[On the Station]
After Katara healed Rylan's injury, and the pair had spent some time on the
ship, they decided to go explore the station together after all while Rylan
still had a little free time left. The pair walk along the prominade,
talking quietly together, when a strange little Rihan man heads their way.
The little Rihan male in civillian attire is so absorbed in gabbering on to
himself about how many games of 'tick-kicking' he can win, that he doesn't
notice where he's headed; and ends up running into Katara, knocking the poor
girl down.
"Hey!!" Rylan pushes the guy back angrily. Reaching down to help Katara
regain her feet, he gives the strange little man the evil eye, and looking
about ready to clobber him one he warns "Watch where au'rh going next time!"
Katara sighs, pulling on Rylan's arm to distract him, "Na another fight,
for Element's sake! Two in io day is a bit much..."
"NA!" the strange little man exclaimed, regaining his feet after he'd been
pushed. "I'm really sorry..." his human-toned complexion turned white at
hearing Katara mention a fight, and he glances worridly from one rihan to
the other, then suddenly shields his face with his hands, "DON'T HURT ME!!"
Rylan rolls his eyes at this and tries to explain with a patience he didn't
feel, "I'm na going to hurt au. Just watch what au'rh doing."
"DON`T HURT M....oh okay!" he smiles, then adds still yelling, "JOLAN`TRU!"
He holds out his hand to Rylan with a stupid looking grin on his face,
waiting for the erie`Arrain to shake it.
With a raised brow Rylan stares at the offered hand a moment, not
understanding what the stranger wanted. Wondering if the guy had hit his
head or something, he answers, "Jolan`tru... uh...are au alright?" and
tosses a confused look Katara's way.
"Maybe he's deaf...?" the barmaid wispers with a shrug.
"I'm fine!" the man smiles to her, having heard her perfectly clear. Still
holding out his hand, paitiently waiting for Rylan to shake it in greeting,
he adds, "I'm Phil Cummings."
Rylan's eyebrow quirks again at the strange alien-sounding name, "Fy`ill
Ko`Mahges?" he glances again at the barmaid, "Uh...What's that mean,
exactly?" he asks bewildered.
"It's my name...SILLY!" the stranger chuckles at that. Figuring that Rylan
wasn't going to shake his hand after all, Phil drops it and fixes his shirt.
He rocks back and forth on his heels, and smiles goofily at the pair again.
"So....how's it going?"
Trying to figure out what the guy's problem is, Rylan answers guardedly,
"Things are fine...hann`yyo." he nods slightly to the stranger, then takes
ahold of Katara's arm, steering the girl away from the odd-one.
"Jolan`tru..." he offers in passing as the couple continue on their way.
Phil pauses only a moment, then runs after them, "Wait!! Can I sing for
au?"
The pair practically jump at that unexpected outburst and exchange a glance.
"Sing to us?" Rylan questions, shaking his head, "Uh...na
necessary...hann`yyo..."
"Or want to buy something?" Phil smacks his forehead, "That's what I ment!
I sell stuff!" he adds proudly.
Not able to help herself, amused that the odd little man seemed to be
following them, Katara asks with a smile, "Sell what?"
"Stuff!" he repeats with the same, proud air.
Rylan leans a little closer to Katara and whipsers quietly, "The guy
probably wants to sell us drugs. Don't encourage him..."
"I have a shop!" Phil grins, ignoring Rylan's warning to the girl, "Come
see, please!"
Ry shakes his head at that, "Na, hann`yyo." then tries to steer the girl
away once more.
Katara pulls back, "Na, wait a minute..." she gives the stranger a kindly
look, "Where's ninte shop?"
Looking hopeful at this, Phil questions, "Au will come?!"
"Ie." the girl smiles again, "Where is it?"
"Over there!" the stranger points to a distance behind the pair. they turn
around to see what looks like a child's lemonaid stand, perched in between
two stores. The name of the shop was scrawled on the top of it, in a
childish attempt at the Rihannsu word: STORE.
Rylan rubs a hand over his eyes, and looks to the ceiling, silently counting
to ten. "Au have got to be kidding..." he shakes his head at the little
man, "Na, hann`yyo." he says firmly, hoping that would be the end of the
arguement.
Phil frowns, disappointed at this, "Wait! Au lied! Au said au would!"
Not wanting to hurt the stranger's feelings, Katara heads over to the
"store" anyway. "Oh, come on Rylan! We can at least look." Fixing the odd
little man with an annoyed look, Rylan follows the girl silently.
"Yay!" Phil runs over to the stand and jumps behind it. Bending over to see
through the store "window" he smiles proudly up to the pair, "Can I help
au?" he asks very professionally.
Stiffling an amused giggle, Katara glances up at Rylan then asks,
"Um...well...What do au sell?"
Rylan glances impaitiently at his chrono, then leans in to whisper in her
ear, "Hope he sells time...cause he's waisting ours!" Rylan watches as the
little human-looking Rihannsu put a box on the counter of his storefront and
opened it. Peeking into the box, curious despite himself, Rylan quirks a
brow up at the various scattered combadges from other cultures, along with a
lot of Rihannsu t'liss-style badges as well. Casting a glance to see if
there's any security officers around them, Rylan points to a t`liss badge,
"Au know... that's against the law." he says quietly, "Only the military
can issue those to us."
"I find them in stations all over!" Phil exclaims proudly, "I uesd to be in
some...was in a Federation io once...but they kicked me out." he shrugged a
little forelornly, "So, now I'm here!" His face clouded a moment as
Rylan's words finally sank through. Closing the box, he holds it
protectively to his chest, like a small child about to have something taken
away from him, he protests "They're mine!!"
Rylan holds his hands up, trying to calm the man down before security could
come see what all the fuss is about, "I'm na going to take them away from
au. I'm just letting au know au shouldn't throw them out at just any io.
Okay?" Taking ahold of Katara's arm again, he tries to walk away.
Phil reaches back in the box, and holds out one of the badges, "Can I sell
au a Ferengi badge? It's neat looking!" he smiles from one to the other
Rihan hopefully
Ry shakes his head again, having been shown the back of the badge, he sees
that it's been stripped of all the electronic componates inside. "Na,
hann`yyo..." a sly smile emerges as he leads Katara away, "It doesn't work
anyway..."
"So? It's neat!" Phil calls out to the pair as they turn away.
Rylan only shrugs at that, "Na that I'd need a Ferengi combadge! What use
would I have for it?"
"But it looks neat!" Persistant Phil repeats, following the pair down the
prominade. "I have more stuff! Wait!!"
Sighing in frustraition, Rylan tosses a glare to Katara for encouraging the
'store-keeper' in the first place. In an obviously annoyed tone he turns to
the little man, "What now?!"
The human-looking Rihannsu leans in closer to Rylan and whispers in a
conspirator's tone, "I sell all kinds of stuff that I find!
Uniforms...empty bottles...all kinds of neat stuff!" Phil nods wisely, then
grins and adds, "Pants!!"
Rylan took a step back, almost choking on Phil's pronounciation of 'pants',
as it had sounded oddly similar to the way the holographic Pink Rharit had
said it. "Umm...we don't need empty bottles..." he pauses, thinking *A full
io might be good right about now though...*. Shaking his head he continued,
"Or....pants...hann`yyo." And again, leading the barmaid away from the
stranger, they continued on.
"But wait!!" is once more heard behind them, this time adding, "Take me
with au!!"
The couple exchange a look at that. Katara quickly covering a giggle as
Rylan shakes his head again, "Na!! We're on a *date* here, man!!" Ry
shrugs, trying not to laugh at the guy as the pair keep walking, "Three's a
crowd and all...."
"Naaaa!!" Phil tries once more, "Come with me!"
Feeling sorry for the odd little man, Katara can't help but ask, "Go where?"
and immediately bites down on her lip as Rylan turns to give her a look that
clearly read, 'Have au lost ninte mind?'
"Katara!" Rylan whispers a warning, "Don't encourage him!"
"Umm...to that place!" .
"What place?" the girl asks, giggling to see Rylan smack his forehead.
"That place! Ninte ship!" Phil blurts out, "Yeah! That's it! It'll be
neat!"
"Oh, na!" Rylan shakes his head again, halting his footsteps to glare at the
stranger, "NaNaNa!! See, au'rh na crew...so that's na allowed..." he steers
Katara away again, this time more firmly then before.
"Wait!!" he runs after them again, "Can I come?"
Rylan finally lost his patience at that. Turning around angerly, he yells
at the smaller male, "NA!! We're on a *date*!! The whole point to a date
is that au are *alone*!!"
"Na ninte na!" Phil smiles again, thinking Rylan was joking around, "Can't
have a date with three people, silly!" he shrugs.
"Exactly my point!" Rylan nods with a smile, then suddenly looks like he's
about ready to kill the other male, "So go away!!"
"But I'm here!" Phil protests, "So it's three now!" he pauses a moment and
adds hopefully, holding up his prize, "I have a box!!"
Rylan looks apologetically to Katara, "I swear, I'm gonna pop this guy io
in a moment!!"
Phil only waves the box closer towards Rylan, making the boy ball his fist
up out of sheer frustraition, "It's a box, I tell au!!"
Stepping closer to Rylan, and laying a calming hand on his chest, Katara
smiles at the odd little man, "And it's a nice box too." she throws a wink
to Rylan before the boy could fly off the handle at that, "Tell au
what...why don't au go find us all some sodas? I'm a little thirsty. We'll
wait right here until au come back with the drinks, okay?"
"Ie!" Rylan grins, "Good plan...."
"Oh! Here!" Phil imediately answers the girl, holding out a soda for her to
take. The couple stare at the offered drink, not understanding where the
odd little man got it from.
"How'd au do that?" Rylan asked before he could help himself.
"I always keep a soda around..." Phil smiles a bit, evading the question.
Rylan only grins at this "Can au do that with Rhennish?" he asks slyly,
casting a wink of his own to Katara. as the girl gave him an angry glare.
"Well...I could...but I don't drink." Phil answers with a shrug.
"Oh well." Rylan shrugs in return, "If au can't what say au run to that bar
over there and get me io?" Almost as soon as he had completed this
sentence, Phil produced the bottle and held it out to him. Rylan stares at
the bottle a moment, then shrugs again as he reaches out to take it.
*Well...he went to all that trouble....* he thinks.
Katara, however, snatches it away from Rylan and hands the bottle back to
the odd little man who's confused by this exchange. "He doesn't drink
either." she says firmly, then raises a brow in Rylan's direction, "Do au,
Rylan?" The boy doesn't answer this question, only shrugs again and begins
to steer Katara away.
Phil sees this and suddenly shouts "Look!!" he points at something behind
them. The pair turn to look, then look back to Phil in confusion.
Furrowing his brow, Rylan asks annoyed, "What? What was that all about?!
There's na-thing there!"
"Exacly!!" Phil holds up a finger, like he had made some kind of point.
"What?!?!" Totally confused Rylan rolls his eyes and brushes the odd little
man aside as the couple walk past him.
"WAIT!" Phil shouts, running after the pair, "I want to come with au!!"
Rylan suddenly turns around. Nearing rage by this point he yells back,
"WHY?! What the hell'd we do to AU?!?!"
Phil halts and look from one to the other of the pair with a sad puppy dog
face, "Because I get lonely...."
Katara, feeling sorry for the little man whispers quietly, "What harm can he
do, Rylan?"
Ry turns, staring at her as if he'd never seen her before, "We...au and
I!...*alone*....on a date! Remember?"
Stepping a little closer to him, she smiles up at the angry boy, "We can be
alone later. Just let him tag along and he'll get bored...."
Phil, having exceptional hearing, knows what the girl had quietly said and
suddenly attaches himself to Rylan's leg with a happy "YAY!!!"
Trying to pry the strange little man off, Rylan yells back, "Get the
imirrhlhhse OFF of me!!" he raises a fist, "Or I *swear*, au will meet the
Elements!!"
"NA!!" Phil shrinks back, curling himself into a little ball on the ground,
looking like a frightened child, "Don't hit me!!"
Katara angerly takes a hold of Rylan's fist, "Rylan!!" she sounds like an
angry mother, "That wasn't very nice!"
In desperation, Ry glances around and sees a passing security guard.
Stepping in front of the Officer, he points to Phil, "Excuse me,
rekkhai.... Do au know that man?" he couldn't prevent the smirk before it
appeared, "He seems to be lost...or something!"
"Phil!" the security guard's tone was calm, but inquisitive. "What're au
doing running about the Station? Au'rh supposed to be in ninte cell...."
Standing up, he casts a sheepish look to the security guard, "But...but...I
had a ... a pass!! That's it!!!" he grins suddenly, nodding his head,
"Ie!! A .. *three day* pass!!"
"Uh huh." the Dehno nodded, taking Phil by the arm, "Come along now
Phil...."
"Na!!" the odd little man protests, being dragged away all the same, "I
want to go with my friends!!"
The young couple stare at the scene for a moment, then shrug to each other
as they continue on their way. Already the oddness of the little man
forgotton, they enjoy the rest of what little time of leave Rylan had left.
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