I fail to see why io such as au would need to know it. I do na plan on letting au court me anytime soon." she said with a sarcastic smile.
"That was na my plan...that I'm aware of anyway." D`Tarik answers quickly, "I just wish to know... like to keep a record of my patients..." he looks up at her hopefully.
Tossing her hair over her shoulder, she leans forward slightly on the window sill. "And how many patients have au had, exactly? My brother said that *ninte* brother told him that au were an animal doctor. Do au know the names of each and every animal au ever 'saved'?"
"Ie....he tends to get jealous that I'm smarter then him....and he likes to make things up..." D`Tarik answers quickly, not seeing the look he was receiving from Rylan. "He does na trust me either. He wanted ninte brother to stop me." Having about enough of waiting around, Vyynd breezes passed Rylan, still unseen, and rests his mind upon the slope of the hill, a distance from D`Tarik's fateful failings.
Rylan kicks DT's ankle and whispers too low for the girl above them to hear, "Fvadt it all! Just demand to know! Kiss her! Do something! Just get the fvadt name!"
DT kicks Rylan back lightly, and continues to the girl, "So...do I get to know ninte name, My Lady?" he bows graciously.
This doesn't seem to impress her in the least. Offering a small rueful smile at the boy, she answers, "Na. Au don't." she narrows her eyes again, "I am na so easily swayed as the other *undesirables* by the pretty words of a Nobel. Au want something from me because au 'saved' me. I will na tell au my name until I know how au wish that debt to be repaid."
"Um...just ninte name...." then inspired by Rylan's previous remark he adds hopefully, "And...a kiss? Ie!" he nods, "That will do!"
The girl glares indignantly at the boy a moment, then her face softens slightly. "All right then... my name's T`Rehu...." he leans closer to the boy on the other side of the window. As D`Tarik leaned forward as well, the girl suddenly pulled back without kissing him, and slams the window shutters closed.
DT flings his arms into the air and proclaims a little too loudly, "Score!"
Ry breaths a sigh of relief and heads back to the ship. Passing the ghost of Vyynd's shielding emissions along the way, he whispers "Au can come out of hiding now..." and keeps walking.
Now sitting in plain sight on the hill, Vyynd answers, "Hann`yyu Ry...." he stands and follows the boys back.
D`Tarik turns and paces toward Rylan. "Yea! I'm the only surviving person to hit on the Queen!" DT grins happily.
Raising a brow slightly, Ry nods, "Ie...the only io to hit on that particular Queen...and live to tell the tale." he looks to the smaller boy. "She wasn't exactly the picture of womanly affections according to the history books..."
"I don't care!" DT proclaims, and walks ahead of the other boys.
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