T'Lyn woke from her meditation, turning she saw that her door was open. Pulling her over robe down from the hook she slid it over her head and walked out into the hall. She could see from there that the men of the group were in meditation, it was agreeable to see such venerable men sharing the calm in such a way. She padded over to T'Pel's room and placed her fingers over her psi points, she was still in healing, but there had been no major changes. She bent and kissed her grandmother's forehead.

Returning to the hall she saw Gelly and Roxanne standing whispering back and forth. She could see from the bruising that Gelly looked well sexed, and Roxanne looked well rested, she stepped back into the darkness of T'Pel's room allowing them both to pass by. She watched Roxanne take a dash toward the bathroom, Gelly followed laughing down the hall. She put a foot out to make sure they had passed when she felt a presence behind her.

"Good morning T'Lyn." The clipped male voice of her father spoke. She closed her eyes to center herself and then turned presenting calm to him.

"It is an agreeable morning, Solok. Did you rest well? I thought you to be in meditation with," she paused and found herself surrounded by all the males. Kuvak looked ragged, but he had since beginning their journey. Her grandfather looked tired. Soval looked as Gelly did, well sexed though more painfully so. Her father looked focused. She suddenly felt exposed. "It appears there is something you require of me already this morning, before we've even had first meal. "

Soval was the one chosen to speak, "My granddaughter, we require your help."

She looked back at T'Pel, the absence of her voice now apparent to the younger woman, and then her grandfather, "What help is that all of you require?"

"Given the nature of our journey, and your tasking through time, we have decided to research matters much further. It seems logical to us all," he motioned with his hand over everyone standing before her, "That we take an active role in helping to understand the logic and circumstance we all, as family, find ourselves in with Q and…this…" Sovar said stepping back to allow T'Lyn entrance into their circle as he motioned to the place they now sheltered.

T'Lyn considered them all carefully raising an eyebrow, she frowned, and "You all look like a pack of rabid sehlat. " she said side stepping so she was on the edge of the group, crossing her arms over her chest, she stared each one of them down," Yet you speak so eloquently, grandfather. My sense is there is some request you have of me that you do not wish to speak."

Soval spoke next, "We wish to examine the three IDIC necklaces you wear, Reldai. No harm will come to them. We just felt that you may be sensitive, even emotional about allowing others to see them closely. You've worn them a long time."

T'Lyn's eyes widened but she allowed a small smile, and the men relaxed a bit, "Oh," she said very humanly, "Is that all you want."

Soval nodded, and mild pleased expression flashing over his bruised face, "Yes, we will return them to you in short order."

She leaned forward to him, her eyes suddenly as cold as an andorian winter, "No." She nodded curtly to the group, and walked into her room and the door rolled closed behind her.

"That went better than I expected." Sovar said lightly.

Solok looked at his father incredulously, "It did?"

"Yes, I expected a more…violent reaction." Soval replied.

"That was my daughter before, and it would have been easier to deal with than the flat no of a Reldai." A hint of pride lilted in his voice.

Soval shook his head, "We are all politicians and ambassadors, we've brokered peace between species, and calmed generations of blood feuds. We can surely manage this."

Soval looked into the room where his wife lay, "If she were awake and well, she'd know how to manage this much better than we. You see our backgrounds as a benefit, Osu Soval, I see it as a detriment."

Gelly and Roxanne came around the corner, both stopping, "It looks like some kind of cadet review," Roxanne said grinning. "Looks serious, Gelly."

Solok held up his two fingers to Roxanne, who tentatively touched them, "Perhaps the ladies can assist us?" He looked down at Roxanne with a gentle fondness.

"Help you do what Solok?" Roxanne said trying not to openly melt at his expression.

"We need to have a look at the IDIC necklaces T'Lyn wears and she has told us we cannot." Sovar said, "Do you think you ladies can help us?"

Gelly snorted and walked over to T'Lyns door, ringing the chime, she waited.

Kuvak frowned, "What is she doing? We've tried the direct approach."

The door rolled open and the Klingon woman blasted her in face with a fist, knocking her back and out in one swift move. Bending over she tore the jewelry from her neck and tossed it to Soval. "Problem solved."

Roxanne shrieked and ran over to T'Lyn, who was out cold, "Gelly are you insane! She's pregnant!"

Gelly snorted, "She is not pregnant in the face!"

Solok and Sovar both clenched their teeth, and Kuvak stepped between the men and the Klingon woman. Soval's nostrils flared, "While I don't agree with the method, we do have them…" He shot Gelly a nasty look.

Gelly walked past them, smacking Soval's behind on the way, "You humans and Vulcans make everything so complex. I am leaving for Qo'nos now, but I will return in a month's time." She laughed, "And I won't be here when she wakes, good luck with your research. Oh and Solok, I'll make sure I contact Letant for you as you requested as well, I may not even punch him when I see him." She laughed harder. Grabbing Soval by the back of the head she kissed him, he pushed her away and she growled, "In a month's time! Qapla!" she said striking her chest and walking away.

Solok took a deep breath through his nose, "You see to the necklaces, I will help Roxanne tend to my daughter."

Solok crossed quickly and bent to help Roxanne, "Come we will lay her on the bed."

Roxanne was crying, her pregnancy hormones raging inside of her with a mix of anger and fear, "Why would Gelly do that to her, she's her friend. " she whimpered, "She's b-bleeding."

Solok was taking calming breaths, between seeing his daughter bleeding and feeling the emotion radiating from his bond mate, it was a struggle to repress his own inner tumult, "She will be ok, Roxanne, " he said wrapping a calming arm around her, "We will get her to the bed and then we will get a towel to clean away the blood on her nose. I am sure no permanent damage has been done. " Solok lifted T'Lyn up and carefully lay her on the bed, "No go my beloved and get some water on a cloth." He rubbed Roxanne's back softly.

He sat on the edge of the bed looking around. There were pictures of people he didn't recognize, scattered over the room. As he looked down to check his daughter he caught glimpse of an impression of three IDIC symbols at the head of the bed. He stood and went to the door, "It's in here." He said calmly to the men examining the pendants.

"I will keep Roxanne busy, be quick." Solok said and jogged off to the bathrooms.

Sovar looked down at his granddaughter, "I hope you forgive what we have done, and what we are about to do." He whispered.

Kuvak's eyes widened, "She won't know will she, that…that we have…that we are…"

Soval sighed and pressed the necklace in his hand into the impression, "She will eventually, Kuvak, we don't lie and I won't lie to her no matter how distasteful the truth is."

Kuvak pressed the other pendants into the impressions, the far wall opened up into a vast room that looked very much like a bridge of a star ship. Soval and Kuvak crossed the room, the male voice they spoke with the night before was speaking in ancient Vuclan and control panels were slowly springing to life, and image of another male Vulcan appeared on the screen, he was wearing an necklace identical to one of them they had just pressed into the wall.

Soval looked at Kuvak. "You know the ancient tongue." He stated.

Kuvak's blue eyes were wide, " I know phrases, and I know how to read it given time…but, Soval, they speak it like natives, fast and all I can pick up are bits and pieces. That is T'Klaas, I get that much. Something about fast drive, something about status and other than that…" he turned and looked at Soval impotently. "We need Skon or…"

Soval frowned, "A priest." He said looking over his shoulder at T'Lyn laying on the bed.

Kuvak gasped looking at the star charts, and other symbols flashing on the screen, "I didn't even know the ancient space traveled."

Soval shook his head, "Then how do you think those who rode under the raptors wings suddenly went from Vulcan to Romulus? Or the other lost Vulcan colonies on the other planets?"

"I don't know, Soval, I just know this is a bit much to comprehend."

Soval moved to touch something, and Kuvak grabbed his hand, "Don't. You don't know what it might activate, we could take off, or…start some ignition, we could.."

Soval pulled his hand back, "We don't have much choice but to do something, Kuvak, She isn't going to be out much longer."

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Solok was holding Roxanne in the room that held the common bath. He had confessed everything to her and was holding onto her now like if he didn't he might be flung from the planet.

"So there is a dead guy, the Vulcan ghost essentially, in this…space ship, we are on. T'Lyn doesn't know it's a ship and you guys had Gelly knock her out to take those pendants, which, she seems to absolutely love, so you idiots." She smacked her palm against his forehead, "Could snoop around in hopes of finding whatever it is, before she woke up. Is that what you are telling me?" Roxanne's eyes were baring down on Solok.

He could hardly look at her but nodded, "Not precisely that but the idea is contained in your explaination."

She shoved him by the shoulder, "Some days I hate you, Solok!"

He looked down, he knew she did not mean that exactly, but it wounded him equally every time she spoke the words.

"You are all creepy fuckers sometimes, Solok! Why didn't you just tell her most of what you were told?"

"Because we would have had to divulge where the information came from,Roxanne, and we were instructed not to let her know his Katra had been drawn here." He looked at her almost willing her to calm.

"So blasting her in the face is better?" she rolled her eyes.

"I did not know Gelly was going to take such savage means, I believe the intent was going to be to have you remove them in some less violent manner. "

She slapped him on the shoulder, and huffed in exasperation, "Not the best way for me to enter the family. Hi I'm going to be your STEP MOM, let me steal your jewelry. Does she have a puppy I can kill or something that's be just great too."

"Roxanne…"

Kuvak called from behind them, "We found the control room but we have no way to translate everything, I think she is waking up, Solok."

His jaw clenched, "I'm coming, nerve pinch her neck Kuvak." He called back, "You don't have to come Roxanne." He said standing.

"Oh no, I'm not missing this clown show for the world." She held up her hand for him to pull her up too. "And you are going to owe her and me big time mister."

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Kuvak entered the room, and looked down at the unconscious T'Lyn. "Soval, she is waking."

Soval came in from the bridge and looked down at her she was beginning to stir. He frowned, "Forgive me…" he placed his fingers at her neck and squeezed until she no longer stirred.

Roxanne entered the room first, followed by Solok. "What is the progress?"

Sovar entered T'Lyn's room from the control room, "Stations are active and a man Kuvak stated was T'Klaas is on the screen saying the same things over and over. Some kind of countdown has begun now."

Soval looked at Sovar, and walked past him into the room, he called back, "I believe an ignition count down has started. Kuvak…"

Kuvak entered and listened, "Yes. It is a countdown to take off. " he sat at the console and looked, "I think we are going to be able to abort but we need T'Lyn's fingers." He pointed at two small round spots. "The syntax is not exactly correct, I think it means abort but it could mean ignition."

Sovar looked over his shoulder, "For logical beings we are not being very precise."

Solok thought a moment, and looked at his daughter, he walked into the bridge and stated loudly, "Surak, attend." Nothing happened, he turned and grabbed his daughter and threw her over his shoulder, "Surak, attend."

A beam of light scanned over her form and the room went silent save for a few beeps and the continued count down, the image of Surak appeared with his two fingers held up in the air. He blinked and stepped from the panel where he appeared.

"Logical thinking, Solok, though your voice is not as appealing as hers."

Every one took a breath of relief. Then Surak frowned, "She is injured."

"It was a misunderstanding with a Klingon, Osu." Sovar said, "And a nerve pinch…"he added looking at Soval.

Surak looked at the countdown panel and it froze. "I believe last night I said I would come to you when I was ready to have my katra destroyed. I am not yet ready. I have things I must attend yet in this ship, and now I believe you have taken actions that will set a wedge between you all and my adun'a. Let us all hope, she reflects on her human nature of forgiveness." Turning to Roxanne he looked her over, "You are Solok's mate, the one called Roxanne."

Her eyes widened, "Yeah that's me. Though, I'm technically Solok's mate yet. Who are you?"

He raised the Ta'al to her, and bowed slightly, "I am Surak."

Roxanne smiled and offered the same salute; "Nice to meet you Sur…wait…" she looked at Solok, "Surak as in father of logic Surak?"

Surak nodded, and put his hands on his hips looking back at Solok, and then at Roxanne, "Yes."

Her face went pale, "Oh." She dropped her hand and shifted self-consciously.

"You are an agreeable young woman. It is a privilege to know you." He bowed to her. Then turned to the men, "There is a human saying; you made your bed now you'll lie in it." He winked at Roxanne and blinked out as T'Lyn began to stir on Solok's shoulder.

Solok looked at everyone, and then carried T'Lyn to her bed laying her down gently. He quickly stepped back so he wouldn't be the first person she saw. She opened her eyes and groaned slightly, her hand moving up to her bruised and swollen nose and eyes. Her hand went to her neck and she sat up in a panic, looking around she saw the opening in her wall, and everyone standing around looking at her for a reaction. She stood calmly, wavering slightly as the blood rushed away from her head, turned and walked out the door.