Private Home for Dinner

[Dax Perl]

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[ D A X...F Y R E ]

............It hadn't taken much convincing from Kimiko to get Dax on the Cyaron and headed back to Akarui. In fact it had only taken a sentence or two. The Rogue had left his vessel in the capable hands of Brill. The woman had practically run the whole of the Judges when he had been too busy with one thing or another. She should be able to handle getting a ship back in working order. Or at least Dax hoped. In any case, this was worth leaving Brill, the crew, and the Azalea. Family was always worth it.

"I've missed a lot, haven't I?" Dax asked, more a statement than a question. "I bet Tsubasa is one hell of a pilot now, huh?"

Kimiko Taiyou

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by Dax Fyre​

 

[Kimiko Taiyou]

Ki silently grinned, silently keeping that answer to herself. Their trip was relatively peaceful and quiet. They had mostly spoken to catch up on what had occurred in the past few years since he had disappeared.

Now they found themselves on the bridge, just moments away from reaching the Hikari system.

Chika gave Ki a nod, and the ship transitioned to real space,"Welcome home Dax." Ki said as they flew by Sakura, the pink-tinted gas giant. The orbital shipyards were busier than ever, with traffic of all sorts coming and going. Several massive under construction hulks were present as well as some closer to completion. The SIN Nagato was docked to the ring in all it's glory.

The closer they got to Akarui, the busier space became. Transports and passenger liners were closely mingling with military vessels of all sorts. Chika, seated at the captain's position said something about coming to land, to which Ki agreed with a nod.

Ki looked at Dax,"Just a warning, nothing is how you remember it being." and they began their descent through the atmosphere.

Dax Perl

 

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[ D A X...F Y R E ]

............It was odd, being on the bridge of the Cyaron. Dax had only seen the interior of the ship a handful of times, and never the bridge. There just had never been good reason for him to visit the bridge when he had a frigate of his own. Of course, being the same class of ship as the Azalea the interiors were perfectly identical. That wasn't the part that threw him off though. It was the fact that so many people he didn't recognize were manning the stations of men and women he'd known for years. Better get used to it though. A new crew meant the same exact thing on the Azalea.

............The bright tunnel of hyperspace manifested into pinpricks of light against the darkness, as if someone had poked holes into a sheet and shone a light through them.

"Welcome home Dax."

The brightly colored gas giant of Sakura loomed in the viewport, surrounded by orbital stations that, last Dax had checked, hadn't existed before. "Well, I can see that you've been busy," Dax remarked with an amused grin as various vessels began to pass by them.

............Ki warned that nothing was the same, and the woman's husband nearly remarked with a sarcastic, "Really? I couldn't tell," but thought better of it. At least for the time being. The man took a deep breath and readied himself for yet something else he wouldn't recognize. It was gonna be a whole new world down there...

Kimiko Taiyou

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by Dax Fyre​

 

[Kimiko Taiyou]

She watched him, taking in every little detail of his expression as the Cyaron plummeted through the atmosphere. The ship dropped beneath the cloud layer over the southern continent, as rain began splattering on the view port. They followed the curvature of a valley leading north before coming out over the narrow sea that separated the continents. Very soon, the smile on her face widened as a large city.

"It has been some time, but welcome to Kitsuhana." she announced as they slowed over the capital.

It stretched for kilometers now, much larger than it's feudal form. The old collided with the new and even more structures were under construction every day. Cyaron banked to the northeast and the comms officer radioed permission to land as they approached the palace. They flew over the ancestral palace grounds, and kept going. There was a little more green and less traffic as they slowed even more.

The palace appeared and shone in the late winter sun,"Welcome home Dax."

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[ D A X...F Y R E ]

............The sounds of the rain pelting the transparsteel was the calming to Dax as the Cyaron breached the grey cloud coverage. The deep carved valley guided the vessel northwards, and as the clouds broke and gave way to blue sky, the rain subsiding, revealing the sparkling blue sea. And in the distance, the sparkling capital city.

"It has been some time, but welcome to Kitsuhana."

............The blooming city sparkled with it's new modern shine, and beneath it all, the same old rustic town that Dax had become so acquainted to. The buildings flitted beneath the Cyaron as it flew towards home. Home. It wasn't quite home anymore though. The ancient building, now refitted with military facilities, political reception areas. The symbolic palace had become a functional fortress. The Rogue's brows knitted together, uncertain of how he felt about this progress. Perhaps it wasn't the progress itself that bothered him, it never had before, but rather how much of it he missed. It only went to show how much of his children's lives he'd missed.

............"It looks...different," Dax said dryly, "I like what you've done with the place though."

Kimiko Taiyou

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by Dax Fyre​