Sal's Reality, Port aux Basques: The Official Road Trip Thread

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"So." Sal leaned on the hood of the van, sneaking in one more cigarette before they left for Florida. It was quite the sight: the massive maroon vehicle was stuffed to the rafters with luggage, snack food, and had a full tank of gas.

"So?" Ven was staring at her from the other side of it, completely amused at his mentor's stressed outlook. In all the years he'd known the woman, he'd never seen her really lose her cool - but she was coming close.

"So we've got ourselves reservations for the eight o'clock boat. And it's ten after six and we needs to get goin else we misses our spot. An' Mu launches in exactly forty-eight hours and..."

Ven stooped down to pick up Shae, who had barrelled down the stairs with her still-yawning mother in tow. "And we'll get there just fine. Didn't you say she had a portal waiting for you in North Sydney, anyway?"

Sal extinguished her cigarette and blew the smoke away from Shae, watching Jav, Kurt, and Vic come down the stairs hauling the rest of the luggage. "Yes, yes, and yes, but still, b'y, I hates bein' late." She held out her arms in response to Shae's attempt to get closer to her grandmother. "Give her here, look..."

She was interrupted by a loud bang that sounded like it was coming from her kitchen. She looked at Shae, who was grinning.

"D'you know what all that noise is?" she asked the toddler.

"Nope," the little girl shook her head, brown curls bouncing around.

"Want t' go find out with me?"

"Yeah!"

They went up the stairs together, Sal maneuvering Shae into a piggy-back position. "I betcha it's Leeroy. It always is."

"Uncle 'Roy is funny," Shae declared. "He's always doin' somethin'." The girl had a slight Newfie twang and it amused Sal to no end.

"Yes, b'y."

They opened the front door and peered into the kitchen where Sam had Leeroy in a headlock.

"Do I want t' know?" Sal asked resignedly. "Or should I just yell at the load of ye to get yer butts downstairs 'fore I loses it?"

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Sadri blinked; the air around all of them and the spacecraft was alight and she felt something much more tangible than she ever had before.

Memories of ages ago came back to her, and she recalled something she'd heard in the old Zasfin worship halls

"Ich erkenne und bogen vor dem geist von dem, für ihn tut große sachen," she whispered.

And all this time she had thought their ideal was just a myth.

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"Amen," said Kurt softly.

Mykayla suddenly threw her arms up joyously, and Sam yelped and fell over, landing in Leeroy's lap. Scrat fell back onto his rear and shook his head to clear it, grinning broadly. Vic wasn't so lucky, he went over the edge of the roof.

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Sal, meanwhile, was focused entirely on the space shuttle. She stood up very quickly and ran toward the edge of the roof before disappearing in a ball of flame.

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"HOLY @#$&@!" Jav inadvertantly followed Vic.

Sam buried her face against Leeroy's leg and giggled helplessly.

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If anyone was focusing on the large flagpole out on the point they would notice a very large bird perched atop it.

The bird was singing - and its stirring song was a moving chorus of joy that resonated in their entire bodies and bolstered their strength of spirit.

It was the nature of a phoenix.

The bird lit and made a beeline for Endeavour, gracefully circling in and out of the exhaust plume, buzzing the spacecraft in a bizarre salute before slowly finding its way back to the rooftop.

It landed silently, surveying all assembled with inquisitive blue eyes, and sang out once more.