The Trauma....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 14111

....is at first not initially known. Not initially obvious to exactly what it really is. It's just a scene that takes place days later from the battle in the Frozen Mountains. Though....it's hard to take all the same.

It is where the well meaning healer known as Leetah, the lifemate of the leader of the Wolfriders, had been able to return life to One Eye's dead body....but not reunite body and soul.

As the heart wrenching scene of Clearbrook sobbing and asking aloud why the spirit of her departed love would not return to his body....and to her played out, the elves and humans quietly backed off out of sight before they were spotted.

They all look pale and shaken, One Eye and his son especially!

"God, back when it happened the first time she begged me to return it was hard enough," Solik'tril whispered hoarsely, "But....the thought of going back after all the agony and it.....was so peaceful and calm being a spirit....and with the other spirits as company within the Palace."

"But....I've just got to ask you father," the Scouter part of the silver haired boy asks, suddenly giving into the growing question within him, "I don't understand why you came back? I understand that it finally came down to following the Way....."

(Author's note: the Way is a philosophy of the Wolfriders to live a simple life and take no more than what they need from the forest....nature in general. Not to disrupt nature overly much as....say humans had a habit of doing. Returning from the dead like he had...(re: 13602) did kind of go against the Way).

It confused (and frankly, illogically, angered) Scouter, actually. Oh, he was delighted and happy beyond words to have his father back, but.....

Instead of trying to describe it with words, the son of Eric Jones shares it by Sending (in this realm.....sending to humans was easy....and less unpredictable than doing it in "the real world.")

And so.....Solik'tril Jones shows what he had seen from the realm of the spirits as Clearbrook entered into the chamber where his still living body was kept.....

She'd opened the magical cocoon that held One-Eye's body in stasis, and waited for the body to finally get the message and draw it's last breath, when she felt a great....sweeping sense of fear and bewilderment from the spirits around her....and her departed mate's spirit sweeping through her (sharing a frantic but heartfelt sense of love for her), and right into.....the body he'd abandoned so long ago.....

"It's coming," One-Eye whispered weakly, shaken what he'd sensed as a spirit.

As the storm of confusion, love, and concern for her newly returned (and frightened) lovemate raged within Clearbrook's heart, outside Rayek keeled over, dead as the first shockwaves of his older self hit him. Seconds later the world dissolved in fire....and light.

The images fades.

"I was overwhelmed by the Destruction we spirits saw coming," Solik'tril says softly, "I and the others knew that nothing could be done to stop it....that it was powerful and would at least destroy a large....er....chunk of real estate. As even a spirit we couldn't get well enough far away from the area of effect so.....I did one also act in saying goodbye. I didn't even get to say that much before......"

"And he didn't expect to end up here....never would have dreamed such as this," Ti'mma put in, seeing the reason..

The silver haired elfin boy nodded, and then smiled as his halves....were suddenly whole.

The trauma was resolved. Such was possible, the sudden resolution, for that was how elves were like....at least on Terra Prime.....well, most of the time....anyway.

Hathar'ruil smiles as the scene fades....and they find themselves again back in the clinic. And then pause in consternation as the Emperor, Probe, and Hathar'ruil's frantic parents are looking down at them all!

"Uh....hi?" Eric Jones says, a bit taken aback by all the high ranking people in the room.

  1. Understandably, there is a lot of explaining needed to be done, but Ti'mma is most insistent that they do it on their way BACK to help the elfin children (and Rayek) that she and the others had gone on a quest to aid in the first place!

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