The Officers

Prologue - Reporting to the ship

~~~ Jace and his oldest sister talk

Everyone spent the leave at the pride and it'd been enjoyable. The two weeks seemed to pass way to fast and also way to slow. Everyone was enjoying the time there. Nacy's family had flown out as had Jace's sisters. The pride had enjoyed getting to know part of Jace's family. Nothing had been said about his father though some seemed to understand there was tension related to him. The two girls were almost wide eyed as they were looking around the house at the kits and others wandering around as cats.

Jace was having fun teasing them by changing their hair and skin color. It had them growling at him, but it had been way too much fun. When they talked to him about it he'd explained he was teasing their world threads and it would return to normal before they returned home. Janel had asked him about it and it had been an interesting conversation.

"Janel, it's hard to explain. I'm now a Senka Eden or a Shadowed One. Trying to explain it is hard. Danal and I have the ability to affect the, ah, world threads for lack of a better way of explaining it. If I tweak this thread one thing will happen, if I do another something else will happen." He became pensive, "Remember when Dad came home, and I was there?"

She shivered slightly since that had been a horrible day, "Yah, and I wanted to hide. I felt something which scared me to my core. Not sure how to explain it other than that." Janel didn't have any other way to describe it other than that. There had been almost sheer terror for a period of time before she felt her heart start beating again.

"That was my fault sis. I almost told him he was not my father. If Baraf hadn't interrupted me, what I would have said would have destroyed our family. Dad would have accused mom of cheating, I'd have been up for adoption, neither of you would have born. The power Danal and I have is incredible but also so very constrained. When Baraf showed me this, I ended up loosing everything I'd eaten in the last several days. We are incredibly powerful yet have to be very careful of what we do. I could change the path of the entire world, but I'd also have to accept all the deaths which were caused by that. Do you have any idea how terrifying that is?"

She could only stare at him before she leaned against him and wrapped her arms around him and held on. Even when Danal appeared she kept holding on. That odd burring purr of theirs helped but what he'd said scared the crap out of her. Her brother had that much power? It almost sounded like he was a demi-god and not just a normal supernatural. She wasn't sure what to say or do.

Danal kept up her purring and nuzzled Janel's neck, "Relax and consider going to sleep. Let your brother comfort you." What he'd told her most of it would be blocked from her. Some things humans simply couldn't comprehend. They weren't gods or anything like that, simply very powerful supernatural. It didn't take long before Janel fell asleep and was being held against her brother.

Baraf appeared, "Jace, no more truth for your family. It is something few human's can really deal with. Simply call what you can do part of who you are and don't expose them to the expanse you have access to." He carefully picked the young woman up and vanished from the room. He was going to tuck her in with his mate's help and tomorrow she'd be fine.

Jace sighed since he hated hiding anything from his family and always had but this was something few of them could deal with. He stood before giving Danal a good hug, "I'm hungry, shall we?" They walked out of the room with their tails entwined much to the amusement of the pride. Jace had to grumble, "If anyone makes bad jokes I'm going to change their fur to a puce green and maybe make them look like a house cat. Maybe a tabby cat." Several hissed at him even as he ignored them.

~~~ Nacy and Kyrill

Even as Jace and Danal were talking to Janel, one off his younger sisters was relaxing with the cats. She was leaning against Mila's side as Nacy and Kyrill were sunning themselves on some warm rocks next to the other two. The sun was warm, and their cats were comfortable. Nacy yawned and let out a small grumble before relaxing again, *I knew I was going to be a cat, I loved warm spots since I was young child.* She started purring even as her massive paws wrapped around Kyrill's head and gave him several good licks.