SIM:Lt.JG Valis - Ahm-van-kal: Difference between revisions

<nowiki>::</nowiki>T'Kai, current High Master of Gol stood piously beneath the ceremonial gong. Her skin matched the burnt red of the natural Vulcan stone and the gong behind her, but her white hair stood out abruptly against the otherwise mono-chrome scene, until T'Nar neared her and added her white robes to the palate. The child slept peacefully until its mother carefully passed it into T'Kai's arms. For a moment, it roused and began to cry, but the instant the High Master's voice rang out, it fell silent again.::

   

((Translation: Who is the child's en-ahr-at?))

   

<nowiki>::</nowiki>Knowing that her time had come, Valis slowly reached up and pushed her hood back onto her shoulders, raising her gaze to meet the High Master's as she did. With a single step forward, she answered the call in her best ceremonial reply to T'Kai's perfect inflexion.::

   

((I, Valis, daughter of Kiran, am ''en-ahr-at''.))

   

<nowiki>::</nowiki>With another resounding of the gong, T'Kai intoned one word.::

   

((Approach.))

   

<nowiki>::</nowiki>Valis walked to the dais, her hands in front of her, palms pressed together in the manner known throughout the galaxy as the Vulcan gesture of greeting.::

   

((What does the child call itself?))

   

<nowiki>::</nowiki>Going deeper, an image presented itself: that of the tiny preborn child's hands clasping themselves together in T'Nar's womb. Valis' mind naturally connected it to the Vulcan verb ''terau'' ("to fasten"). As Valis' mind assimilated the image of the tiny clasping hands, another image, drawn from her own mind but altered by the child's, surfaced. The claw of a bird of prey clasped onto the Sphere & Triangle of the IDIC, and the word ''terau'' again resonated throughout their shared consciousness. A fastening. A joining. A new connection.::

   

((She calls herself T'Rau.))