Village

Posted on Thu Feb 22nd, 2024 @ 11:31pm by Captain Mira Rodale

Mission: Visit to Eden
Location: Eden ship
Timeline: Present

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{Eden, Trill Village}

Verad turned his face up to the sun. "There are days I forget the sky isn't real. Yet, If you are out too long in it, you will burn." He handed her a hooded cloak. "You should meet the others. Sadly, we have no men your age, and the others are all old like I am." He frowned for a moment." You will be alone in less than five years. Perhaps sooner. We didn't know they would take more." Verad now felt bad they hadn't continued on with the circle of life.

Mira smiled as she took his arm. "We will get out of this. Let's go to meet your friends then go to the pools in the cave. That's where the symbionts are?"

He nodded. "So the keepers didn't get all the symbionts on Trill?" He asked her curiously

"No, there are some still on Trill." Mira told him as they walked.

"So, tell me about this man of yours. Was he good to you?" Verad asked her in past tense, believing she wouldn’t see him again.
Mira smiled. "We had hoped for more time together. But yes, he does treat me well. " She nodded. “If there is a way, he will find me. As would my brother. The Captain will not leave us here for long, even if he has to go back to the federation for more ships."

Verad patted her hand. "Faith is a good thing, Mira, but there may come a time when it will hurt more than letting things go."

Mira frowned in confusion. "What do you mean."

"Once we are all gone. You may not want to remind yourself of a universe out there that you can't be a part of. We all took a symbiont so they could experience life outside of the pools, and we wouldn't feel so lonely." Verad told her.

"But I don't want a symbiont taking over my life, and I don't want to experience other people's joys and sadness. My life is my own." Mira told him in earnest.

He nodded. "What about a very young symbiont who has not had a chance to experience anything. Who is willing and happy to die when you do. All it wants is to share your days with you."

Mira bit her lip. "That's.... not too bad....But I have much sadness in my life. I don't want it to deal with that."

Verad nodded his head. "In a few more days, all your heartaches and memories will be gone. You will only have what you wrote down. Even that will seem like someone else's dream. If you take one now, it will be able to retain all the memories you have now. Think about it, child, it's up to you if you want to remember your man and brother or just that they were once there because you wrote it down."

Mira stopped walking and looked up at his old face. it all sounded too reasonable. She bit her lip but kept walking with him. She did what she normally did when she didn't want to talk about something anymore. She changed the subject. "Why don't we have shoes?" she asked curiously.

He laughed, "I always thought it was to keep us from going too far."

Mira giggled. Wait a minute, she never giggled! She pressed her fingers to her lips in surprise. Her guardian C'Tierr had hated when she had done that, so she made herself stop. She made herself stop doing a lot of things he hated, but she loved. Well, losing those memories wouldn't be a bad thing, she thought.

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