[240103.09 Ancient ch`Rihan]
Katara was busily dishing out food to those that were hungry. She seemed one of the few people on the ship that actually knew how to cook, and not just order something from a replicator. The natives had been more then willing to share their food source - along with supplying them more, if the Farmer's blue seed would indeed grow successfully - so at least the power they were saving on the replicators could be redistributed to other areas...like Rhagarokk's lab, for instance... and D`Tarik's medbay where a comatose patient still lay. Rylan paused in thought a moment, as Katara handed another plate to an officer before wiping her hands on an apron and heading closer to himself. Too bad he hadn't thought to ask tr`Khaine earlier about his plans for guarding those still in the ship. But knowing Vyynd, he probably posted guards at the Leih's lab, and the medbay.. and probably at every exit/entryway as well.
His thoughts were interrupted by the beeping of his isd as a communiqu� came into it. Wondering what that was all about, he spent the next few minutes listening to the announcement of the Leih... at first having an odd sense of deja`vu, remembering another such unexpected communiqu� years ago... but at least this didn't seem to be a suicide message, and the Leih had even praised his abilities to boot! Slipping the isd back into a pocket, he thought over when he should handle the Farien to Erien problem... then figured he'd tend to that the following morning.
Throwing further thoughts of duty matters off, Ry smiled once more as Katara neared him, bearing plates of food no less. Her smile faltered a bit when she drew near enough to notice his still bandaged hand. "Rylan...?" she questioned with a slight tilt of a brow.
Not knowing what that look was for, as he didn't remember the injury himself by this point, he shrugged and asked, "What?"
"Ninte hand." she nodded to it, then paused a moment before adding, "What happened?"
"Oh!" he looked at the injury in question, then answered with a sheepish grin, "Just wasn't paying attention." he offered to take the plates from her, but she moved them out of his way.
"Well, for element's sake..." she headed towards his tent with the plates in hand, "Why didn't au have that looked at?"
"I did!" he explained, following her, "Emni bandaged it for me....."
She stepped into his tent, then turned to face him as he followed, "Why did she just bandage it? Why na just repair the damage?" she asked confused as she set the plates she carried down on a low table he had pulled from Katara's own quarters that day, then she frowned and added, "Did au say something to her?"
"Ie...I asked her to 'fix please'." he nodded, then looked at his hand, "She was showing the Villagers first aid techniques at the time....I guess she used me for a case-study." he smirked, sitting down beside her.
"Well, let me take a look then..." she moved to take his hand.
"Na...the bleeding's stopped by now anyway...and she cleaned it and all." Ry shrugged and pulled away from her.
"Rylan, just let me see it..."
"What is this? Let's all mother Rylan day?!" he asked a little too angrily. "I said it's fine!"
"Well, it's na fine by me!" Katara retorted right back, "At least let me look!" she grabbed his hand none-too-gently and undid the bandages as she spoke, not paying attention to the angry look on his face at all. "She might've wanted au to go back later so she could heal it without the eyes of the natives looking on!"
Sighing, Rylan waited until she had undone the bandages and examined his hand gently. As she gathered up the bandages she had just unwrapped and headed for her own medkit, Ry's brow rose slightly, "So, now au`rh going to use me for practice too?" he smirked.
"Na exactly..." she smiled back at him, as she disposed of the used bandages and brought back her own medkit. "The wounds are healing nicely...and since au seem to think I'm...mothering... au, then I won't do anything else then give au clean bandages."
Confused by that, he shrugged, "Well...why na just heal the fvadt thing and be done with it then?"
"Oh, na!" she threw him a smirk of her own, "Au can't just complain about me trying to help au io minute, then demand my help the next." she nodded to herself as she re-wrapped his hand again, "Au were perfectly happy with ninte hand the way it was...live with it then!" she pushed the now bandaged hand away from her and turned to her plate.
Ry only nodded in response to that, then began to eat the food before him. When she had started to do the same as well he watched her a moment. Smiling when she looked back at him again with those blue eyes of hers, he thought to himself, *I can think of something else I'd rather live with....*
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