Disclaimer: No filthy lucre changed hands.
Summary: Part two of the poem "So Very Many Stars". The first part of this poem was meant to stand alone, but the fate of the young Vulcan male is unknown and a reader was asking be about it. So the second part of the poem shows that the male often does make it home to continue Vulcan kind. And this is how it happens…
Note: The events of the ritual of a first mating are taken from The Vulcan Language Institute page "Vulcan Rituals and Ceremonies". For a private people, very Victorian about sex, I was surprised that the VLI mentioned a ritual witness.
When the Stars Stop Moving
By Bineshii
The stars have stopped
moving,
The planets are growing
larger on screen…
A face…Hers!...replaces
them
"Sonak, it is I"
Formal dress - he notes
she is prepared
Anticipation shivering
through him,
He is hot, he shivers,
he is ready, he speaks:
"T'Lis, parted from me and never parted"
From a race sparing of
words, plain and logical,
She leans almost out
from the screen
And as eons of women
before her, she gives voice:
"Never and always touching and touched. I await you."
She vanishes and two
tightly bound worlds jump into view
Like a Vulcan couple,
endlessly, inexorably, circling each other,
Moving out from behind
its companion T'Kuht…the planet Vulcan!
Gold sparkles,
tingling, a brief dissipation,
Reassembled amid stones
heavy with age,
He tests the firmness
of sand, the taste of the air…
Inflating his lungs
enables a whisper:
"I have beaten the
stars, their distance has not defeated me"
And he strikes the gong
in his need
It is answered.
Enter the matriarch,
and the gathering of the clan,
An arc of robed
figures, curving single file in the shadow of the stones
"What you are about
to see comes down from the time of the beginning"
Time of challenge!
"Kali Farr!"
Silence… and he
breathes easier
Time of mating!
"Pon Farr!"
The Plak Tau burns,
consumes, he reaches for her roughly and she…
Responds in kind
The clan files out -
privacy the hallmark of all Vulcan
He takes her right
there on the sand
His seed finds the hot
trembling passage
While the matriarch
alone observes
As is the way at a
first consummation,
The couple…oblivious
to this singular privacy violation
Exhaustion. They
sleep,
Coiled around each
other like the planets…
There will be a child.