My Enemy, My Ally Rihannsu #1 (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Chapter One
Her name, to which various people had recently
been appending curses, was Ael i-Mhiessan
t'Rllaillieu. Her rank, in the common tongue,
was khre'Riov: commander-general. Her serial
number was a string of sixteen characters that
by now she knew as well as she knew her fourth
name, though they meant infinitely less to her.
And considering these matters in such a fashion
was at least marginally appropriate just now,
for she was in a trap.
How long she would remain there, however,
remained to be seen.
At the moment her patience was mostly intact,
but her spirit had moved her to rattle the bars
of the cage a bit. Ael propped her elbow on her
desk, rested her chin on her hand, and said to
her cabin's wall screen, "Hwaveyiir. Erein
tr'Khaell."
The screen flicked on, and there was the Bridge,
and poor Ante-centurion tr'Khaell just as he had
been twenty minutes ago, still hunched over and
pretending to fiddle with his communications
boards. At the sight of Ael he straightened
quickly and said, "Ie, khre'Riov?"
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