It would take a few days, but would be wonderful!
It was only a short trip, true, but it was always nice to get away from the routine back at the castle. Though the new skills that had been opened to her upon coming to this wondrous place were incredible and eagerly learned, still the company of a "computer" (what Queen Astra and the other leaders hoped to soon be able to reproduce locally in a few years) was a poor second choice to her friends!
So the talked, laughed, and basically made a lark of this short trip.
While not all areas of Terra Prime were safe, the dangers of the past were by and large gone.
The orcs had, at the last, committed mass suicide instead of surrender when their proud leader was killed in one final, suicidal attempt to gain weapons from an increasingly ticked off Military outpost. By this time, even the most patient and compassionate person on the face of Terra Prime was saying that the orcs should die (for the atrocities they'd committed and continued to commit on outlying areas not heavily guarded) and the even the dimmest orcen mind (too late) grasped that. So they were now gone, except for the dim orcen prisoners that had originally captured Astra 9 and Joan, there were no more orcs. With no females, the remaining dull minded males would be the last. When they died of age, that would mark the last of the orcen menace.
Astra 9 and the others who'd ever fought or dealt with an orc in any direct manner couldn't find it within their hearts to feel sorry for the loss for some reason.
Now, except for the occasional brigand band, things were pretty quiet.
So, despite the fun times, Astra 9 pretty much summed it up.
"I sometimes wish Terra Prime wasn't so safe," she sighed.
Andrea 2's ears twitch, annoyed to find her heart agreeing with the red headed warrior lass. She'd think that after her last little "adventure" where she'd finally....at the end won her freedom....but in the process of being disowned by her father. Despite that, she still yearned for some more.
But once tasted, you always want more.... she sighed.
"Oh, after talking with Ti'mma awhile ago via radio I think we might get a little with an upcoming set of elven birthdays...."
"Oh?" Joan asked, "I remember it had been rather something of a....shock to her, when her memories of being Timmain, resurfaced. She'd cried for hours in fright and grief....remembering the betrayal of those troll creatures......"
For those not familiar with Elfquest (Timmain and other characters from Elfquest copyrighted to Warp Graphics) you can find a bio of this character at the website at www.elfquest.com.
But there's a decided difference here!
Yep. Basically, back in episode 10232 we get a hint of things to come: Kethiani notices the odd look her daughter gives the picture....as if she almost remembers something....only to see the look seem to melt away as the infant starts to giggle and smile at the two humans. "There seemed to be a sense of oldness and wisdom within our daughter....along with a mixture of newness and innocence," Feir-dalen says, patting his daughter's hand fondly. "Mayhaps she is one of the elves who were somehow spared." "Maybe," Probe smiled, "I think the fact that the Rule said that they had been born anew here has something to due with the two of you, Fred and Astra," Probe says slowly. "Something to do with the fact that they where near beings who's origins were from out of their own. A wild theory, I know, but I think that your presence created some type of paradox shield, let's call it, and brought this about." Okay, several important facts about her. First, despite her being adopted, the Rules and Agents gave Ti'mma a body that has genetic material from both Feir-dalen and Kethiani. Another important fact is that she is two years older than the rest of the displaced elves. This is because SHE was already out and about as an infant while the others were still fetuses within their new mother's wombs. Gestation period being, for an elf, two years (and the fact that due to a little bit of deus ex machina) all the other displaced elves were born on the same day. Being that the elven people were blessed with unheard of reproductive results (long story in and of itself), this otherwise odd happenstance was buried and hidden by the medical mages and such who take care of helping with birthing were being rather overwhelmed when the other products of coupling came about (i.e. the displaced elves weren't the only one's getting born here....there were relatively mundane babies as well). Upon Ti'mma's eighth birthday, her mostly suppressed memories (they sometimes were half glimpsed at odd times by this special child) came forth. Now, the displaced elf that Ti'mma had been was very old and wise....but despite the disparity of years of experience between old and new, there still is very much of the child in Ti'mma. At times she can be quiet, reflective, and wise....and at other times giggling and laughing like the young child she is now. She's a blend of old and new. Now, as for what her name had been it is a form of her new name (somewhat ironic). Timmain was what she'd been originally called. I've sent a bio sheet of the Elfquest character that this new elf is based upon. However, this Timmain that Ti'mma is based off of is the one that had just arrived in the OTHER Palace that Rayek had attempted to merge with (with disasterous......universe killing.....results). This Timmain had done none of the things mentioned in the bios I'm sending but she (and the others in the OTHER Palace) had been attempting to look for others from the world that they'd abandoned so long ago. In the original, undisrupted timeline, servants of theirs....trolls.....made a bid for freedom through treachery (instead of using more reasonable....peaceful means). Timmain and the other dwellers inside the OTHER Palace had changed their features from their original (conehead alien) bodies to that of elves when disaster struck. The Trolls disrupted control of the OTHER Palace at a critical time, and it got thrown back in time to crash land...and the dwellers of the OTHER palace (who'd reworked their bodies to mimic the elves of legend to approach the medival humans below...to ascertain if the legend and myths of their were in fact signs that others of their own kind had visited in the past)..... Well, to be blunt they stumbled into a causality loop where they became the basis of those human legend and myths. Their descendants were the elves that we find in Elfquest, the comic book. The Timmain that we are dealing with was turning to see what the trolls were doing....just as they were about to disturb the pilot of the Palace....when Rayek got prodded by interference via Randall Flagg and merged his (the older version) Palace with it's newer self. The resulting disruption caused extreme injuries and burns to the elfin woman, but she'd somehow survived (albeit in a broken....burn shell of a body). The Agents and Rules took her (before the pain could hit her) and transformed her into the young elfin girl infant that her parents now love and cherish. Ti'mma and those who knew of her special nature didn't broadcast it far and wide. They didn't wish the disruption in her life it would cause. Ti'mma, however, is waiting for the day that the other elves regain their memories to help ease them into their new world and lives. Last note, the "magic" used by the elves in Elfquest isn't the same as in Terra Prime. Elfquest "magic" is more of a psionic thing (as some would say). The difference is moot, since the Elfquest magic talent has been replaced by "real" magical potential. That and the thing about Soulnames (similar in nature to the Truenames of Manimals) is no longer in effect...due to the displaced elves now being of an entirely different species than before. Now, considering that that possible fact being public domain as it were......that's actually a good thing!
They quietly discuss all that, wondering just what would....er...pop up when memories come back. Most on their minds is how many and just who will come forth. Who survived that most odd and disastrous merging of two object in one place.....something that tore a universe apart.
"I almost want to meet Rayek, that one elf who was piloting that one Palace that caused so much death!" Joan finally said darkly, "Just so I can spit in his eye! Can you believe that bastard?!"
The others nod in silent agreement. Rayek had a rather large following....of the nature of what they'd like to do to him if (low as chances were for his survival).
The conversation then drifts to other things as they near their destination.
"I hear that Jarlath is going to be there along with Ti'mma," Andrea says with a teasing voice, looking over at Astra....who blushes.
"Come on, there's nothing there," she mutters, annoyed. Sure there was something, but really now! It was only friendship. A good friendship! She just couldn't see herself with Jarlath. Well, maybe......
Joan is about to join in on the teasing when they see the young eccentric mage in question with none other than Ti'mma! They'd gone out to greet them!
That's when they see somebody pop into existence....and stumble dazedly out from behind it into view of their greeters!
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