Tales from Dreamspace

Translucent

The young scout of three trines, NieSha, bowed to the authorities of the higher council as she made her way to the central chamber where the heart of their world transported her to the far reaches across the stars. She located a world that was burning with a source of power that was not natural to the planet's atmosphere, and unnatural warmth and gases thickened the planet's oxygen. She had seen planets in a more designated state; yet, this planet is dying and groaning for release from the cruelest creatures that lived among the stars. 

NieSha could never understand how she got to that location of a building, not in the under cellars of the residence, but she knew she couldn't afford the time to observe as she was on a mission for the good of the home world. She needed the plasmas of these creatures in order for a vaccination experiment to be conducted.

She found herself in a room where the creature laid in bed sound asleep. He'd fit the qualifications of the experiments that the councilors and scientists demanded. She couldn't comprehend that this skanky creature could contain the energy required to be used as a vaccination for the pandemic that has taken govern over the social atmosphere by the reins. She found that these creatures were smaller than her kind, and yet, her head barely scraped the door frame as the smaller skeksis made her way in quietly. She withdrew a long needle filled with a grey-blue substance that shown in the light, a contrast to her own light pale blue skin that danced with light like the stars. The physical trait of her people, the first children of the sister moon. As she edged closer, her nose caught a horrible scent of dirt, urine, and a substance that smelled of a rotting hoof of a creature. She tried not to cough, nor vomit the vial smell. NieSha then heard a gasp coming from her right side, causing her to look up and see a figure before her.

The figure stood by the window, overlooking the vast civilization of the towering buildings with dancing light. The light of the moon never touched the creature's skin to pounce back, not was it solid. She examined this figure as it was similar to the subject that she was supposed to take back to the homeworld. It looked similar to her kind, yet the eyes, nose, extra fingers, and only two arms made it less desirable by Urskeks standards; yet, NieSha was drawn by the contrast of this creature from the one sleeping in the bed. The creature at the window looked to be of the male counterparts of the citizens of the planet, this seeing the way his lower genitals hardened and arched through his garments. This surprised NieSha, for she heard tales of essence spirits that would remain in present spaces of the plains of the present, but never one that would still be capable of emotion. Her people believed that once crossed, they are bounded to worship the Father Light in greater worship. 

The Urskeks looked into the essence spirit creature's eyes, seeing the sadness and loneliness that took residence of the spirit of an illuminated being that looked to be from another time in the planet's timeframe. He wasn't frightened as well, which confirmed that the other scouts were indeed present in this civilization when analyzing the creatures of this planet. How had they or the creature taking residence in this living compartment had not seen this essence spirit among them when analyzing? She wanted to say something, but she had to keep quiet in order to not awaken the sleeping creature. NieSha opened the transparent readings of her inner light and allowed the essence spirit to hear her.

"I only need him for his plasmas. I will return him before your only brother rises in the sky"

The thoughts of the essential spirit were of confusion as he listened to her thoughts. She read that he couldn't identify if she was a male or female of her kind. That didn't come as a surprise since the Urskeks were known to be mix identity of both male and female, yet her people were more solid when it came to the gender identifying with what they were born with. She sadly smiled for the creature of essence, quietly approaching the elusive essence spirit as she reached out her hand and touched his five fingered hand, a contrast to her slightly larger clawed hands. The spirit went through her hand, but that was expected since she haven't really positioned her light yet to allow him to be solid only in one area. 

When she looked into his eyes again, a look of longing flowed in the pupiled eyes. He had a desire to touch and to kiss her. NieSha smiled, she knew she was cornered, and if she wanted to take the sleeping creature for the plasmas, she'll have to give him the answers he sought. Focusing on her inner light upon her hands and face, she touched the spirit again, this time the touch was noticible to her sences. The creature was slightly startled, but he continued to look into her eyes as he then touched her face, both creatures of light and essence drank upon the presence of each other's company. He pulled NieSha into a kiss that tasted of loneliness and hurt, she responded in kind, feeling empathetic for the poor wretch. She then parted, pressing her forehead upon his brow as they continued to kiss, exchanging the answers that each other wanted to know. While NieSha showed the spirit the corners of all the stars and the galaxies beyond his own, if he were corporal to go out of his imprisonment. 

Whilst the essence spirit experienced the worlds beyond his corners of his world, NieSha looked into the last memories of the essence spirit's final moments when he was alive. She saw the poor wretch feeling ostrasized for his preformation of company, an epidemic that ostracized those who's blood is infected possibly due to the connections of two creatures. He was with a male, broke off an engagement with an unknown, and he was courting a female, who sadly, died in front of the essence spirrit when he was formally alive. Screams of the female rang her head, and then the sound of bones, fleash, and screams filled her mind with horror. How can creatures like these inflict upon one another? Her hands shook as she witnessed the cruelty unfolding before her. 

Within an eternity of minutes that passed, she had no more. She parted from the essence creature's mind, turned, and within a flash took the sleeping creature after injecting it with the syrum before transending it back to the homeworld. The last thing she remembered were the haunting eyes of the essence spirit, longing for NieSha to stay.

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SkekNie opened her eyes, looking around to see UrSha blinking her eyes in response to the lights of the three brothers' light that danced across the den. The Urskek, TaiHul removed his brow from the Scout's facial range, blinking his eyes a few times, looking at the navy blue skeksis. 

"Mal and Va were not you're firsts I take it," TaiHul commented as he stood to his feet, aiding Sha and Nie to their feet. 

UrSha shook her head. "The creature, he was the first to" The Messenger shook her head. "We were all young once, and he could not return to where the essence of those organics retreat to." Sha then burst into tears, remembering the pain she witnessed from the essence creature, feeling the same sadnesses that she felt when she was NieSha.

Her counterpart took a deep breath, pushing her long black hair back."It was as lonely as we...that is as NieSha was." SkekNie supplemented. "If he kissed us as a first, second, tenth, I honestly don't know." She looked down from the den's entrance to see the Hunter training Ma and Tra in combat sparring. "All I know is this. Our hearts now belong to others. I can only hope that this," Nie blinked her eyes shut, taking a breath "I wish the same happiness for this essence spirit as we, Messenger and I, did. When we found love where it wasn't supposed to be."