Ankirah (standard:science fiction, 1856 words)
Author: Dark River	Added: Sep 17 2003	Views/Reads: 3228/2173	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A story about a young brennalyan and a beautiful creature of his time, lethyas.

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go to the city today.” 

Five minutes later they were both in front of the piece of mirror.
Metuah was wiping the dust that was everywhere in the shelter, from her 
face while Kassyra stood still smiling and thinking elsewhere. 

“ Hurry up! Come!” said Tassyan apostrophizing her. 

The young women immediately came to her senses and began wiping the dust
from her face too with a soft piece of the blanket she used to cover 
herself during night. That moment they heard a deafening thunder clap 
not far from them. The two sisters stepped back frightened. Tassyan 
grabbed his weapon and rushed to the door. 

“ Stay here! Stand still!” He ordered them, though his tone betrayed
kindness and love. 

A thick trail of smoke was rolling to the sky in the distance. 

“ Maybe one of those damned Accanian ships has crushed, said Tassyan to
the girls who were paralysed with fear. I think that no one is still 
alive as it looks. Stay here! I will go there to see if I can find 
something useful among the pieces of the ship”, he raised his voice to 
be heard as he was distancing himself from the shelter. 

Hardly had he walked two hundred meters when Tassyan fell as if he had
been mown down by somebody. He leaned in his elbows and pointed his 
weapon to the direction of the smoke. Less than a hundred feet ahead, 
an unknown being as running for its life. The frightened being that 
hadn't noticed Tassyan had the presence of mind to throw itself to then 
ground as soon as it saw him. The young man had already aimed and was 
ready to shoot. The being was getting closer and closer and Tassyan 
noticed that it had the sublime features of a woman. She was scared to 
death. Tassyan dropped his weapon and remained on the ground. He 
thought that he had nothing to be scared of, that the woman was not a 
danger either for himself or for his sisters. The young man raised a 
bit when the woman was a few steps away and she being so terrified fell 
on him. Tassyan caught her in his strong arms and they were now face to 
face. He was so amazed at what he saw. He was unable to keep his eyes 
off her. He was so dazzled by her beauty that his heart started beating 
so fast as if he was the one who had been running for his life five 
minutes before. Her golden hair touched her shoulders and the light 
spread by Kahr, the star that made life possible on Bennalya, seemed to 
caress it. Those dark frightened eyes betrayed an immense joy when they 
met Brennalyan's kind look. She tried to wipe the dust from her face 
but she realized she couldn't because she was immobilized to the 
ground. After a few moments of delight, Tassyan finally came to his 
senses, raised gently, gave her his hand and helped her up shaking 
himself off dust. 

He could hardly believe his eyes. He had only heard of Lethyas from his
parents, he had never seen one and now he had a Lethyas in front of 
him. He knew that those sublime and innocent beings were hunted by the 
Accanians for their ability to get into other beings' minds and to know 
exactly what they think. Lethyas had stopped communicating through 
words long ago, the only means of communication was telepathy. It was 
absolutely normal and natural considering their abilities. 

No sooner had Tassyan shaken himself off dust than they heard a strong
fizzing sound a few steps away. He threw himself to the ground pulling 
the Lethyas down. Tassyan looked ahead. In the distance the thick smoke 
continued to split the sky in two. An Accanian was preparing to 
download another field of power at them. The young man grabbed the 
weapon, aimed and shot. That damned strong fizzing sound heard again. A 
second later the Accanian disintegrated into grains of dust. Having 
forgotten she couldn't understand his words, he said to that wonderful 
woman standing next to him: 

“That bastard! He almost killed us!” But she knew exactly what he
thought. 

They raised, full of dust. She ripped a piece of cloth from her clothes
and wiped the young man's face, smiling at him. He watched her as if he 
were charmed. 

“What's your name beautiful Lethyas?” he asked her in a low voice
stammering. 

She burst into laughter and that made her more beautiful and more
innocent. Tassyan was bewildered. He didn't know for a few seconds why 
she was laughing. Then he remembered that the beautiful Lethyas 
couldn't understand his words. That made him laugh too. They were 
standing looking at each other forgetting that the Accanian could have 
them killed a few moments before. Tassyan realized that words were 
useless because that wonderful being standing in front of him 
understood him without the help of words. He remembered that she knew 
every thought of his. 

Long afterwards did they stop laughing. They were face to face watching
each other while he was holding her hand and it seemed that nobody and 
nothing could ever break them up. They heard a strange noise above. 
They looked up. A ship was flying slowly towards them. Tassyan quickly 
grabbed his weapon out she stopped him taking it and throwing it away, 
He didn't realize what was happening but the expression on her face 
assured him that there was no danger. She looked him straight in the 
eye holding more tightly his hand. The ship stopped about twenty meters 
above them. A door opened and the two were shrouded in a blue light. 
The young Brennalyan understood immediately that the ship had come 
after her. He had to let her go but his hands were holding hers more 
tightly. A tear trickled gently on her cheek. She slipped her hand off 
his took out a medallion and put it in the young Brennalyan's hand. She 
gave him a kiss on his cheek and the blue light disappeared. The ship 
took off and vanished as if by magic. 

Half an hour later, the young Brennalyan was still there looking up,
thinking of that wonderful being. 

“ Tassyan, Tassyan!” he heard in the distance Kassyra's kind voice. 

The young man woken from his dream. He could hardly believe what had
happened. It might have been only a dream. That couldn't have been 
real. What had a Lethyas had to do with Brennalya? He had surely 
dreamt. Of course it must have been a dream...He looked ahead and saw 
Kassyra coming. That moment something slipped off his left hand. He 
bent and found a golden medallion. He wiped it carefully of dust and 
read loud, his voice betraying strong emotions: Ankirah... 


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