Reminisces Part One

Aelerothi read out the sign ont eh door. He was able to read Erri because it was an offshoot language of the Furling language. Having served in Terrestrial Intelligence Directorate, Elite Land Warriors,and the Dire Situtations Task Force, he was well acquainted with the languages of his country's allies as well as the languages of his country's enemies. It stated "Maintenance Closet." This was the perfect place to stash the unconscious Erri station guards. The young elven general summoned his considerable telekinetic powers and levitating the ten hallway guards into the air. Mentally sliding the supply closet door open, he transferred the incapacitated guards into it and then slid it shut again.

He activated his helmet's high-resolution X-ray vision function and peered through the solid metal wall separating him from the room's interior.

Their leader was focusing his eyes extremely lecherously at the slender, graceful, auburn-blonde beauty. He definitely would like to do more than to follow the look-but-don't-touch-based rule for interacting.

*Perverts. Especially that bloodthirsty, ruthless, vile, alleged 'royalty' Ixulthar. He clearly is the lustful one who made Elryn wear that two-piece sensual lingerie. I already possess a whole book full of reasons why we the Furling and our allies should justly deal him death on-site. The dark-elf bastard is only adding another major reason to the listing. Oh, how I won't feel much regret if I should slay him in the process of attempting to accost him for the Ultimate Authority Court to put on trial and sentence him to his many-times-over just desserts!*

Furling anger, like all elven anger and other elven emotions, was much more intense than

If Prince Ixulthas had not been so arrogant and downplayed how his longtime battlefield nemesis was extremely competent, the Erri guards would've been actually been alerted to who Lekilis was. But both he and they were paying the price for his unwise act. The Erri guards, while only knowing that they were infact dealing with

*No, Lek, don't. No! Don't do it! Don't actually remove your weapons from your person and surrender yourself to these murderous, vile Erri guards. You don't need to comply. You can both evade capture and save me without giving in to their threatening demands. We can knock out these remaining overconfident scum.* she insisted to Lekilis telepathically. She glanced over to her side ever so slightly as if to

"I don't believe you one single bit, Guards-Captain. I trust no Erri to sincerely carry out promises after he or she makes them. In fact, I trust them just as as much as I would trust an unrepentant enemy who I turn my back to when he or she wields a weapon, I don't, and am standing in their optimal line of sight for blasting me right where I stand."

"His Imperial Royal Highness Prince Ixulthas has no intention to murder this incomparably beauteous Furling elfwoman if he doesn't need to. He'd rather her lose her life than have to give her person up to an inferior specimen of an elf or other race in the universe as all other than the Royal family are. However, you apparently care very much for this elfwoman to a similar degree as my employer does. Comply with out reasonable request to relinquish every piece of weaponry and you'll be very happy this object of your affection doesn't have to perish."

"How disturbingly sick in the mind your death-deserving master is with his personal distorted sense of 'love' to think this way. How moving one must find his unselfish devotion to his loved ones." Lekilis simultaneously sarcastically expressed his disgust and tried to distract the Erri officer from noticing Elryn moving just ever so slightly in order to carry out the plan.

"Ha! Haha! I wouldn't ever expect you to understand the way male Erris feel affection for their elfwomen, Furling."

"You'd be wise not to, for you'd be making a completely futile effort, Captain Killhead" Lekilis retorted. Completely the polar opposite of the Erri regarding romantic relationships, Furling culture emphasized a more egalitarian, humane way of loving.

*I'm going to very much enjoy delivering the blow rendering this ignorant Erri fool unconcscious.* Lekilis self-reflected.

Elryn ducked and elbowed the officer in the abdominal area, following that up with a specially-angled chop to the neck. The officer let out a significant groan of pain and collapsed to the ground. He did recover fairly quickly,

Lekilis punched the two bodyguard lieutenants in the temples with flash-of-light speed, downing them both where they'd stood minutes ago trying to knife him in the vulnerable area w.

The fifty Erri officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted soldiers all lay incapacitated, sprawled on the ground most likely for the next few hours.

Lekilis took those precious, slow, dreamy steps towards Elryn. There she was; it really was her, live and well in the flesh. He felt his heart overflowing with pleasantly overwhelming feelings of blissful joy. He'd not seen her in over ten Furling Years and at points during those ten years was sure he wouldn't even be able to ever see her again. Overcome with these immense, immeasurably positive feelings, Lekilis had complete trouble speaking. As he got closer, his pupils dilated, his heart beat more intensely, and he felt that really feeling of [ ]the pit of his stomach.

"El." Lekilis half-whispered. Elryn...I….If I'm merely dreaming of you in such a vivid, blissful way at this very moment, then I don't ever want to wake up. If even I must return to the real, woken peoples' world every now and then to fulfill my life duties, I'll be back every single second I can spare. And if I'm actually awake at this very moment and truly seeing you here with me, then I don't ever want to fall asleep again."

"Lek….You came for me." She smiled warmly and emotionally, deeply-moved. Her heart skipped several beats at the excitement of really seeing him in person again, after having felt for thousands of days that she was wishing and hoping for the absolute impossible. Elryn placed her right hand over her chest area and held it down there firmly. The only Elfwoman he'd felt this grand amount of romantic affection in his whole life blinked quickly a few times, fueled by her emotions of extremely moved gratitude. Her eyes, which had been misting greatly, finally welled over with joyful tears that since they'd collectively dispatched the Erri Royal Family Guards and she'd been able to take some time to react to his ever-so-welcome presence.

Lekilis exhaled intensely and smiled that kindly smile of his that had always melted. "Of course; you should have expected nothing less from me. All these long years between then and now, the only acts I engaged in which helped me derive the will to keep living on were hoping, deducing, and confirming that you were were still alive. Now that I've closed the empty-feeling distances separating us, I can't even come close to adequately verbalizing how heartened I am that you're now safe. I promise you on everything I personally hold sacred that if I commit this as my last act in my life, I'll ensure that you return securely to Furling space today. Furliya's missed you and all the wonderful aspects you epitomize. How could our nation not after all?"

Elryn smiled very bashfully, but in very pleased way, too, back at him. "You've always been so very kind to me, Lekilis." She smiled shyly and looked down slightly at the ground, uneasy with him giving her such lofty praise.

She wasn't sure that she'd done anything particularly worthy to deserve said praise.

"You make it very easy to, by being the wonderful person that you are." He complimented her. His eyes saturatedly fully, reflecting of his admiration for the gentle, caring, compassionate, friendly, altruistic, sensitive, open-minded, and plainly put phenomenally wonderful elven being she was.

She smiled gently and with great modesty, reaching up only slightly, due to her rather tall height, to kiss him on the cheek with a peck that was strongly seemingly more than just one of a friend to another friend.

Lekilis's heart beat more quickly in response. Elryn, with her heightened elven senses, detected it. He was pretty sure she had caught on to this sign, as well as just about all the other ones he'd shown around her, that he thought of her and acted towards her much more than as a close friend. She was too observant to not notice the signs, although of course she couldn't be sure how he acted further based on the feelings that generated those signs. He'd almost come close to it all those years ago before her alleged demise, but a variety of factors he regretted having let influence his deciding not to in the end, not in the least the national resolution passed by the Legislatory Grand Component of the government. Right now, he could easily view it as the most hypocritical, cold, inconsiderate, piece of legislation its proponents were ever made to pass through all three chambers of the LGC. The majority of those voting successfully to put the bill into effect were a bunch of old Furling men and women who'd never put themselves into harm's way and slept. They had no qualms at all making the younger generation bear the burdens of war, forsaking all the meaningful bonds of friendship and romantic love 'for the greater good'.

"Um, Elryn, I wanted to tell you all these years that…." He had to pause, unable to fully contain the emotion which the thoughts he wanted to share generated.

She had a hopeful sparkle in those lucsious greenish-blue eyes of her. "Erm, Lekilis, I also really wish to be able tell you that….". Neither could Elryn come even close to containing her own emotions.

"Well, as always, Elryn, maybe we should try our time-tested fifty-fifty approach to sharing such momentuous news?" Lekilis suggested based on their shared history of experiences in the past.

"Alright; that's always worked splendidly." Elryn replied Lekilis very cheerily and very sweetly. 'Go for it Lek; it's back to you again." She invited him with a very kindly tone.

"Alright. Um, as I was not-so-gracefully trying to say" he chortled. "I've always admired you for the remarkable, special, unique, brilliant and incomparably alluring elfwoman you are. " He paused to give her a turn to share a segment of her thoughts also.

"Thank you, Lek. Thank you very much. I'm deeply and incomparably feeling flattered as I could only ever be when you're the one giving out the compliments." She brushed aside a strand of her long, long, gorgeous auburn-blonde hair and smiled really bashfully at him while looking him directly in the eyes , suggesting she felt moved by his praise in a way much more than if she were reacting to an elfman whom she thought of only as a friend.

"Well, El, despite starting out earlier in life thinking of you as just a very close friend, I started soon later thinking of you as more, much more,…. The very elfwoman of my undying affections, my infinite admirations, and my ceaseless amazement at the truth that such a wondrous elfwoman like you could exist. As the marvel of love is the way it is, I can't tell you, because of the wonderful metaphysics surrounding it, I can't truly pinpoint the moment when I actually started fall so deeply in love with you. But I can tell you that at this moment, I feel those feelings more intensely than I ever have. I should tell you I know that the merely expressing my long-held feelings for you doesn't allow me to expect similar feelings in return, and It's only right that I not expect any. Especially considering since before this incident that must cause you no nearly no end of psychological torment, I never took the opportunity to tell you just how I felt about you. So…." He paused. "If you'll forgive me for previously being too reserved when I might have had a better chance for "

Elryn felt no less than completely flustered and touched by Lekilis' confession of these long-held feelings in such an eloquent, sincere way. "Lek, I can only tell you with utmost that by sharing your feelings you've only made my day, my month, my year, my years, my life, totally worth living . In my eyes, no other elfman can equal your sense of chivalry, your courage, your consistently altruistic concern for the well being for others, your sensitivity to feeling and appreciating all that is good and wonderful. Not to mention, as if you could even more splendid that you're face and other physical attributes are extremely pleasing to my eyes. I've loved since time immemorial, and since then, only find myself loving you all the more; every single metaphysical fiber of your being with all of my heart, nothing less."

Lekilis swallowed, being overcome with thankfulness and feelings that he was the luckiest elfman in the universe. He'd just

They closed the little distance left between each other. Elryn put her her left hand on his right cheek and her right hand on, caressing each soothingly with her extremely pretty hands.

Lekilis felt all the strain and stress and uncertainty of the past ten Furling years evaporate away. He put his right hand very gently on the left side of her face, running the back of it down the long length her smooth her silken hair which was incomparably pleasant to touch. He smiled her a smile which non-romantics might quickly and judgementally label a "dorky smile" but, when in love and expressing it to your significant other, dorkiness matters not in the final analysis. All that matters is the purity of one's intent.

Their feelings for each other without question transcended the factors of space and time, the two universal variables which tended to impact the lives of organic beings for the worse. Their mutual feelings of intensely intense romantic love were immune to the whims of these two powerful forces.

"Can I?" she inquired with her beautiful voice which had always sounded pleasant, and only all the more when he'd been experiencing one of the more hellish days of his life.

He nodded with a shiny twinkle of his eye

To him, she needn't even ask for permission for what she was about to do.

Elryn moved her mouth slowly and gracefully towards Lekilis' mouth. He moved his mouth forward, having wanted to partake in this, one of this most sacred of activities between two highly committed and excited lovers, for an immeasurably long period of time but never having gotten to do so. He touched his lips delicately and passionately to her lips, meeting his soul to hers. She moved her hand to his neck, and he in turn eased her willowy body forth closer to him with his hand on her lower back. They intertwined their lips and tongues more passionately.

Lekilis felt a wave of warmth, both physical and emotional flow through his body. He gazed into her eyes to get a glimpse of her soul, as one often does. "I should've told you a really long time ago, that you have the most beautiful, unique, soulfufl eyes I've ever seen, hon!"

"I want to apologize for my appearance, Lekilis."

"You don't need to, Elryn. " He'd, in the excitement of being able to meet that she was clad in what was probably the outcome of her Erri captor's perverse sexual fantasy of the nature of a willowy young Furling woman's intimate wear. "You didn't decide to wear that in public of your own accord after all. That swamp-rodent-bastard His Death-Penalty-Deserving Scum Ixulthas forced you to, and I know you only did it to appease Ixulthas in order to gain more lenient treatment for the rest of the Relief Mission staff. No one could successfully and no one should ever try to question your sense of class. Goodness knows you could've easily gotten but your integrity in keeping by those lofty principles you hold dear caused you not too, and that' s aspect of you which makes you the truly special person you are, El."

"Thanks, Lek" she replied softly with that beautiful, slightly bashful smile. "But if I were wearing a two –piece beach sunbathing outfit that were more appropriate for retaining a goods sense of modesty, might you drop a more forward but" she inquired a bit flirtatiously.

Lekilis smiled sheepishly. " I'd tell you right away with straightforwardness and no lechery involved in my thinking, that you're extremely and inmy mind incomparably stunning and then I might just faint from the astounding sight of your willowy body."

"That's really sweet. You couldn't have said something more sweet than that, Lek. It makes an elfwoman's day all worthwhile and wonderosuly wonderful to hear such sincere praise" she smiled and giggled delightfully. "And I hate to say this, but we absolutely must escape this vile place before we're able to aid the cause of the Furling and of our allies, and that of our own cause." She winked at him sultrily, but matter-of-factly simultaneously.

Lekilis noddded his head and winked back at her. "Yes; we have much to fight our way out of this evil presence of space station and live for." He smiled and looked at ehr very tenderly right befoer they exoted this room ro begin evading and dealing pain to any Erri forces ready to prevent their leaving the station.