Enjoy,
M.
Chapter Twenty-one
Sam started two work trough two MI'irabi's and one Semeni, before being dragged back to the home by Fewashi. To get a decent sleep and a warm bath. Still, Naysa was already crawling around and trying to walk and nothing pointed to an out.
Along with love her daughter made her feel, frustration was the other sentiment that took her over. Everything seemed not to lead on the right path. Every discovery appeared to make her more irreplaceable for the town.
"I don't know what to do, Naysa…" she confessed on the dark of her room one night. "I want to go home, and yet, I feel they need me. And everything inside that mountain is pointing me to stay here and help them. There's nothing there that could get us home."
"Ma..ma..ma…" Naysa let out, and Sam smiled. Anyone else would have thought those were her first words, but Sam knew she was just trying. It didn't mean she wasn't utterly happy with the fact her daughter was starting to speak.
When Naysa had begun to crawl, Fewashi instructed Sam to get rid of Naysa's diaper as she called it. The bottom part of her clothes that she changed every time it got dirty. Fewashi had said something about imitation and Sam noticed for the first time most of the kid of Naysa's age or the ones who were born a couple of weeks before and after she had were already bottomless. And they imitated the older ones like a game.
They also had a time when all the kids were rounded out, and Halani and other elder made them play and sing. Apparently repeating was the method they used on their children. And she figured they probably used it on her too.
"I know this word," Sam muttered to herself frowning at an ancient word she knew from somewhere but her brain wasn't feeling extremely collaborative that day.
"Malachi!" Halina called over distracting Sam from her wall staring.
"Halina," She smiled. As the elder woman placed Naysa on the floor and her daughter gave a couple of firm steps. Sam kneeled happily, and her daughter wobbled towards her slowly but surely.
"You can walk! Naysa! I love you!" Sam added in joy. She turned towards Halina who was looking pleased with herself. "Falenderim Halani," she nodded as Naysa squirmed out of her grasp. And stood next to the wall Sam was analyzing.
Sam walked and stood behind Naysa, allowing her to keep standing and giving more strength to her little legs by exerting them. Naysa looked up then and grinned mischievously. Or so Sam thought. Then, she placed both of her hands on the wall and giggled.
"Naysa!" Sam grabbed the girl on her arms and covered as what seemed like rock started to fall. But something had stopped the rocks and the noise, and when Sam finally had checked nothing was falling over their heads, and that Naysa was unharmed, she noticed there was no rock but a heavy door what caused the movement.
And she remembered the word.
Jack had taught her that word to make sure she wouldn't end up with her head stuck into one of those. It meant "Repository." This one was different; it looked more like that chair room back at Atlantis. Well, without the chair.
She called Halani and asked her to keep Naysa up. Then she slowly entered the repository room, as she looked around, she couldn't find anything like the ones she knew.
"How come this is a Repository?" she asked out loud and to no one in particular, and light surrounded her. It felt quite like the Asgard beam, but it was different somehow. Although, when she was capable of seeing more than just white, she found herself in a different part of the compound, one she hadn't find before.
She walked out of the room and looked around if this was a repository it wasn't like anything she had seen before. And yet, seemed familiar. She walked for a couple of miles quickly and understood that the familiarity came from one building back on earth.
The whole thing was a library, with real books.
She wasn't sure if she was supposed to feel awe or despair. Until she walked closer to one of the bookshelves, and an image appeared.
"What the!" She jumped a bit, scared by the sudden apparition. The image blinked at her.
"Good Semeni. How shall I help you."
"What?"
"Good Semeni, how shall I help you?"
"English?"
"English, one of many variations spoken in Avalon."
"Avalon?"
"The citizens of Avalon called the land Britania. And the planet Terra."
"Terra?" Sam gasped in joy. A map appeared and showed her what she knew it was her home planet.
"Travelling distances is longer than one single journey in the remaining working transports. A transport to a near planet with Chapa'ai is recommended. Closer Chapa'ai address." And then symbols started to appear. One by one.
"Holy Hannah! I know those symbols! The closer planet is Saqqara?"
"I do not recognize the name. Flying on transport from deck 4523X recommended as the shortest trip length."
"4523X?"
"Indeed. Walk to the end of the repository, third door on the left."
"One more thing, how do I get back to the central area?" She asked feeling foolish when she remembered she was talking to a computer.
"Walk back to where you came from and asked for the main area."
"Thanks," she said before she could help herself. And walked back towards the way she came from, she didn't want to worry the others that much, and she figured there was a long time since she disappeared leaving Halina with Naysa.
"Main area," she said out loud, and she was transported back to the place she had been before, the boisterous activity making her understand they had been worried about what had happened to her. "I guess I will need to find a way to explain why I leave…" she muttered to herself.
The first who saw her was Fewashi, who apparently was called in case she was injured and came barreling at her speaking quickly. Sam explained the best she could she was okay, but the alien dragged her nonetheless to her medical corner and rechecked her. Fewashi's actions made Sam inhaled deeply since they reminded her of Janet's ways and she missed her friend no matter how long it was since she was gone. Sam was busting at the seams with happiness, and Fewashi noticed it quickly.
"ya yemira?" Fewashi asked and unable to find the words to explain to her friend what had just transpired she grabbed the healer's hand and dragged her to the transport room. "Makemacha?" She said, and before Sam could say a word, they were once again on the library floor.
"Makemacha is a library. How do you know that word? I mean, not makemacha but what the ancient word means…" Fewashi wasn't paying attention to her, not that if she did would have made any difference. But the healer turned towards her with a questioning look, "nevermind," she told her, "ayidelemi Fewashi."
Fewashi frowned, but Sam dismissed any question by grabbing her hand and drag her towards the part of the library where she had before found the hologram/interface which appeared making the Doctor jump and let out a string of words that to Sam's amusement she recognized as swearing.
"Greetings," the hologram said, "Selamita"
"Wait, you know their language?"
"I'm programmed to understand most known languages and factor their origins to verify the most likely way they would develop. Thus, being able to speak with you in a language I've not heard since the last time my civilization spoke with Avalon should seem more far fetched than being able to speak the language of the left behind."
"Oh, I see."
"Will you want to apply the translating interface in the facilities?"
"Translating interface? That's awesome.. yes."
"I can understand you, Messenger of the Gods."
"Messenger of the Gods? What's that supposed to mean Fewashi?"
"You are Messenger of the Gods; I'm Healer."
"My name is Samantha; my friends called me Sam."
"Thunder is not a good name for an angel from the skies."
"I'm not…you named me like that because I fall from the skies?"
"Yes."
"Can you not translate the word, Malachi?"
"Indeed I can."
"How is this possible, how can I understand you so well, Malachi?"
"The facility has a translation interface; it allows me to explain thing in my language and for you to understand them in yours."
"Incredible. Now I can finally know what you were mumbling during this whole time."
"I can, at last, understand what are you talking about. But this is only limited to this facility, the moment we leave we lose this."
"I understand, then we should make the most of it."