Star Trek The Original Series - 132 - Crucible: Spock - The Fire & the Rose by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743491693
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2007-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

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Amanda circled the piece as though stalking it, examining it from every angle, alert for any weakness. She paid attention to the textures of the materials and to the shadows the various components cast. Not dissatisfied with any of the details, she stepped back and regarded the work as a whole.

Upright blocks of dark clay bounded either side of a lighter, horizontal surface, which spread past the blocks into several other layers of different hues. The sculpture appeared abstract at first glance, which had been her aim. In reality, she had labored to create an impressionistic work not obviously so, in order to conduct her own personal experiment into the nature of visual art, words, and communication. She would display the piece with and without its title-The End of the Maze-and collect the interpretations of those who viewed it in each mode.

With her hands on her hips, Amanda stood alone in her studio, a geodesic structure attached to the house and with transparent walls that provided her the perfect light in which to ply her craft. She wore a ragged and very comfortable old dress and a white smock over it. The gray tones of wet clay covered her fingers, while other shades of gray, blue, and black streaked her smock.

Amanda walked over to the small table that contained the various materials with which she’d been working. One by one, she gathered them up and stored them in containers that would keep them fresh. After she’d put those away, she went to the small refresher at the rear of the room, where at the sink she began cleaning the tools she’d used and then her hands. When she finished, she would go find Sarek and Spock to ask them to come view her new piece.

As Amanda thought of her son, she smiled. He hadn’t spent this much time with her and Sarek since before he’d gone off to Starfleet more than forty years ago. He’d stayed here for almost three-quarters of a year now, and Amanda had enjoyed just about every minute of it. She and Sarek had traveled twice during that time on his diplomatic missions, but both times they’d come back to Vulcan to find Spock still at the house.

When Amanda had first learned that her son had returned to Vulcan for the purpose of carrying out the Kolinahr, she had been deeply upset. He had tried once before, two decades ago, to achieve the purging of his emotions, and she had privately rejoiced when he hadn’t succeeded. Even now, she remembered all too well when Spock, at the ages of five and six and seven, had come home after his schoolmates had accused him of not being truly Vulcan. Amanda had watched as only a mother could as he’d held his torment in, but she’d known how much the taunts had wounded him. But she also knew that the hurt he’d felt had its antithesis; not all emotions brought pain. Whether he wanted it to be true or not, Spock had human blood within him, and human feeling as well.

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