[Music] [GAS] [ MA. ]

'Ain't Never Seen Nantucket's Cold Waters'

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[Job] Doth Mine Ides Draw Nigh?

UPDATE

I have just been reassured by the outgoing Manager that RCC's Public Safety Office has never shown favouritism in its dispensing work assignments.

This, in light of a projected 2-Week dearth of shift hours for yours most truly.

Further, she has stated that she has passed-on, 'all that I have done' to the incoming manager taking the reins at the end of the month when the current manager exits.

[Blink-Blink] 😲

[Music] [Rio]

Sunny Weather

'The Jazz Girl From Ipanema'

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❤

Babe,

I can only imagine the amount of time you are spending on learning the new songs for live performance and, hopefully all of your travel arrangements and payment concerns are behind you.

Your desire to expand your phrasings and yet make them more spare is certainly admirable; hats off to you, Love.

I hope all is well and that the weather by you two is fair and sunny before the chill of the other side of the Atlantic in Autumn and Winter.  Have you proper clothes packed, not just the ones which will photo well, but proper-warm ones; remember to pack to dress in layers, and be certain to include a shawl as well as a muffler or, a knit scarf may be a better name.

How do you walk on those heels of yours at speed?  Again, proper respect.  :)

Well, I'm thinking about entering into classes come Winter session, but I'm not certain if the ones I want are available then.  Thankful that Community College is free in MA.

This is just a note, not a resolution

You are the nexus of my thoughts,

K❤

[Music] [GAS]

'Sweet Child'

(Revisited)

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[Music] [Gulf Atlantic Sound] [GAS]

❤

'Little Florida Girl'

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[Music] [BRIDE OF SET]

'THE EYE OF SET'

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[Music] 🐦‍⬛

'As The Escrow Files'

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Well, Love,

After days away, Chef is back; crashed-in again at 1:30 AM and making all the noise he cares to make.

My other housemate is this meek guy -- the two had been living in the same place together for nearly three years, and Chef didn't even know his name -- who has only ever tried dominate me; has largely retreated into his own room, across from Chef's -- shares the same bathroom with him -- and yet only my cooking had any affect on his delicate nose despite Chef's insistence on cooking fish at night, or dominating the entire kitchen (the meek guy has all of his supplies in his room) space.

I had a confrontation where the other guy was slamming his fists on the counter between us raging on how my making breakfast before work drove him insane, and so forth.  My lack of upset, refusal to escalate, and strategic calm only drove him further bonkers until he stormed out.  And mind you, we, he and I, had previously had pleasant conversations about his region of the world, and politics, football (Soccer), and Eurovision.  He had attempted to have me driven out of the place more than once, and we are, once again, on speaking terms...

People are so -- well, you know -- ....

Anyway, it gives me time to get back into Theory.

Love you babe,
K

[Music] [Humour] Duck

'3 Producers Walk Into A Bar'

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❤

[Music] Hello, Love

I took to heart what you have been saying about your preferences, and here is today's gift:

'Just Shy the Limit'

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[Crass Humour] Nutrition Fact

Dingleberries: Low-hanging Fruit, found in humid conditions.  ;)

[Music] Instrumental

'OK Chorale'

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[Music] [LUSH SISTER] 'THE MISTY MOORS OF MONEAGHAN'

'THE MISTY MOORS OF MONEAGHAN'

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[Music] Jazz Maths:

'5ths and 3rds Equals 11ths'

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[Music] Lyrics

Y.U.

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LYRICS-

Double-You Hache Why

-- You want to know?

Why you, and only?

-- Why me for you

So lonely, solitaria,

My Lovely, You?

Allow me to expound

The reasons, not morbid

fascinations, nor paranoid

delusions -- not an egomaniacal

obsession -- why you.

Not only are you, deep within me,

my type, in shape and hue;

not only does your very figure

make my eyes long for glimpse

of illumined view...

But also because you, while

so very photogenic, are at core

someone who, is still awkward

and self-conscious and not all

certain that she is as lovely

as she truly is.

I could speak more of your fiery eyes,

and how that night far surpassed any

frame of video or picture taken before;

how in them,

your gaze, of my taking

in you was filled with want and

bashful hope that I was the one,

even as I, my face, adorned with

certainty adored the who of you;

Within my focus total.

Like unto like, the deep calls

in slowed time, not crawled, but

a languid fire;

Your knowing bend, ankle shown

and my eyes, your look

confirming.

Bluntly, if I could had, I would had,

then, and all else a different

course taken, of that I am sure.

Backspaced over lurid details,

now we get to the matter's heart

I love you, have loved you, from the start...

Back in time, or from first hearing

in a Space shared by Us, or in black

and white, and others, I believe I know

what your imagery and artistic selection

intended wordlessly say.

From the first: You.

Can you imagine then, when first I say

we met, how I would had made it work?

I have, that-thought, more than once;

-- if written, surely a, Major Work,

worthy of Literature Class dissection...

These three orbits, despite the cost,

mean nothing and everything at once,

because of You, my Love.

[Music] Na-na-na-nananana-nananana, hey Jude...

'Take A Sad Song and Make It Better'

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❤

It is truly yours to decide.
The outcome of this pressure-point is actually in your hands, not his.
I am for You, My Love.
Stay strong.

[Music] [Blues]

'Mexico Murder Blues'

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[Music] After Shift

I came home last night and got straight away to composing this one.
(--  The limitation of my laptop speakers' dynamic range is starting to get on my nerves...)

'13 Hours Later'

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[Dream]

We, you and I, are out one night.  Our first date.
After our snack-meal, you light a cigarette.  I observe; you look as if that means I disapprove.  I smile and shake my head, and with a chin nod, you pause and inhale.
I continue to observe, and you reach to give me one; I shake my head.

Instead, I rise and sit beside you and purse my lips and suck in air.  You wordlessly shotgun and I inhale.
I smile and we gaze awhile.  I exhale.

I awoke with your perfume in my nostrils.

❤K

[Life] [Job]

Just made is back from a 13 Hour Shift, two back-to-back events.

Have a good night, My Love,
K

[Music] FIRE ENTHRONED

FIRE ENTHRONED

A day

...

Worthy of you

My wish

It's true

Beloved

Not an object

But treasured nonetheless

You

-- I'm sure you see

Who else could it

Be,

but the Woman Herself

I'm not here to steal your fame

my flame burns brighter

than any star

Your weal,

not squandered,

but expounded, revealed;

not by my hand

But yours

of course:

Of years

Due you;

Ascended

in truth.

In the dew of your youth

-- Your beauty-today radiant

not only in monochrome

My eyes adazzle

scintillated

Fire Enthroned

Yours alone

My Lady

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So, Love,
Here I am at 2:01 AM, after having gone to bed around 10PM.
'BROWNE & SEGER' keeps replaying in my head, and I can't not talk to you.

-- Where are you going to be when the sun comes up?  Doing what, ...yeah even the boring details.  Are you eating well; -- who is looking after you -- yeah, I know who you are and that you don't need a minder or manager -- I mean who is looking after your happiness?

I'm not sure if you ever have had a friend in a lover who is also a mom, but not a lecture-based, need something from you, courtier.
-- I know I never have.  I've only taken care of my gals, (and on the rare occasion I had a fella', :-struggled with them in their assigned 'sit there and look pretty' or 'be my kids' mom' thing -- neither of those worked out well; both of those ended tragically, in fact).
-- No.  My gals, though, we had breakthroughs.
Left them better, and me more experienced without a sense of diminishment, -save perhaps some cash or a car for the hundreds of miles I'd log to drive back-and-forth in a single day sometimes, just to mend a boo-boo, or bolster a bruised ego of a frightened chick who was realising she wasn't into women, but rather, gay guys -- oh, Love, I get all sorts who think of me as some sort of test-strip for their personal flavour of Litmus test.  That one, let's call her Aryn, had been lied-to  her whole life about her sex, and was very messed-up when I revealed to her that she was, in fact, born Intersex.  That one was a 'Charlie Foxtrot' to put  things mildly...

So, my Black Flame, companion to, the Red Reign.

Have a good day, My Lady.
❤K

[Music]

Yehezkel.1

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[Media] [Viewing]

Oh, and if you are looking for viewing, may I suggest:

In this order: BODIES, immediately followed by, THE PERIPHERAL

-- The setup in the first works suspiciously-well as the precursor to the second

❤K

[Music] [History's Mysteries]

'Which Land Hails This Tune?'

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[Music] To-wit

TO-WIT

To wit, I ain't scairt though cat I be

See through your darkness to the heart within ya; yeah

I ain't sayin I got ya all figured, babe, jess' I can't put you down - yeah

Not through fear or weakness none, naw, love, I just know what I want -- an' that's you.

Fraid you got me for miles; all kindsa weather; cheerin' ya' on for-good; never illuck or comeuppance - naw

You got a friend in the Black Flame, she's your number one fan -- yeah, Aces, babe.

❤

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[Music]

'Saturday Evening Get-Together'

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❤

[Music] Fer-de-Lance

'Fer-de-Lance'

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[Music] Babe

'BROWNE & SEGER'

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[Music] [AMERICANA]

'All 50 States'

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[Music]

'VVunderkind'

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[Oy! Veh...] Updated

My Trinidadian house mate crashed-in just now, taking LOUDLY on his phone, lauding a seafood diet as he walked past my door, and is now continuing his conversation. 

With Kate poised to gloat over my not coming in, I'm more determined than ever.

I have been threatened with 100, -- walking patrol of the entire campus' multifloor buildings -- in 40 minutes.

We'll see how we'll that aligns with reality.

-K

UPDATE

Officer O showed-up, and that split the workload -- Proper Thanks to him
-- Also DispatchMaster C deserves Props as well

[Music] [History] Imagine That! ;)

Black Dog

[Music] Lyrical

 

'Special Kind'a Feelin' (It's You)'

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This one was originally just going to be another instrumental, but I heard the niches where the words were calling to be sung.  So, if you detect any imperfections, it's because the lyrics and vocal track followed.

❤

[Music] [AMERICANA]

Exploring a genre I have neglected.

'BuckSeeDoe'

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❤

[Music]

'1999!:Series.1 Main Theme'

'1999!: Series.1 Couatl Pilots' Theme'

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Marissa,

No, a lack of  lyrics to these doesn't mean there is nothing I wish to say...
-- Things with work are wonky, and that has me chasing down Hours and so forth.

I should be back to form in just a little while.

Love,
-Kyrinn

[Music] Renaissance

'The Song of My Heart (...)'

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[Physics]

Levitation

[Music] Deep

'Untold Riches'

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[Music] [Cue]

'San Francisco Winter'

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[Music]

'Thirteenhundred Hours'

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[Music] Renaissance

'And She Is My Love'

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[History] [Culinary]

Spice

[Music] Dark

'Covert Action'

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Tomorrow

I saw a photo of you from 2018; -- not a Glamour Shot; -- just you, and your smile.
I melted and smiled with that sort of pink fizzy hearts warmth.

-- Your reality is so charming in my eyes.

Just thought you should know, Love
-K

[Music]

'Night Ride in 7/5 Time'

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I have made Locrian my home.

[Music] [Romantic Period] post-processing

Eis komposition Der Schimmelreiter von Theodor Storm

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[Video]

'Aztec+'

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[Job]

 

My Love,

What does this sound like to you?

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'Ancient Modern'

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[Music]

I haven't cleaned these up...

'Kind of Classy'

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'Kinda Pretty'

Love,

I just re-listened to the Songs From A Room interview you gave a few years ago.  I don't recall if I had seen a version last time, or if it had been audio-only then, as well.

One of your recent lyrics made me think that you were saying that you didn't know enough about me, and while my fiction and my non-fiction writing, I had thought, expressed much about me, I could understand how you would had found only yourself expressed in my then-poetry, now-turned lyrics...

Well, you know I had lived in then-West Germany during the tail end of the Vietnam War, that I had a very different sort of experience in school, and had both parents (itself a rarity among my friends) who were both educators.

My house was so packed full of books and ephemera from travels and musical instruments, and prints of paintings, and a tapestry, that my school friends said that I lived in a museum.

After my father had suffered a heart attack when I was still a child, we had been plunged into darkness and silence to permit him the rest he needed, and I am told that that period (aged 7 - 12) is reflected in my writing, and worlds, and outlook.

Vietnam, too, had deeply affected me: I have always had a profound recall of my life, from crib-days, diaper-days, and so, memories of watching the news and seeing those men's faces, hearing their upset at being labelled baby-killers and seeing their friends die and doing what the nation had asked of them -- it never left my mind, and when I was 17, sought to follow in my family's way, where my eldest sister had served in the Air Force during Vietnam, Stateside, and other family members in other wars and armies; my father a Lieutenant and his funny stories of trying to impress his men and his ultra-lucky shots at critical times to demonstrate his skill...  I had taken the step to enter the Army.

Fast Forward and when my nearly-cemented marriage had soured and I split from my partner, I had grown ... dark and once again sought to make something new of myself through service, but my plans went from Bodyguard to Diplomatic Protection and the veterans I had trained with -- one who had returned not only from Iraq, but had also served first in Afghanistan, had steered me, us, the lot of us, towards going overseas -- until Blackwater had its infamous 'bad day' and the entire landscape and business of Security Contractors was radically redesigned and we cut out of the loop.  The prospect of working security outside Gentlemen's Clubs two counties north of my home didn't appeal and I was petitioned to return to my folks as my father's health took his final decline.

he had once famously declared that once he was gone, he didn't care what happened to us, and so we had no insurance or anything else, and the house had been leveraged three times -- and was lost.  Mom and I then spent the years from September 2009 until her death December 1st 2020.  We had moved further and further north in Florida until I found myself in the town of my failed partnership a second time.  The jobs were grim in 2020-21, and then I saw your tour dates and the rest is history.  Our history... so far.

The years I have glossed-over were ... ah, the silly people I had met, the men and women I had loved, you have read of them in my earliest lyrics I have shared with you.

I know the world, I know love, I know your immeasurable worth, and I know my mind.

It is all you, Marissa.
K

[Music] [Jazz]

'While Away the Hours'

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[Humour] [Dark] [Marxism]

[Music] Let this one bloom...

🍁

'Light Rain & Bluster'

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[Music]

'The Intersection of Happy For You & Badly Longing'

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[Music]

Marissa

'Fae Path in Morning Mist'

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[Fiction] [KR&R] [Ayrqthon]

Excerpted from:
KING, ROOK & RIDER: Ayrqthon, The Black Son
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The horses and mule were easy. The trail well-worn. The hours, short while yet the land familiar, ranged by in the occasion of comment or rarer converse. It was a good pace, under fair skies, and hours yet before dark. Sunfall came early behind the clouds, which in stealth, had formed at horizon unseen. Then, at an hour’s preceipt, the dark came hard upon them. That saw the animals rested and securely roped.

Fire and food, sparely given to his wife; her notice unsaid, and her expression undimmed. They had sat a while in the rumbles distant and the lightnings few. Then, the night wild sounds emerged. Heard in the waves of birds to roost, and the animals and creeping things innumerable as settled-in became. Then, those who prowled stretched forth their dayslept limbs in preparation for the slithe and climb. They, hungry in the hunt, to secure vittles before dawns would them send to slumber anon.

Into her he had slid, and from her issued sighs, and soft cries, and whines, and sounds unnamed, as his labours sought their mutual good, and love sown in ashen seed, in womb prepared for barrenness through bitter herb and other kens. Complete.

When, after held, she slipped asleep, he stood unclothed beneath the stars, and touched the ground with palms full down. His back he arched, and stretched thews given strain, and loosed bones ill-sat in gyre of saddled hours. Again erect, upright stance, he twisted and turned until the column of science upon which sacral girdle anchored above for skull’s security he wrang-out kinks gained in battles. They, his slain, had been local brigands. And tax-shy stillsmen maize-mash sold while Kingsrook’s share had been held-back, unkindly. While many mehre were the Oestmurmen of the Eastern Ocean. – Altogether, taught their red-errored ways.

She had, from his youth, remained inviolate, chaste, and pure. – Rosy tinged fired clay and glassine glaze, upon velvets red and black, in that place which was both unto him hallowed and abjured. Mind, back, then, – he had already known in some small ray, like that door through which his Father needs provide shade, – what he was, would become, and never cease to be… At far, in lands not near, in time or place, his heraldman, in the inward parts of the earthen dark, woven then, not yet born, would in that day, of foreign tongue – speak the bitter truth to unwilling ears, and suffer for that succour for them for which he’d been sworn – hence – known by a measure; horizon arumble, sorrow, blood, and …fire.

-- “Excited?”

Back again, and in his flesh, he looked down and her face with kindled eyes her crown as ever fiery worn, she, the incarnation of his adornment. Ayrqthon smiled, strode, and at Geaselle’s rise to hip, another round of living for the life of it was warmly formed, and she gave a loving kiss.

===

Morning’s meal and then the blankets flapped, the dew discarded, and another alma each one given, including yon lonely unnamed beast of burden. Watch brew warmed through, the stirrups seemed steady, and other leagues lain in dust and frosts disturbed behind were trodden. As Prudenz joined the sky’s sight, the day seemed that much warmer, – a fantasy, learnt as children, all upon The World shared. In their arcs twain the horizon rose to meet the golden star, and Edwn arose to take her ending place, but slow in rise for its nearer, distraint pace. Its peculiar light signalled night, and he too raced upwards from the west towards the east as Avistra, in her passage, her sanguine rays shined down in a peaceful segment, their two reds mixed in contrary passing, and like a rose of Samaran on Sisters worn, the vault above seemed brief at peace of night’s fiery dawning. More words had been spoken along the way: their hopes for sights seen, collected memory-tokens, poem-play, and then with orange and violet and pink and lilac, daysend came sudden-like upon them.

Provender, and food for thought, days-rations preserved towards naught; Geas, never once complained, as he remembered her armed service did preced his birth. She sat across the flames which licked her face, grey-bronze shadows gold gave chase. Her adoration of him undimmed but in smoulder, and his coldness had grown for all alive but her soul. Silent, on all fours, each crept closer, nuzzled, muzzles of pups which had been tendered in that track to find his mother, Geas had partaken as had his father – Da, his Ma, and she, his Tsawbrer. Her spell, cast into his sea, brought forth dark fanlike life, of saline abyssal trees. Complex their lace, and each with monstrous mouths her sighs to render, bade.

[Job] Marcus Garvey

I was security for the 3rd Annual Marcus Garvey Day Commemorative Celebration, which opened with an African Folk Religious ceremony to mark the man's passing and to celebrate his life.  

I was favoured to receive a beef patty (deliciously spiced), -- and out of necessity of my presence and job, -- had occasion to speak with the Marxist Black Separatist organiser and chief speaker.

His auditorium speech centred around the unmet need for Diaspora Educational Opportunity which didn't draw from Coloniser, and/or, Collaborator, sources of the Mainstream.  There were mentions of other Marxist struggle-organisations abroad, more than one sounded Muslim, and the speaker did make a direct reference to his Comrade in Somalia.

Roxbury Community College is easily the most diverse place I have ever worked.

The rain shower was beautifully, coppery-golden-lit, as the sun westered behind the Admin Building.

Marissa,

I appreciate you telling me.
-- Please, when next you speak with her, tell her that I am envious of her contact, and as I have said before, she has a beautiful eye.

Love,
K

[Music]

'Sunshower'

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'Sunlight on Chrome'

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[Music] 'A Perfect 10'

A Perfect 10_take13

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'A Perfect 10'
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I was sitting down
in a loud air conditioning room
my sundries lying on the ground
and listening

I began to lose my way
to forget the many steps I'd
taken that circular day
and just, at last
to listen

Part sacred task, I know
part mystery show and how
it all seemed so heavy
and how beautiful
you are

I heard her voice, unmistakable
and some guitar on those six airy strings
of desert tracks I'd heard again
in a devoted fan's own work
and eased

When Amelia had finished
as I had the first time I'd listened
I'd nodded and sighed a little
a drop, then film thin had formed
and with clearer vision
sighed again

You see my love
The world, or my corner of it's heard
and you...

Then on to dusty roads
which suffer my loneliness alone
I hear what may be her mecca call
to prayer of solo tones
-- an unabandoned car

An early seed planted, it seems:
Cactus motel room
in all her Westland wandered years
-- to remain free,
unencumbered by the very tears
I myself was watering

So, then again
in the room
with my day's perfume about
I wondered where you were
and with whom you'd spent it

So darling,-yes, I do-understand...
no it makes not the hours glide
-- nor the telescope reversed
the distance, miles, smaller seem

A holy calling
a role you play with skill
but I wonder and hope
like a robe you'll drop
on a floor we share
...some day

la la la la
Like the sea....
.... holy water
.... me

Marissa

- - -

Now, my Love,
Only listen to this one if you are sitting down

A Perfect 10_take14

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I do love you
Whole Heartedly

Kyrinn

 

So, Marissa

Amelia, I had heard.
-- Such wonderful imagery and, of her in general, the magic of her rule-breaking lyrics -- they just wander around and yet we listen nonetheless.

Roads, ... what can I say

"...you set the pace, and it must be that way -- I know..."

Lovely Lady
❤K

EVOLUTION

❤

When I get back from work, I will dive right in.

[Music]

'Chasseur with a Side of Action'

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[Music]

"Fallen and Yet, I Ascend"

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Beautiful

[Art] [History]

Vermeer 

[Job]

Today, things got Spicy at my post.
-- I was most impressed with my Chief's forbearance in dealing with the Spicy-one.

It is true.

You are not just a pretty face with a lovely voice.

Updated

"Then you tried to erase All the X-Rays you took of her No reminders"

Huh?

-- Oh, okay, now I get it -- Fireworks and all that; got it.

Love you Babe

[Life] Off to bed, Sweetie

Sweet Dreams, My Love

❤

Mars

[Fiction] [GR&SB] [Book I]

UNDONE Chapter 27: Interregnum
Book I of the GREEN RUINS & SHALLOW BLUES Series
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Aboard the AI-governed ship, Lord Carthy; or as they knew Him: Taggart/Carthy: SURT, marvelled at the even more advanced and grand ship than the one in which Hepheryn had travelled.

The Anthros crew, here, aboard a ship from a possible future.  They each looked on at Him in His finery.  Xesha stepped forward, still dressed out in her Red Sister synthleathers.
"Carthy."

He couldn't feel anything, but forced Himself to look down, to convey an attempt at reconciliation.  He knew that Xesha held Him responsible for some slight or miscommunication, but Lord Carthy had no idea when to scan for in His vast and detailed recollection.
Carthy raised His arms, --

Xesha ran to fill them.
"I'm sorry, -- I'm so sorry that I couldn't defeat the protein.  This is all my fault."

Something Ancient and Cold in the Dragon Lord cracked, like an armoured scale, defeated.
A trail of gold-flecked tear went its way down His right cheek.  Lord Carthy; Carthy, closed His embrace, smothered His face in her naturally streaked hair, and breathed-in her perfumed scent.
"No.  Don't ever say, -- don't ever think that again, beloved Xesha."

Marcher looked uncomfortable, worked his tongue about his mouth, and then interrupted the reunion.
"Scout, we've got a debrief to conduct."

Lord Carthy looked up, a smouldering ember of rage at misaddress shimmered in his left eye, and Anthony thought, for a moment, he saw orange smoke fume from it, but realised it was a steamer of Xesha's hair; still the corridor did begin to smell of smoke...

"Why yes, of course, Major Marcher.  Atlantis Initiative, Code Red."
Carthy almost pushed Xesha away, but merely disentangled Himself from Their embrace and stepped in front of her.

Taylor gulped and left in a hurry away from the argument which gave all the precursor behavioural cues she'd seen in innumerable bar fights and back alley stabbings.  Cotton looked as Hoyt grabbed his hand and also backed away.  Doc began to speak, but was interrupted.

"As a favour to Xesha, and even Overlieutenant Sabit Irehn, I have brought MY crew through space and time and dimension to fetch you, SURT.  This may not be a Type 5 in Scout Service logs, but it is a Naval vessel in this operation.  Comply, or we'll have started down a very dark path...

Marcher continued to speak, but Lord Carthy ignored this version of him as He looked down multiplying windows; His smile grew from a sensation to a smirk, until Doc also cleared out as a sardonic smile graced their former shipmate's face, but now marked by uncharacteristically dead calm eyes.  Eyes to which the Navy veteran had grown accustomed, and although he knew what Carthy -- Dragon Lord Carthy the flackin' First was capable, Anthony pressed the point aloud, while he 

[M] "Don't do it, son.  Stewart is prepared to nuke us over your precious city and kill your witch and your dragon babe in her womb.  Flackin' Code Red in-deed."

Carthy saw hundreds of windows collapse.  The remainder plunged the galaxy into an Age of barbarism.  Lord Carthy was wroth at letting Marcher think that his brinksmanship was the cause of His backing down.

Anthony saw black light shine in Taggart's throat;

[M] "I love you, Xesha."

Searing pain tore through the Dragon Lord's hidden Hornung as the Silver exited His chest an inch under His heart.
"Shall I end this?"  Carthy heard Xesha speak with Sabit's tone; two decades of companionship had taught her all the power of a war witch, but with different implements.
Lord Carthy raised His hands in surrender.
"No.  I -- accept the limits of My authority here."

Anthony, terrified and shocked, stammered, "wa-What authority, S-s-SURT?"

Carthy smelled His flesh sear, the molten gold turned vapour in the steam of his blood.  He couldn't bring Himself to capitulate to an unworthy foe--

"Let me help You Lord Carthy.  Please."
Xesha pushed the Agent, and her fist around it, into His chest cavity, and aimed the implement up, towards His head.

Carthy saw one window in which He blasted away Xesha's skin and muscle, but from her blackened bones, she was still alive with the Silver.

"Sister Xesha, I acknowledge Your authority, and by extension, that of Major Marcher's, on His Ship."
Lord Carthy could almost kneel, but even the thought of it tightened the Coil around Him.

The Silver flared up again, but it seared closed its exit wound as She withdrew the Agent, but moved it to the base of His skull.
"I'm certain We All have an understanding, Dragon Lord Carthy, yes?"

The Coil tightened, but Carthy still managed to laugh in as unthreatening a manner as He found possible.
"...YES..."

Stewart spoke up then,
"Thank You, Dragon Lord Carthy the First; I am glad that I didn't need to detonate and take so many lives."

Taggart smiled, and could feel the Draconic rise again, but forced Himself to -- ...behave.

*

Carthy sat in an extremely comfortable swivel chair attached to the floor.  A man he didn't recognise, but knew was, Hoyt, looked at him with curious eyes.

"A question, friend?"

Hoyt smiled with an arrogance which disturbed Carthy; it seemed hollow, unbacked by any power to enforce its pretense.
"You're a tough son, I'll give you that, Lord.  But, what exactly makes you a Dragon?"

"Hoyt!"
Cotton looked furious with fear.
"Shut the flack up.  Don't poke the badger."

Hoyt's smug smile was accented by the rise of his right eye brow.  The fact that there had been no reprisal had emboldened the bravo.

Xesha swung around Carthy's seat.  She still grasped the Agent like an electric torch, ready to flay Him open.  She slowly shook Her head.

"Privacy zone, please, Stewart."
Marcher sat down as the AI brought up a sound-deadening forcefield in a cone around the three of Them.

Xesha took her seat; still aimed the Agent at Carthy; He felt duly Honoured.

"This is being recorded for review by the Terran Navy, Scout SURT, Taggart/Carthy, is that understood?"

"Yes, Major Marcher; Taggart/Carthy Scout serving as SURT aboard the Anthros, a Type 5 starship before the events which have--"

"I'll ask for the details in time, son.  Now, please account for the Astralan Ranger compliment on Sutter's Mill / Nerensheren."

Lord Carthy fought to answer.
"Unknown, save that former Lance Corporal Pwieph, now a Draconic Humanoid, has returned to serve His Dame, former Overlieutenant Sabit Irehn."

"Is it safe to assume that in the timespace which Terran forces can reach the planet, the remaining ten Rangers could be found?"

"Yes, perhaps not all ten, but likely more than six of them still survive at present; operating out of the same complex."

"Thank you.  How is it that you have come to possess such sophisticated psionic talents since the beginning of this mission?"
Marcher looked into His eyes.

Xesha, with a sad look upon Her face, nodded.

"Overlieutenant Sabit Irehn initiated unsolicited Level 2 psychic contact with Captain -- Major Marcher and My mind, Sir.  We were unwittingly brought into a psychic Gestalt, known internally as the, 'Polyentity', wherein the three of Us, were able to speak securely regarding the archeological findings on the planet: Nerensheren in Astralanti, or Sutter's Mill in Terran.

Marcher motioned for Carthy to continue

"These findings indicated an Ancient Human settlement founded perhaps as far back as twenty eight thousand years prior--"

Marcher interrupted, "Was that date older when first spoken by Overlieutenant Sabit?"

Lord Carthy sighed, loosened His neck in a circular motion in both directions, balled and unclenched His fists, and began again, "Yes; as originally quoted, it was estimated to be between thirty-five and forty-five thousand Terran years.  I was later able to reduce its age to a much more probable twenty eight thousand, give or take."

"We appreciate the strain that these proceedings are putting upon your -- nervous system, Taggart; I am assured by Dr. Michigan that you are not under any medical duress and are capable of proceeding, would YOU agree?"

Xesha shot Anthony a look of angry urging; They had Their own Polyentity network, sprouted off from the one of His Dame's creation.  Carthy smiled wickedly.

"Yes.  I am in perfect physical health, but I also do acknowledge that by current Terran standards, I no longer possess a purely Human psychology; this stems from an altered brain, and that from an alien pathogen: a prion like substance derived from reptilian or, Draconic, source."

*

"Stewart, uh, can you be on the lookout for any activity around us?"

"Yes, of course, Anbel.  Is there anything in particular I should be looking for?"

"Nope.  Just, everything, anything at all."

"Understood."

Hoyt and Cotton were argued quietly nearby and Taylor couldn't help but listen in -- it was at least Human nature and not whatever that was, going on in the next room.

"Don't worry, Anbel, Marcher has this under control."
Doc leaned against the astrogation seat.

Taylor turned her head to face him, "No, Doc, I don't think anyone knows how to control what used to be Carthy, except maybe, that alien girl."
She looked at where the pool of blood had been prior to its clean up; how it had shimmered with particles of gold.

Doc frowned at the memory of his own othering of Xesha.
"She's perfectly human, just -- a product of eugenics and very complex post-natal chemical conditioning."

Anbel's, 'Duh!', expression did seem to negate his previous statement; Tanver tightened his mouth and looked at the three in the strangely silent adjoining compartment.

"I'm asking you to, for once, -- you peacock, to please just shut up.  Don't antagonise him."
Everett looked into Hoyt's eyes only inches away.

Hoyt couldn't help but stare at Carthy, who looked up at precisely that moment and smiled invitingly.  Aroused, Hoyt half-turned to kiss Cotton, who realised his boyfriend was trying to enrage Carthy.  Everett pushed away from the other, and stormed off.  Hoyt's eyes found Carthy's again, and the smile which the Dragon Lord gave him was not at all one the man ever desired to see aimed at him.

*

"Hello?  Taggart, are we losing your cooperation here?"
Marcher looked to see Hoyt white as a ghost and wiped clean of his typical smugness.
"You two aren't really that--"

Lord Carthy turned in his seat to face the Navy man; the subdued wickedness of His smile spoke volumes.
"No, not at all, Major, please continue.  You were saying that I bear responsibility for current conditions below us as a result of this infection.  I, of course, acknowledge such responsibility as Dragon Lord of that civilisation in the complex.
"May I, in return, ask you to please disclose your involvement in open hostilities with Wetlander forces, leading Astralani Rangers, -- in your timeline -- and to what end?"

Anthony almost entered the Polyentity, but knew that the gap in the audio record would become its own headache, if not end his trusted status with the Terran Authorities.
"I was under the impression that, you, Xesha, and Sabit were possibly Wetlander captives.  In retrospect, it was a completely irrational leap of ... unreason, and to my amazement, the Astralani Rangers leadership were willing to participate--"

"and what did this precipitous misadventure net you and these alien humans?"

Xesha spoke up as she plainly aimed the Agent at His head.
"As I was with You and Sabit, I feel I have something to offer the record.  We were in the current, 'timeline' in which We find ourselves, and we made our way back to the complex below us at time of this recording.  Where was Major Marcher at that time, relative to us?"

Lord Carthy, some part of Him, wished that He could rewind time, to loosen the Coil, to undo the series of events which led Them to this level of antagonism, and in that same heartbeat-span, realised how much He was like Hoyt: a narcissist, out of touch with the reality of others' emotions and the peaceful interaction which His Draconic drive forced.

"Major Marcher, Captain of the Anthros, Type 5 Scout ship, separated from His ship and the rest of His crew; was in the main timeline segment concurrent with what I must presume is the same as that shared by those who will be viewing and listening to this debrief.  His commanding officers in Naval Intelligence, TeSCA, and the volunteer personnel of the hoary and illustrious Scout Services."
Carthy's eyes were as soft as He could manage, and almost found a mote of non-Dominance-based emotion peek through His Ego-armour.

"Dragon Lord Carthy, do you still count yourself a Scout, do You even consider yourself still Human?"
Tears streaked Anthony's face as he attempted to maintain eye contact with the person on his crew whom he best knew, and yet, no longer knew at all.

Carthy turned to Xesha.
"My feelings are irrelevant, Sir.  I believe only Doc Michigan and Red Sister Xesha Irehnlen's medical examination of Dame Sabit, and our son, could resolve that to the satisfaction of the indicated authorities, Sir."

"Do we have Your permission to conduct that interaction, Lord Carthy?"
Marcher mopped his tears with his sleeve.

"I invite You all."

*

[M] "Dame Sabit, do we have permission to visit Your realm?
[--]
[S] "Anthony?  Capt-- Major Marcher, of course.  We shall make ready for Your arrival."

*

"Hoyt, I'm not asking, I'm ordering you to stay here.  You are wired to get a rise out of people you find a challenge, which seem so be a great number of people and ... creatures in this place.  We can't afford to start a retroactive war with a starfaring culture when our ancestors hadn't yet emerged from the last Ice Age."

Hoyt was distracted and didn't see Michigan administer him a sedative.
"Wretch!  You'll be sorry when..."
Hoyt then collapsed into Doc's arms, who dragged him off to his and Cotton's quarters.

Marcher looked at the weather, and, conduit drift plots provided by Stewart.
"So, we have about 25 Standard Hours, Our Mark, to return within the safety margin for travel back through to 'standard' timespace?"

"As you tend to round down, yes, Captain Marcher."

"Alright.  Do you think it wise to maintain contact with me given the Polyentity and ... so forth?"

"No, Captain.  But I will send a physical tracking drone with you to better focus my TK capabilities further into the complex.  I also understand that your safety is secondary to the safe delivery of the debrief record within the allotted time."

Marcher smiled, "Please keep Hoyt from doing anything stupid."

"It will be my pleasure to accommodate Mr. Hoyt while you are away, Captain."

*

Doc made certain to refresh everyone's boosters and to administer what he thought would give them the best chance against an introduced prion; this consisted of a 'live-culture' of nanobots to boost their immune system.
"Those, and Metatr--"

"Spare us, Doc.  Let's just call it good old Terran Luck."
Cotton interrupted.

Michigan kept silent.
Anbel gave him a friendly side-hug, "Cheer-up, Doc, he's got boy problems, and you know how they can be."
The older man smiled outwardly.

The lot of them, including Lord Carthy were set down on the obsidian dock.
Awaiting them were Szerzhbakh, Stoney Drake, a compliment of Dragon Guard and Acolytes, Courtiers, and the Dame Herself.

Lord Carthy took the lead and strode confidently towards Their People.
"Beloved Dame, it is My Honour to return Our Red Sister, Xesha, into Our presence.  Captain Marcher and his Scouts have also accompanied Us."

Anthony snorted a laugh, but smiled as Xesha squeezed his hand.
"--"
He nodded.

Dame Sabit sat astride Zhyph Qibzhen on a red leather saddle stitched in gold thread.  Her dress open below her waist displayed black leather breaches and boots stitched in red.  Her coiffure was an elaborate collection of braids draped in rows on either side of Her head.  Around Her dark eyes, She wore red powder which shimmered, while Her lips were stained a similar shade.  At sight of Xesha, even before, at mere presence within the complex, Sabit was ... nervous, eagerly anxious, giddy.  It took some effort for Her to suppress it, but now, She let that control fall away.
"Zhyph Qibzhen, take in the scent of this Red Sister, She is to be implicitly trusted."

~!"My Dame!"!~
In the cavern, the Stoney Drake's voice boomed like a landslide of shale.

Xesha approached the Great Beast without hint of hesitation, Her right hand extended, ungloved.
"What a lovely creature You are; how magnificent are Your wings."

With that Zhyph Qibzhen bore them out to their fullest reach, articulated Her digits, and then slowly drew them back to two tented peaks to better frame Her Dame's image.

Szerzhbakh sniffed at the air, and after the Stoney Drake's display, slithered to Xesha who wore a look of confusion and hints of grief at His appearance.
~sS"Worry not, Red Sister, the Lord and Dame have not slain me over Your exalted safety; perhaps We shall never experience that great Tragedy."Ss~
Xesha touched His warmish coppery and verdigris coloured scales as He thrummed as He had for Carthy.

"Let Us welcome Our guests with a Royal Banquet in the Great Hall."
Dame Sabit bade Zhyph Qibzhen rise, which moved great clouds of black sand until They were nearly at the cavern's ceiling.  Szerzhbakh waited for Lord Carthy to seat, and then strode before the group.  Xesha looked up at Sabit, who made continuous eye contact, before She and the Stoney Drake flew off for the sunlit exit.  Dragon Guard, led by Ihdel and Bykrezh, smiled as they ushered the visitors, with Basth and Syil and Runtshal bringing up the rear guard.

*

As they went, not far from the cavern, Xesha felt the spilled lifeblood of those they had slain in their attempt to remain free from the Priest's terrible control.  Anthony placed his hand upon Her shoulder as they passed the barracks in which the group had sheltered; the spirits of the dead lingered there in sad attendance of their Lord and killers.

The slow pace gave Her time to consider the weight of remaining in this time to care for Her bondlover during the full term of Her pregnancy.  Although these surroundings were ultimately very similar to those of the Priory Psion on Qandeshar V, Xesha felt the oppressive weight of the overhead rock and the ancience of the site.

~"You are never out of reach of My love, Daughter."~

Xesha smiled sadly and then after a meditative breath, smiled more deeply.
Marcher noted the change in Her demeanor, and beside Her, smiled in Her view. Xesha bumped shoulders with him.

~$"This is the Dame's great love?"$~
Basth asked Runtshal and Syil via the arcane network.
~$"Quiet.  We do not wish to offend the Red Sister, much less our Dame.$"~
Runtshal replied with some measure of anger in his voice.

The dead faded again.