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worm_dancer ([personal profile] worm_dancer) wrote2010-04-04 12:01 am

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Location: Station Sector 3
Who: Sheeana, OPEN
What: Sheeana meditates on her new responsibilities and wonders if she's a bit of a worrywart
Warning(s): wordiness

She stepped down from the crumbling plasteel blocks into the orange sand. After the built up optimized environments they'd all recently come from (crystal towers, togas, etiquette, all the things a desert creature sneered at), it was a relief to feel it under her feet. Small plumes of sand sprouted from all over the basin and tiny sandworms (no more than fifteen feet long each, yet carrying the heritage of leviathans) sprouted up before her and begged for attention like eager puppies. "Of course. I've neglected you lately, haven't I?"

So, while the rest of the crew was celebrating with Qhalavian liquor they'd just 'liberated', Sheeana danced for her worms, whirling and stomping rythmlessly until they seemed temporarily satisfied. They swayed with her too, remembered flames within frames made by little crystal needleteeth.

She sat down with them and let them climb over her. She poured out her concerns over the crew's growing overconfidence to them, not expecting an answer though she knew the man inside them could give her one if he could only speak. Ah, but would you want that, Leto?

And then she noticed someone coming through the doorway that only opened with a violent impact, blue irising open to reveal her sitting cross legged with her children/ancestor. I shouldn't be surprised. My sietch knows to find me here.

[identity profile] worm-dancer.livejournal.com 2010-04-05 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
The touch pulled her a bit out of her own egotism, and also the simple things which she needed to be reminded of. She covered the hand with her own. "And they also allow men into the higher levels of their order. Can you imagine that?" A bit of facetiousness. She considered Duncan her equal but many of her more conservative Sisters would find the idea ridiculous.

[identity profile] jed-eyed.livejournal.com 2010-04-05 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Such is not a terrible thing," Arha said with a laugh, "depending upon the man in question. Different socio-evolutionary paths produce different ends, of course. One cannot point and sneer at stupidity when a people have not the life experience in which to see alternate means of progress."

She pursed her lips thoughtfully.

"We are not of them, they not of us. One day, perhaps they shall listen, and in the meantime, we have much to observe and learn, no?"

[identity profile] worm-dancer.livejournal.com 2010-04-05 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, not all males are stupid. And even the ones that are can be useful for some things." There were a multitude of implications in that.

"We do. Which means we should be watching their gathering, cliched as the experience may be." She tucked her feet under her and stood before offering Arha a hand up too.

[identity profile] jed-eyed.livejournal.com 2010-04-06 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Arha snorted softly and rose, taking Sheeana's offered hand. The little worms could wait. She would visit them later and sent a mental caress their way, the touch lingering as she smiled.

"We should always be watching," Arha said mildly. "Always."