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Message started by ejmonahan on Feb 12^th, 2006, 3:55pm

Title: Food Court
Post by ejmonahan on Feb 12^th, 2006, 3:55pm

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<serenity's food court>

The food court was packed people were were everywhere.

Metallic grabbed I bite to eat at the Red Dwarf Losbter.

Sitting down he started eating.

And enclosed booth he was at gave him some privacy but at the cost that few could see him eat.

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TBC

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 12^th, 2006, 9:59pm

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"Did you ever wonder what lobster thinks before it dies? I mean here it is sitting in a pot of water, and all of a sudden the water is like a hot tub and then, presto the lobster is dead and ready to be eaten. What do you think your meal's last thoughts were?"

Lieutenant Kentra Donrav stood over his table holding a plate, she pointed to an empty table, "I was sitting over there by myself but I figured you looked like you needed to eat with a talkative trill so..." She dropped her plate on the table and sat down. She took a bite of her own meal, a salad, and smiled.

"My name is Lieutenant Kentra Donrav. I'm the Chief Communications Officer of the USS Laffey. Pleasure to meet you."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by ejmonahan on Feb 12^th, 2006, 11:36pm

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"Lieutenant Metallic Chief Tactical and security Starbase 911 and Union 3"
Metallic said stuffing his face.

"Hey didn't I see you talking with Ta'pez earlier today?"

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 13^th, 2006, 12:11am

| Day 0, dinner

The place was crowded, and Kenin looked around as she tried to find an empty table. The tray she was carrying was filled with some kind of pasta dish, and a fruit bowl, as well as a glass of a fruit drink. Much of it was unfamiliar, and she just hoped it was palatable. As she negotiated the room, she noticed a woman vacate a table and moved that way, but before she got there, two surly looking Klingons settled there. She'd had her fill of surly for the day, so she continued to move around.

Then she spotted Metallic. But there was a woman with him, and she was afraid she would be intruding...For a moment, she hesitated, then moved to where she was sure he would see her (she hoped) and did her best to look lost and bewildered, which wasn't difficult because she pretty much was! Looking as nonchalant as she could, she waited for Metallic to notice her.

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Metallic
Kentra

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by ejmonahan on Feb 13^th, 2006, 12:53am

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"Hey there" Metallic said to Kenin while drinking more blood wine.

"Oh, hi!" She tired to sound surprised and spontaneous, but she doubted she carried it off well. "How are you? I was...uh, just looking around for a place to sit..."

Still down you" Metallic said in a stern voice, while point to the third side of the table to a chair.

"Yes, sir!" Glad for the recognition, she sat in the chair indicated, smiling. "It's good to see you here..." She glanced at his companion, wondering if he was going to introduce her

"This is Lieutenant Kentra Donrav, the Chief Communications Officer of the USS Laffey, Kentra this Kenin leGoz of,... sorry I don't know where you work." Metallic said trying to think if Kenin told him.

"Work?" Kenin shrugged, then chuckled. "I'm still in school..." Well, she would be if she had a family and home and, well, if she listened to adults like Rael and Zara and..."I'll probably start Academy soon..." As if she would be caught dead in Starfleet!

Metallic saw right through her and then smiled, "Hated the academy, one day I'm teaching the next day I'm just another student." Metallic continued, "I'm 46 god dang years old, a veteran of over 29 years of non-stop bs, A nd what do I have to show for it, some messy quarters in a space dock." Metallic said loudly quiting near by tables.

Looking over at him, Kenin had a new appreciation for him. Of course, Kentra might feel differently, so she smiled and shrugged. "I hear just about everything in life is pretty disappointing..." Great attitude for a seventeen year old!

"Just wait till your my age, you'll see!." Metallic said without thinking if Kentra was joined or not

Kenin laughed and rolled her eyes. "I'll never be *that* old!"

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 13^th, 2006, 2:31am

Kentra smiled, she looked a bit older than the girl, but younger than the man but the truth was that in a way she was far older than either of them. "If you're finding life disappointing then perhaps you are living it wrong. I tend to find that you can make any life interesting if you approach it properly."

"As for the Academy, I enjoyed it. It was a totally unique experience, I've never been through something like that even though one of my hosts graduated from the Trill Science Academy and taught at the Vulcan Science Institute it was totally different."

She shrugged, "My advice is that your races only get one life, and so you should enjoy it as much as you can. The Donrav symbiot is going to outlive me, and my memories will continue on but I too only really have one life as Kentra Donrav."

She smiled and took another bite of salad, "Sorry to ramble."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 13^th, 2006, 10:24pm

| Day 0, dinner
| Food Court

"That's all right." Kenin shrugged. Everyone was entitled to their opinion, and her grudge was against Starfleet in general, not against individuals. "I'm going to be a doctor, I think. You're a Trill? What's it like, having that...symbot in you?" Even though she lived with a Trill, Zara was unjoined. And the idea was a little...creepy. "Does it hurt or anything?"

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Metallic
Kentra

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 13^th, 2006, 11:05pm

"I would assume without the proper anesthetics that the procedure would hurt," Kentra said, taking a bite of her salad. After she swallowed her mouthful she considered, "It is hard to describe, even to another trill. Imagine waking up and suddenly having the memories of another person as well as your own. Then imagine that it's not just two sets of memories but dozens."

"It changes you, me. I lived my whole life on a small farming colony. Everyone there was deeply religious, my parents, my family, me. We believed, and I still do in a way, that any sort of violence was abhorent and it was better to allow oneself to be killed than to even raise a hand in defense," she explained, "It is not a popular religion among trills, but it is similar to the Quaker faith that was prevalent on Earth throughout the many centuries."

"When I was joined it was a great honour, and my family was excited and proud. But as I said joining changes you, and I was different. The Donrav symbiot has been in hosts that have done everything from being scientists, to scavangers working with the Orion syndicate, to diplomats to... whatever you could imagine," she said.

"I went to be as a pacifist who had never hurt a fly and woke up with memories of killing people in combat, for profit, for honour, with phasers, with knives and it," she sighed.

"I no longer felt a part of my family, or our faith. I was no longer pure. I realized that I needed to leave and the Donrav symbiot had been wanting to experience Starfleet for several lifetimes so I went along. But this," she pulled at her uniform, "was too much for my family. Just wearing it is an offense to God, it's embracing our base nature instincts for violence. And so the day I was accepted into the academy was the last day I spoke with my family."

"When trills are joined we're not supposed to reestablish relationships with our previous hosts' families or friends. I lost both my own too," she said.

She smiled slightly, "I apologize I don't mean to bore anyone. I just have been thinking about this a lot recently. Between signing up for this tournament, and other recent events in my life I have found it hard to define who I am. Am I Kentra, the girl who spent her life raising our version of earth chickens, or this mixture of lives and memories that is always in me."

"Sorry, I do go on. Tell me about yourselves," she asked.

Tag Metallic, Kenin.

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by ejmonahan on Feb 13^th, 2006, 11:16pm

Metallic looked at Kentra and groned.

"Thousand plus years of trill knowledge and memories or not, my life was made a disappointment, and how it became that way is a long story one I don't care in talking about at the moment."

Metallic continue to savagely stuff his face, full of the seafood he had ordered.

Tag: Tag KentraDonrav and Kenin leGoz

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 13^th, 2006, 11:38pm

| Day 0, dinner
| Food Court

Kenin shrugged. "My parents dad and brother were killed in an accident, and my mother..." Kenin realized she had said too much and was about to say too much more! "Uh, my mother sent me to stay with my uncle for a while, until she could get her life better, you know?" The girl shrugged. "I'm going to be a doctor. I have friends who are helping me. I need to get back to my studies, though. They kind of were interrupted." By living on the streets and making due anyway she could, not to mention those boys who had...

Shaking her head, Kenin forced a smile. "Anyway, I want to be a doctor and work with children and stuff..."

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Metallic
Kentra

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 14^th, 2006, 1:27am

"A doctor, that would be interesting," Kentra mused, "I've never been a doctor. Have you ever considered joining Starfleet? It would be a way to get a comprehensive education and you'd get a good working knowledge of practical medicine. After a few years you can retire and work with children."

She turned to Metallic, "Life is only a disappointment when it's over. You are young, you have much time to do something. I don't know what your past is, but your future is yours alone to decide what to do."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by ejmonahan on Feb 14^th, 2006, 2:05pm

"I wish that was true, but I've seen my future, or should I say it visited me, and I go from this to something else." Metallic reflected from a pass visit he had from his future self.

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 14^th, 2006, 2:28pm

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"Maybe," shrugged Donrav, "but now that you know how the future turns out you can change it. Even if you can't you can still enjoy life before you end up in Stovacore, and lead a life worthy of song."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by ejmonahan on Feb 14^th, 2006, 5:17pm

"perhaps, " Metallic said with a grin, "but for what I've done when I died I'll be going to some place unpleasent."

"Well I'mstill excited from my fight, so I'm going to check out my on board quaters, Later."

Metallic move out, from the table a made his way to the exit.

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 14^th, 2006, 6:09pm

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Kentra watched him go, and then turned back to the young girl, "Is there any place you can volunteer to work with children now? Often even without a medical degree you can provide a helping function. I believe humans called them candy strippers or something similiar."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 15^th, 2006, 7:23am

"There's the hospital." Kenin shrugged. "I guess I could do that, I just never thought about it..." Of course, living with the Governor would help get her in. But she was still young and tended to cincentrate moer on thigns like clothes, and then there was Patrick...

"You really think they would let me be there if I'm not a nurse? I helped take care of some of the injured when Atlantis was bombed. I guess I need to get back to my studies, too, if I want to go to medical school." She'd been a good student before the streets had become her home...

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Kentra

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 15^th, 2006, 11:56am

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 15^th, 2006, 10:52pm

"Studies are important, but it would be more helpful to you and them if you could help out. That way they'd have an extra hand and if you did it for a few months you could decide whether it was something you really wanted to do," Kentra said, "and if it was then you'd apply yourself to your studies all the more."

Kenin nodded. That made good sense, and maybe she would stay out of trouble, and it might make Patrick proud..."I guess so...then I could see if I was any good."

She laughed, "It's too bad humans only have one life. I always enjoy mixing mine up. I might spend one or two as a scientist or like now in Starfleet, but then I like to go and do something really fun like be a pirate with the Orions or buy my own ship and travel the stars reclaiming old destroyed vessels for profit, you know something not so prim and proper."

"You're a pirate?" Kenin's eyes widened in appreciation. She looked so...grown up or something! "I bet you know a lot about fighting and getting what you want and stuff...but...did you ever hurtanyone...I mean, not someone who was bad?"

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Kentra

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 16^th, 2006, 2:38am

"I didn't, it was a previous host. But yeah, it happened. It's hard to say, I mean someone who is trying to stop you getting what you want, they seem bad at the time. I wouldn't do it myself, I mean I'm a pacifist I wouldn't hurt anyone but," she shrugged, "we all do things we're not proud of and with trills sometimes other people do things we're not proud of.

"I worked with the Romulans during the Romulan - Starfleet war and when I worked with the Orions I did some unsavory things," Kentra said, "I don't mean me. It's complicated, being a trill. Now a days I won't even carry a phaser on away missions, let alone kill someone or kidnap them and sell them into slavery."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 16^th, 2006, 4:53am

| Day 0, dinner
| Food court

Kenin shrugged. "Sometimes you don't have a choice." She looked up at the woman. "And sometimes you want to, but you can't...you just have to let them do things..." Frowning, she shook her head. "Pacifist? What's that? Why not carry a phaser if they will let you, just in case..?" Maybe, even with all those other experiences, she had never been held down and..."I just know I would..."

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Kentra

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 16^th, 2006, 5:00am

"I, and I'm talking about me Kentra and not Donrav, don't believe in violence. I'd rather die than harm another being, and so I won't carry a phaser on a mission even if ordered too," she explained, "I believe there's always a diplomatic solution to every situation and there is nothing in life worth killing another being over."

"Which makes what Donrav's previous hosts have done, hard to deal with," she said.

"Does that make sense? Being a pacifist? Do you have any questions about it?"

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 17^th, 2006, 4:02am

| Day 0, dinner
| Food court

"Yeah, I guess it makes sense that all those personalites don't see the same things..." Then she shrugged. "So if someone wanted to kill you or..something, you would just let them? What if they were going to kill your friend?" Kenin knew what she would do...what she had done...

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Kentra

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 17^th, 2006, 5:09am

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--- Food Court ---

Kentra nodded, "I would let someone kill me rather than kill them. As for a friend, well according to my family's faith I should just let them be killed but recently I was in a situation with a friend where she was being threatened and would have been killed if I did not agree to fight a Klingon in a bet'leth match to the death."

"I agreed, assuming I would just lose, but luckily we managed to escape before I was killed, or forced to kill," she said. She knew she wouldn't have been able to win that match, she would have just been able to delay the inevitable.

"How about you? Would you be so quick to kill? You're never the same, once you kill," she said.

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 17^th, 2006, 5:19am

| Day 0, dinner
| Food court

Kenin shrugged. "You are never the same once you're..." This was getting a bit too close to home. "Well, a whole bunch of things change you...but they were going to kill me after they...so you haven't been hurt and mad and scared before? I don't mind that I had to kill him, he could have just left us alone..."

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Kentra

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 17^th, 2006, 5:27am

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"Oh, I didn't know you had to, I'm sorry. I don't judge anyone who is forced to, it's just how I have decided to live," Kentra said, "my boyfriend is a marine so I don't exactly get all high and mighty about not killing."

"And yes I do get scared, and I have been hurt before too," she said, "Kentra has, I have in this host. That Klingon I told you about, the one who forced me to fight him. He kidnapped me a couple of months ago because of something my previous host did to him. I was scared and alone, and I never thought I'd see my friends or my home on the ship again."

"I made a mistake when I fought him, but he wanted to kill my wife," she shook her head, "I mean Denax's wife, my previous host's wife. Denax loved her so much that I couldn't let her die, so I agreed to fight. I'm ashamed of it, but that's the decision I had to make."

"Can you tell me why, you had to... what happened?"

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 17^th, 2006, 6:40am

| Day 0, dinner
| Food court

Kenin shrugged. "Starfleet killed my father and brother...and my mother, she..." Not sure why she was compelled to spill all this to the woman, she told of the accident with her father's freighter, then how her mother had slowly deteriorated, giving into the alcohol and drugs, then finally throwing Kenin out...she told of living on the streets, spending days at the youth center and nights on the street...then that awful night, and the three boys who had found her alone...

"I couldn't fight them," she whispered, "but the other men, later...I was with Rael, and they came

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Kentra

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 17^th, 2006, 12:40pm

Kentra reached out and touched Kenin's hand, "I'm sorry. I don't... I am sure you did what was right, what you needed to do. I don't mean to act like I'm better than you for what I believe, or what I would do differently because I'm not. It's just my own beliefs."

"Are you okay now," she asked quietly.

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 18^th, 2006, 1:11am

"Yeah, things got better." Shrugging, she picked at her food. "I have a place to live..." Well, three, actually! "And there are people who are looking after me and want to help. Good people." She smiled then. "That's why I'm determined not to get into any trouble...so far so good." She grinned, then looked down at her plate. "Things will stay good..." She had to believe that...

TAG
Kentra

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 18^th, 2006, 12:46pm

The trill nodded and took a sip of her drink, "Always do what you know to be right and you will do okay. You might not believe the same things as me, or have the same values, but you seem like a good person. As long as you do your best, you'll be okay."

"And never be afraid to ask for help," she said, "I've learned that a pretty face like yours or mine can get you quite a lot of willing help."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 18^th, 2006, 9:44pm

The trill nodded and took a sip of her drink, "Always do what you know to be right and you will do okay. You might not believe the same things as me, or have the same values, but you seem like a good person. As long as you do your best, you'll be okay."

"Yes, Ma'am..." She tried to do that, especially recently. She had been raised well, and had been on a path to a good, normal life, and now there were people pushing her back that way again.

"And never be afraid to ask for help," she said, "I've learned that a pretty face like yours or mine can get you quite a lot of willing help."

Blushing, Kenin shrugged. "Honestly, I was kind of doing that here. Men are suckers for a sad smile...But then, I really could use a bit of help, and it makes them feel good to think they were kind, right?" Then she quickly amended, "But I can pay for myself..."

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Kentra

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 19^th, 2006, 1:08am

"I was not suggesting otherwise," Donrav said, "but humans have a saying that 'no man is an island'. Like most human sayings it is quite confusing but what it means is that we are all in need of help from time to time and it is not shameful to ask for it."

"Even Horta are social species, and nearly all humanoids are," she said, "Even Klingons as much as they might protest otherwise rely on others. So don't feel bad for doing so yourself."

She took a sip of her water, "Is there anyone you are particularly close to? A best friend or a boy friend?"

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 20^th, 2006, 12:05am

"I was not suggesting otherwise," Donrav said, "but humans have a saying that 'no man is an island'. Like most human sayings it is quite confusing but what it means is that we are all in need of help from time to time and it is not shameful to ask for it."

Kenin nodded. "And some don't want help...But I'm glad for the people helping me."

"Even Horta are social species, and nearly all humanoids are," she said, "Even Klingons as much as they might protest otherwise rely on others. So don't feel bad for doing so yourself."

"I try not to..." She shrugged. "Sometimes I just want to show that I can do things..."

She took a sip of her water, "Is there anyone you are particularly close to? A best friend or a boy friend?"

At this, Kenin's cheeks turned bright red. "Maybe..." She shrugged slowly. "Well, yeah, kinda. He's older than I am, but he's handsome and nice and exciting and..." Looking at Kentra, she shook her head. "And he thinks I'm a kid..."

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 20^th, 2006, 2:21am

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 20^th, 2006, 11:22am

Kentra laughed, "I'm sorry. I have heard that before. My parents always used to say I was too young for the exciting chores when I was growing up. But I have a new perspective on age now and as someone with memories stretching back before humans had split the atom, I'm going to tell you that you don't strike me as just a kid."

"Really?" A blush touched her cheeks as she smiled proudly. It was perhaps the time spent on the streets trying to survive. Or the time since, as she was trying to do what was right while proving she was independant...

"You must be older than I was when I was joined, and barely younger than when I ran away from home and joined Starfleet if not the same age," she said, "Age is useful, I'm not going to say it isn't. But I have over a thousand years of memories and experiences and I still spent then entire shuttle ride here worried that while I'm gone my boyfriend is going to leave me for some Starfleet Captain who just turned up not dead all of a sudden."

"No matter how old you get, you'll never figure out love," she smiled.

"You ran away?" That didn't make sense...she'd give anything to have her family back the way it was. Then she looked up and frowned. "If he is your boyfriend, then he shouldn't leave you, right?" Of course, her experience with love was nothing more than crushes on older men who smiled at her and were kind to her..and when she'd found out that Marcus had betrayed her, she'd seriously considered putting a dagger in him! "Why are men like that? They can't make up their minds about what they want..." Then she thought of Patrick and smiled. He was nice, but he was just a kid!

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 20^th, 2006, 12:09pm

"Because men are all sixteen years old inside," she said, "and they're all idealists. They all find small things they don't like about a girl, and then they see other girls and think that it is those ones that are perfect. So if their girlfriends snores while sleeping, every girl they see they think, 'I bet she doesn't snore in bed'. Then when they dump their girlfriend for a new one they realize that the new one has something wrong with them and so it begins again."

"They're all looking for the perfect woman, and they'll never find it," she said, "which is why I'm afraid mine will leave. He loved this woman, and then she died so he had years to remember her as being the most incredible woman ever, to make her perfect in his mind. Now it appears she did not die, and while he knows about all my flaws, he has built her up to be the one perfect woman."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 21^st, 2006, 12:49am

"Oh, I'm sorry..." Kenin looked up at the woman, genuinely wishing there was something she could do. "Can't you contact him from here somehow...I mean, remind him you are here?" She grinned and wrinkled her nose. "Maybe sing a song for him, or dress up all pretty and talk mushy? Make sure he thinks you are perfect?" It made sense to her, but what did she know?!

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 21^st, 2006, 1:41am

Kentra smiled, "Those are pretty good ideas. I just wanted to give him some space, and let him think about things without me pressuring him. I've lived too many years, and been in too many two way affairs to have patience for it."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, doesn't it?"

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 21^st, 2006, 11:26pm

"I guess." She did know she wished that Rael had come. And she actually found herself thinking about Patrcik as well, and perhaps missing him a bit more. Or maybe it was differently?

"So how do you know if doing something to make him happy is pressuring him? I mean, what if he is expecting something and you don't do anything, then he might think you don't care..." She sighed dramatically. "I think I'm just not going to fall in love..."

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 3:07am

Kentra looked worried, "I don't know. Maybe you're right, I hadn't thought of that. Maybe I was dumb to leave him. I was going to ask him to come with me but I thought that he'd need space and now..."

She sighed, "Men. You're right, don't fall in love it's too hard. There's plenty of other things to amuse you, like bet'leth or holosuite romance novels."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 7:41pm

"But aren't romance novels just falling in love with someone who isn't real?" Kenin shrugged, then grinned. "I know the hero in mine always turns out to look like..." Her cheeks reddened as she looked down. "Anyway, I think you should send him a note or something, just so he doesn't think you forgot him. Or maybe get your picture taken in something...sexy!"

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 3:37pm

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 10:46pm

"Something sexy? I don't own anything sexy, just these darn uniforms and the light robe I use when fighting, and that's covered in blood by now," she said. Kentra considered, "Maybe I'll have to find something on the station, a shop or something."

"You don't wear just clothes?" That seemed odd, to always have to wear a uniform. Easy, maybe, but boring!

"Why don't you try the same thing? Dress sexy for your guy? Make him notice you that way?"

"I guess I could. I just feel funny in those clothes so everyone can see everything..." Shrugging, she added, "I guess I could get something for when we are alone..." Her eyes brightened. "Say, do you want to go shopping?" One of her favorite things, and she even had a few credits to spend!

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 24^th, 2006, 3:43am

Kentra smiled, "I do wear other clothes, I just didn't bring any. But that's a fine idea, we can go tomorrow after the next round of fights? How about it?"

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 24^th, 2006, 5:02am

"Yeah, sure, that would be nice." She smiled and nodded. "I hope you do good in the fights, too. I think it's neat that a woman is trying. Men think we can't do anything like that...they're wrong, of course!"

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 24^th, 2006, 1:44pm

"Of course they are," she smiled, "though I think there are a few females from other races in the competition as well. Klingons and the like. But not a lot of humanoids, none that I can think of but I could just be missing someone."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 24^th, 2006, 6:47pm

"We fight different, mostly, don't we? Personally, I don't see the point in getting that close!" She laughed. "A phaser will do me just fine." She had experience with hand to hand and didn't like it one bit!

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 25^th, 2006, 6:39am

"I don't look at it as fighting," she said, "it's more like a form of ballet or like the earth sport fencing. I do not want to hurt anyone, and I don't do it out of anger, it's simply like ballet for me. A way of movement, and being athletic."

"Being that I'm a pacifist and all, does that make sense?"

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 25^th, 2006, 8:08pm

Kenin thought about it for a moment, then nodded. "Yes, I think so. I do know that some kinds of fighting are used more as exercises. And sometimes it does look like they are fighting. Just some of the fighters start to look so angry...like they really want to kill someone...you aren't afraid of accidentally getting hurt?" A wrong move could be deadly..

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 25^th, 2006, 8:12pm

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Feb 27^th, 2006, 8:48pm

"I guess so," Kentra said, "I mean it hurts, but as long as I'm not trying to hurt anyone I feel okay about it. But yeah Klingons like to get mad and try to hurt people, all I can do is do my best and try to keep out of their way."

Kenin laughed. "Well, I suppose you have a point there....since it is next to impossible to tell what mood they're in...they always look mad, even when they smile."

"Is there anything sports like that you do?"

"Haven't had time, really, not lately, anyway." Kenin shrugged, then grinned. "I did some dancing when I was youger...some ballet and step dancing. I kinda liked that. It made me feel free...I guess I could do it again now..." She looked down at her glass, then took a sip. "I have studies and things to catch up on, too...at least to make Zara and T'rralln happy..and Rael, too. I hate studying!"

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Feb 27^th, 2006, 10:58pm

"Well there is more to life than studying," Kentra said, "you have to balance your body and mind. Maybe you might try some sort of social sport. Does the boy you have a crush on like any sports? If he does maybe you could use that to get closer to him? Learn how to bowl or whatever he does."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 1^st, 2006, 1:22am

"He drives tanks," she giggled, "he's a Marine..." And it dawned on her she was talking about Patrick and not Rael. "I mean, uh, he...well, I know he does some of the fighting...like, martial arts, you know..." She shrugged. "I guess it wouldn't be bad to learn those, then I could take care of myself, too. He mostly likes weapons...pulse rifles, he has a sword he uses..." She sighed and rested her chin in her hands. "I don't know, I think I'd have to be older for him to care..."

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 1^st, 2006, 2:03am

"We already talked about this, age isn't important. Explain to me why age is important and I'll prove to you why it isn't," Kentra challenged.

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 1^st, 2006, 5:53am

"I don't know..." Kenin shrugged, looking up at her. "I mean, he knows so much more, and has so much more experience. I don't know most of what he does...he might get tired of being with a little girl...besides, everyone says its wrong."

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 1^st, 2006, 11:19am

"Everyone used to say that a Vulcan and a human mating were wrong, and yet nobody does today," Kentra said, "And if all that about experiences was true then I'd only date trills, other joined trills in fact. I've got lots more 'experience' than Joker but I'm still taken by him. It's about building new experiences with people, if you can offer him a lifetime of new experiences he has no reason to use that as an excuse."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 1^st, 2006, 1:49pm

Walking by with a tray of food Khoal caught the last bit of the conversation. He took an open seat and sat down. "I will take that challenge."

He took a bite of the bland Vulcan food before him. "First, there are still many who do say that interspecies breeding is wrong. Just because the Federation doesn't say it, or rather, that most in public don't downtalk it, doesn't make it right. Just as slavery exist to this day in many cultures. The Federation doesn't allow it. The Federation doesn't have royalty... but some cultures thrive with it."

He took another bite. "Second, age does matter. There is a difference between a 20 year old woman with a 500 hundred year old mind meld mating with a 20 or 40 year old. I'd even go as far to say that a 70 year old mating with a 20 year old joined child would be wrong. If age doesn't matter, why are you dating someone who is 10? Would that be ethical? People mature at different speeds. If she," he pointed with his spoon, "is still asking these questions, she is not ready to be involved with a seasoned adult."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 1^st, 2006, 5:30pm

Everyone used to say that a Vulcan and a human mating were wrong, and yet nobody does today," Kentra said, "And if all that about experiences was true then I'd only date trills, other joined trills in fact. I've got lots more 'experience' than Joker but I'm still taken by him. It's about building new experiences with people, if you can offer him a lifetime of new experiences he has no reason to use that as an excuse."

Kenin blushed and shrugged. So far they had both been through a lot, although she wasn't sure that battles and fighting were the experiences she wanted. "I guess we could do that." She looked up as a man approached the table and scooted over to accommodate him. "It could work..." She would like for it to...

Walking by with a tray of food Khoal caught the last bit of the conversation. He took an open seat and sat down. "I will take that challenge."

"Oh?" Kenin grinned. "It will be good to hear a male point of view!"

He took a bite of the bland Vulcan food before him. "First, there are still many who do say that interspecies breeding is wrong. Just because the Federation doesn't say it, or rather, that most in public don't downtalk it, doesn't make it right. Just as slavery exist to this day in many cultures. The Federation doesn't allow it. The Federation doesn't have royalty... but some cultures thrive with it."

Frowning, Kenin tried to decide if he was agreeing or not. Of course, she didn't really care what the Federation had to say. They didn't care about things that were important to her, and if it was taboo to the Federation, all the more reason to pursue it!

He took another bite. "Second, age does matter. There is a difference between a 20 year old woman with a 500 hundred year old mind meld mating with a 20 or 40 year old. I'd even go as far to say that a 70 year old mating with a 20 year old joined child would be wrong. If age doesn't matter, why are you dating someone who is 10? Would that be ethical? People mature at different speeds. If she," he pointed with his spoon, "is still asking these questions, she is not ready to be involved with a seasoned adult."

"I am so!" Of course the indignant reply counteracted itself. "I'm grown up..." Well, almost...a year or two, or five! "And besides, we get along good, and he makes me tingle just to look at him, and we can talk and he's easy to be around...and isn't that what they say is a good way to start?" Her glare was defiant and defensive, another mark of immaturity that was struggling oh so hard to fall away so adulthood could take its place!

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 1^st, 2006, 8:21pm

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Kentra looked at the Klingon and hissed at him in his own language, "Why are you trying to crush the girl's dreams? She is not a ten year old babe, and you know nothing of her. She strikes me as old enough, and her love is not exactly an ancient being."

Reverting to Federation Standard she shook her head, "So what you're saying is that since I am over a thousand years old, experiance wise, does that mean I'm only meant for other joined trills? Trills and joined trills often mate and there is very seldomly any adverse affects."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 2:27am

Khoal was mostly amused and it showed on his face. Replying in Klingon, "If her dreams are so fragile they should be crushed. Why are you setting her up to be destroyed? Experience is the sum of all lessons, and she is a child. She needs more before she can have a real relationship with an adult."

Then he switched back to standard. "But it is rude to speak around her. If she is an adult, treat her like one." He took a sip of his soup. "No, you didn't hear me. You are not 1000 years old, you are a 28 year old woman who is somewhat more mature than her peers. You have more memory, call it intense education then most your age, but you are not 1000 years old. This child, despite her attempts otherwise, is old beyond her.. 16, 17? years. But she is still young. I am surprised your experience hasn't taught you that. Perhaps it also makes you blind."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 3:10am

"And what is it that makes you so rude?" Kenin snapped, her jaw set in defiance. "You don't even know me..." But perhaps it was because he was so dead on even without knowing her that really had her ire up. "I killed a man..." As if that made her grown up....but she did fall silently sullen after that. The circumstance of fighting for your life was enough to make anyone grow up quickly.

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 3:52am

"Rude?" He stared at her unblinking and looked a little angry. "What makes you so timid little girl?"

He took a bite of something bland on his plate and then looked up and smiled. "Actually, amongst Klingons I am told I am too friendly. What you are calling rude is proper Klingon behavior. We don't mince words. We are direct. We do nothing with a reason." And then looking at the Trill, "And we don't coddle." He looked back at the young girl. "If you are asking questions about relationships then you are old enough to learn, but that doesn't mean you are ready to be involved in with an older man. What will you do when he finally tells you about his wife... or his son that is a few years younger... or older then you? Are you ready for that? Age matters. It matters less when you, yourself," he emphisized that while glancing at the Trill, "are older and have more experience. But if you and the other are not nearly equal in maturity, or experience, or expectations, it will end badly."

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Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 5:02am

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Kentra laughed, angrily, "You say you do not coddle and that age matters but if Kenin was a Klingon male she would have been strapped in armour and sent off to fight for the empire or in some House blood war. I was at the burial of my previous hosts' son, he was raised to be like his mother's people and so he joined in a typically stupid Klingon clan war over some antiquated notion of honour and he ended up dead. He was maybe two years older than she is."

"Not coddling put my son... Denax's son in a grave. I watched him being put in a grave, and while if his father had been alive instead of just another part of my memories, he would have been proud I couldn't help but think about how tragic it was that a young boy died."

She fought back tears. This rant had been building since she got on the station, immersed in Klingon culture again, and she realized it wasn't even really about Kenin's dating an older boy, but about a son that wasn't hers that she had had to bury, and whose bet'leth she now used.

She tried to get her stream of words back on topic.

"If you don't coddle then why would you want her to hold back? If she loves an older man and then that is her choice. If he's married than she will have to deal with that, but that's an if and a maybe. If it ends in tears at least that meant it began, and that's worth more than it never starting," she said.

"Did I cry to watch a young Klingon I'd never met, but I remembered fathering, be put into the ground? Yes I did, but do I wish for a moment that he'd never been born? No. So don't try to tell us that because something might end badly it should not be begun."

"That's not a very Klingon way of looking at things," she said and crossed her arms, to keep herself from trying to reach over and hitting the Klingon, which would have surely been against her personal code of pacifism.

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 5:28am

"A Klingon of 17 or 18 is far from being a child. Many at that age have 5 years of experience in war. But Klingons mature physically and emotionally sooner than humans." He took a bite. "Even so, I doubt a young, but seasoned Klingon warrior is ready for the war with an emotional be'."

He paused to consider the rest of what she said. "I would not send my 13 year old son to battle ta'pez or satian to the death if honor didn't demand that I do. Maybe after 5 years of battle and war, he'd have learned enough and it would be more appropriate. I already said, she is asking the questions so she is ready to learn, but that doesn't mean she is ready to be involved with someone who is twice her age. You must crawl before you can walk."

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 5:35am

"Who even said he was twice her age?" Kentra asked, "Simply that he is older, unless you know more of the story than I do?"

"And there you go again, you say you would send a child to his death if honour demanded it. Well that's why I won't ever be mistaken for a Klingon, because I don't care what honour might demand, a life is more important than any medieval concept of honour."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 5:52am

"I don't know the story. I don't know that he isn't just 5 years older and I don't know if he has a wife or child. you were saying age didn't matter and I was making the argument."

He took a long drink. "And I already knew you were a racist so your lack of respect for Klingon honor doesn't surprise me."

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 6:05am

"Racist? I come to this tournament, to honour your people's customs and traditions and all any Klingon wants to do is get away from me because being a pacifist makes me unworthy in their eyes. Because of that belief I'll be nothing more than a petaQ with a worm in my belly," Kentra shot back, "So much for honouring other's beliefs."

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Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 6:27am

"You are a pacifist too? No wonder you have no respect for Klingons. You seem to misunderstand me. You claim the maturity of a thousand years of experience but you don't understand why a Klingon would be proud that his young son died in battle. You believe your way is better and have disdain for the Klingon way, but don't forget, Klingon society is older than even you... and I say again, age matters. Klingon ways are not medievil, they predate even that. Because they are old you think they are less worthy."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 11:41pm

Kenin listened quietly, feeling bad that she was the cause of all this, but not really willing to get involved. Still, she murmured, "Dying for what you believe in is an honor, but children shouldn't have to be in that situation...parents are supposed to protect them from that..." She looked up at Khoal. "And just because something is old doesn't make it better, I don't think. No disrespect meant, sir, but isn't it right to grow and adjust as you develop and learn new things?"

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 12:57am

"No, that is exactly right. you must grow, learn, and adjust. But a 20 year old girl hasn't had the time to learn and grow that a 40 year old man has. Age matters. I didn't say better or worse. Different, and that matters."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 5:59am

Kenin shrugged. "Maybe. And maybe it matters because when you get old you forget how to have fun and really be in love.." She was clutching at straws here, but it was certain that Rael was old enough to be her father. "And maybe if you are together long enough, you learn from each other and get closer..." Of course, then, 'long enough' was debatable...still, she was starting to enjoy the discussion.

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Khoal on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 2:15pm

"And someone with 1000 years of experience could just as easily say that you can't truely love someone until you have that experience... that it teaches you a perspective of just how unique it is... this time. Consider being a Trill parisite.... you get joined, you have a life, and if you make a mistake, marry the wrong person, just wait... you will have another lifetime later to do better... or to make the same mistakes again. But us normal people have one shot, one chance and we have to get it right."

Title: Re: Food Court
Post by Kenin leGoz on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 8:28pm

Kenin glanced at Kentra, then back at Khoal, sensing the shaded insult although the Klingon was being most congenial to take his time to even discuss a confused kid's troubles. "So that just means we need to get to it that much sooner.." She grinned, then nodded. "Thank you both for your ideas. I'll consider it all...it helps to talk to people with experience..." No harm in buttering them up, and she truly was grateful, if not still confused.

Title: Food Court
Post by KentraDonrav on Mar 6^th, 2006, 1:20am

"If you spend your life worried about what you have to do, then that isn't much of a life," she looked at Kenin, "Do what you feel is right dear. Neither the Klingon nor I have any special wisdom to give you, and anyone who says they do are probably trying to sell you something."

She stood, "See you tomorrow, Kenin."

She glanced at the Klingon, "This parasite needs its sleep."