Sensors and Sense (Part 3)

Edward Solomon (cont)

OH, before I forget, let me finish up with that explanation.

Walter is only one person who Steven needs something done about. The other is his wife....

Kind of got distracted, talking about myself there. Kind of is close to the heart, the reason why I am doing what I'm doing....

I mean, after all, with it all falling into place.....

....

Okay, back to the task at hand and stop talking about the gut feeling that the "real" Voyager was the one who's crew got eaten! Would not be surprised if Flagg somehow bent things for that to happen....taking them out of the equation while us others mess about....

Well, shall have to disappoint him....

Right.

Anyway, Steven's wife is the other one that he's having problems with. At a guess (and only a guess....man's not someone I feel like prying on by asking) from what I've read, the man does not know what to do about it. Not really. From that request of the mirror I feel he wants to use it's properties to try to set things right with her. Maybe he hopes that it'll show his true feelings and that'll get her to be true again. Have to wonder if it'll do that, though. See, it is very powerful. Powerful enough to show what I gather was a very devout follower (who we now call "Junior") the true feelings and thoughts of the "goddess" he followed. Thing is, it has no control beyond a simple....er....mechanism, spell wise. It's not sentient and without any feelings. Remorselessly it showed "Junior" the truth, without any cushioning. The experienced was so devastating that it drove Junior (then a grand wyrm) into making desperate wishes with a magical item. Now Junior is as cute and innocent as can be, eager to please (currently the Draconian's main source of power)...but I think you can see the possible result. Too loose of directives could well lead to shattering the woman (or the man if he looks at the wrong time).

Now, while Steven in the end might have gotten to the point where he'd let Ka decide his wife fate (read where Steven might have knowingly let the circumstances where Roland accidently shot and killed her) I think that with recent events he's going to not be so.....fatalistic about it.

I tell him why the mirror can be dangerous and why I'm asking him to be very careful in using it. He looks less than pleased but still determined.

Holding my tongue and not pushing any more (rulers like kings don't like to be pushed), I am about to call it a day on this when Hannah speaks.

"'Tis dangerous....that unguided Mirror," she says simply, "But a unicorn's magic can steer it, preventing a dangerous turn."

"Indeed," Steven manages, looking at her oddly.

Hannah

And the love she think she no longer has for you we shall find again, I say softly towards the distraught human, confidence throughout the message.

Unicorns have a knack, you see, at things like this...

"Uh," he says, blinking.

I then blink, realizing that I've overstep myself.

"You think so?" he manages before composing himself, drawing odd glances from some in the room.

Jarlath and the others look a bit alarmed, apparently having overheard some of what I sent, but Steven waves off any apologies from myself and the others.

"Any aid is helpful," he finally says, "Just as long as the topic of conversation remains here"

I may be a unicorn lass, but I know what the man means.

No one besides those present will know about the problems with the marriage. No confirming rumors.

Else the results for us won't....be nice.

'Tis justice really if that happened. Would not due to injure one's host so greatly after giving lodging and aid.... Besides, I am a being who at least has one purpose and that is to heal wounds....not cause them.

Edward Solomon

"Had a feeling she was here beyond just circumstance," Jarlath says softly to himself.

Remembering his history, I know that his "feelings" have more weight than what I would usually take stock in, otherwise.

"Ka," Roland the Younger says, nodding as he looks at the unicorn.

That sums it up rather nicely, I think.

That said, there is one last bit of business before we finally get around to getting down to the area that Susan (who Roland would just love to meet) is at....

Might try to contact some Old Ones to see if they have some working vehicles. Long shot but it would sure beat trying to fly by carpet or ride by horse!

Anyway, Steven has ORDERED (in no uncertain terms) for his aid to come hither. We know, however, the one who'll come will be Walter. He comes, strutting and arrogant, still in the guise of Martin Broadcloak....and stops dead cold when he sees....actually sees.....me.

Might look a bit different (fox tail, ears and youngish looking), but enough is there.....

Boy, that look on his face is sweet.

"Long time, eh?" I smile, tail swishing, "For me, anyway."

Got an odd feeling he's just gotten back from the fun on the Voyager, despite the ten years for me having gone by....else why the surprised look?

Time travel can be like that.

1. I wonder where the Door he used is around here?