Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Tenkiller’s House- Tipping Point, Day 2

Posted by Major General Charles Tenkiller (Vice-Commander, Colonial Customs and Defense Agency) in Tenkiller’s House- Tipping Point, Day 2

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Tenkiller’s House- Tipping Point, Day 2

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Yavia, “I took one cup, not my fault with these huge mugs the press only makes 3 cups.” She grinned. “I never touched your mug…it was Sharah.” She immediately started laughing.

Sharah rolled her eyes and grinned at Charles before he kissed her. Yavia was outrageous and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Eela allowed herself to feel the happiness and love between them all and revel in it. It certainly felt better than than most of her other emotions. Though the message from Dash reminded her that among the many things that were beginning to shift and change for her, so was her willingness to let her heart pull down the forcefield.

Their affection also allowed Eela to parse his words. “I know it’s easy to joke, and there is a lot of anger all around, but even if I am furious, and fed up, I’m not the kind of person that wishes harm on another. It’s just who I am. So even if Cory is someone I need to purge from my life, your jokes scare me. I told Hasid I didn’t want him harmed and that is still true. That isn’t his manipulation and control over me. That is me taking back my control. I will protect myself and my family as I need to, but to go farther feels wrong to me.” In fact it made her very nervous and if the whole situation would spiral so much farther out of everyone’s control. It made her feel ill again.

~Eela

Tenkiller looked at V and Sharah and winked. He then walked over to Eela, took her face in his hands and smiled. “I am only violent if the situation calls fo rit. But I am very vindictive concerning my friends. So… I called in a favor. Friend of mine at Earth spacedock is gonna fill his suitcase with dog treats. The drug sniffing canines will go insane.” and he smiled again.

Tenkiller

A hand on her shoulder was one thing but him holding her face was quite another and Eela knew there was no way in hell it wasn’t intentional and meant to cut through the sludge of heavy emotions. Well, all things considered it was extremely effective!

Her face shifted into surprises amusement. “That will make for a lengthily and uncomfortable time at customs.” She nodded, maybe not in approval but in acceptance of the action.

When he dropped his hands she shook her head. “Remind me not to piss you off. I’d hate to think what you’d swap my coffee for.”

Sharah giggled. “Remember that, and ask him sometime how he got the nickname.” Oh yes Sharah had read the file.

“You know! I wanna know,” Yavia almost pouted, all for affect of course. Sharah shrugged. “Well then go find out. Not my place to tell.” Yavia pursed her lips, “I don’t have access to his star Fleet record…but there are other ways I suppose.” She grinned at him by the coffee press. “I don’t suppose you will just tell me if I ask.”

“No, I don’t suppose I will.” he said with a grin as he shielded what he was doing with the coffee from her view and thought only about dog treats.

Eela was certainly curious herself and while she did have a certain amount of access to Starfleet personnel records (which she had used liberally with the Vargas case), there were times and places to do so and this was not one of them. “One day, maybe,” she said softly.

Moving to the stove with the book, Eela laid it out of the way so nothing accidentally got on the pages. “This first one they brought everything for is loosely translated as ‘mind easer’ but is more colloquially known as ‘the air that reverses corruption’ and can be used as a spray.” Eela smirked at them. “My people have a flair for the dramatic all told. And I hope my protection detail won’t mind if I spray the entry and the lift.” Anywhere Cory was needed tending to. Downstairs in the lobby she was less fussed about as the other residents moving through the space would take care of it naturally by their own presence.

“It all just goes in the larger of the pots. I need a lot of it,” she said dryly.

~Eela

Yavia nodded and started helping put it in the pot. Sharah hurried down stairs to her room. Which unknown to her better 2 thirds was looking a bit like a laboratory. She came.back up the stairs, changed into clothes rather than her robe and carrying spray bottles, oil rollers, tins, tubs, and all manner of containers.

Sharah

Tenkiller stepped out if the way. He knew enough to move when the women in his family were on a mission; and this was remarkably similar. To the point it made him a little homesick for a minute. But he smiled as he watched them all mixing, steeping, and preparing to rid Eela of the negativity brought into her home.

Tenkiller

Sharah hugged him on her back past him. Well, her arms were full of jars and what not, so she didn’t physically hug him, but it sure felt like it. It was one of those seemingly small but huge things for her to do. And she places the ‘blame’ for that tentative confidence straight on Charles and Yavia’s shoulders.

Reading aloud the list of ingredients and the amounts, Eela made sure that anything she touched was infused with good intentions. Heal, cleanse and release became her new mantra as she dropped things into the simmering pot. She murmured words in her native tongue as she gestured with her hand to waft the now scented steam about them. A little cleansing right now from all the intensity of the last day couldn’t hurt.

“We’re going to reduce that liquid to one-third, strain it and then let it cool, so why don’t you keep stirring that gently Yavia and Sharah and I can start the next one?”

Flipping through the pages, Eela held up a small jar of dark blue seed pods she wasn’t familiar with but had a strange recollection she had read the name before. “Do you know what these ones are? I think they are not Haliian and used as a substitute for something we used to use on Halii but is from a sensitive ecological area and was deemed too precious to use anymore.” She frowned in frustration. “I knew them both before but I can’t remember.” It was rare that she discovered outright memories or bits of information that had been once entrenched in her mind and now had vanished, and memories could definitely fade, but this was one of the side effects of having your brain smacked about in your skull.

“Hmmm,” Sharah took the jar and peered at it. It looks like Thorn Hyssop from Vogurn. Which is similar to Blister Aniseed on Halii. It can also be substituted for Vigia Nut from Catawba.” She opened the jar and sniffed and the. Took one of the seeds and rolled it around between her fingers. “Yeah this is Thorn Hyssop. See how it flattens but doesn’t break when you roll it. In the jar it smells sour but as you roll it it releases a peppery scent.”

Yavia watched what she was stirring but shook her head and glances at TK. “I think we have our own little witch in the house,” and grinned. Clearly teasing.

“I’m actually really glad I had the foresight to make a copy of the book and keep the original safe on Earth,” Eela said. “I kept the copy with me on my travels, and of course we lost all our personal effects when the Steadfast was destroyed, so this is one of the few precious possessions I still have.”

~Eela

“It is a remarkable book, Eela. So much knowledge and care is inside of it. I freely admit I am a bit envious and really want to try everything in that book for myself,” Sharah shrugged. Herbal and natural remedies had been her thesis project. It just hadn’t ended the way she had hoped. It turned out to be something much more useful for everyone else. It just hadn’t led to the cure she needed for herself.

Sharah