"What kind of sacrifice?"
Shanku and Hilael had long left the Scissortail border and were skirting the region between the Blade and Weolcen lands to keep from drawing attention to themselves. It wasn't wise to travel without an official escort during these times.
By following that line, they ended up stumbling right upon the ruins in the ancient grove.
"What luck!" Shanku chirped.
"Suspiciously good luck," Hilael muttered.
"Look at all this old stuff," Shanku said with starry eyes as she wandered around the ruins. "This is the old language! And to think, all those lessons Sigrid put me through would actually be useful."
"Can you read any of these old runes then?" Hilael asked as he stopped before a crumbling wall with faded carvings.
"Maybe," Shanku said softly as she walked up to it, ears standing almost straight up in curiousity. "Mmm... Something about atonement."
"Sacrifice," came the husky voice behind.
"Howdy!" Shanku said cheerfully as she and Hilael turned to meet the Keeper.
"I did not expect to see another of you so soon after the other day," the Keeper noted. "The others looked quite upset."
"We're not scouts," Shanku grinned. "Just curious explorers. What sacrifice is it?"
"The scouts chose battle," he quipped.
"What kind of battle?" Hilael asked.
"That remains to be seen," he replied.
"My granddam said there used to be competitions here," Shanku offered.
Notes & Commentary
September 8, 2016, Thursday
"What kind of sacrifice?"
Well, in my defense, it wasn't originally meant to be that hard to find. It only became pushed out of memory after the great war despite the protests of those who had enough sense to know that censoring history was a bad idea. Not that us on Earth have done a good job listening to George Santayana either.
Star Trek is often my background noise of choice when I'm not in the mood for music. This latest round is going through Deep Space Nine. Again. For the third or fourth time now. I wasn't in the mood to deal with Q, who delights in tormenting Picard and Janeway, and Sisko gave him such a well-deserved sock in the jaw. Deep Space Nine seemed quite the logical choice based on that. The only problem in avoiding Q is having to deal with Kai Winn. Evil, evil, in-serious-need-of-intervention Kai Winn... Thank goodness I'm up to the part where Worf joins the crew, that makes the crazy lady more bearable. I've got a soft spot for Klingons. I really must applaud John de Lancie and Louise Fletcher for how well they portrayed their thoroughly contemptible characters, and of course the writers who laid the ground work for Q and Kai Winn. There haven't been that many characters that have made me want to throttle them to such a degree. I sure couldn't write a character like that 'cause I'd probably end up stabbing the paper! 
I don't know if I can call myself a Trekkie since I have yet to go through the original series, Enterprise, or the animated series. And there is the Discovery prequel to the original series coming in 2017, so there's that one. Then there are the thirteen movies currently out... I'm not even about to try to find books and comics. I hear there are hundreds of them.
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Hilael - Innugati - The Keeper -
Creatures - Opinicus -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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