Posted by Lieutenant Commander Zoi Haven (Chief of Security) in Haven’s Quarters- More to Celebrate

Posted by Captain Dira Myqian (Commanding Officer) in Haven’s Quarters- More to Celebrate

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Zoi Haven (Chief of Security) in Haven’s Quarters- More to Celebrate
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Zoi thought Dira was wrong. There were many things people could hide from their loves ones that would make them be loves less. However, she did not think that she herself had any of those things to hide. It was Dira exploring her to trust that made her smile and squeeze her partners hand. Her voice, when she spoke, was solid but quiet and certain. “That I can do more easily than anything in my life dearest.”

Zoi

Dira beamed and shuffled a little closer on the sofa, setting the crystal between them. Reaching out, she placed Zoi’s hand on one side of the canar, near the base. “Place your other hand on the other side.”

Zoi watched in curiosity and fascination, wondering what this little device could really do. She did as her beloved asked, placing her free hand on the device opposite the first hand.

She rested her own hands so they were overlapping at the fingertips. “Now just relax. Think of me, of us.”

~Dira

Truly relaxing was hard for Zoi. Years of security training had her always alert. Always in the back of her mind, she waited for anomalies, a change to the low key hum of the ships engines or the vibration that comes from being on a moving ship, a shift in emotion on the ship or a shout where there shouldn’t be one. However, she tried in this moment to let all of that go and to focus completely on herself, Dira and their relationship that had blossomed these past few months.

Her eyes gazed at the beautiful face she had come to love, wanting to grow old together and know every line on her face from smiling or worrying. Her heart filled to the point of near pain as it almost always did when she allowed herself to truly think about them together and what they could be.

Haven, CNS

Suddenly those beautiful emotions and thoughts of Zoi’s were joined by others. There was adoration for the way Zoi made Dira lose herself in her own feelings and just let go. There was comfort in the simplest touch or brush of Zoi’s mind. There was joy in the laughter and easy banter.

The joining was … well, Zoi had no words to describe it. It was her emotions and thoughts but so much more when Dira added her own. It was hard to tell where one began and the other ended because it was so reciprocal between them. Yet Zoi was not lost within the swirling of their joining. She was still her own person with her own thoughts, feelings, and memories. Somehow the joining simply added a depth to them that had not been present before.

Together, their emotions were all mixed together in what Dira could only calling a loving blanket. Gazing at Zoi, she imagined running the backs of her fingers down the side of her lover’s face, knowing that it was transmit to Zoi herself. See? she thought in this shared space. You’re safe with me here.

~Dira

Zoi couldn’t help but smile. The sensation was unusual but not in a bad way. It felt warm and comforting. I do see. How interesting. Is this something your whole species does?

Haven, CoS

My father is Haliian and they are empaths and touch telepaths. The canar enhances their abilities and it used most commonly to intensify a bond that exists, though there are other uses that are more practical. But they are used very judiciously as it is, as you can see, a very intimate process. My mother is Betazoid, and thus through her I am an outright telepath. I don’t need the canar, but I enjoy the experience even if I have used it infrequently in my life. Even as Dira explained this, she enveloped Zoi in a sense of physical touch that amounted to a hug, but it existed in this middle ground between body and mind and felt real.

~Dira