Comments | taxonomites: [07] Ritualistic | Location: Osten Forest

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[07] Ritualistic | Location: Osten Forest | Accidental Holo

Dec 07, 2010 23:34

The first rays of dawn, however false, lighten the horizon. A perhaps unlikely figure approaches a stream in Osten Forest, stepping lightly over fallen logs. He looks a little like a blue centaur, except he has two extra eyes mounted on stalks atop his head, three slits instead of a nose, no mouth, long pointed ears, delicate arms with too many ( Read more... )

{ b'elanna torres, { stefan salvatore, { jenny, { aximili-esgarrouth-isthill, @ osten

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[ visual ] timedaughter December 8 2010, 05:18:22 UTC

"Aximili?! What are you doing?!" Jenny is not usually one to interrupt what looks like an important ritual. Except when it involves suicide.

[holo] tailblade December 8 2010, 05:32:03 UTC

Aximili twists one stalk eye toward his tablet. His thought-speech comes out irritated. This is the moment in the ritual when he is supposed to contemplate the vows he has made, and how well he has fulfilled them. Furthermore, the ritual is supposed to be private, and he certainly didn't turn the tablet on. «I am performing the morning ritual,» he sniffs.

[ visual ] timedaughter December 8 2010, 05:42:32 UTC

"You're--" Jenny takes a moment to digest this.

"You do this ritual every morning?"

[holo][locked] tailblade December 8 2010, 05:55:38 UTC

«Yes. Ever since I enlisted as a warrior cadet.» He sweeps his tail back behind him without nicking so much as a single tuft of fur. The moment of meditation is broken - but perhaps by explaining it to Jenny, it will give him new perspective on the ritual, thus fulfilling its purpose. Besides, he likes her. She reminds him of Kara, and Kara is gone. He doesn't trust anyone in Taxon, but this secret, while private, is not dangerous ( ... )

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[holo] tailblade December 9 2010, 15:46:29 UTC

Ax's concentration has already been broken by the tablet's interruption. He's eased out of his military stance, tail blade well away from his throat. The face on the tablet is a human male, the same age as his friends on Earth (or so he seems to Ax). One who has never seen an extraterrestrial, evidently, but does not feel threatened or scared by him. Interesting. Ax's tail blade makes most humans nervous.

Dude. He is familiar with the term of address. «Yes, I am a "dude." I take it from your affect that you are unaccustomed to non-Earth species.»

[Visual] PRETEND I'M NOT ON HIATUS. patternal December 10 2010, 08:18:46 UTC

That soldier’s instinct of his had a way of grabbing hold of him at some of the least convenient times, and this place certainly put him on-edge enough for it to take over. First light crept across the sky and dragged him back into wakefulness with it, instincts screaming that he needed to be on his feet as of ten minutes ago.

So, of course, he responded. Handily enough, he had something to occupy his time with.

“Why am I not surprised that you get up to this.”

[Visual] aklingonside December 14 2010, 15:49:59 UTC

"Aximili!"

B'Elanna hadn't intended to interrupt him. She'd spent a large part of her childhood among the klingons and they valued honour - rituals and sacrifice and the way of the warrior - above everything else. But when he brought the blade round to his throat, she couldn't help herself.

Life in Taxon was difficult for all of them, but they'd find another, better way out soon. They had to.

"What are you doing?"