I had wondered how to tell this story and do it the justice it deserved and perhaps it might be best to focus on the small things than to dwell on the large ones. I have chosen the name Starchilde for myself in this continuum it which I currently reside and have come to accept as my new home. I had recently committed myself to the ways of my people who I realized from their point of view I had not even been missed. For to make a long story short I am from an alternate future continuum, one so vastly different in so many wondrous ways it would stagger the intellects of most who even understood it.
Nialla and I shall continue to call her that unless she decides to choose another name had it seemed travelled to another part of the galaxy and gone thru a traumatic event. It had been obvious to me as I had tuned up all of my senses to their highest levels that she was in emotional pain. I was unable to just stand there and watch her friend the Assassin while trying yet failing to offer her the comfort she needed. Comfort and love that I knew I had in abundance and was more than willing to give freely without any ulterior motives. So I had appeared before her and told her that I could give her time to recover, as much as she needed. I had told her it was up to her seconds, days, weeks it mattered not and that no time would have passed in the real world.
She had started to cry anew and I doubt she truly realized what I had meant but I knew she needed me so I acted. I focused my will and opened a temporal cocoon that I have found some call a time web around us. I then moved to her and held her and let her cry as I extended the temporal cocoon around us so that I could fulfill my promise to here. Afterward I reduced our size so that we could enter the retreat within my utility belt as I channeled the reality around us to match a calming wilderness setting. Once we were settled I held her and comforted her as I offered myself and the domain I had crafted to her.
For six months whatever she wished for I provided as I helped her to rebuild herself and come to realize who she wanted to be. I learned much about the world of her origin known as Hyboria and of events on Emerald. I found out about her so called Queen her other self who had fashioned her from her own life-force and then commanded lesser self to complete a mission to stop to Cthulhu and avenge her lost world of Hyboria. With my help Nialla learned that regardless of her form I respected and loved her as a sentient life-form. During that time we became more than just friends but also lovers and while I know some might frown on the concept all I can say is that one must open their minds.
I will not go into the intimate details of my relationship with Nialla and I shall leave any details of our relationship for her to reveal if she ever wishes. I mean after all while I will admit I may kiss many or perhaps even a little more than that I like to keep certain aspects of my life private. What I will reveal is that during our time together I was not only learning of her and her past but also teaching her about the technology of the time and of the people with whom she shared it. I took the time to explain the various systems and factions so that she hopefully like I had done be able to come to accept this continuum as her new home. Nialla had survived numerous cataclysmic events and of her former companions only the mysterious M had managed to remain at her side thru her trials and tribulations and for that I was grateful. Thankfully in time came she came to accept her place in the continuum and find peace for which I was overjoyed.
We would emerge from within the reality I had crafted for us back inside the Puma Vessel to find M still reacting to me as if I was about to try and hurt her friend. I would soon learn that Nialla valued and love M even with all of its complexities and aggressive traits. I would not fault her for while it was easy for me to love others I knew for some it was quite hard and I could see that while even M was often sadistic, argumentative, vengeful and proud I could tell he loved Nialla. So even though I knew M and I might have issues in the future I trusted Nialla to keep an eye on him otherwise I supposed I would have to. Either way I figured I would have to find a to liberate the minds of my new companions of Star Phoenix and since Purple Puma and George would turn out to not be huge fans of temporal cocoons I might just have to learn to do the old fashioned way. Perhaps a change of clothes might be in order and I had just the outfit a little green khaki affair still seductive but it covered far more of shall I say my more obvious attributes which would cause those around me to take me a little more seriously.
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