>ON Tours of Yesterday: The Return to Ravana
The Ravanese Homeworld had been liberated by the Norian Defense Ministry, but it would be years before anyone could even consider recolonizing the world. Even from space the nucleated ash clouds hung over the once lavished cities of the world. Its swirling violet skies even more turbulent, plasmatic arching tendrils of lightning rolled through the cloud cover as the pilot brought the shuttle down. The protecitve blue sphere of the shuttle's shield barrier visible as debris brushed against it. The shuttle's niranium hull relfected the streams of lightning, as well as the raging fires that burned in Surrune below. In the aft section of the shuttle, Genovus sat with his head turned towards the viewport, his fingers tightened upon Alliyahs as he watched the hollowed remains of skyscrapers drift past the windows. This had been their home, their life's work and now it lay in ruins.
Alliyah had no idea what to expect as the shuttle was brought down, she realized it wasn't going to be a pretty sight as it once was. There home, the place where they had wished to raise there children. The safe little bubble that was theres, was no longer. Her eyes glassed as Genovus tightened his grip around her, she peered below at a clearing where she could only assume a building had crumbled. "Is this it?" She tilted her head and gazed at the mess before her, ash swirled over the once fruitful grounds, the air filled with smog, blazing fire's had taken what ever was left standing leaving just a wasteland before them. It was a horror to see. A tear rolled down her cheek as she leaned her head against his shoulder. "What have they done?" She sniffled a little. All that work, amounted to nothing in that moment.
Genovus sighed, watching as the Citadel came into view. The magnificent tower now lay on its side, breached and broken. A single tear slipped down from Genovus's left eye as they flew over their once beautiful home. "The Silori didn't give it up, the NDM had no choice but to bomb the cities to drive them off..." Genovus pulled himself up out of his seat, he leaned his head into the cockpit. "Sel'Vousta Trysia, can you open the rear hatch?" Genovus asked, knowing that the radiation levels were high. (Trysia) "I can sir, but only for a few minutes..." The pilot responded, the blonde haired and green eyed Norian adjusted the shuttle's course for another fly-by. (Genovus) "Thank you." He turned back and motioned Alliyah to join him, the reason they had come. A small niranium canister with the sigil of the Vesper family sat on the empty seat on the port side of the shuttle. He picked the canister up. A hiss of the airlock unsealing and the aft ramp-hatch of the shuttle began to open. The air that rushed in smelt of ash and smoke. Ravana had been burning.
She nodded to his words, deep down she new all along what had happened, she just didn't want to think about it. She watched as Genovus stood and asked the pilot to open the hatch as he held the canister, her lip buckled as she felt a sudden overwhelming feeling, everything they had been through... Ravana wasn't just Home, it was the beginning, there begining and now it was at it's end... The shuttled turned about as Citadel came into view, her heart sunk with sorrow at what it had become, the memories of there first morning together by the waterfall manifested in her mind, a memory that she would always keep locked safe in her heart along with Ravana and noone could take that away from her. She moved with his motioning to be by his side, clutching his arm as the hatch hissed open, her long locks swept back over her shoulders with the harsh smoggy breeze that nearly knocked her off her feet, her emerald orbs squinted out at the ashy scene, tears streaming down her cheeks.
(Trysia) Trysia monitored the radiation levels as the rear hatch opened, she manuver the shuttle to pass over the Citadel again. The shuttle's FAI engines leaving hot violet afterburns in the air. (Genovus) "All my life..I was a moderate. I dreamt of the Federation opening its arms to the other nations and races of the galaxy in unity." Genovus said quietly, pulling the handle on the canister upwards. "When I said I was going to help in Ferrai...She begged me not to go. I thought she was just trying to push her views onto me. I argued with her." Genovus's eyes filled with tears as he looked out over the broken city of Surrune. "All she wanted was her family together." Genovus uttered, remembering the argument they had. "Now I hate them, I hate them for what they caused to happen that took my little girl from me. May the Cli'cha...May the Xavier and those that triggered this loss suffer. I want their childern to die in their beds. May their homes and cities burn with their love and hope lost within their ashes. I will never forgive them for what they caused." He tossed the canister out the airlock. When it began its fall, its to blew the ashes of his daughter sprayed through the air falling to the city below. "I give you back to the home you loved." Genovus said painfully, his hand clutching at Alliyah's arm as he watched.
Alliyah felt hopeless as she listened to his words, so much hate, but wasn't that understandable? For he had lost far more than just home, he lost his daughter and it pained her, it angered her to no end that they sat happily loving the time with there young, yet he would never have that time with his child again, here they were saying goodbye to her. "O shor eilar shi ail os caes.." (You will alway's be in our hearts) She simply said after Genovus had spoken. They both watched as the canister fell and exploded with streams of swirling pale ash that seemed to linger in the air a moment before fading into the atmosphere. She dropped her head, nuzzling his arm. "They will get what they deserve..one day.. they will feel the pain they have inflicted upon us all." Her hand gently slide down and laced her fingers with his with a reassuring squeeze.
The alarm began to sound for the radiation and the hatch began to close. Genovus sighed, heading back to the seat where he had sat. He looked to Alliyah and said quietly, "Their feudal life, is a life of loss...punishment in itself is their primitive nature." Genovus then ordered the pilot. "Proceed to the next waypoint." (Trysia) "Aye sir, proceeding to second set of coordinates." The pilot changed the shuttle's course heading towards the wilds of Ravana's heartland. Far from the bombed cities the radiation levels were lower and safer there which would allow them to land. (Genovus) "I think you will like where we are going." Genovus said, a slight smile forming through the tears. The scenery quickly changed as the shuttle zipped away leaving the city far behind it. Towering evergreens lines the landscape, rolling hills and rocky ledges overlooked crystalline lakes. It was hard to believe it was the same planet even. Finally the shuttle began to land. A river tembled over a rocky ledge into a small lake below. It was place where he as a young Admiral stopped Alliyah from ending her life.
Alliyah felt his anger, his pain as much as he, for that day when they had first met it was although there soul had joined, never had she felt a bond so strong.. She nodded softly as she went back to her seat beside him, the hatch now closed she could finally breathe again. She couldn't help but feel the need to be close to him, even though he sat beside her she leaned against him. The scene slowly began to change the further away from the city they got. Her emerald eye's glowed bright as she recognized the area, her favorite place in the universe, untouched, the ozzing tranquility that vibed from nature itself, rich greenery surrounded the shuttle as it lowered to touch down. "It's still here?!" Her heart almost skipped a beat with joy... "You remembered?" She smiled faintly, reaching her hand up to her cheek to dry away the rolling tears. "It feels like only yesterday..." Her words trailed off into a content sigh. Although that day started as painful as the scenes she had just witnessed it ended with faith in her life, faith that things would get better.
Genovus said quietly, "Yesterday's yesterday...seems like a lifetime. Time and time again, we forget what it is that made us. I forgot that when I left for Ferrai..." His words dripped with regret. The airlock hissed open again and the fresh air of Ravana's Wild drifted into the shuttle. He stood up and walked quietly out into the ankle high grass that grew at the edges of the small lake. "I remember you that day.." he said quietly, "You were so caught up, so lost in your world of pain..." He looked out over the lake, "But you didn't really want to die, you wanted to be saved..." He looked back, icy blue eyes searching hers.
Her love for him had always remained, no matter how hard the trials set before them brought them down, she could never be without him or his love. She shook her head momentarily. "I know.. But you did your best and thats all anyone could of asked for. All you wanted to do was help and that is why I love you, your warm heart you open it in those in need even if it hurts you in the process.." She smiled softly "That and your devilish charm." She giggled a little as she got up from her seat, hatch door hissed open, she hopped down and moved towards the waters edge, not far behind him. "Hmm I think I felt that.. If my life was so important... Something would happen in that time to save me, I didn't wish to be saved, nor did I want to die.. I just wanted it to end?" She frowned a little.. "But you came.. My Knight in shining armor. And I will never take that back, not for anything in this world or the next." she spoke softly as he turned back, her glassy pools lost within his.
"Sometimes, even the knight in his shining armor needs to be saved." Genovus said quietly. "Unfortunately, come three days from now all that is here will be gone.." He said quietly, "The winds are going to shift, sending the radioactive ash plume over this place and it will never be here again." A rumble could be heard as the shuttle's engines began to activate again, and the shuttle would begin to take off. A few yards away, energy rippled from the ground as a site to site transport activated. A medium sized cargo container marked with the NDM logo on it materialized. "And I plan to enjoy..every moment of those three days." He looked at the container and back to her.
She sighed and took in every piece that she held dear. "I'm am here love, no matter how distant we were I was always here, we lost our way.. but I never left" Her smile turned into a slight pout, her lips curved sadly as he spoke about it vanishing within three days. Her eye's followed the shuttle as it seemed to start its engines and take off. "Wait?! We are staying here?" She exclaimed, showing slight confusion. "Is it safe?" She looked back towards him as the cargo container landed.. she couldn't help but chuckle at his last comment.. "Oh do you now?" The corner of her mouth quirked into a devious smirk as she narrowed her eyes at him. "In that?"
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The Ravanese Homeworld had been liberated by the Norian Defense Ministry, but it would be years before anyone could even consider recolonizing the world. Even from space the nucleated ash clouds hung over the once lavished cities of the world. Its swirling violet skies even more turbulent, plasmatic arching tendrils of lightning rolled through the cloud cover as the pilot brought the shuttle down. The protecitve blue sphere of the shuttle's shield barrier visible as debris brushed against it. The shuttle's niranium hull relfected the streams of lightning, as well as the raging fires that burned in Surrune below. In the aft section of the shuttle, Genovus sat with his head turned towards the viewport, his fingers tightened upon Alliyahs as he watched the hollowed remains of skyscrapers drift past the windows. This had been their home, their life's work and now it lay in ruins.
Alliyah had no idea what to expect as the shuttle was brought down, she realized it wasn't going to be a pretty sight as it once was. There home, the place where they had wished to raise there children. The safe little bubble that was theres, was no longer. Her eyes glassed as Genovus tightened his grip around her, she peered below at a clearing where she could only assume a building had crumbled. "Is this it?" She tilted her head and gazed at the mess before her, ash swirled over the once fruitful grounds, the air filled with smog, blazing fire's had taken what ever was left standing leaving just a wasteland before them. It was a horror to see. A tear rolled down her cheek as she leaned her head against his shoulder. "What have they done?" She sniffled a little. All that work, amounted to nothing in that moment.
Genovus sighed, watching as the Citadel came into view. The magnificent tower now lay on its side, breached and broken. A single tear slipped down from Genovus's left eye as they flew over their once beautiful home. "The Silori didn't give it up, the NDM had no choice but to bomb the cities to drive them off..." Genovus pulled himself up out of his seat, he leaned his head into the cockpit. "Sel'Vousta Trysia, can you open the rear hatch?" Genovus asked, knowing that the radiation levels were high. (Trysia) "I can sir, but only for a few minutes..." The pilot responded, the blonde haired and green eyed Norian adjusted the shuttle's course for another fly-by. (Genovus) "Thank you." He turned back and motioned Alliyah to join him, the reason they had come. A small niranium canister with the sigil of the Vesper family sat on the empty seat on the port side of the shuttle. He picked the canister up. A hiss of the airlock unsealing and the aft ramp-hatch of the shuttle began to open. The air that rushed in smelt of ash and smoke. Ravana had been burning.
She nodded to his words, deep down she new all along what had happened, she just didn't want to think about it. She watched as Genovus stood and asked the pilot to open the hatch as he held the canister, her lip buckled as she felt a sudden overwhelming feeling, everything they had been through... Ravana wasn't just Home, it was the beginning, there begining and now it was at it's end... The shuttled turned about as Citadel came into view, her heart sunk with sorrow at what it had become, the memories of there first morning together by the waterfall manifested in her mind, a memory that she would always keep locked safe in her heart along with Ravana and noone could take that away from her. She moved with his motioning to be by his side, clutching his arm as the hatch hissed open, her long locks swept back over her shoulders with the harsh smoggy breeze that nearly knocked her off her feet, her emerald orbs squinted out at the ashy scene, tears streaming down her cheeks.
(Trysia) Trysia monitored the radiation levels as the rear hatch opened, she manuver the shuttle to pass over the Citadel again. The shuttle's FAI engines leaving hot violet afterburns in the air. (Genovus) "All my life..I was a moderate. I dreamt of the Federation opening its arms to the other nations and races of the galaxy in unity." Genovus said quietly, pulling the handle on the canister upwards. "When I said I was going to help in Ferrai...She begged me not to go. I thought she was just trying to push her views onto me. I argued with her." Genovus's eyes filled with tears as he looked out over the broken city of Surrune. "All she wanted was her family together." Genovus uttered, remembering the argument they had. "Now I hate them, I hate them for what they caused to happen that took my little girl from me. May the Cli'cha...May the Xavier and those that triggered this loss suffer. I want their childern to die in their beds. May their homes and cities burn with their love and hope lost within their ashes. I will never forgive them for what they caused." He tossed the canister out the airlock. When it began its fall, its to blew the ashes of his daughter sprayed through the air falling to the city below. "I give you back to the home you loved." Genovus said painfully, his hand clutching at Alliyah's arm as he watched.
Alliyah felt hopeless as she listened to his words, so much hate, but wasn't that understandable? For he had lost far more than just home, he lost his daughter and it pained her, it angered her to no end that they sat happily loving the time with there young, yet he would never have that time with his child again, here they were saying goodbye to her. "O shor eilar shi ail os caes.." (You will alway's be in our hearts) She simply said after Genovus had spoken. They both watched as the canister fell and exploded with streams of swirling pale ash that seemed to linger in the air a moment before fading into the atmosphere. She dropped her head, nuzzling his arm. "They will get what they deserve..one day.. they will feel the pain they have inflicted upon us all." Her hand gently slide down and laced her fingers with his with a reassuring squeeze.
The alarm began to sound for the radiation and the hatch began to close. Genovus sighed, heading back to the seat where he had sat. He looked to Alliyah and said quietly, "Their feudal life, is a life of loss...punishment in itself is their primitive nature." Genovus then ordered the pilot. "Proceed to the next waypoint." (Trysia) "Aye sir, proceeding to second set of coordinates." The pilot changed the shuttle's course heading towards the wilds of Ravana's heartland. Far from the bombed cities the radiation levels were lower and safer there which would allow them to land. (Genovus) "I think you will like where we are going." Genovus said, a slight smile forming through the tears. The scenery quickly changed as the shuttle zipped away leaving the city far behind it. Towering evergreens lines the landscape, rolling hills and rocky ledges overlooked crystalline lakes. It was hard to believe it was the same planet even. Finally the shuttle began to land. A river tembled over a rocky ledge into a small lake below. It was place where he as a young Admiral stopped Alliyah from ending her life.
Alliyah felt his anger, his pain as much as he, for that day when they had first met it was although there soul had joined, never had she felt a bond so strong.. She nodded softly as she went back to her seat beside him, the hatch now closed she could finally breathe again. She couldn't help but feel the need to be close to him, even though he sat beside her she leaned against him. The scene slowly began to change the further away from the city they got. Her emerald eye's glowed bright as she recognized the area, her favorite place in the universe, untouched, the ozzing tranquility that vibed from nature itself, rich greenery surrounded the shuttle as it lowered to touch down. "It's still here?!" Her heart almost skipped a beat with joy... "You remembered?" She smiled faintly, reaching her hand up to her cheek to dry away the rolling tears. "It feels like only yesterday..." Her words trailed off into a content sigh. Although that day started as painful as the scenes she had just witnessed it ended with faith in her life, faith that things would get better.
Genovus said quietly, "Yesterday's yesterday...seems like a lifetime. Time and time again, we forget what it is that made us. I forgot that when I left for Ferrai..." His words dripped with regret. The airlock hissed open again and the fresh air of Ravana's Wild drifted into the shuttle. He stood up and walked quietly out into the ankle high grass that grew at the edges of the small lake. "I remember you that day.." he said quietly, "You were so caught up, so lost in your world of pain..." He looked out over the lake, "But you didn't really want to die, you wanted to be saved..." He looked back, icy blue eyes searching hers.
Her love for him had always remained, no matter how hard the trials set before them brought them down, she could never be without him or his love. She shook her head momentarily. "I know.. But you did your best and thats all anyone could of asked for. All you wanted to do was help and that is why I love you, your warm heart you open it in those in need even if it hurts you in the process.." She smiled softly "That and your devilish charm." She giggled a little as she got up from her seat, hatch door hissed open, she hopped down and moved towards the waters edge, not far behind him. "Hmm I think I felt that.. If my life was so important... Something would happen in that time to save me, I didn't wish to be saved, nor did I want to die.. I just wanted it to end?" She frowned a little.. "But you came.. My Knight in shining armor. And I will never take that back, not for anything in this world or the next." she spoke softly as he turned back, her glassy pools lost within his.
"Sometimes, even the knight in his shining armor needs to be saved." Genovus said quietly. "Unfortunately, come three days from now all that is here will be gone.." He said quietly, "The winds are going to shift, sending the radioactive ash plume over this place and it will never be here again." A rumble could be heard as the shuttle's engines began to activate again, and the shuttle would begin to take off. A few yards away, energy rippled from the ground as a site to site transport activated. A medium sized cargo container marked with the NDM logo on it materialized. "And I plan to enjoy..every moment of those three days." He looked at the container and back to her.
She sighed and took in every piece that she held dear. "I'm am here love, no matter how distant we were I was always here, we lost our way.. but I never left" Her smile turned into a slight pout, her lips curved sadly as he spoke about it vanishing within three days. Her eye's followed the shuttle as it seemed to start its engines and take off. "Wait?! We are staying here?" She exclaimed, showing slight confusion. "Is it safe?" She looked back towards him as the cargo container landed.. she couldn't help but chuckle at his last comment.. "Oh do you now?" The corner of her mouth quirked into a devious smirk as she narrowed her eyes at him. "In that?"
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