Backlash

[NDak 0]

PERSONAL LOG

Daise’Khre’Riov Destorie N’Dak

Galae Command

SD 0407.05

 

>Begin<

 

Destorie sat silently in his lowly lit office. It was night on ch’Rihan and it was a moonless, cloudy night—foreshadowing.

 

The doors to his office opened and cloaked figure entered. “You summoned be Destorie?”

 

“Ie, tr’Neer, I did.”

 

“For what reason?”

 

N’Dak tossed an ISD to tr’Neer. tr’Neer looked it over.

 

“Where did you get this?”

 

“It was intercepted, it was being sent from the Vulcan flagship in the Sol System to Vulcan High Command.”

 

“This means nothing,” tr’Neer scoffed dismissingly. “They can na prove that we were responsible.”

 

“Na they can na,” N’Dak said rising from his desk. “But they suspect our involvement, and that is all that they need to destroy the illusion of our neutrality. And it is because of AUR clumsiness that this happened.”

 

“My fault?”

 

“Ie, read on…”

 

tr’Neer continued reading about how this Commander Khevio had come into possession of the tape…a Romulan Agent. “tr’Anik…”

 

“I do na care who the agent was, only that I know that he was AUR responsibility!”

 

tr’Neer glared at N’Dak. “With all respect Daise’Khre’Riov, I do na tell au how to run au Galae, and au will na tell me how to run my Tal’Shiar.”

 

“On the contrary, this is a matter of utmost importance, and I have been put in charge by the Fvillah himself, not au.”

 

tr’Neer seemed displeased and highly offended. “Au will na treat me with such disrespect…”

 

“Silence. Au were na told to speak!”

 

tr’Neer glared furiously at the tall, elder Rihan. N’Dak himself was now standing toe to toe with tr’Neer glaring deathly coldly at the Director of the Tal’Shiar.

“Forgive me, Rehhkai,” tr’Neer said disdainfully.

 

“Because of au ineptitude in handling such a delicate matter, the very security of the Empire has been jeopardized,” N’Dak said harshly. “Au have endangered the Empire, and broken au promise to me that this would na happen, and because of au—I look like the fool to the Fvillah and the Senate.”

 

“So that’s what this is about? Au REPUTATION!?!?!?”

 

N’Dak would hear nothing from tr’Neer and backhanded him so hard it almost sent tr’Neer to the floor. “Do na presume to think au my equal, Director tr’Neer,” N’Dak said tr’Neer’s title as if he shamed it.

 

tr’Neer would have yy’aed N’Dak right there if he didn’t think N’Dak likely had gaurds standing outside, or even inside the office hidden in the shadows.

 

“I offer au this alternative to yy’a,” N’Dak said regaining his composure. “Retire from au post and allow Sub-Director t’Revhil Rentirr to assume control of the Tal’Shiar. Na io will know of au disgrace if au will do this, I promise au…”

 

tr’Neer thought about the offer. “And I refuse?”

 

“I will Kill au where au stand, and tell the Empire that au were a traitor, trying to hurt the Empire, that au would stop at nothing to plunge us into war with the Lloann’na and that au had to yy’a for the safety of the Empire.”

 

tr’Neer glared. “Au have na honor, and If au were any io else, I would yy’a au where au stand, but au leave me na choice. I will resign immediately as Director of the Tal’Shiar.”

 

“Mnehka.”

 

“But know this N’Dak. I will be there when au fail, I will be there to remind au of this,” he said coldly. “Au will pay for au treachery…”

 

“Perhaps,” N’Dak said, “H’Nah khoi my sight, before I change my mind!”

 

>End<

Edited July 6, 2004 by NDak