TNG 46 - To Storm Heaven by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: \Star Trek
Published: 2011-01-02T07:59:39.827000+00:00

Chapter Ten

GEORDIE KNEW That HE WOULD find her in the garden.

That was where he always found her, whenever he was able to absent himself from his duties as the Enterprise's senior representative to the Ne'elatian government. As Captain Picard had told him, it was a purely ceremonial appointment. While the captain and Hara'el pursued the Orakisan delegation's quest for the elusive n'vashal plant in the settled hinterlands of this world, someone from the ship had to stay in the capital to show the flag. Besides, Geordi's presence had a secondary purpose. As long as someone of his rank from the ship was present at all the fetes and festivals the Ne'elatian government was staging in honor of their starfaring guests, it was unlikely that anyone would comment on the absence of certain others.

In other words, Geordi was a distraction, a sop to the Masra'et to prevent their wondering why they had not seen Commander Riker or Counsellor Troi or Ambassador Lelys lately. He knew this; it didn't bother him in the least. He couldn't have asked for an assignment that suited him more.

"Ma'adrys?" He knew her favorite spot in the gardens, the place where they always contrived to meet at least once a day. It was one of the smaller enclosed spaces, a bower where a narrow stream trickled over smooth brown stones, where only the most fragrant native plants bloomed between high walls of prickly hedge. At the head of the stream, presiding over the heap of stones from which the waters bubbled up, was a statue of a robed and crowned woman holding a pair of scales. Unlike the old Earth images of Justice, this lady did not carry her balances by the centerpiece, but supported the pans of the scales in her cupped hands. The power to tilt them one way or the other didn't depend on the weights tossed into either pan, but solely on her will.

This was where Ma'adrys waited always for him, sitting on the tender grass beside the stream's source, flowers in her hair. This was where he found her today also, yet seeing her there, her face greeting him with joy, was just as sweet a shock to his heart as it had been the first time they had met in this little garden.

Why does it always surprise me? he wondered. I ought to know by now that she~ going to be here. She's always here for me. She knows my agenda of official appearances before I do, sometimes, and adjusts her own schedule accordingly. Why can't I take it for granted that she'll be here waiting every time I come seeking her?

And in the instant before she raced into his arms and kissed him, he knew the answer. This was love, and love was something he could never take for granted, never accept as anything less than a constantly renewing miracle.

They lingered in each other's embrace for a time, then reluctantly parted. Although they had never yet been surprised by any interloper stumbling across one of their trysts, they were both conscious of that possibility.

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