engineering_made_easy | Crash landing in nowhere-land!

This emergency evacuation was very typical of Enterprise in that the chaos all happened too quickly for Priya to even gather all the details before she was thrust out into Space. Everything on that ship went a mile a minute, she'd learned to be quick on the uptake for that reason but even this time.... she had kind of half an idea what was happening. Alien ships had appeared, enemy Klingons, and fire broke out between Enterprise and one of the Birds of Prey. Negotiations were passed back and forth between her father, Kirk, and the Klingon captain... but it was all a trap. They'd only been buying time for Enterprise to be still while they sent a massive bomb over. The rest happened very quickly. It detonated, Priya had only enough time to yell before it exploded, killing dozens in the process and sending even more into the vacuum of space.

The officers gathered their wits and the ship was sealed off, cutting off the holes in the hull so no one else was sucked out to their death. But quickly the Klingons made their desires known. Hand over the T'hy'la child or face certain death. The klingons knew what Priya was, that she wasa symbol of hope for New Vulcan and that she was living on this ship with her parents. They wanted her prowess for the Klingon Emprire and Priya was of half a mind to become their prisoner and escape on her own, if it would bring peace to the ship.

But again, things were happening fast. Her father headed with her to the transport bay, allowing her to believe she'd be allowed to become their prisoner... but instead, he'd forced her into an escape pod and the ship, crippled after the bomb went off, spat her out to the nearest planet while cloaked. The escape pod burled to the planet's surface at such a speed it sank into the soil ten feet when it came to a halt. From there... Priya climbed out... and looked around at a vast grassy field.... with nothing and no one in sight.

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"I will care for you."

Perhaps 'care for' wasn't quite the right words, it had to it a familiarity that Ash'tar didn't mean to imply, but his grasp of the language meant that he didn't realise how that might sound to her.

"We can go to my village. I will bring you food and show you safe shelter to hide in."

Perhaps it was a bit too familial but she got the idea. He'd look out for her. Unless he had somehow claimed her as a wife and that's what the blood magic was really about. He thought she was a kind of goddess so why wouldn't he want that? Priya doubted it though. He hadn't shown any body language changes implying he now owned her. No standing too close or sudden grabs to drag her like she belonged to him. And if this whole star thing was true he'd not have a right to do such a thing to her by his culture.

She bowed her head shallowly.

"Thank you. I will try to contact home as soon as I can... I'll be out of trouble for you then. So which way are we headed?"

He would have been horrified if he knew what she was considering, he had no thoughts that way and that she was a star meant she was far above his mortal form even if he had thought of her in that manner.

Ash'tar shoulders his bow and arrow a little more securely and points to the foothills of the mountains about a half-day's walk away.

"My village is there, we must go quick before the moon is high and the grethan come out to hunt."

Well she's a bit horrified by the idea too, so best to leave that alone.

"...How long does it take to get there?" she had wasted enough of this man's time already. Maybe she should try to get a crude warp drive together from the escape pod. It would take some time but she could manage it. It would send them across the land instantly though.

"Nearly six turns of the sand-glass."

He has no idea that she could even do something like that, such technology was a dream even for people who could perform magic. Most people walked, and the lucky people rode if they were rich enough to afford mounts.

"Come, walk with me. If you hurt or need rest, I will carry you."

Well she has no idea he needs to avoid punishment and she'll gladly offer herself as his excuse should anything happen upon their arrival at his home. It would take a few hours for her to even operate on the escape pod to re-purpose the thing. In the event that it didn't work they'd only be out time, she might as well go along with him.

"Alright. Ah.. thank you." that's rather cute of him. She's tougher than she looks though. She did have to pass the rigorous physical credentials to get into Starfleet after all, not that he'd have a clue what that was.

"Tell me about your home on the way?"

Ash'tar would have no clue what the Starfleet was if she were to tell him, and she looks too slender to be that hardy. Her clothes mostly hide the muscle tone that make her much stronger than she looks, so he thinks his offer was necessary.

He hesitates a moment, brow furrowed, at her request. It's not that he won't tell her about where he's from, but he wishes to keep certain things back and he's not even sure that he can convey everything well in a language that still felt very alien on his tongue.

"Nim is big houses." He means a city. "Big street, big rocks, big priests. Hunting and money. I will find way to help you there."

He doesn't think much to Nim, and it's clear in his expression that he holds little fondness for his home.

Big houses... yes she understands. Big rocks? Like statues? Big priests... the government? Hunting and trade were the major markets.

"Are there other places here? Is Nim the only city? Do you not like it much?"

she wondered a bit

"Are your people oppressed?"

"My people?"

His smile becomes a little twisted, bitterness underneath the show of good humour he tried to keep up for her sake. He didn't want to scare her, but there was no point lying to her when she'd see the truth as soon as they got inside the walls of the city.

"My people are no more. The few there are exist as slaves, we are property and nothing more."

Crash landing in nowhere-land!

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