Marty the Scarlat macaw's Story

As Tantomile had first said, the walk was not long. But by the time the Assassin had lead the two she had encountered, and also the soaked bird the man picked up on the way. He seemed to know the bird, the Jellicle mused to herself thoughtfully. It had begun to pour down with rain, a heavy dark gray color was the water. With minimal soaking, and a human woman, it had to be a human woman, ranting rather drunkenly of being dressed like a Companion, whatever the skat that meant. Was rather amusing, until it got annoying.

Nevertheless. Tantomile cast open the doors to the Vault room and let the threesome inside before she herself entered and left one door open in order to keep an eye on the weather. Though the human male she kept her other eye on as much as she could spare. But she was more focused, now that she had Linus, safely so, on the wall behind the man, lined with unique patterns of light that coursed on its own and flickered at times across odd designs on the wall.

Stepping from the door, and out of reach of the ranting woman, Tantomile saw strange lines begin to take shape on the wall. A map. But of what ? The ceiling shifted into a black sky with pinpricks of light scattered across it. The stars above! A map of some form, of the stars ? She finally spoke, her gaze shifting back to the wall as she traced a slender dark red and cream white furred finger along the lines.

"You seem rather fixtated on that bird." Her tone was matter of fact, slight boredom, and mostly confusion, and also a lot of hitning at a task to be done. As if one talking to oneself to get ideas to finish a task. She pressed a image, it did not do anything. "Something tells me I should not ask, but I must know, what is it about the bird that you are so worried of it ?" She pressed the last image that was highlighted and the block the image was on slid into the wall and then halted with a loud CLANK, machinery began moving behind the wall.

"This is my bird bro," Linus responded simply, if anything feeling slightly astonished. He looked to the bird with a frank smile. It was true. They were bird and man, man and bird. Questing across the unknown, known, and kinda known. Mapping their futures, flying on the wind. Marty and Linus. Linus and Marty.

He looked around now at the room. Strange place, strange things on the walls. Maps? Linus flinched at the clank of machinery moving. Where the heck was this? With a cough he approached the projections. Maps, of course. Why else would he be important? Tech related, map related, driving. All the boring, dead first in the flicks roles that paid drug addictions. Absently Linus found himself tracing one of the lines with his finger.

"Why've you a map of Therrier-Paix, and Shintenchi....Volary isn't marked. Weird, they've been there a while. And...Is this The Glitter Band?" Linus sported a frown. "Only seen pictures of that place's internals. A map..." He pressed his nose closer to it. It was almost like being there.

"These maps are not much different then the ones on my homeworld." Tantomile replied. She pointe3d to a singe system and seemed to 'click' on it. The 'map' shifted and zoomed in on the planet. "This is where I am from." She said. The planet hung in the middle of the room. machinery rumbled, a breeze picked up. Tantomile walked around the image. "We merely call it the Homeworld. We do not know its true name. So, naturally, we keep it simple."

The image faded out into a battle scene on the world from thousands of years ago as Tantomile spoke. "For years my people lived in piece. Sure we had our clan wars and interclan diffrerences. But we were never harmed by outsiders. Until they came. They called themselves the Conquorers." As she spoke a hologram of sorts appeared on a two meter tall man dressed in advanced clothing and weaponry. At the holograms side stood a slightly taller clearly canine creature. "They brought with them a race of beings my people called Pollicles. The Conqourers used the Pollicles as a means of war against my kind so many gnerations ago."

The scen faded and refocsed on a single citadel. A siege was set up against it, with naught by mountains to its back and no path out. Pollilces had massed in the valley before it. "For twenty three generations my kind fought, kept war from our homes as much as we could, but one by one, the Keeps were destroyed. Until finally only one was left. It was in that moment when the Sending took place. Twenty five of our number were sent through magic to Tellar, Earth. And for three thousand years we lived on that planet. Then we went back home."

The scene faded completely back to a star map. There were seven blinking stars in the map "The Pieces of Eden are scattered across the stars. Each one designed to work together. I carry one of them. You've seen it. But these blinking ones." One was blinking not far from where Linus had pointed out. The Glitter Band. "Help me find them, and I will make sure that you will be repaid, with enough money to repair your ship, and more. to upgrade it." It seemed Tantomile was ready to go all out.

As the group entered the ruins and eventually the altar it had all come back to Sandra, weather it was the familiar place or the rumors about the ruins having strange powers what ever it was seemed to bring her memory back. "I remember." She said as the others were talking about a strange bird.

Sandra felt like hell too but for once she wasn't craving alcohol after days away from it she seemed to have kicked it for now. She refocused her attention as she was drawn into Tantomile's story though, she decided to speak up when finished. "You'll pay well for these things?" She asked with a raised eyebrow, Sandra was a Merc and this was screaming pay day to her and anything to her Terra seemed to appease her. "If you get me off Terra, I'll offer my assistance to you both and well get me some medical treatment along the way?" She asked as she rubbed her head the wound had dried but her head still ached.

Brand awoke in the alter room of the ruins he started his journey to find his past. He saw a group of people in the center of the room. Brand was about to question them about the ruins when he had a flashback with sound only. "Put your hands in the air, you are surrounded." "Why should I?" "Because you were a mistake in human evolution." Brand stopped having the flash back. He touched a wall and suddenly he was being shocked. Brand screamed in pain. The group looked at him and brand jumped out a crack in the walls of the room.

"I cannot make a promise that I am unable to keep. But if I am able to get you off this planet, then yes, payment will be given. Though medical treatment will come as required. No doubt your feathered friend requires it." Tantomile said as she crossed her arms. "If that is your offer of aid, then I accept it. Let me worry of medical aid. I know of a healer who can be of help." She said towards Sandra. Hard lavender eyes focused on the woman. The Jellicle was not playing games. Her world was at stake. She turned her attention towards Linus. As if waiting for his confirmation.

Sandra nodded in acceptance of the proposal. Sandra's head still hurt but she still needed to get off Terra. It was too dangerous here she needed to get away. She also knew she needed money and this sounded like something that might pay well. As a mercenary this was an offer that she could not resist. She was very confused by Brand's actions and wondered if he had hit his head as well.