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Rating: Strong R or NC-17 depending on your sensitivity. This is not for the kiddies folks.
Category: Kai/Xev, PWP
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Mind Over Matter
by Rhondda Lake
It was forever curious. Fate had cursed it with a thirst for knowledge that could never be quenched.
Pulsing, swirling, it hurtled through the vast emptiness of space, forever
seeking. Eternally asking questions without form, seeking answers to inquiries
it had not yet formulated. A ball of purest energy fed by self determined
inclination. From the vast stores of knowledge it had gleaned over
countless ages it still knew so little. It did not know where it had
come from. It did not know if it was alone. And it did not know how long
it had sought.
Its form was transient, manifesting in a swirl of green and white electricity curled around itself.
As it drifted it began to detect that it was no longer alone. Sharp
tingles of awareness rippled through its charged form. It was large,
this
coming thing. Different in some way. Another life form. But size was
irrelevant.
An echo of familiar loneliness teased through its awareness. Not only
one
being, but four... no five. The fifth... the fifth did not suffer the
ache
of loneliness.
Spurred on by insatiable curiosity she moved to the being. One being carrying the other four within itself. Odd. Delightful. She needed to know...
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"I'm sorry, Stan, but I just can't." Xev's tone was frustrated. Her anger was directed at Stan's unrelenting pleading and her own unwillingness to comply. She ducked her fiery head and closed her eyes, drawing in a deep breath in an effort to calm herself. When she looked up again it did not help matters to find Stan's gaze firmly affixed to her chest.
"STAN!"
"What?" He blinked and jumped, astonishment on his plain features. Apparently he had been unaware of his visual groping.
"She said no, again, half-wit. Please feel free to launch yourself from an airlock in a fit of despondent anguish." 790's digital grin did not help matters.
Xev shifted the robotic head from the crook of her arm to balance on her hip.
"I think... I need to be alone right now." She tilted her head to the side.
"You heard her. Scram." The voice rose from her hip.
"I meant completely alone." She shoved the metallic head at Stan, who reflexively caught it up.
"NO! What are you doing, mistress of my desires? Don't leave me with this waste of a body! I'll be quiet as a mouse. You won't even know I'm around!"
"Because you won't be. Play nice, 790."
Xev started to move past Stan, deeper into the internal structure of
the Lexx when something moved through the wall. A pulsing ball of green
energy blindsided her. In a flash of brilliant light charged with electricity
it disappeared and Xev was thrown against the wall. She slumped to the
floor, her eyes closed and body twitching.
"XEV!" Both Stanley and 790 called out in tandem.
Stan dropped the robot and rushed to the fallen woman's side. "Xev, can you hear me?" He reached to check for a pulse but received an electrical shock when he touched her and jerked his hand away.
"What do we do?" He looked helplessly at 790, desperate enough to seek answers even there.
"We help her, idiot!" Digital eyes narrowed.
Stanley stood up once more and, in a disappearing flash of red jumpsuit, took off down the hall.
"Come back here, Tweedle, you coward!" 790's eyes looked around, seeing nothing but organic walls and the slumped form of his beloved, still suffering muscle twitches. "Hands. Hands. The Lexx for some hands!" He wailed from his useless position.
Moments later Stanley rushed back, followed by Kai at a less hurried gait. The black garbed assassin went to one knee and looked over Xev impassively.
"It moved right through the wall and hit her. I don't know where it went, but it did something to her." Stan was talking rapidly, his fear spurring his words.
"At last, someone with a brain!" 790's eyes looked up at the assassin. "Don't just kneel there. Help her!"
"The muscle spasms are indicative of an electrical shock." Kai announced in a smooth baritone. He leaned forward, cocking his head over Xev's chest, apparently listening. His ever present lock of dangling black hair brushed across her skin. "Her heart is still beating, but the rhythm is irregular. It would be best if we set 790 up to run a diagnostic."
"Yes, yes, YES!" The head was shouting now.
Kai reached for Xev's arm, intending to lift her. He did not really notice the warning shock, or, indeed, the charge that flowed up his arm. But it was visible to Stan and 790. The crackling green energy snaked up his arm and enveloped his body. He collapsed on top of Xev.
"Now what!?!" Stan shifted his weight from foot to foot. If whatever happened here was enough to down Kai, he was not about to touch either of them.
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Xev sat on a pile of rocks beside a placid lake. The air was full of rich scents. Earthy loam mingled with the green aroma of growing things. The sweet perfume of wild flowers drifting along with the scent of mud and water. The little girl next to her looked out over the water, her green eyes wide with wonder.
"Did you see someplace like this, or just dream of it?" The child's blonde hair moved with the gentle breeze.
"I dreamed it, I think." Xev frowned. She couldn't recall. She didn't remember how long she had been talking with the child. Days it seemed.
"Why is the sky so blue?" The little girl spun around in delight.
Xev shrugged. "Something to do with light and the atmosphere. Bri, where are my friends?"
Every time she asked the question the child just stared at her, a knowing look in her eyes. However, no answer was forthcoming, no matter how often she asked. She wondered if this was the frustration Stan felt with her. No. She always gave Stan an answer, just not the one he wanted.
"What do you eat? What does it taste like?" The child, Bri, flopped down cross legged on a rock.
"All sorts of things. But lately a green paste that provides all my nutritional needs. What do you eat?" Xev thought the child was adorable, if infuriating.
"The energy output of the stars." The child looked up at her seriously. "Why do you feel alone? There are others of your kind all around."
Xev blinked. How did this kid know how she felt? "I don't feel alone." Her denial held a degree of petulance.
"I'm alone." The child looked out over the lake. "I think I'm the only one of my kind. Tell me of your social structure."
Xev felt a tug of sympathy for Bri. The girl's eerie, pupil-less eyes reflected a depth of sorrow such as she had never seen before.
"Do you mean family units or government? Because I'm not the one to ask about either." Xev sighed.
"Why is the grass green?" The child ran a hand over a patch of the substance in question. Her questions were endless and without any discernable direction or logic.
"A process called photosynthesis," a deep voice said from behind her.
"Chloroplasts in plant cells contain the green pigment called chlorophyll
which traps the light energy."
Xev spun around in surprise to find Kai standing at the edge of the forest.
His dark gaze moved over their surroundings. "This is not real."
Bri shrugged. "Real enough." She looked at him with equal calm. "I can make it more so for you."
With those words Kai turned and closed his eyes. His pale face turned up slightly. "I... I feel a breeze."
"Yes." Bri smiled. "It's simply a matter of firing neurons in the proper sequence. You are a bit more difficult than Xev was. You're different." Bri frowned. "What are you?"
"I am dead." Kai's green eyes snapped open and regarded Bri. "You are a being of energy. What have you done to Xev?"
Xev stood. "What do you mean? What's going on here, Kai?"
"You are unconscious aboard Lexx. Your heart rate is irregular and you display symptoms of electrical shock. It is her doing." He looked back to Bri.
"I would not harm her. I am monitoring her system. Levels are within acceptable ranges. As for you... I couldn't harm you if I wished to, I think." Bri reached down and plucked a small blue flower. "What do you call this form of flora?"
"You will release us immediately." Kai grabbed the child's shoulder.
Energy crackled and sizzled. Kai pulled back his hand and stared, dumbfounded, at his palm. Wonder painted his delicate features as the perception of pain infiltrated his mind. The skin of his hand, where he had touched her, tingled with sensation. It burned, stung, yet it felt... alive.
"I said I couldn't harm you. I didn't say I couldn't hurt you. You are able to feel the breeze, as well as other such tactile senses because I have connected that portion of your neural net within the constraints of this part of your subconscience. I don't like doing that, so please don't threaten me again." Her smile was all sweet innocence.
"Why are you doing this, Bri?" Xev was suddenly angry that this seeming child would dare to make any form of attack on Kai. Not that he couldn't handle himself, but because her cluster lizard side perceived it as a challenge.
"I am curious. I want to learn. You were here, so I will learn from
you." The child shrugged. "Direct questions have been a pleasant way to
interact with you. I am very alone. But it is a slow process. I think I'll
go a more direct route. Until I am done, feel free to use this place I
have created from your own mind or minds." Bri smiled sweetly and waggled
her finger at them before
transforming into a glowing green butterfly. She flew off into the
wood.
"What do we do now?" Xev looked to Kai. "Can you really feel?"
"Yes. It is most... interesting." He reached out to touch the rough bark of a tree. "It is... pleasant. Which also indicates the being you know as Bri has done more than tamper with my neural network."
"What do you mean? She said this was part of my... or our... subconscious. You said this isn't real." Xev frowned for a moment, then looked slyly at Kai, her eyes running over his form. This had definite possibilities.
"It is real inasmuch as we make it so." He crouched and plucked a leaf from the forest floor, running his fingers over its cool smoothness, savoring the sensation.
"What's *that* supposed to mean?" Xev felt her patience draining away.
"This reality can effect us only as much as we believe in it. If you were cut here, and believed in the injury, it would manifest on your true form. Mind over matter." He stood and strode with wolflike grace to the lake. Crouching again, he ran his fingers through the water.
"If we are trapped in our own minds... how come we're talking?" Xev had to smile, watching him test and try his newfound ability to feel.
"I can only assume the entity has linked us somehow." He looked up, enjoying the warmth of the sunlight on his face even as he felt the cold wetness around his fingers.
Xev nodded then crouched beside him. "So we're trapped until she lets us go?"
"Unless Stanley and 790 can figure out a way to drive her out." Kai stood and looked up and down the edge of the lake.
"Right," Xev paused, "so we're trapped."
"Yes." He looked down and watched as Xev stood slowly, as graceful as any dancer.
She took a step toward him so that they stood toe to toe. He looked at her curiously as she raised her hand and let her fingertips glide over his satiny lips.
She bit down on her own bottom lip and stifled a moan as her hyperactive libido immediately jumped into overdrive.
"I do not think that is wise." He looked down, away from her. He appeared almost shy, though his voice held no hesitation.
"Why not? You said it yourself. This isn't real. But here you can feel." Xev took his hand and pulled it to her cheek as his gaze finally moved back to her face. Rubbing against his cool palm she looked into his eyes, her own already dark with desire. "How do I feel?"
"Soft. Warm." He cocked his head to the side. "I am still dead, Xev. The moment the entity has learned what it wants from us we will return to the conscious world and I will be as I was. I suspect you believe in this too much."
"I believe in you too much!" she cried. "Can't you let me have this? A shared dream. Won't you at least give me that much?"
"You will be hurt." He reclaimed his hand. "Even if it were possible here, you would suffer for it."
"Isn't that my choice to make?" Her vision swam as a haze of unshed tears shone in her eyes.
He looked out over the lake, noticing for the first time that the sun did not move in the sky. Time, itself, seemed suspended here. "In the past your decisions have been... questionable."
Xev's eyes narrowed. "You can be a real jerk, sometimes."
She tried to shove him but he did not budge. However, the move did appear to return his attention to her. Scowling she decided to try the other direction. If she couldn't push him...
She grabbed firm hold of his woven top and tugged. She was not sure if he moved forward or she simply pulled herself into him but she didn't much care as she pressed her full lips to his cool ones. Another jolt of desire shot through her, making her tremble slightly.
He neither pulled back nor sought more. He was utterly still as she leaned further into him, letting him feel her soft body pressed against him. As she pulled back a bit she felt their lips cling, as if their skin wanted this as much as she did.
"How did that feel?" She licked her lips and her eyes took in where she had just kissed. His lips were always so completely kissable.
"Pleasant." He had closed his eyes, acknowledging nothing.
"You said the tree bark was pleasant. I was hoping to rate a little better than a tree." She traced the line of his jaw with her fingertips and smiled. "You're trying too hard not to react. I think you're feeling more than you will admit."
"This is... unwise." His voice deepened at the last word, becoming a husky rumble.
Were her ears decieving her or had his voice actually dropped a notch?
Her
heart danced with glee.
"Maybe, but if this is my subconscous I plan on living a little." She pressed a series of soft kisses up his jaw, finding his earlobe she teased it gently with her teeth.
"I cannot..." He started to protest yet again.
Whatever he was going to say Xev effectively silenced with her mouth. She used the opportunity of his protest to give him the kiss she had longed to. His mouth was cool and tasted of dark promises and untapped passions.
Her ferocity did not exactly surprise him. The feelings that came with it, however, did. Pleasure, pure and sweet, raced through him from the point where their mouths met. In his memories it was never this sharp before, or perhaps the memories had faded. She tasted sweet, like... what was it? He tried to recall even as the feelings emenating from the kiss began to dissolve his concentration. Apples, that was it. Apples and cinnimon. He remembered that flavor now.
She slid her tongue over his, stroking it into wakefulness. Hesitantly she felt him answer her. A tentative stroke, an experimental tease. She moaned in delight. Yes, her mind screamed, just feel.
Almost instantly she found the tables completely turned on her. Strong arms suddenly wrapped around her. His mouth began to plunder hers, and her body thrummed with the heat of erotic excitement. His mouth, she was drowning in his mouth. Cool yet hungry against hers. His tongue dueling with hers, the feel of the sweet invasion. She felt drunk and giddy.
Twining her arms about his neck she deftly unbound his braid, winding her fingers through the smooth, black silk.
She wanted, no, she needed to be free of her confining clothes. She needed to touch and be touched without any barriers between them.
She tugged at the collar of his uniform in frustration, wishing she
could
just will their damnable garments away.
Without warning Xev suddenly found herself pressed flesh to flesh against Kai. She blinked in surprise as the cold metal imbedded it his chest dug sharply into her breasts. A sudden smile touched her lips. They were inside her subconscious, therefore her will could produce results.
Her heart was pounding, her body thrumming. She felt unbelievably hot, despite her nakedness. Where she pressed against his chill flesh she felt as if she were burning. The heated kiss was finally broken, and as she reclaimed her breath she could feel his mouth and tongue sliding along her throat. She groaned, her knees buckling. He was tasting her skin.
He wanted more. How long had it been since he had wanted anything? As he allowed her the luxury of breath Kai felt the need to experience, to savor more of the exciting sensations Xev was rousing in him. He had to know what her skin tasted like. A tinge of salt flavored her own, distinctive, taste. He could feel the tingle of the fine, invisible hairs that covered her flesh against his lips. The cool brush of her fragrant hair against his cheek. It was overwhelming.
The cool fingers of one hand explored the sleek contors of her back while the other settled firmly along her waist, as if he were trying to hold her in place.
She almost laughed, did he think she was going anywhere?
Her small, capable hands slid from around his neck, over his collarbones and down his chest. Manicured nails circled and tormented his nipples and a soul deep shudder trembled through his body. He moved back to gaze down at her, his eyes half lidded.
He had always known Xev was beautiful. For the most part he acknowledged it as he would acknowledge the beauty of a piece of art. It was a distant thing, known but not truly appriciated. Looking down at her now, her eyes dark with desire, her face flushed with passion, her hair in crimson disarray, he could feel her beauty. If he had a heart he was certain this vision would be etched upon it.
Xev brought her face close to Kai's, her eyes looking into his until she saw herself reflected back. She could see each strand of color. His eyes were not merely green, but a hundred little shades of green blending in a spoked wheel to create the changes of shade based on mood and emotion, if he ever deigned to feel such. Now his pupils were open wide and there was wonder there.
"How do I feel now?" She let her breath caress his beautiful face.
"Beyond words." His frank answer sent another wave of heat through her body. She was going to burn up until nothing but ash remained.
It was nothing less than the truth. Her softness pressed against him was all encompassing. It stirred his protoblood and demanded of him a passion he had not felt in so long it was frightening. He felt the overwhelming need to possess, to consume, to... ravish. He clamped down on these raging demands with an iron will, promising himself he would not harm Xev.
She kissed him again. How easily she felt lost in the delicious, moistness of his mouth. Relishing the slide of his taste buds along hers.
His elegant hands encircled her neck, then slid between her breasts and down her stomach. She arched against his questing hand as his palm brushed over the crisp, damp curls at her apex. As their mouths devoured each other, his fingers parted her. She cried out and felt her bones liquify into molten heat.
Gently, he lowered her to the grass. She looked up to take in the sight of him. Beautiful, there was no other word to fit. He was pale and as finely sculpted as any work of art. Even the evidence of his defilement, his eternal curse, held a certain beauty. It was a contrast of dark and light, yielding flesh and cold machine, a symbol of odds overcome.
His long fingers stroked her again and her thighs moved apart to allow his sweet invasion. She kept from shaking by a force of will she hadn't known she possessed.
Kai felt her arch up into his palm as his fingers read the braille that was Xev. This fold spelled 'desire', this one 'need', and this one... this one 'paradise'. He bent to kiss her once more and swallowed the little sounds of pleasure purring in her throat, consuming them. The sounds seemed to feed him, feed his own desire. He found himself answering her back in the most primitave language of seduction as she swallowed his own growls.
He slipped a finger into her easily, she was so slick with wanting, then a second. His thumb found that tiny bundle of nerves that held the key to her passion. His exquisite fingers pressed and teased, slid in, then slowly out, only to return as his thumb circled her once again, urging her to heights of passion she never imagined could exist.
She is an over-ripe peach in his hand, and the fruit burst. Her body convulsed suddenly, almost painfully. She seemed to be falling in on herself, her whole being contracting to that one point of unbearable pleasure until she imploded. Wave after wave of ecstasy washed over her, washing her away.
Xev tried to bring her body back into solid form. She felt as if she had melted, liquified and flowed over Kai's hands. He had done this to her. His lips, his hands had done this, and she felt weak as the proverbial kitten in the afterglow. Somehow, despite the incredible orgasm she'd just been gifted with she was still hot, still hungry, still horny for more.
She opened her eyes, trying to regain her sight after the blinding pleasure, only to look upon Kai, drawing his fingers into his mouth, his eyes closing, savoring the taste of her. It was one of the most erotic things she had ever seen.
Kai saw her watching him and did not care. He closed his eyes and licked his thumb, tasting the salty muskiness, the smoky tang that sang of Xev's sensuality. Needing more, wanting to savor this zest, he drew the fingers that had been inside her into his mouth, sucking clean the juices, letting the flavor explode with all it's richness in his mouth. His eyes slid lazily open to see Xev squirm at the sight of him taking so much pleasure in her essence.
Xev reached out and wrapped her fingers delicately around his wrist. She pulled his fingers from his mouth and draw his hand to her own lips. Her hot, pink tongue darted out to taste his flesh. She wrapped her lips around those fingers and twisted her tongue around them. The smoothness of fingernail, the slight roughness of skin, each texture was noted against her tongue. She continued to suckle those fingers, lost in the feeling of having at least something of him inside of her. She watched his features carefully, trying to gauge his reaction.
He swallowed hard and licked his lips. His eyes were riveted on her mouth, fascinated by this simple display. He pulled his hand away with reluctance, knowing if she continued this would be over all too quickly, that he would loose his precarious control.
She didn't know what he had planned but she was not done playing yet. She wanted to taste more.
She leaned up on one elbow and nibbled at his throat. His soft gasp made her stomach flutter. Her teeth closed gently over tendon. He tasted so good, mysteries and sex and maleness. She loved his flavor. She craved more. She pressed open-mouthed promises against flesh and muscle as she moved from his throat to his chest. Where flesh met metal he tasted clean and sweet, the flavor changing to dispassionate iron, yet she neglected no part.
His skin tingled, throbbed, came alive with pleasure under her questing mouth. He found himself loosing his ability to think, to reason. Everything was being swept away in a world of sensation and emotion he was too long out of practice to control. He was lost in the thrill of the moment.
She moved swiftly. Pushing him back and rolling through the grass until she lay atop him. She made a sound that was half gasp, half moan at the incredable feel of pressing against him full length. How could skin so soft be so hard all at the same time? She deliberately slid her body up his a bit, enjoying the sparks the friction ignited.
Kai rolled back suddenly, gaining the advantage by pressing himself hard against her entire body. His hands began to roam freely, as if he couldn't stop himself from touching her, mapping her every dip and curve. She pulled the pins from his glorious hair and felt the mass tumble down to caress her face and shoulders.
Her palm trailed down his side, past his hip until she found him with
nimble fingers. She grinned up at him. Something had definately worked
in this strange realm of their minds. It appeared his two thousand year
dry spell had
finally ended. His erection was an impressive sight.
I guess this counts as appriciating it in your mind." Her eyes glittered
fiercely as she ran her fingers over him. He groaned, low and deep,
and thrust his hips forward. She moaned in response, needing him inside
of her. Now.
"Do you have any idea what you are doing to me?" His voice was a rough rumble, shaking with some unidentifiable force. He was amazed he could form words at all.
"I have an idea. But I know what I'd rather be doing to you." She gave him a gentle squeeze.
His fingers locked around her wrist and pulled her hand away, then he released her to run his palm down her thigh, sending little shivers up her leg. He smiled at her shiver. Tears sprang to her eyes. His smile was glorious.
He rotated his hips and her hand slipped back to him once more, guiding him. Then he slid into her, just the slightest bit.. Xev's arms and legs wrapped around him and pulled him close. Their mutual embrace slid him home. He was thick and rich and so deep inside her she could taste him in her soul. It was perfect. It was bliss. She could have stayed just like this forever. But no, he had other ideas.
He began to move. Slow, lazy, circling movements with his hips. He ground his pelvis against her. She wept with the perfect pleasure of it. Feeling his tongue lap up a tear from her cheek she looked up into the depth of his eyes.
If this was a dream she did not want to awaken.
Xev felt Kai's hand cup her breast and she arched her back, giving him access. His mouth worked wonders, miracles. He teased her breasts as he stroked into and out of her, as they stroked together. Both of them striving for that goal. He nipped and licked and suckled until the thread of desire was pulled so tight within her Xev feared it would snap.
And still he filled her. Heavy and hard inside of her. Taking away that
emptiness she had felt ever since she had been programmed for love. She
could feel the veins that ran along him, the coolness of him as it absorbed
her heat, taking her in even as she took in him.. So deep, so deep, clear
into
the next dimension of her.
The slow minuet sped up. The cadence become more frenzied. Their mutual need feeding their efforts. Every deft stroke in rubbed against Xev's center, pushing her closer and closer. Stars exploded behind her eyes and a chorus sang. She heard a scream from someplace far away as her whole body tightened and convulsed. Kai caught her. His arms moved around her, holding her to him, pressing them so close together their cells threatened to merge. Then Xev heard a second cry as a Kai pulsed within her.
Nestling her head in the crook of his neck Xev felt breath reflect back to her against his skin. Her breathing came in harsh gasps. Desperate grabs for air as she sought to stay alive in the aftermath of the heated explosion that had just occurred. She felt Kai's arms around her as he rolled to the side, taking his weight from her. Still together.
"I love you." Her voice was muffled against his chest.
"I know, and I am sorry for it." There was a depth of pain to his words. An aknowledgment to the brevity of this situation.
"I'm not. I won't ever be sorry." The words were a vow.
"Yes, you will." The certainty in his words made her long to weep.
Xev gasped as Bri stepped out of the forest. The smile on the child's innocent face was radient.
"I have learned much from you both." Bri's voice echoed across the water. "I hope this was sufficient thanks as well as a learning experience in itself."
Xev sat up, enraged at the thought that she and Kai had been so used. She felt her body enveloped, once more, with her clothing as she willed away her nakedness. Looking at Kai she saw he, too, was dressed.
"How dare you?" she spat at the alien child.
"I meant no harm." Bri's face fell, her countenance the very aspect of sorrow. "I will leave you now. I hope you will come to forgive me in time."
The child seemed to melt in on herself, becoming a ball of green energy.
"Farewell." Her voice echoed through their shared mindscape.
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Xev's eyes flew open and she felt a heavy weight across her chest. Looking about in confusion she realized it was Kai laying across her.
Stanley's voice filled the momentary silence. "Oh, thank goodness. We were afraid you were dead."
"I am." Kai pushed himself up, sitting back on his heels as he helped Xev to sit in a more comfortable position.
"Yeah, we know, we know. I meant her." Stan rolled his eyes. "Do you know what happened?"
"We were hosting an alien entity. The being learned from us what it wished and departed." Kai did not meet Xev's eyes.
"An alien? Oh, my magnificient love, please let me make sure you're free of any alien influences." 790 was, as usual, distressed.
"A medical scan would be a good idea." Kai stood.
"Alright. Stop mothering me, already." Xev stood and brushed herself off, her eyes constantly darting to Kai, trying to acertain if he remembered anything, if it had been her dream alone.
"It isn't your mother I want to be." 790 purred.
"Do you think there are anymore of those things out there?" Stan looked about, nerveously.
Xev shivered, a feeling of profound sympathy washing over her. "I hope so."
Stan shook his head and moved away, apparently fed up with the whole situation.
"Kai..." Xev touched his arm, refusing to allow him to ignore her.
"It was a dream, Xev. No more." His words reassured her that they had experienced the same thing, even as his eyes made her run cold. They were empty. As dispassionate as ever.
He seemed to note her reaction. "And you are hurt. I cannot be more than I am, Xev." He turned away from her and strode back down the corridore, heading for the cryobay.
"Am I missing something?" 790 asked as Xev picked him up.
"No. Nothing. Nothing at all." Xev's voice cracked with the burning emotions lodged in her throat.
She wouldn't be sorry, she swore to herself. Dream or not what had happened would be cherished. A memory to be pulled out in the darkest of times and held close to her heart. It would also serve to concentrait her efforts when she felt like giving up. One day, she promised herself, one day Kai would live again.
-End
