Chocolate and Black Raspberry, with Butterscotch
Author: Nelly
Universe: Exkaryon
Characters: N'aur, Ferrus, Argentia
Challenge: Chocolate #2 (rivalry/jealousy), Black Raspberry #13 (The straw that broke the camel's back)
Toppings: Butterscotch (takes place faaaaaaar before Book 1, in a possible prequel series I am planning)
Word Count: 409
Rating: PG
Summary: Relations grow strained between N'aur and the others on his ship.
N'aur hated the way Argentia looked at Ferrus. Given, she wasn't exactly giving him amorous looks, or looking wistfully after him. But she did not look upon him with hate. And N'aur found himself...jealous. He wasn't normally jealous. He knew his own powers, and he knew what he could do with them. It also did not help matters to be jealous when the three of them and Heliuna were stuck on the same nearly dead ship together, hurtling through space.
Argentia seemed to hate him, however. He didn't quite understand why. Their worldviews were different, he supposed. Earlier in the very long journey, they had been close. All four of them had been close, really. But it had been...how many years now? At least three years since they had been traveling. They had been able to survive with the help of the food replicator and an anti-matter powered ship. But they had no destination. So they had been traveling for years now, not sure where to land. They had only passed completely uninhabitable planets so far. All of them needed different environments, too, and that caused disagreements about where to land.
They were the last of each of their species. N'aur was a Seraph, Ferrus was a Terran, Argentia was an Umbran, and Heliuna was a Klariluxan. And they had gotten along at first, but their cultural differences were proving too much. Argentia's standoffishness was proving to be the straw that broke the camel's back. She accused him of being purist, and of scorning the rest of them, when in effect, she was scorning him now. She treated Ferrus and Heliuna like legitimate people, but she refused to talk to N'aur now, and did not eat in the same room with him.
...he had loved her once. So had Ferrus. But Argentia disagreed with his views on population control, and on how exactly he could have saved his species. He had had an idea to save them all, but at a terrible cost. They hadn't let him do it, and the species were wiped out. He blamed them, and would always blame them. And they were ignorant pigs, really. Nice people. But completely wrapped up in their ridiculous little cultural habits, unable to think of a more drastic and effective solution. He could have saved Exkaryon, and they would have hated him for it. But they would have rather let the all four planets of the Exkaryon system die.
(Gah, this did not turn out very well, but oh well. I tried.)
Universe: Exkaryon
Characters: N'aur, Ferrus, Argentia
Challenge: Chocolate #2 (rivalry/jealousy), Black Raspberry #13 (The straw that broke the camel's back)
Toppings: Butterscotch (takes place faaaaaaar before Book 1, in a possible prequel series I am planning)
Word Count: 409
Rating: PG
Summary: Relations grow strained between N'aur and the others on his ship.
N'aur hated the way Argentia looked at Ferrus. Given, she wasn't exactly giving him amorous looks, or looking wistfully after him. But she did not look upon him with hate. And N'aur found himself...jealous. He wasn't normally jealous. He knew his own powers, and he knew what he could do with them. It also did not help matters to be jealous when the three of them and Heliuna were stuck on the same nearly dead ship together, hurtling through space.
Argentia seemed to hate him, however. He didn't quite understand why. Their worldviews were different, he supposed. Earlier in the very long journey, they had been close. All four of them had been close, really. But it had been...how many years now? At least three years since they had been traveling. They had been able to survive with the help of the food replicator and an anti-matter powered ship. But they had no destination. So they had been traveling for years now, not sure where to land. They had only passed completely uninhabitable planets so far. All of them needed different environments, too, and that caused disagreements about where to land.
They were the last of each of their species. N'aur was a Seraph, Ferrus was a Terran, Argentia was an Umbran, and Heliuna was a Klariluxan. And they had gotten along at first, but their cultural differences were proving too much. Argentia's standoffishness was proving to be the straw that broke the camel's back. She accused him of being purist, and of scorning the rest of them, when in effect, she was scorning him now. She treated Ferrus and Heliuna like legitimate people, but she refused to talk to N'aur now, and did not eat in the same room with him.
...he had loved her once. So had Ferrus. But Argentia disagreed with his views on population control, and on how exactly he could have saved his species. He had had an idea to save them all, but at a terrible cost. They hadn't let him do it, and the species were wiped out. He blamed them, and would always blame them. And they were ignorant pigs, really. Nice people. But completely wrapped up in their ridiculous little cultural habits, unable to think of a more drastic and effective solution. He could have saved Exkaryon, and they would have hated him for it. But they would have rather let the all four planets of the Exkaryon system die.
(Gah, this did not turn out very well, but oh well. I tried.)