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The gentle sunlight crept into the window of the cabin near the cliff. The sweet sent of night blooming tropical floors was just dying away and the jungle was covered in morning dew, risa was coming gently alive. Captain Shoniqua Bezi awoke with the first sun and the song of the large tropical Risian wild birds. She quickly showered and got dressed in practical clothing. She was brisk and driven. Last night's odd encounter had given her a mystery to solve. After she was dressed she took the horga'hn the chubby red haired man had tossed her as a distraction and took scan and pictures of it. She filed them together with all the recordings and a brief report together and then sent them off to a friend with starfleet's department of Xeno Anthropology and then a copy to her own science department marked low priority. While collecting the pictures and scans she found traces of dust in the cavity of the horga'hn shaped container. she collected samples and took scans of it. It appeared to be ash with traces of organic molecules. There seemed to be fragments of DNA but her tricorder couldn't piece them together. She sent these scans along with the rest of the information. She packed a bag with her padd and tricorder along with the strange Horga'hn.
She grabbed a strong Raktajino and made her way to a shop that had a resident sculptor. She was the first one there and after exchanging pleasantries. she brought out the strange horga'hn and asked the sculptor: " What can you tell me about this?"
She handed it over and the sculptor looked it over. Even the shop's clerk, a young Risian girl who couldn't be much more than 19 came over to look at it.
" Well first off the workmanship is very good, the stylization is more intricate than that of the horga'hn we make for tourists and the technique seems to be that of about 200 or so years back. The Forms are defiantly Risian of expert form, the material seems to be non Risian in origin, i don't think this type of deep red clay can be found anywhere on Risa. But these patterns on of these glazes, these aren't Risian at all but they are beautifully done. Some of these inlays are actually melted glass instead of glaze. This was defiantly made by a Risian or someone taught well by one, and it has definite influences from another culture, it was made off world for sure."
The Sculptor looked up at her. " Where did you get this if i may ask?"
Shoniqua hesitated then told the truth " It was given to me by a man i met last night."
This elicited a smile " I take it he was after jamaharon?" The sculptor asked referring to the Risian sexual rite of pleasure.
Unabashed by this she responded " I don't think that was on his mind, i got the idea he wasn't familiar with the concept or much of what it meant. If you look closely it has a lid and opens into a container. As far as i am aware that is not usual."
This revelation seemed to perplex the sculptor, though if it was the opening of the piece or the suggestion that someone was unfamiliar with jamaharon she couldn't tell which.
" well maybe if you run into him again you can explain the concept to him. Otherwise he might cause some confusion. I can't tell you anymore about it sadly."
"Don't worry i will." She responded and packed it up and went on her way toward a communication center to make some calls.
She had no luck at the Comm center, her parents were out somewhere so she downloaded a selection of anthropology texts to her Padd and went to read them on the beach. She hiked a little to a secluded Lagoon where she could research and delve into this mystery. She wasn't alone by any means but there were only a few people in the lagoon. Most people swam on the main beach were the sun and surf. This lagoon was tree shaded and cooler. some cooler weather species such as 3 Andorians were swimming in the shaded waters. She sat and brought out her padd and sat and then started doing a computer image search for the shapes and designs on the on the odd horga'hn. Some partial matches were found. The Closest was art Deco from earth but there were enough differences that it was most likely not made on earth. She kept looks through what the partially complete search results.
*Beep* Her padd just chimed and notified her of a 95% match. It was a picture and small report of an mysterious object found on a small child that was presumed dead in a shuttle explosion on a new colony but the child was found alive half a mile from the blast zone. His parents who were with him in the shuttle were alive but unconscious next to him. They had treated wounds and were layed on a pile of leaves. The child was wrapped in a blanket and was gripping a necklace made of black clay disks with intricate designs in colored glaze on it. The Designs were almost identical to what she found on the the horga'hn shaped container. The Child was too young to say exactly what happened but he did talk about a " Teddy bear man." The rescuers dismissed this but she though back to the animal like foot prints and the shape she saw in the darkness before the chubby red-haird man came from the shadows last night. The thought that she was searching for singing space teddy bears on a vacation planet didn't dissuade her cause kirk was running into weirder things a century or so earlier.
A Loud splash made her look up casually. There was a large spray of water as someone entered the water and the other swimmers clapped and whistled. Someone must have jumped from one of the trees into the deep part of the lagoon. She was about to go back to her reading when a voice behind her spoke
" you should focus on more pleasurable matters while on Risa." came a confident sensual voice. She stood up and quickly about faced and turned to face the man behind her. It was the blonde Adonis from last night, the one that had seemed mad when she sat elsewhere. She focused her mind. Why she hadn't she sensed him coming? There was just a mental buzzing, like bees or... or static. Somehow he was generating empathic interference.
" Um, I will just had to do..." but he had closed the distance and was reaching up to stroke her cheek but she scooted back a step. The Blonde man's face darkened. She didn't need empathic talents to tell he didn't like to be rejected. He was about to start forward angrily when a voice from behind her toned " I suggest you respect her disinterest."
One of the Andorian swimmers, a lean young woman a zhen or shen stepped forward and looked ready to come to her aid. She is firm and confident and looks like she will fight if she had to. The blonde man didn't look dissuaded, he looked more angry.
" Are you wearing an empathic inhibitor? Cause those things are really annoying." A familiar male voice came from the lagoon. Out of the water comes the chubby red haired man. The huge splash must have been him. He doesn't appear hostile or like he is about to fight. He only looks mildly annoyed.
" Why do you have a hypo spray in your other hand?" the chubby man says. From his angle he, behind and looking up he has a veiw of the blonde man that the 2 women in front of him don't have. The fat man in the water raises his hand makes a flick and the hypo is yanked from the blonde man's hand and it thumps into the fine white sand.
The Blonde man looks startled then determined he turns and runs back down the path then beams away.
" What was that about?" the Andorian woman asks?
" Wish i knew?' Shoniqua chimes in. She reached down and picked up the hypo. It was not of a make she was familiar with. Shoniqua scanned the vial. It was full of Anesthizine.
The Andorian looked over shoniqua's shoulder at the tricorder. " That guy was up no good it seems." The andorian turns to her swimming companions who were now heading over. " Hey Sohl call security. " The swimming companion gave an affirmative. While everyone was waiting for Risian resort security to arrive Shoniqua decided to ask some questions.
" So you are telekinetic too?" She asks the chubby man stepping out of the lagoon, hands on hips with a wry but also steely determined look. One she had used to shake the confidence of many people across the negotiation table.
" Seems so" he answer non nonchalantly.
" I guess it is fortunate that you are, whoever that was could have sprayed a cloud and knocked out anyone close by. Must be why he was so brazen despite there being 5 people here" The Andorian woman puts in.
Soon 2 Risian hover bike officers arrived to take statements. The whole thing took 45 minutes, everyone gave a breif statement with questions and their name. Shoniqua and the Andorian woman gave their statements to a Risian female officer while the mysterious redhaired man and the 2 other andorains spoke to a male officer. Shoniqua tried to listen in on what the chubby swimmer had to say, trying to catch a name or his species. She couldn't hear anything though. The officers wrapped up and left. Not taking any chances Shoniqua whiped out her micro holoformer and scanner combo and snapped a few shots of the red haired guy.
" What's your name? You didn't say at dinner last night."
" Name is Johnathan Doe"
" oh please you are going to have to do better than John Doe"
"Ok it is I'hava Fakename" he shot back flippantly.
The Andorians looked on at this exchagne puzzled and amused. Must have thought there was some one night stand drama occurring. The Chubby man collected his towel and strolled barefoot into the jungle, away from the main resort building.
" What species are you dammit?!"
" I am a Common Nonofyourbusiness" He called back while walking away.
She started scanning his receding back with her tricorder but the reading came back as utter jibberish scanning as having 14 hearts one moment and none the next, while saying he was... she looked again. The scanner showed that he was make entirely of Glucose.
" May i ask what that was about?" The andorian woman who came to back her up asked.
She told the truth. " I think he is a species new to this area of space, as any memeber of starfleet does my curiostiy is peeked but he isn't forthcoming." She paused. " He also through this to me last night" She pulled out the horga'hn.
"Ohhh my." one of the Andorians laughed.
" Yeah yeah laugg it up, it wasn't like that, he tosed to me and vanished while i was distracted, i get the feeling he doesn't know what it meant."
The Andorian who came to her aid however looked at it intently. " May i see that?" She held her hands out. The intent look and aire of shocked familiarity coming off the woman made shoniqua hand it over. After staring intently at it. The andorian pointed to one design, an oval with pointed ends and a green circle in the middle " This is the unblinking eye of the Cosmos. I have seen this. "
Startled by this Shoniqua blurts out " Where!"
" When i was little back on Andoria, i got lost one night as the ice gave way and fell into a a dark passage. I wandered around trying to find my way back to the surface, after a few hours i got exhausted and had to sit down. i was calling for help and after a while someone answered me. Don't know what they were doing down there or what species they were, but they found me and gave me their clothes to stay warm and sat with me for a while. He. I think it was male, lit a flare on a spike and stuck it into the ice. It acted like a campfire and kept me warm in conjuction with the jacket he wrapped around me. He had a bracelt on his left wrist. It was like this, all colorful and bright. I asked him about it and he responded in very old Andorian that this was the Eye of the Cosmos, that looks back on all that is with love and wonder. The eye wants to know about everything and everyone, how they laugh and sing." She Paused " I got sleepy and he started singing. I couldn't understand the words but i dreamed of stars and gleaming planets with promise of new things and people. When i awoke he was gone and some rescuers were lifting me up. I still had his coat which was made of some type of animal fur and the spike from the slow burning flare was still there. I tried to describe him to anyone i could but they couldn't tell me for sure what species it was." A pause " Actually those dreams are what encouraged me to join starfleet, but i went into security instead of the sciences."
Excited shoniqua asked " Can you describe it to me?"
" About 2 meters tall, short snout, covered in fur with dark patches around the eyes, heavy build. Had sharp teeth but i didn't see much of them, only brief glimpses when it talked. Yellow eyes, gently pointed ears that had a few earrings in them. It had big feet with clawed toes, it also had claws on its hands but they looked like they had been blunted, Oh and a short tail. It's fur was mostly shades of brown." another pause " it smelled kinda funny, the human expression 'like a wet dog' would be apt. I guess it was the melted ice wetting the fur on it feet, it wasn't wearing shoes which i found weird cause it had some sort of pistol that looked pretty advanced but it was walking around a frozen planet without shoes on."
Shoniqua thought back to the animal like shadow she had seen last night. " interesting. How long ago was this?"
" maybe 15 earth standard years, i was pretty young. Anyway i am not sure how it relates to the guy who was just here he looked human to me."
" I have some conjectures about that" shoniqua mumbled?
The Andorian woman didn't seem to hear. She was starring at the designs lost in thought.
Before she could ask any follow up questions her padd started beeping stridently. She picked it up and saw it was a call marked important. She hit answer .
" Shoniqua, I am bringing a team to Risa right now, this is big! We will be there in a day or two!" Dr. Terrence Sommerset stated excitedly as soon as she hit answer. The sounds of rushing an preparation could be heard in the back ground. " Your the stuff you sent, WOW, they couldn't have come at a better time, we found something like it a few days ago on earth, and on vulcan they were ancient! Will give you the full story when i get there." He suddenly hung up.
before she could process that, another message came in, it was from Starfleet. " Hello captain, your discovery has caused some excitement we have decided that this is worth investigation, the Gatlinburg is on its way to Risa and you will be Briefed when your ship arrives."
" What the hell?" She exclaimed. The Andorians were looking up in amazement, they had apparently heard everything.
" So much for a Vacation." Shoniqua Bezi mutters.
( to be continued )
She grabbed a strong Raktajino and made her way to a shop that had a resident sculptor. She was the first one there and after exchanging pleasantries. she brought out the strange horga'hn and asked the sculptor: " What can you tell me about this?"
She handed it over and the sculptor looked it over. Even the shop's clerk, a young Risian girl who couldn't be much more than 19 came over to look at it.
" Well first off the workmanship is very good, the stylization is more intricate than that of the horga'hn we make for tourists and the technique seems to be that of about 200 or so years back. The Forms are defiantly Risian of expert form, the material seems to be non Risian in origin, i don't think this type of deep red clay can be found anywhere on Risa. But these patterns on of these glazes, these aren't Risian at all but they are beautifully done. Some of these inlays are actually melted glass instead of glaze. This was defiantly made by a Risian or someone taught well by one, and it has definite influences from another culture, it was made off world for sure."
The Sculptor looked up at her. " Where did you get this if i may ask?"
Shoniqua hesitated then told the truth " It was given to me by a man i met last night."
This elicited a smile " I take it he was after jamaharon?" The sculptor asked referring to the Risian sexual rite of pleasure.
Unabashed by this she responded " I don't think that was on his mind, i got the idea he wasn't familiar with the concept or much of what it meant. If you look closely it has a lid and opens into a container. As far as i am aware that is not usual."
This revelation seemed to perplex the sculptor, though if it was the opening of the piece or the suggestion that someone was unfamiliar with jamaharon she couldn't tell which.
" well maybe if you run into him again you can explain the concept to him. Otherwise he might cause some confusion. I can't tell you anymore about it sadly."
"Don't worry i will." She responded and packed it up and went on her way toward a communication center to make some calls.
She had no luck at the Comm center, her parents were out somewhere so she downloaded a selection of anthropology texts to her Padd and went to read them on the beach. She hiked a little to a secluded Lagoon where she could research and delve into this mystery. She wasn't alone by any means but there were only a few people in the lagoon. Most people swam on the main beach were the sun and surf. This lagoon was tree shaded and cooler. some cooler weather species such as 3 Andorians were swimming in the shaded waters. She sat and brought out her padd and sat and then started doing a computer image search for the shapes and designs on the on the odd horga'hn. Some partial matches were found. The Closest was art Deco from earth but there were enough differences that it was most likely not made on earth. She kept looks through what the partially complete search results.
*Beep* Her padd just chimed and notified her of a 95% match. It was a picture and small report of an mysterious object found on a small child that was presumed dead in a shuttle explosion on a new colony but the child was found alive half a mile from the blast zone. His parents who were with him in the shuttle were alive but unconscious next to him. They had treated wounds and were layed on a pile of leaves. The child was wrapped in a blanket and was gripping a necklace made of black clay disks with intricate designs in colored glaze on it. The Designs were almost identical to what she found on the the horga'hn shaped container. The Child was too young to say exactly what happened but he did talk about a " Teddy bear man." The rescuers dismissed this but she though back to the animal like foot prints and the shape she saw in the darkness before the chubby red-haird man came from the shadows last night. The thought that she was searching for singing space teddy bears on a vacation planet didn't dissuade her cause kirk was running into weirder things a century or so earlier.
A Loud splash made her look up casually. There was a large spray of water as someone entered the water and the other swimmers clapped and whistled. Someone must have jumped from one of the trees into the deep part of the lagoon. She was about to go back to her reading when a voice behind her spoke
" you should focus on more pleasurable matters while on Risa." came a confident sensual voice. She stood up and quickly about faced and turned to face the man behind her. It was the blonde Adonis from last night, the one that had seemed mad when she sat elsewhere. She focused her mind. Why she hadn't she sensed him coming? There was just a mental buzzing, like bees or... or static. Somehow he was generating empathic interference.
" Um, I will just had to do..." but he had closed the distance and was reaching up to stroke her cheek but she scooted back a step. The Blonde man's face darkened. She didn't need empathic talents to tell he didn't like to be rejected. He was about to start forward angrily when a voice from behind her toned " I suggest you respect her disinterest."
One of the Andorian swimmers, a lean young woman a zhen or shen stepped forward and looked ready to come to her aid. She is firm and confident and looks like she will fight if she had to. The blonde man didn't look dissuaded, he looked more angry.
" Are you wearing an empathic inhibitor? Cause those things are really annoying." A familiar male voice came from the lagoon. Out of the water comes the chubby red haired man. The huge splash must have been him. He doesn't appear hostile or like he is about to fight. He only looks mildly annoyed.
" Why do you have a hypo spray in your other hand?" the chubby man says. From his angle he, behind and looking up he has a veiw of the blonde man that the 2 women in front of him don't have. The fat man in the water raises his hand makes a flick and the hypo is yanked from the blonde man's hand and it thumps into the fine white sand.
The Blonde man looks startled then determined he turns and runs back down the path then beams away.
" What was that about?" the Andorian woman asks?
" Wish i knew?' Shoniqua chimes in. She reached down and picked up the hypo. It was not of a make she was familiar with. Shoniqua scanned the vial. It was full of Anesthizine.
The Andorian looked over shoniqua's shoulder at the tricorder. " That guy was up no good it seems." The andorian turns to her swimming companions who were now heading over. " Hey Sohl call security. " The swimming companion gave an affirmative. While everyone was waiting for Risian resort security to arrive Shoniqua decided to ask some questions.
" So you are telekinetic too?" She asks the chubby man stepping out of the lagoon, hands on hips with a wry but also steely determined look. One she had used to shake the confidence of many people across the negotiation table.
" Seems so" he answer non nonchalantly.
" I guess it is fortunate that you are, whoever that was could have sprayed a cloud and knocked out anyone close by. Must be why he was so brazen despite there being 5 people here" The Andorian woman puts in.
Soon 2 Risian hover bike officers arrived to take statements. The whole thing took 45 minutes, everyone gave a breif statement with questions and their name. Shoniqua and the Andorian woman gave their statements to a Risian female officer while the mysterious redhaired man and the 2 other andorains spoke to a male officer. Shoniqua tried to listen in on what the chubby swimmer had to say, trying to catch a name or his species. She couldn't hear anything though. The officers wrapped up and left. Not taking any chances Shoniqua whiped out her micro holoformer and scanner combo and snapped a few shots of the red haired guy.
" What's your name? You didn't say at dinner last night."
" Name is Johnathan Doe"
" oh please you are going to have to do better than John Doe"
"Ok it is I'hava Fakename" he shot back flippantly.
The Andorians looked on at this exchagne puzzled and amused. Must have thought there was some one night stand drama occurring. The Chubby man collected his towel and strolled barefoot into the jungle, away from the main resort building.
" What species are you dammit?!"
" I am a Common Nonofyourbusiness" He called back while walking away.
She started scanning his receding back with her tricorder but the reading came back as utter jibberish scanning as having 14 hearts one moment and none the next, while saying he was... she looked again. The scanner showed that he was make entirely of Glucose.
" May i ask what that was about?" The andorian woman who came to back her up asked.
She told the truth. " I think he is a species new to this area of space, as any memeber of starfleet does my curiostiy is peeked but he isn't forthcoming." She paused. " He also through this to me last night" She pulled out the horga'hn.
"Ohhh my." one of the Andorians laughed.
" Yeah yeah laugg it up, it wasn't like that, he tosed to me and vanished while i was distracted, i get the feeling he doesn't know what it meant."
The Andorian who came to her aid however looked at it intently. " May i see that?" She held her hands out. The intent look and aire of shocked familiarity coming off the woman made shoniqua hand it over. After staring intently at it. The andorian pointed to one design, an oval with pointed ends and a green circle in the middle " This is the unblinking eye of the Cosmos. I have seen this. "
Startled by this Shoniqua blurts out " Where!"
" When i was little back on Andoria, i got lost one night as the ice gave way and fell into a a dark passage. I wandered around trying to find my way back to the surface, after a few hours i got exhausted and had to sit down. i was calling for help and after a while someone answered me. Don't know what they were doing down there or what species they were, but they found me and gave me their clothes to stay warm and sat with me for a while. He. I think it was male, lit a flare on a spike and stuck it into the ice. It acted like a campfire and kept me warm in conjuction with the jacket he wrapped around me. He had a bracelt on his left wrist. It was like this, all colorful and bright. I asked him about it and he responded in very old Andorian that this was the Eye of the Cosmos, that looks back on all that is with love and wonder. The eye wants to know about everything and everyone, how they laugh and sing." She Paused " I got sleepy and he started singing. I couldn't understand the words but i dreamed of stars and gleaming planets with promise of new things and people. When i awoke he was gone and some rescuers were lifting me up. I still had his coat which was made of some type of animal fur and the spike from the slow burning flare was still there. I tried to describe him to anyone i could but they couldn't tell me for sure what species it was." A pause " Actually those dreams are what encouraged me to join starfleet, but i went into security instead of the sciences."
Excited shoniqua asked " Can you describe it to me?"
" About 2 meters tall, short snout, covered in fur with dark patches around the eyes, heavy build. Had sharp teeth but i didn't see much of them, only brief glimpses when it talked. Yellow eyes, gently pointed ears that had a few earrings in them. It had big feet with clawed toes, it also had claws on its hands but they looked like they had been blunted, Oh and a short tail. It's fur was mostly shades of brown." another pause " it smelled kinda funny, the human expression 'like a wet dog' would be apt. I guess it was the melted ice wetting the fur on it feet, it wasn't wearing shoes which i found weird cause it had some sort of pistol that looked pretty advanced but it was walking around a frozen planet without shoes on."
Shoniqua thought back to the animal like shadow she had seen last night. " interesting. How long ago was this?"
" maybe 15 earth standard years, i was pretty young. Anyway i am not sure how it relates to the guy who was just here he looked human to me."
" I have some conjectures about that" shoniqua mumbled?
The Andorian woman didn't seem to hear. She was starring at the designs lost in thought.
Before she could ask any follow up questions her padd started beeping stridently. She picked it up and saw it was a call marked important. She hit answer .
" Shoniqua, I am bringing a team to Risa right now, this is big! We will be there in a day or two!" Dr. Terrence Sommerset stated excitedly as soon as she hit answer. The sounds of rushing an preparation could be heard in the back ground. " Your the stuff you sent, WOW, they couldn't have come at a better time, we found something like it a few days ago on earth, and on vulcan they were ancient! Will give you the full story when i get there." He suddenly hung up.
before she could process that, another message came in, it was from Starfleet. " Hello captain, your discovery has caused some excitement we have decided that this is worth investigation, the Gatlinburg is on its way to Risa and you will be Briefed when your ship arrives."
" What the hell?" She exclaimed. The Andorians were looking up in amazement, they had apparently heard everything.
" So much for a Vacation." Shoniqua Bezi mutters.
( to be continued )
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