Finding Sanctuary

Chapter 7

Jason woke up in pain. He\'d certainly woken up feeling worse but after being enhanced he had thought he never would again. Oh well live and learn. At he had lived through whatever frenzy took over Aayla at the end of their fight. He calmed his mind and reached out with mentally seeking other minds. There was one by his bedside, one he did not know but recognized as Supremis. He had met enough of them now to recognize their mental signature and the mind-static he also felt meant she had a significant amount of Galen genes in her. It must be either Paris or Klara, he thought. He opened his eyes to see a lovely blonde standing near his bed.
\"Hello Jason. I am Klara and I\'d like to apologize for my older sister since I\'m sure she won\'t apologize for herself. Unfortunately she often has the delusion that she knows better than all of humankind. If you add that to her firm belief that the end justifies the means...well lets just says she leaves big messes sometimes. We try to keep an eye on her to stop things before they get out of hand but lately I\'m finding myself trailing behind her picking up the pieces her good intentions leave strewn about this or other landscapes. Are you feeling ok? You seem to be healing a bit slower than your average Prime but much faster than a Betan or your average enhancee. If you need anything tell me.\"
\"I\'d like to know what happened. I was dueling with Aayla and I think I was winning then she dropped to the ground and had some kind of fit...\"
Klara interrupted, \"That was no fit that was Ples\'tathy.\" Klara explained the term and the danger it posed. \"You are a good enhancee but Aayla is a more than ordinary Supremis. If Myra hadn\'t taken your place you would have died.\"
\"Myra took my place with Aayla?\" Jason exclaimed shocked.
Klara nodded, \"Yes.\"
Jason had a good idea what that had to have cost her emotionally, \"That was a great sacrifice on her part.\"
\"Greater than you know.\" Klara replied. \"Aayla ended up being too much for her too.\"
\"Is she ok?\" Jason grunted as he sat up in bed. He would have gotten out of bed but Klara put a hand on his chest and pushed him back down. He struggled but she was easily strong enough to hold him down.
\"Don\'t worry,\" she soothed, \"She is fine now. She\'s resting in another room with Ben taking care of her. aayla is in a third room getting yelled at by mom and dad.\"
Jason ceased his struggling and she removed her hand. He asked, \"How badly was she injured?\"
\"You only want to know about her? Not your own wounds? Hmph. Well when she realized what had happened she called mom who got ahold of us and we all crashed the party, so to speak. We found Aayla on top of Myra and you unconscious and breathing very shallowly. Ben knocked Aayla off Myra and Aayla switched her affections to him. I checked you both over. You had 3 broken ribs on each side and a fractured pelvis. I set the bones and bound your ribs. Myra was badly bruised but not yet really damaged aside from her orgone being completely depleted. Apparently she had been burned up all her orgone trying to restrain Aayla first. She was more exhausted than injured but if we had been later she would have been injured too. As it is I think she needs moral support more than anything now.\"
Jason nodded, \"I can imagine. She must be feeling pretty confused about the incident.\"
Klara nodded, \"Well she did seem kind of embarassed and almost like she felt guilty about something. Its hard for me to say because I don\'t share her views on that subject.\"
Jason looked up her curiously, \"You wouldn\'t have minded taking my place with Aayla?\"
\"No,\" Klara responded, \"I\'ve done it before with both her and Nikki. In fact I took turns with Ben until Aayla had burned off her overload of orgone.\" She grinned, \"Its generally a bit more than any one man can manage, even a special one like Ben.\"
\"Is this normal then for Supremis?\" Jason inquired.
\"For Velorians at least. Which is how we were raised. Although Myra seems to have aquired a mostly Terran morality she is the only of us to have it. Maybe the Velorian genes the rest of us share are what prevented us from doing the same.\" Klara shrugged, \"It is a mostly Terran planet.\"
\"Thanks for telling me. Thank you for rescuing us. I see I still have lots to learn about the Supremis,\" Jason said, grinning sheepishly. \"Still I would like to thank her for saving my life and maybe I can help reassure her that what she did was necessary and she has nothing to feel guilty about.\"
\"I don\'t know...\" Klara hesitated. \"You still look awfully beat up and I\'m sure Ben can reassure her.\"
\"Well it never hurts to get reassurance from another source. And as for my being too injured I can fix that now that I\'m awake.\" Jason concentrated and his mind moved along arcane paths it had learned so long ago. As he gathered energy from the higher dimensions only Diaboli could see he again felt that peculiar dragging that he had noticed since being enhanced. He grimaced. It seemed permanent. Now he either needed to pull harder for the same amount of energy or spend more time coaxing it free. That could be problematic but for now he had enough. His mind shaped and patterned the energy and molded it to his desire. He healed himself of any lingering damage and bruising.
Klara gasped as she saw him heal before her eyes. She had heard of his abilities but seeing them for the first time she was greatly impressed. It was easy to see why it was called magic even if wasn\'t. It seemed miraculous.
While she was gaping in shock Jason sat back up and got out of bed. He was naked but he knew enough to know this was nothing shocking in a Velorian home. He turned to Klara, \"So which way is Myra\'s room?\"