Chapter Eleven:
"Tyr why won't you leave me alone so I can hide in my hell hole of a home?" Aikera asked him as she pushed by him with her belongings.
"I'm not the same person I was back then." Tyr said following her.
"Really? Could have fooled me." Aikera shot back sarcastically as they went down the stairs and towards the Maru.
"I'm still Tyr the Nietzschian but I'm not the mercenary I was six years ago." Tyr said clarifying Aikera's sarcastic remark. They entered the Maru quickly as if they were running. Aikera was walking fast and Tyr was jogging to keep up with the angry princess.
"Will you just listen to me Aikera?" Tyr asked. Aikera spun around quickly making Tyr stop on a dime so he wouldn't knock Aikera over.
"Why?" Was the only word she spoke.
After a moment of silence he spoke, "Because I don't want to lose you again."
Aikera's normally purple/blue eyes went to midnight blue. You could feel the anger rising off her through the entire ship.
"Lets go." Dylan whispered to Beka. Beka nodded and took off before anyone, especially Aikera, could change their minds and get off the ship.
"I'm listening Tyr Anasazi." Aikera said coldly. Tyr covered the distance between them in two quick steps.
"I care about you very much. You're my sister." Tyr said moving some Aikera's hair off her face and stuck it behind her ear. Aikera let a tear slip down her cheek.
"Why didn't you fight to get me outta there? Were you too afraid?" She said angrily.
"I was put in jail. I did fight. I was let out and escorted to my ship after you woke from your coma. I didn't know if you'd accept me after your coma." Tyr said forcing himself to remain calm.
"And you let feelings and being escorted to your ship stop you? You're a goddamn Nietzschean." Aikera yelled, "Nothing stops you from what you want."
Tyr went to open his mouth but Aikera turned around and stomped all the way to the bunk area, "There went settling that." Tyr muttered to himself and went to the kitchen area.
After they landed on the Andromeda Aikera kept herself locked in her quarters with the privacy mode on. About a week later, she got hungry enough to leave her room and go to the mess deck. She hoped it was vacant but her wish went unanswered as Rev was sitting alone at a table eating.
She just sat down across from him with no food because she lost her appetite rather quickly from seeing another person, or creature as Aikera reminded herself, in the mess deck.
"What troubles you child?" Rev asked after a moment of silence.
"Great confessions." Aikera mumbled then looked at Rev in the eyes.
"You're not afraid me?" Rev asked after not seeing fear in the princess's eyes.