Short Stories : The Attachment Partner (Chapter 12)

Short Stories : The Attachment Partner (Chapter 12)

CHAPTER 12

The next morning on the Sunshine.

During a conversation between Birgid and her brother Mike.

"Mike you have to help me. I can't stay here. I have to go to Kirling. Will you help me? Because if Dad gets to know about it before I'm gone, there's a misfortune. "

Mike had been watching her all the time as she kept walking from the armchair to her desk. Slowly she was making him as nervous as she already seemed to be.

"What do you want in Kirling" and looked at her in astonishment "You don't want to finish your training as a warrior now. You just came back to the Sunshine. Little man finally sits you down, you're driving you crazy and tell them in turn. We'll find a solution. So far we always have. At least when the three of us worked together. "

"No, I don't want to be a warrior ..." she squeezed around. "Now tell me what's going on! I am your brother, I will help you if I have to. "

"You know that I was never very good at influencing thoughts and in less than four weeks I have a date, as they say on Terra. With a frog and my chances of survival are a little higher if I learn something beforehand and get a little in shape. Otherwise I have no chance against him again. ”It was clear to her that she was trying not to show her fear of this meeting too clearly.

"Why don't you just stay on the Sunshine? He definitely won't get here and if he wouldn't get it. Certainly not when the crew learns that he is after you. We are all happy that you are back with us and reasonably fit. "

"But it's not just about me alone." She had finally finished her hike. But was busy with the buttons at her desk and Mike was just waiting for all departments to be able to listen soon. But then she didn't squeeze so hard.

"If I'm not there, he'll take care of my attachment partner and he's Terran." Mike didn't think he heard right at first. You had a bond partner on Terra? "I can not imagine that he has great chances against a frog. This frog also killed Sam. Through me, but I'll avenge him that's the least I can do. With a bit of luck I'll be better again. ”She tried to explain to him.

He was not enthusiastic about her idea.

"Did you just say you had a bond partner? Then why isn't he here? You should do that together. ”And looked at his sister, who looked at him sadly and shaking her head.

"Mike, he's a Terran and doesn't know anything about it. Besides, what do you think would happen if I just brought a Terran with me? You know our regulations and our superiors have always been very precise on this point. Dad wouldn't even be able to help me there. I can hear her say. ”And imitated the voice and gestures of her uncle, who was represented on this committee.

"Well, I'll help you, but at least officel is not allowed to tell Dad about it. Because we are in peace negotiations with the Frog's and all acts of war are forbidden. ”While he said this he watched her to find out exactly what she thought of these negotiations. But she did not show whether she approved of it or not, but got the answer: "I do not intend to disturb the negotiations, I will only keep my appointment in four weeks, no matter how."

"Little one are you sure that he is your attachment partner and ... not just someone you fell in love with."

"Yes Mike there is no doubt, I feel it with every fiber in my body. But that doesn't matter now, I have to get through this alone and how it goes on, we'll see.

Oh I wanted to leave Ivon and Toby with you on the Sunshine while I'm on Volan. Shortly before I meet Fokir with Huron, I will bring her to her father on Earth. ”

Astonished he asked her: "I thought Sam was her father?"

"Yes, he is too, but she only knows Gerd and he was always like a father to her and will continue to be, and no one can forbid that. Because a child has a right to a father.

How is it going to help me now? "

"Yes sure. I'll have your flyer right away, a flyer is a mini spacecraft for 2 to 3 people, extremely agile and fast, check it out.

If I'm not mistaken, Dad wanted to go with you and Ivon to Grandfather and Grandmother. But if you are not yet comfortable, Ivon will fly alone. You just have to make him plausible that you don't mind and you will follow. You don't have to tell him when.

When you are on Volan, you send my best wishes to Grandma and tell her that if my sister would take on her duties again I would have time to visit her again. "

Everything had worked out on Sunshine the way the two had imagined it, and Biggi was now sitting in a comfortably furnished room on Volan, waiting for her grandmother, who was the head of this monastery.

Not a monastery like it exists on earth, but rather a training camp for girls and young women who wanted to become warriors. Because it was common for many years that the girls were specially trained to defend themselves better. This came from the time when their partners were often gone and they were solely responsible for the safety of the house and children.

As her grandmother came in, Birgid's thoughts were far away on earth. Since she heard one of Gillian's CDs, it was not surprising.

"Birgid what do you want here?" Her grandmother asked her. An older Volaner. Her brown short brown hair pastes well to the light green skin color that every Volaner had. "If my feeling doesn't deceive me too much, did you belong to someone else, or did you bring him to Volan? Then I would like to get to know him. "

"Hello grandmother, nice to see you again. I should order greetings from Mike and say <that if I did my job again he would have time to visit you again>. "Her grandmother nodded" and to your next question.

I am alone and Gillian is on Terra. He is Terran, so I couldn't bring him with me even if I wanted to, you know our laws, ”Birgid told her. She looked at her granddaughter and asked her: "Didn't you learn anything from us then?"

"Why don't I understand you?"

“You know that this law, as you say so nicely, no longer applies if there is at least one of his children here. You should have already noticed that you are pregnant, or you no longer check it regularly. "

"If I'm honest, no more. How did you notice that so quickly, I didn't even know it myself. But you're right, you can't imagine how I would like to be with him now. I need him more than anyone else, but unfortunately there is no other way at the moment. I have a meeting with the frog who killed Sam in less than four weeks and if I don't show up he will go to Gillian and he doesn't have the training I have. He doesn't even know that there are frogs, volans, pearans and all the others.

Therefore I will have to face this fight on my own. If I just think about what happened to Sam and I should experience the same thing again with Gillian, I can't believe it anymore, I just can't do it anymore. ”Her grandmother heard her say tonelessly and this voice said more than everything Biggi would tell her.

"But just in case I defeat this frog, I would like to live with Gillian and live a normal life. Only for him, his and my children. With a bit of luck, this dream will come true. ”Biggi only got a happy expression on the face of the thought and seemed to change somehow.

"Why shouldn't this dream come true?" She was interrupted by her grandmother. "We will teach you everything here to win against this frog. Because I also want to have twin grandchildren, because very few have that. Do you have at least a photo of him with you? So that I can get an idea of ​​him? "

"No, but a lot of songs that he sings. He is a singer, here is a CD by him. Look, I don't have a few pictures of him with me, but you know what he looks like. ”And handed her one of the CDs Gerd had packed her with.

"I have to do something again, Cheila will pick you up right away and show you where you will sleep for the next few weeks, you won't have time for much more. But I think it's better that way. Try not to think about him the next time, you have to focus on the here and now. "

Biggi watched her grandmother go and then turned back to her, or rather his music.

In her mind she was playing with the chain around her neck and was just thinking about how she stole the chain yesterday morning and now it was the only personal thing she had from him.

After a while the door opened and a young woman entered, the image of Biggi. Only this woman had short hair and her skin color was a little greenish. "Hello Birgid, nice to see you again," she was greeted with delight by her twin sister. "We had never thought we would see you again after the Frogs handed us Sam's body. Where have you been?"

"I, on Terra. Until two days ago, I could hardly remember anything. If it were up to me, it would still be like that. Because the last week on earth was just fantastic. But as it looks now, I am once again presented with the bill that it was nice. "

"Oh little one come here, it won't be that bad. You have already done so much and you will get through it. Have you been to Billy, he missed you insanely, even if he pretended not to mind. I think he's had a girlfriend for a few weeks now, what do you say? "

"Yes, maybe I should visit him, but on the other hand if I go to him now he's happy to see me again and it will only get worse if I don't make it on Fokir and don't come back." Cheila looked at and said: "Believe me sometimes it is easier to have no family and friends. Then I would honestly not care whether I survive the fight with Huron, as long as the bastard goes on it. "Shocked by her sister's statement, she asked:" Since when have you been so bitter that doesn't suit you? "

"Why doesn't that come to me, if mother deported at the age of two, for whatever reason. I guess I wasn't good enough for her.

At Sunshine we were allowed to do pretty much everything we wanted, but you don't think Dad had a lot of time for us, which was understandable in a way. You cannot imagine how I envied the other children when they told what they did to their parents. What do you think why I was the youngest Comander in the fleet, yes at the beginning I thought it was really great, but I think I would have liked to exchange it for a normal home. You and the boys at least had mothers every now and then, but I was only good enough for her when I was old enough to get married. To create a connection between the Brings and the Hunreds so that this family war can finally end. Actually not bad, but you know what Molan is like an old-fashioned Volaner. Even today the woman has no rights for him, she has to obey and do what he wants. Yes, something like that still exists today and believe me, he is not the only one who thinks this way.

You can not imagine how I enjoyed the relationship with Sam after this connection with Molan, but the Frogs killed him and I still actively helped, top not.

And the big deal is yet to come. I met my attachment partner on Terra and what do I do? Tell him to find another one and just leave without an explanation. It was the first time that I actually really experienced on earth that there is something else like fighting in life.

Believe me, I really liked it and I would give who knows what if I could continue. But no, my favorites the Frogs have to show up again. Perhaps you now understand why I am bitter, although I am rather disappointed, about myself and what has become of my life.

But my whining doesn't make anything better. Show me my room, maybe I can get my life under control after the fight, because believe me I'm fed up with the fight. "

Even though she was fed up with fighting, she had to go through a tough program for the next three weeks.

There were specially developed robots that had excellent access to the students' thoughts. At the beginning you could see almost everyone how they did what the robots ordered, until they gradually learned to concentrate so that they didn't do what the robots wanted. But kept their own will. After the first week, Birgid had the feeling that someone else's brain was occupied here, she was constantly doing something she didn't intend to do, and she was more than happy that it was just training robots and not hostile frogs. But little by little she got it under control.

The next step was to get the robots to do what you wanted them to do on a thought basis. Only little things that would not bring much resistance from a human opponent, but somehow she had imagined it easier. How many times in the evening did she feel her head was going to burst, was too ready lately to contact Mike to see how Ivon was doing. Even Gillian and everyone else on Earth seemed to have disappeared from her brain, but it was better that way because she needed no distraction.

Most stopped after this level or at least allowed themselves a longer break, but some continued like Birgid, those who would later train or who would be used against frogs or similar beings and those who were other beings only by virtue of their thoughts Could kill or hurt. There weren't many who really mastered this technique. That is why these warriors were in great demand and enjoyed a high reputation. But there were only a few who went through this for a long time, because it was a more than dangerous and cruel job.

Even if the peace negotiations were successful, one would have to assume that there were always fights on both sides. Real peace was unfortunately never so fast and there were always some crossheads that would very often successfully call to fight and then these special warriors would be needed.

After about three weeks of training, Biggi was again with her grandmother, but this time to say goodbye to her. She wanted to meet her son briefly and then bring Ivon to Gerd.

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