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NODU called NO DU by Yie which IF he had any EMOTIONS ie EMPATHY might have ANNOYED HIM.. as he repeatedly reminded her it was NOD U
We know readers that he got a trifle upset and not the sponge fingers jelly and whipped cream type.. when he saw her on screen getting shot? Well similar. BUT no empathy which to some in his situation might have seemed somewhat peculiar.
Truth was he was given that SENSATION of what was happening to her by forces unseen..
An emotive moment to kick in some adrenalin? Well it certainly had worked. He was borderline frantic as he moved towards her collapsing figure, one that fell into his open arms.
NO one else around but totally ignored re that from him. For now he was relieved ah yes lets call it that; relief at knowing she was OK. NOT sure of what had just happened and the tatoo on her arm was definitely new.
What it said well that too was strange. Indecipherable, a close reasoning to what was deemed CRYPTIC.
Symbols and some outline of a ? Anyways it did not seem to bother Yie in the least. It certainly had no ill effects on her health nor well being. In fact Nodu did see some changes in her outlook on things.
Much brighter and more how could we say INTROSPECTIVE..
If Yie had given any thought as to his overall strength and here we mean muscles, ability to defend himself and such she had reminded herself he could not be killed..
Beaten down maybe but even that was suspect.
For some reason she sensed there was something that neither of them fully understood when it came to their overall protection.
In the background she had felt at times they WERE being protected. Attempt to clarify that with the crafts Ai failed. It either did not understand her well THEIR concerns or dismissed it outright as of no real value. 
What she had accepted however was that there was an inherent risk. Risks where certain ENEMIES DID exist.
That thing attacking her she had remembered how menacing it had been and, the female well iClone defending that system of data archives.
Nasty an no doubts about that. IT had wanted her terminated. Seeing it gone had been a real moment of some success. a reason to celebrate and
yet.
For some reason that parsec or two she could not remember only until she found herself in No Du’s arms.
Since then she had been a lot more wary of those around her.
The rebel factions, Human(a) she had no real reason to consider a threat.
Elsewhere, there was a growing unease. The Orians she now knew far more about and some truths about them, did make her, well agitated.
That thing, had appeared and the others did not seem to see IT.. totally ignoring it and one could say almost walking through it though the truth was they were actually without knowing it walking around it.
The knowledge, she had been a party to was of some value to the rebels. That Chx device the SHELLS had moved in and thrown the casement parts NOT yet assembled to render them useless.
Vital core components had been taken by them. Ones that could NOT be, though of course they did not know this at the time, easily replaced if at all; REPLACED.
The Matsupa 2FU was beyond angry.
Executing those who had been supposedly assembling the device but had with a little help from their friends,. at the time indeed appeared so.. to get drunk.. totally inebriated with no strength left to lift anything..
However 2FU had hunted down two of the so called SHELLS. Mercilessly tearing them apart liken to indeed what had just transpired re the Chx device. A comforting thought had been that like that device there were NO inhabitants within those SHELLS.
Luckily that rage had not seen her seach them and retrieve recorded material data archives that could no WOULD have given the location of the main rebel base? The Zealot forces with IT.. were too pre occupied with doing her bidding to find, to find that DIAMOND.
The one that Holli and co had in their possession. BUT we shall come back to that and what has transpired.
For now.. it was a series of events, other attacks on installations and some one might say too close to ‘home’ for Nodu AND Yie. Attacks that were carried out by those who had little or no concern as to the well being of those caught up in the cross fire or even the aftermath. 
A couple of what we could call close encounters with the Orians but also with ? SYMBIOTICS as they were now known to them. An ancient being that could inhabit nay infest Human(a) life forms.
Had an army at their behest.. Called SYM B though they also had a network of their own called the Warlords. No du had reassured her they could do very little as the Portei Semperu was not available for them to use.
He would not as one might say, elaborate on what might happen if they did which was something she was not going to push him to find out.
According to the data archives these things were not just NASTY.. they were to be treated with a lot of due dilligence IF one was to NOT suffer from their extemes of cruelty and violence. ah yes indeed VIOLENCE.
Sometimes there was a definite suspicion they were being watched. observed and whilst that might be of some acceptable GOOD there were others she was sure were NOT doing so in their favor.
Once or twice she had known No Du to be over protective and not just when it came to knowing where she was, the what and the wherefores.. but ? Looking over ones shoulders might spring to mind.
Meeting up with the two A terra was a real issue. Being followed, could lead to where the A terra Portei Semperu was ? NOT good if certain ‘factions’ found out.
Also there were stil some ‘PRMITIVES’ who knew little about those ‘ PROTECTED by the Gods.’
Attack and ? The Mermui not so much the MURMUI had experienced such attacks. Random ones and because they were just that; death could follow.
Thus the MERMUI did not venture on land without their protections in place. Often several armed militia able to deal easily with any threat. Swift no questions asked just executing any who dared such a folly.
No Du she had reasoned was venturing into areas that were deemed by some as high risk, some undercover work to establish if what he suspected was going on, WAS going on.
Indeed, he had been on his own, investigating the site, where some strange sitings had made re certain
ALIENS? The craft the movement to what appeared to UNDERGROUND base or bases.
To go with others was too risky. Too many and that created also an air of unpredictability.
Something Nodu did not like. He had come to accept some reliance on Yie but others he still had what he reckoned were well founded reservations about.
Since being here he had been witness to some truly horrifying experiences beit direct or indirect what his eyes had been witness to ? The Arcan did not have that as a regular occurrence, To use the term PRIMITIVES here had proven to be be often shockingly; valid.
The movement of not only beings in front of him but cargo of sorts that led into a cave area, what he suspected was a CAVERN.. and with a lot of security let alone care.. ?
Recording as much of the unfolding events taking place as he could he had not been aware of the ones who had been watching the watcher? Now arming themselves the ‘ primitives’ were intent on securing their prey and indulging in some torture..
NOT killing. NOT because they thought they could NOT kill him.. but to enjoy the torture... Sadistic pleasures in doing just that. Now they quietly headed out towards where their prey was to be found with Nodu totally unaware that he had been discovered.
The craft and interstellar very high tech SPACE CRAFT had bypassed all known security scans.
Landing in an isolated part of what was recognised as part of the main Zone.
Where Nodu and Yie had or maybe other forces outside of their control, had landed and secured their craft?
Those who had sought to creep up on Nodu were what was known as SYM B.. a being created by the SYMBIOTICS to act as sophisticated defense forces. Only TWO of them but as most will tell you IF they ever survived an attack from them ? You would not want to be targeted by them let alone confronting those things.
Nodu, had not seen, the slaughter taking place behind him. True he did know of WHO had carried out that SLAUGHTER. A Kiatsu trained fighter, an ‘ interfectorem; A SLAYER. One might say, directly or indirectly BRED to protect the Arcan..
You see, the Arcan, had their enemies, their aggressors, who resented the power they had, to take away the means to travel through; use the Portei Sempeu. The removal of the Celestial Clock? the POWER SOURCE.
Those things stared at it. It looked puny, incapable of being anything of any relevance and somewhat annoying as it was interrupting their mission and one where the prey was now starting to move from where it had been to?
The ‘interfectorem’ we could interpret that to mean ‘SLAYER’.. a ‘KIATSU’ trained fighter; was now NOT taking hold of them, NOT it would seem doing anything to them and yet? Thrown up, tossed around like lumps of heavy and yes they were HEAVY; Tronium covered forms now torn apart and TORN APART is any understatement.
Pieces and some that WERE MISSING PIECES, thrown to the winds.. well one could say scattered wide to the heavens NEVER to be found. Core components especially transmitters, locator sensors including data archived information that would have shown the images of this thing that was now tearing them apart liken to a child of our time taking apart piece from a lego set.
The ones, littered around, until clean up time.. cept here there were irrecoverable pieces.. GONE.
Vaporised? Perhaps that would not be so crazy an assumption.
It seemed to smile then vanish back into its interstellar craft NOT leaving.
To now recline next to a control module or set of illuminated modules. Screens that showed two it was now monitoring Nodu AND Yie?
The Arcan. now unknown to it. protected by one of the most revered and yet FEARED of all known; SLAYERS.
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