[240103.28 D`Tarik's and Emni's Tent...]
Trying to clean the blood off of the dirt and grass inside his tent was not as easy as D`Tarik had been led to believe -- even with the sawdust that Emni had suggested they use. Growing angry over this, DT finally gives it up, mumbling angrily. "I can't believe tr`Rogel is dead...." he paces a moment, "Emni, I'm going for a walk, and I need to go find someone... we're short a medical officer and still have a lot to do with the sick and wounded from the crash..." he announces, walking out of the tent before she could stop him. A few seconds later, DT peeks back into the tent again, "Au will be okay for a few moments, right? I just need to go for a walk....this has been too much lately." he sighs as his head disappears from the tent's entrance again, and walks away.
[Elsewhere...]
Rylan sits at the low table inside his own tent, Katara beside him and murmuring to the lost little llurih that Rylan had brought back. Ry looks up as he sees something streak past the door of the tent, and with a quick, "I'll be right back..." he gets up to peek out. A short distance away is Sprinkles, wheeling around the camp. Ry heads closer to the Tribble and without warning suddenly scoops him up, intending on delivering the little wandering guy to D`Tarik's tent.
On his way Rylan spies Tacrun coming out of his own tent with a spare uniform on. The engineer glances around the quiet camp a moment before stepping out. Holding Sprink under one arm as if the Tribble where a football, Ry gives the engineer a suspicious look and frowns at not being able to recall exactly where he's seen the officer before. Figuring to solve this problem, Ry calls out, "Hey! Who're au, again?" Tacrun doesn't seem to notice that he's the one being addressed. He takes a few steps forward as if to start on a walk. Raising a brow at the still silent officer, Ry stops nearby and tries again to get his attention, "Au!" he points a finger at the startled engineer, "Who *are* au??"
"Me? Uhhh...." Tacrun gulps, "I'm Tacrun tr`Hunrok..."
DT, a short distance away, overhears Rylan's demand, and heads in the direction he had heard Ry's voice. "Rylan? Who are au yelling at now?"
Not hearing DT at all, Ry nods "Okay then." and starts to walk away, still with Sprink tucked under an arm. tr`Tuhmek suddenly remembers something and heads back again, once more stopping a short distance away from Tacrun. "Au`rh the historian, right?"
"Ie, rekkhai...." Tacrun answers confused.
"Rylan!? Are au scaring this poor guy?" DT demands, pointing a finger at Tacrun.
"Oh, Jolan`tru DT." Ry turns his head slightly, then dismisses the other officer again as he focuses back on tr`Hunrok, "Good, good! Any thoughts on the best way to attack the Gillimama..." he pauses slightly, "...or however au pronounce that name...?" DT's words finally catch up to him and he looks back to the smaller boy with a raised brow, "Na...I'm na." he answers the medical - man, "Oh! And here!" he passes off Sprink, then looks back to Tacrun awaiting an answer.
"Sprink!" D`Tarik happily hugs the green furry guy, then gently sets him on the ground. "Sprink, do me a favor and go take care of Emni for me, while I go for a walk." he smiles warmly at the Tribble.
Sprinkles squeaks happily and wheels off to DT's tent.
"Na..." Tacrun answers Ry's previous question, "Sorry rekkhai. I'm just the historian and engineer...na a tactician."
Ry blinks blankly a moment at this statement. "Ie? That's too bad then...since the Gilimaya - or whatever - are an ancient people, I thought au would have an idea. Oh, well...." he shrugs and turns to DT, "Where au walking to? There's a perimeter, au know."
"I'm just walking around, Rylan." DT answers, "Io of my medical officers was found dead in MY tent...it has me a bit shaken up... and I was looking for Katara. Have au seen her?" Tacrun stands silently as the other two talk, wondering if he'd be dismissed soon.
"Ie, I've seen her..." Rylan nods, "She's in my tent, feeding the llurih probably." Having delivered the Tribble already, Rylan heads off towards his own tent, "Why are au looking for her?"
"Well..." DT walks next to the taller boy, "A medical officer of mine is dead. I'm going to need a replacement; and I know she had said she was interested in becoming a medical officer...." He pauses in his explanation to look back at Tacrun, "Au coming?"
Tacrun had been scratching his head as he watched the pair walk off. Shrugging, he mumbled to himself, "Every-io is acting so paranoid...." he had turned to head off, but DT's words came back to him and he stops and quickly turns back around, jogging over to them, "Sure!"
"Ie," Rylan nodded and smiled at DT's earlier suggestion, "She'd like that, DT. Hann`yyo."
he paused a moment, then added with a slight shrug, "'Course, au would have to teach her some of it. She knows first aid," he said helpfully, "But that's about it so far."
"Ie." DT agreed, "Io of the reasons I wanted to talk to her." he turns to look at the engineer as he joined them, "Tacrun, I have na had too much of a chance to get to talk to au. Au have na come in for ninte physical yet. Au need to do that."
"Ie, I know." Tacrun grins nervously, "Sorry about that, I've have been too caught up in my books, and in the repairs..."
"Well, it needs to be done." DT nods, "My job is just as important and ninte books....but I know things have been...odd...lately."
"Odd is an understatement, Rekkhai..." Tacrun agrees.
Suddenly getting an idea, Rylan asks the historian, hopefully "Hey! Do au have a book on that Gilimaga clan? Can I borrow it? Maybe I can get an idea from it."
"Oh, definitely rekkhai." Tacrun nods, "It's back at my tent, I'll give it to au when we go back that way."
"Great!" Ry grins, "I'll pick it up later then. Kinda need that info soon, au know...." he trails off to peek inside his tent a moment, to make sure that Katara was decent. Holding the flap open, he motions the other two inside, then follows in after them.
"Katara....?" DT asks gently, getting the girl's attention.
Katara looks up from watching the kitten drink from a bowl as the officers enter. "Ie?" she looks uncertainly from DT to Tacrun as Ry takes a seat near her, "Aefvadh...."
"Katara! Just the young lady I needed to talk too!" DT smiles, "I was wondering if au would want to start those classes we had been discussing. I have...lost a medical officer, and I'm in bad need of a replacement...and I see great potential from au." he pauses slightly, then suddenly turns to the as-yet silent engineer, "Oh! Tacrun, by the way...now is as good a time as any... may na get another chance to get ninte physical done....or is the ship still off limits?"
Katara sits stunned a moment, unsure of what to say to the Daise Medical officer. "Um..well..." she looks to Rylan for help, but he only pets the kitten and seemingly ignores the others, leaving the decision up to her. Looking back to D`Tarik, she admits quietly, "I don't know that much about medicine, really rekkhai...but okay." she shrugs slightly.
"Well, that would be the idea of the lessons," D`Tarik smiles, "So au could learn."
"Ie....hann`yyo, rekkhai." she returns his smile with one of her own, nodding her head eagerly, "When would I start?"
"Well, more then likely once we get back to our own time...until then, I will more then likely have little free time, but before that, au could read up on the needed info. In fact, let me transfer a list of books for au to look into." he offers, "I can transfer it to ninte ISD."
Hearing that she had made up her mind on her own, Rylan finally looked up to the others in the room, and waves Tacrun to another chair, "Don't be shy, have a seat. There's um...." he glances to Katara a moment and adds levelly, with a forced smile, "citrus juice...in the cabinet over there if au want to help ninte-self."
"Na hann`yyo," Tacrun smiles at Ry, "I'm fine really, rekkhai. Hann`yyo anyway."
Ry nods, "Don't blame au. I rather it was Rhennish myself." he faintly grins. Katara raises a brow slightly at Rylan's remark, but ignores it and heads to the cabinet to get her ISD. Turning around, she hands it out to D`Tarik.
Tacrun grins a bit back, then offers, "Oh, rekkhai... do au want me to go fetch that book for au? I can get it and be right back if au want."
"Ie, hann`yyo." Ry nods agreeably, "I'd appreciate that."
As the other two spoke for a moment, DT finishes transferring info to the ISD and hands it back to the barmaid. "Okay Katara...hope au don't mind me bothering au like this. Now..." he announces to the rest of them, "I'm going for a walk, good day to au all." he bows and walks out.
"Okay then," Tacrun answers Rylan, "Then I'll be right back." he turns to follow DT as the other two within the tent call out a jolan`tru to their retreating backs.
Tacrun heads off towards his tent, DT following. Once they were at a safe enough distance away, where Rylan couldn't overhear them, DT offers, "Tacrun...would au care to join me for a drink? I could badly use io with all the goings on lately. I would of asked Rylan and au, but.... Rylan is trying to quit drinking."
Tacrun pauses his footsteps a moment, "Well rekkhai, I'd be glad to, but if au could wait a moment, I need to get a book for Rylan."
"Okay." D`Tarik agrees, "I have a bottle on me with some good stuff in it. Meet me at the edge of the camp. And don't mention us going to drink to Rylan." he warns.
"Ie rekkhai." Tacrun says, heading back to his tent once again.
"And Tacrun, au don't have to call me that. D`Tarik will do fine." he smiles kindly, thinking to himself *I will never get used to any-io calling me 'Rekkhai'* he shakes his head and wanders off to where Tacrun would meet up with him.
Tacrun smiles back, "Ie, rekk....I mean, D`Tarik." A few moments later, Tacrun enters his tent and riffles through some book before finding the correct one. Leaving his tent, he jogs back towards Rylan's own and knocks on the tent post. "I have the book au wanted." he announces himself.
Ry opens the tent and looks at the book a moment. Holding his hand out for it, he nods, "Ie, hann`yyo."
Tacrun hands it over with, "Aefvadh, rekkhai." then turns around and heads off towards the edge of the camp. Ry heads back in, to read up on the clan they were about to go to war with.
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