ronin MSNPC Administrator Emzai - A Tale of Trauma

[Alieth]

My level of love for the deep this character has, increase with every sim. I love Emzai and how she is the main character of her own story

 

(( OOC - This is a long one, but I wanted to include the flashback scene))

((Outside the Administration Center,  Landing City, Grus Beta Three.))

Emzai walked towards the Administration Centre and a sense of trepidation fell over her with every step she took. The dust hung in the air, and ash fell on them like snowdrops. 

She looked to the window of her office and the much smaller one beside it, the room within was where Kipal lay; bound. 

((Flashback Scene - Several Months Before, Emzai and Kipal Home, Mountain District, Grus Beta Three))

The house was large and spacious, decorated tastefully with antiques and artefacts from across the galaxy. They had been carefully chosen by Emzai, and placed so that each item caught the eye no matter where you would be located in the house. Maximum enjoyment and commitment to beauty. 

Of course the house itself was no exception. It occupied a vista in the mountain, with uninterrupted views of Landing City below, each window offered a vestige of wondrous beauty. 

Emzai stood at one of the windows, as she often liked to do, to watch the sunset over the city. Tonight her thoughts were plagued with a growing concern about Kipal. 

He had become withdrawn from her, and she found herself wondering about the blackouts she had been experiencing. Kipal would tell her it was due to stress, the Sheliak had placed a significant amount of pressure on them to mine for Maleconite.  

Kipal: Adun’a* are you well? 

His voice denied any emotion, as was the way of a Vulcan, although she knew him well enough to hear the subtle inflection of concern in the way in which he spoke. 

Emzai: I can't remember …

Emzai turned to her husband and he moved to stand close to her. She moved towards him and rested her hands on his chest. It was a simple act, something she had done many times before. 

Kipal: Perhaps you should retire to your chamber early this evening? 

Emzai: I'm not tired, Kipal :: looks him dead in the eye :: I think you're lying to me. 

Kipal: :: eyebrow raise :: As you are aware Vulcans cannot lie. 

Emzai: :: lifts her head to him :: That's a lie. 

Kipal frowned at that.

Emzai: You choose not to, it's a principle, yet you are capable of lying. Vulcans lie just like anyone else. 

Kipal: What is the meaning of this conversation, Emzai?

Emzai: I want to meld with you. 

Kipal took a step back and surveyed his wife carefully before he nodded. 

She placed her hands on the sides of his head, and he did the same. 

Kipal: My mind to your mind. Your thoughts to my thoughts. Our minds are merging, our minds are becoming one.

Emzai inhaled a breath as she felt his thoughts crash into her own. It felt like she was plunged into a deep ocean. There was a flood of memories, dreams, words and thoughts. 

She felt for him amongst it, and he was there. His arms outstretched. She could feel the pull of his katra, it threatened to dominate her and take over. 

This time she wouldn't allow it. His mind was powerful and if she wasn't El-Aurian she'd have never been able to resist him. 

Yet she did. 

She needed to know. 

There was a dark cloud that enveloped around them and she could see Kipal call out to her, except no sound came from his mouth. 

She walked into the cloud and emerged into a memory … It was a discussion between them both. The day she signed the agreement with the Sheliak for the Maleconite contract. 

Emzai: I'll never sign that agreement, Kipal. You can find another way to continue your experiment. I'm sure there is -

Kipal: There is no other way. You are being illogical. You are allowing emotion -

Emzai: Emotion! I don't think you understand what you ask? This agreement will give them unfettered access to the mines and … this order … it's too large. We'd be putting every single person on this planet in danger. Maleconite it was only intended to power the cities and the towns, not for this … 

Kipal: We came to this world for a reason. It was a logical choice. This is the natural evolution of that choice. My work is the most important work in the galaxy and in order for me to continue I need the compound that the Sheliak can provide. It is not logical to turn back. 

Emzai: We didn't come here to use these people like specimens in a lab. I didn't come here for that. I came here to make a home for us, and the children. After the blight you promised that was the end of it. 

Kipal pulled her towards him and grabbed her violently into a meld. She watched herself, in the memory, struggle against him. It lasted for seconds. 

Then.

Kipal: Are you feeling better?

Emzai: :: confused :: I … yes. My head … What was I saying? 

Kipal: You were telling me that the agreement with the Sheliak is approved. 

Emzai: … I was? :: sure :: Yes, I was. It's important. 

More memories came through, each time that he'd performed this function. How he changed her. Violated her, time and again. 

With each memory, a fury rose in her and the memories intersected with her own. 

Screams in green lit chambers of horror. A breath on her neck. Blood on her hands. Snippets of a lifetime of terror. Things she'd needed to do to survive. 

She screamed, her thoughts became claws that struck out and tore at Kipal. 

She felt his mind contort, he tried to resist the anger that she pushed into him. 

It was too powerful and he was consumed in rage. 

She felt it rush back towards her and she pulled herself away, breaking the meld. 

Emzai stumbled backwards, she had returned to her home. Kipal lay on the floor, he turned to her and she could see the violence in his eyes. 

((End flashback)) 

Beck: ♫ Do mi sol do do sol mi do! Every truly cultured music stu, dent, knows ♫

Beep beep Beep beep Beep. Went Beck's tricorder.

Beck: ♫ You must learn your scales and your arpe, ggi, os ♫

Carpenter: Why that song? Because you're a laaaaady, that's why?

Emzai: :: looks to the building:: We're almost there. Perhaps we should behave in an adult-like fashion. 

Kos: RESPONSE

Beck: Everyone's a critic. C'est la vie. ::switching back to active scanning:: Do the tunnels run underneath the entire city? And is there maleconite stored everywhere down there? I'm having some trouble getting clear scans.

Carpenter: Same here. It's like we can tell it's hollow, but nothin' else further.

Emzai: That's hardly surprising given the situation.

Kos: RESPONSE

The good doctor, true to his nature decided to interfere some more. 

Beck: Kos. ::sidling up next to him:: I know you don't have a lot of reason to trust me, but would you allow me to scan you? You said you worked in the mines before, I'd like to check something out…

Kos: RESPONSE

Emzai crossed her arms in frustration. 

Emzai: Can't we do this inside? Kos is perfectly healthy. My husband on the other hand … 

Carpenter: Now, hang on there, Doc Beck might be onto something. Prolonged exposure is no joke…

Emzai had just about had it with this human woman. She shot a look to Drisila who stepped inches closer to her. 

Once they were inside, she would split them up. They'd be able to deal with that way. 

Beck: RESPONSE

Emzai: I'm going inside, how Starfleet gets anything done is beyond me. 

Emzai walked at a brisk pace into the building. 

Carpenter: Still right behind ya. 

Beck/Kos: RESPONSE

((Administrators Office,  Landing City, Grus Beta Three.))

They all gathered in her office again. Where she had initially met them. Perhaps this is where it would end. For all of them. 

She felt a pang of sympathy for the young officers. Her own children, those she gave birth to, were much older than these and she felt the loss of them so keenly, even now all these hundreds of years later. 

oO will they have mother's that would mourn them? Oo

Emzai: Doctor I'd appreciate it if you come alone to tend to Kipal? :: to Kos :: If you don't mind, I'll call for you once the doctor has finished. 

Beck/Kos/Carpenter: Response

Emzai: Very well :: to Carpenter :: Help yourself to a beverage. 

Emzai escorted the doctor to the small room adjacent to her office. She opened the door and stepped inside and beckoned the doctor in. 

Tags/TBC 

 

Administrator Emzai
Grus Beta Three

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Lt JG Luxa Lorana
Science Officer
USS Ronin
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