Pg 200- pg 205

We took off down another corridor only to find it was a dead end.
"Not good, not good, not good," Jason said as he started searching the walls for hidden doors.
"On the contrary, this is very good," Shedao Shai said from the end of the hallway, "I've found the infadels and my lost consort."
Everyone turned and looked at me; I shook my head fiercely and back against the wall. Tristan was the first to turn back toward Shedao Shai.
"I think she wants to stay lost," he said as he lifted his blade threateningly.
"I'm afraid she hasn't got much of a choice," Shai answered with a chuckle.
"Why would you care about her anyway, she isn't a Vong?" Kris asked bluntly.
"I appreciate the mate the gods have chosen for me; even is she was an infadel," Shedao Shai replied with a toothy grin.
"Is," Tristan corrected, "She's still one of us."
"That's where you're mistaken; she's gone through the whole purification proccess. She is a Vong," Shedao Shai countered.
"Maybe by your standards, but the fact that she's over here with us tells me otherwise," Corran said.
"At any rate, I will not allow you to take my mate from me," Shedao Shai said as he drew his amphistaff.
"You really need to quit calling her that," Jason said with a shudder, "It's seriously creepy."
"She is destined to be mine," Shedao Shai said as he stepped forward menacingly. His amphistaff hissed as he cracked it like a whip, "Come Harla, you said you would always follow orders."
I shook my head and hid behind Corran. Corran extinguished his blade and looked toward Tristan and Jason, "Care to do the honors?"
"Of course,"
"With pleasure,"
And with that they attacked Shedao Shai; Jason and Tristan must have practiced fighting together because they were perfectly in sync. Corran nudged me slightly and started edging toward the openning of the hallway. I followed quickly with Jsili riding on my shoulders. Shedao Shai managed to force Jason and Tristan away long enough to lash out with his amphistaff. It wrapped around my wrist and bit down to keep its hold. I screeched as he jerked me toward him with enough force to send me stumbling. His amphistaff kept its hold on my wrist even after Shedao Shai already had my other wrist.
"Now, my dear Harla, you will not be so lucky this time," he hissed in my earbefore swatting Jsili into the wall.
"He wouldn't; nothere," Kris muttered in shock.
Tears pooled in my eyes as he simply cut the rope that was around my waist. The he suddenly hissed in pain; I smelled the odor of burning flesh. He dropped me, as did his amphistaff, and I fell to my knees on the floor; then he turned to face the offender. He glared angrily as he raised his amphistaff high over his head to strike down his attacker.
There was a snap-hiss and I saw brilliant blue cut through Shedao Shai's stomach. He howled in pain as the blade withdrew; he turned to me and fell to his knees. He smiled and ran his hand through my hair before falling over; black blood pooling out of his mouth and nose.
"Don't touch my girlfriend," Tristan muttered as he extinguished his blade.
I slowly rose and attempted to gather my no loose shift around myself. Corran took off his robe and offered it to me; I readily accepted it.
"Thank you," I said softly as I pulled it on and cinched it at the waist and picked up Jsili and allowed her to ride on my shoulder.
"Let's get out of here," Jason said as he waved us to follow him.

* * *

"They're on board; we're getting the hell out of here," Jaina said as she engaged the hyper drive and blasted out of the Garqi system.

"What all did he do to you?" Tristan asked once I was sufficiently calmer than when I had arrived on the ship.

"Nothing unusual, for the Vong, up until today. Today he actually tried..." I trailed off as I shook my head, "And he almost succeeded."

"So he didn't?" Tristan clarified.

"No, he didn't," I replied with a nod.

"Well that's a relief," he said with a sigh.

"It's a relief for you? Ha! I'm the relieved one," I countered.

"Well yeah, but... You know what; it doesn't matter because he's dead now," Tristan said with finality.

"Whatever you say," I said with a chuckle.

* * *

"Yay normal clothes!" I exclaimed as I ran into my temporary bedroom wearing comfy pajamas, "Yay regular, soft comfy bed!"

"Wow, you're really excited," Kris observed as she watched me jump head first onto the bed and bury myself in the comforter.

"I haven't slept on a nonliving bed in two months; of course I'm excited," Isaid as my head popped out from the mass of covers.

There was a knock at the door and I heard Corran's voice, "Can I come in?"

"Yeah, we're good," I yelled through the door.

The door opened and Corran, Jason, Tristan and Skai walked in.

"Did a tornado hit the bed?" Tristan asked sarcastically.

"Uh-huh," I replied as I sat up on the bed with the giant comforter wrapped around me.

"Miss Elysa!" Skai shouted then ran, jumper on the bed and gave me a hug.

"Hey squirt," I said with a laugh as I returned her hug then sat back, "What have you been up to?"

"Training. Oh! And I made my lightsaber," Skai said excitedly.

"Great," I replied with a smile.

"Hey Skai, why don't you go practice for awhile?" Corran suggested.

"Okay," Skai said reluctantly but she went when she got a nod from Jason.

"We need to know exactly what happened," Corran said as he took a seat in one of the chairs.

"Please don't make me say it Corran," I pleaded, "I don't want to relive it, please."

"But we need to know; it's for your benefit. We've got to run what you say against some medical tests to make sure they did nothing to tamper with your memory or if you've supressed some memories," Corran answered.

"I haven't," I said with finality.

"You may have subconsciously," Corran argued. I gave him a pleading look and he sighed in defeat, "Fine but you'll have to submit to the medical tests and a neural scan."

"Okay, thank you, Corran," I said with a smile.

* * * That night * * *

I was sharing a bedroom with Kristen for the night just in case one of my injuries acted up. Kris had volunteered to take the couch so I could have the bed. She kind of regretted it; the couch was not very comfortable. She was just dozing off when she heard my breath quicken and I started muttering. She got up and looked over at me; I was tossing and turning. Kris shook me lightly; I didn't wake up. She shook me harder; I didn't wake up. Now she was worried. She quickly ran out of the room and skidded to a halt in the galley hoping to someone would still be awake. And much to her surprise only Orunti was still awake.

"Orunti, Tori's having a nightmare and I can't wake her up!" Kristen exclaimed in distress.

"I'll see what I can do; go wake Corran up," Orunti said as he took off toward Kris's room.

When he arrived he found me in the same state Kri had left me. He too tried shaking me and saying my name but nothing was working. He took a deep breath and calmed himself; he would just have to see what the nightmare was. He closed his eyes and began weeding through all the defenses I had put up around my mind and subconscious. And in the blink of an eye he was seeing the nightmare from my point of view. I was having a nightmare about what had happened earlier that day. Orunti was experiencing everything I had experienced. Now he knew why I didn't want to relive it; it was horrifying.

Suddenly the images stopped. Orunti opened his eyes and looked down at me; I was staring up at him. My eyes were hazy and I didn't seem to recognize what or who I was looking at; it was just a wide-eyed, hazy, blank stare. I sat straight up and began looking around although it was apparent that I wan't seeing anything that was really there. He slowly reached out and put his hand onmy shoulder. My attention snapped toward him and with one subtle hand movement I sent him flying into the wall.