Lorinda J. Taylor

I've been watching all the postings commemorating Sir Patrick Stewart, and oh, I can feel again how much I loved ST:TNG, and why I became a science fiction writer. I'd watch the whole series again in a minute.

[1/3] Gilzara’s hands molded other birds, released them to the same fiery deaths, golden, azure, emerald green. He shaped flowers of fantastic forms – spiral-leaved, silver-faceted, garlanded over the moontrees. A torrent of water coursed soundlessly from the treetops … #vss365

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#SciFiSat [Sorry - because of various problems, no posts this week. Next week, I hope?]

#SciFiFri [1/2] As Bu’gan’zei disappeared into the underbrush, Za’dut leaped into action, crying, “After him! He is escaping!” But Is’a’pai’a cried, “Wait, Za’dut!” and tripped up our trickster with its long mandibles.

#1linewed All of us continued to avoid speaking of another dire and similar subject – the old conundrum that forever #haunted us: which Companion was fated to cause Ki’shto’ba’s death? Such a horrific outcome never seemed possible to any of us.

#1linewed “We apologize for running from you, because slavers are common in these parts and we never saw a demon-#haunted ship like yours! We would like to learn of your ship and this Quest you speak of. Do you have a Remembrancer with you?”

It was also reputed that in the past it had been possible for living people to enter those places – even ska’akh’mi| itself [underworld (under-the-ground place)] – & to return alive & whole, but for an age of time no one who set out to #travel there had ever come back. #vss365

#SciFiFri Zhánwagel received his visitors in the outer chamber, beneath the archaic smoke-hazed paintings of antelope, #hunters, and leering Troil. The High Elder was a singularly ugly and forbidding figure, with a head like a boulder ...

#1linewed [1/6] So once again it fell to my lot to become a counselor of mourning. … After considering what I had to say, the zan’zei| devised their own version of a memorial for Vai’zei’a’parn. They decided to place his body in a small cave and wall it up there.