[Previously...in Medlab...]
As DT jogged himself through the corridors to medlab, Ry kept pace slightly behind him with a brisk walk for his longer legs. "So..." Ry asks conversationally, "What was wrong with her anyway?"
"She's in an 'odd' coma...only certain parts of her mind have shut down..." D`Tarik explains through a few huffs and puffs, "...na all of it. The rest of her injuries have been taken care of, by me...."
Rhagarokk sits by Aemhig, monitoring the lifesigns a moment before standing up and pacing around a bit. DT jogs into the medlab, now out of breath, as Rylan furrows a brow and asks off-hand, "What's with all the coma's lately...." he trails off and quickly steps out of tr`Rogel's way.
"Rogel how is she doing?" D`Tarik asks, ignoring Ry's comment and stepping up to the woman's biobed.
tr`Rogel looks from the Leih to the Daise`Medical man, "Um....na real change in her status, rekkhai." Then looks over at Rylan, as the Arrain leans against the wall near the doors, watching the goings on of medlab personnel, and listening in on their conversation.
"Okay..hann`yyo Rogel...." D`Tarik nods as he checks over Aehmig's vitals to confirm what the Farien had said. "Okay...everything seems to be alright...with what we have now, a lot of the supplies were lost in the crash, I have na idea what to do..." he mumbles almost to himself, as he turns around again, "Oh! Jolan`tru, Rylan...au followed me!" DT says surprised, "I don't know what to do...." he explains of Aehmig's condition.
Rhagarokk stands up from the corner he had been observing in, "For the moment, there's na a lot that can be done. I've heard about this sort of thing. I had first hand experience with this in my younger years...."
Ry looks over to the Leih as he hadn't noticed him there before but lets the Medical man talk about what he needed to instead of saying anything. D`Tarik had looked over at about the same time, and nods towards the Leih, "Sorry I was na here, rekkhai...." he looks back to Rylan, "I was forced to go find out the name of that girl by Rylan." Not seeing any kind of reaction to this statement on Rylan's behalf, D`Tarik continues, "She seems okay now, but I'm unsure of what to do with the resources we have. I've actually na seen anything like this before..."
Rhagarokk shakes his head, "Of course au haven't, unless au have high level Tal`Shiar clearance that I'm na aware of. She's been brought up as a living weapon, and if that farmer was any indication, she finally met her match.... of course, she had to leave when we needed her..." he paused a moment, then looked back to the boys, "So, who was the farm girl?"
"Um...T`Rehu, rekkhai." Rylan nods, "Guess DT did what he was supposed to..."
"Ie, I saved her...see! I knew what I was doing." he directed at Rylan, then turned back to the Leih again, "Can au tell me anything more, rekkhai...about her condition. I will do all I can."
"The Ruling Queen?" Rhagarokk repeats, "Au saved the life of the Ruling Queen?" he paused a moment, then added, "We're na quite out of the woods yet...anyway, I do na know what we can do for Aemhig right now, except let her battle it out in her own head...."
D`Tarik suddenly looks very upset by those last words, as they implied that 'he couldn't help', "Na, I can do something...I'm sure of it..."
Ry, who had been figuring 'one problem solved' frowns, and not hearing DT, he interjects, "Well...at least we didn't destroy the timeline as we know it...now all we have to do is find a way home..."
Addressing the medical man first, Rhagarokk nods, "I'm sure au can, but for now, let her rest." he glances over at Rylan as he begins to head out, "Ie, we do. Have au checked in at engineering lately? They had some interesting news for me."
Shaking his head, Ry follows the Leih, "Na, rekkhai...they didn't have anything to report last time I was there. What have they found?"
DT stands over Aehmig's biobed a moment longer, trying to figure out what to do as he rubs his chin, "Hmmm....Well, I guess there is na much I can do here." he looks up at the assistant, "Rogel, Emni comes on duty in a few moments. Let her know I'm in the bar and I need to speak with her.
"Ie rekkhai..." tr`Rogel nods, entering info into an isd.
"Hann`yyo...if anything changes let me know right away. I'll be back in about an hour or so...." he bows and follows the other two officers, looking to be deep in thought.
Meanwhile, Rhagarokk had continued his explanation, "The Artificial Quantum Singularity core of the Wildstrike was ejected, na sure when, but from the rough scans, apparently before we made our trip back in time." he pauses, "Even when we get the Wildstrike a little more repaired, it'll be real tough to get something back... to the future."
With a slight defeated-sounding sigh, Rylan mutters tiredly, "Just great....what a *perfect* day.."
Heading out the door, and entering the corridor, Rhagarokk agrees, "Tell me about it. NOW what do we do..." the Leih looks back, "I could use a drink...how about au two?"
Ry grins and nods hopefully, then frowns as he realized DT followed them. He matches pace with the Leih and hopes that DT hadn't heard after all....then immediately hopes that Katara is busy elsewhere too....
[The bar....]
As Rhagarokk heads into the bar he announces, "Katara, three of ninte finest....oh, and something for Rylan, too." Rhagarokk takes a seat, and squints at the other man sitting in the bar as the Farien gets up from the bar, and goes back over to the table where he left his book to sit down once more.
Ry looks totally crestfallen by that last, and his pace to the bar slowed considerably, as he muttered, "Ah, Elements!" Katara looks up at the Leih and nods finding the bottles requested. Then pours a citrus juice for Ry. He looks at the glass as he sits down in his customary corner-spot, then back up to Katara's smiling face, "This whole joke, is quickly losing it's novelty..." he says quietly, not picking up the glass.
Rhagarok whispers to Katara, "What's his name? He's been on the ship for awhile, but I can na remember his name...na a social crewmember..." he finishes his question by taking a big drink.
DT finally caught up with the others, and enters the bar, still looking to be deep in thought; Sprinkles hopping right along behind him.
Katara shrugs at Ry and doesn't answer, but turns to the Leih instead, "He's Tacrun tr`Hunrok... says he's the engineer..." she paused, then added with a slight tilt of her brow, "and a historian."
"A historian? Interesting..." Rhagarokk takes his drink and walks over to the other's table, "Tacrun! How's it going? How's ninte father?"
Sprink jumps up on a bar stool at the far end of the counter and waves his claw and tentacle around as he demands in his squeaky little voice, "Give me a soda!" Katara smiles at the Tribble and looks over at DT to see if a soda would be okay as D`Tarik takes a seat in between Ry and Sprink. Nodding his permission at Katara, DT looks over at the Leih, and announces his arrival, "Jolan`tru rekkhai..." as if he hadn't just seen him in Medlab a few minutes before. Katara goes about pouring a soda for Sprinkles.
tr`Hunrok jumps a bit at Rhagarokk's introduction, "Huh, wha? Oh, oh! Uuh....Donalh tr`Rhagarokk, right?"
Rhagarokk nods, then speaks sarcastically, "Ie, I'm the Leih of the ship. We've met a few times." he glances over at D`Tarik, "Jolan`tru, DT."
Seeing Katara set a citrus juice down in front of him, DT answers the Leih, "Jolan`tru rekkhai..." totally forgetting that he had already said this, as he's shocked that Katara knew what to give him to drink.
Watching Katara set the glass of soda in front of Sprink, Ry grumbles angrily to himself, "Oh, sure! The fvadt Tribble gets what he wants..." he moves his own glass nearer to DT. As DT sips his drink and Sprinkles chugs down his soda, Ry tries to concientrait more on the conversation that the Leih was holding with the engineering officer.
"So, au are a historian, right?" Rhagarokk asks of tr`Hunrok. "Au must be excited to be trapped in the past."
Tactun blushes a bit, "Oh, right, the Leih...sorry." he looks over then looks back, "Oh, I love it rekkhai, it's a great chance to see history in the making."
Rhagarokk grins and takes a big drink, "Good, good....so can au tell me anything about this time period?"
D`Tarik sets his glass down, then looks over to the man the Leih is talking to, "I hate to be rude... but who is this?" DT asks confused, "I don't believe we`ve met....?"
Neither officer heard DT's question as Tucrun gets a slight glimmer in his eyes, "Oh I can rekkhai!" he answers the Leih, "In this current time period, this is the start of the very nasty clan wars. After both of the great leaders were either dead or went off to soliterity, the clans erupted into strife and bloody war!" he sounded almost enthused, "It was quite a massacre, rekkhai, as the Khelliana completely tore the Gilgamma apart!"
Grinning almost slyly as she had heard Ry's earlier quiet comment, Katara pours another soda, this time setting it in front of Rylan. Having been ignored, DT turns back around taking out his ISD and going through various medical files trying to figure something out, and sighs. Rylan looks at the glass set before him a moment, then sighs himself a little forlornly, wondering if Katara had heard one word of their talk together earlier, then pushes the glass down the counter towards the waiting tentacle of the Tribble. Sprink hops and squeaks a joyful, "YAY!" and chugs the soda Ry had sent his way, then slams the empty down. "I want to play chess! Who...." the tribble pauses to think it over, "....want to play?"
Vyynd suddenly bursts into the bar rather abruptly, snapping Ry out of his own thoughts that seemed to plague him more and more lately. Looking over to the Tal`Shiar officer, Ry asks in all seriousness 'What's on fire now?"
Jolan`tru....all...." Vyynd bows, then takes a seat next to Ry at the bar. "Na-thing is on fire...'cept my stomach..." he answers, reaching over and grabbing two bottles.
Ry watches this, then raises a curious brow as he looks to see if Katara would stop tr`Khaine. Vyynd joins Ry in waiting for the barmaid to react at all, the two resembling kids who had just tried to steal a candy bar and weren't quite sure if they'd been caught. Having seen this out of the corner of her eye, Katara suspected what was up, but didn't say anything at all. She simply enters the two bottles on Vyynd's new tab in her ISD, but otherwise keeps silent. Vyynd snatches an empty soda bottle from the bar as she's entering the information, then lowers his hands below the edge of the counter a second. Waiting for no one but Rylan to be really paying attention once more, tr`Khaine places the 'soda' in front of Ry. Rylan smiles gratefully at Vyynd, and mutters quietly, "Hann`yyo!" as he takes the bottle and drinks from it. Vyynd chugs a good amount of the bottle he just poured from, disposing any remaining evidence.
DT meanwhile, has been totally emersed in his isd reading. Suddenly, without warning, he jumps up, "AH HA!!" and runs out of the room.
Sprink sits there on his bar-stool, looking as confused as a Tribble can when this sort of thing happens, then looks around at the others in the bar to see how they would react to this.
Ignoring the goings on of the bar, Rhagarokk takes in all the information that the Farien had been giving, and grins at the ferver, "Sounds very interesting... So, why did the Giglamma lose so badly?"
"Oh, hmm....let me think," Tacrun pauses to remember, "Oh, I remember now. The Gilgamma claimed to have some sort of super weapon, and from what I gather, that's why they were destroyed so quickly! Though, the notes I have don't say how they were massacred so easily."
"Super weapon, huh?" Rhagarokk muses, "I'd like to hear more about that..." he suddenly pauses, "Do au hear that?"
Tacrun listens, "Hear what, rekkhai?" As the bar patron's grow quiet at Rhagarokk's question, a low chanting from outside the ship is heard by all within the bar.
Ry lowers the 'soda' bottle and asks quietly, "What's going on?"
While beside him, Vyynd quickly drinks the other bottle down, "Na wastin' any of these fvai-a...."
Rhagarokk stands and walks to the hull breach that is the opening to the outside world, and looks out. "By the Elements...."
More then slightly intrigued, Ry cautiously walks over to stand slightly behind the Leih, "So, what's up...?"
Tacrun rushes to the breach, "What's going on, rekkhai?"
Sprinkles, growing frightened at the unexpected sound, and the manner of the Rihans around him, squeaks then runs behind the bar, and clings to Katara's leg. Katara pets the Tribble reassuringly, and watches the men over by the viewport. While Vyynd spins on his bar stool absently.
As everyone mobs around the entrance, they see all manner of ancient Romulans mobbing outside the ship, chanting "Star Sword! Star Sword!" As the crew peers out, a cheer goes up.
DT chose that moment to come running back into the bar, "Hey, I forgot!..." the sounds of the cheers reach his ears and give him a moment's pause, "Oh, na....that can't be good...."
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