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Beyond My Knowing, chapter 28
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Kes was confident enough in her mental abilities now to know that she could be reasonably certain that she could prevail against at least one or two opponents with those abilities, probably more with Anara beside her, but she didn’t know how much it would take for a larger number of Kazon to overwhelm her. Range was a problem too, if the Kazon males used the handheld energy weapons Anara knew of but Kes had yet to encounter. From farther away, would her abilities be effective enough? …Even at close range, if they faced a man with an energy weapon already in his hand, all it would take would be him having good aim and being able to resist her abilities for the moment it would take for him to fire the weapon. More, besides an ambush, a hunting party was also a possibility… one that might pursue them, even across the desert. Worse, what if the males used one of their flying ships?
Kes tried to put such dire thoughts out of her mind for now, hoping vehemently that she was worrying for nothing, while she knelt down to hug her daughter good morning. Happily, Lanam, ever resilient, seemed to have shaken off her withdrawn and worried state and was her normal cheerful self again. Later, she or Anara would have to have a talk with Tresit and Artem to make sure that, if they wanted to spar again, they would only do it when all of them were awake so that she and Anara would be able to distract and reassure their daughter while it was going on.
She couldn’t deny that, given their situation, practicing fighting skills made sense, but she certainly understood why her daughter didn’t like it. She didn’t either, though she knew Anara was considerably less averse to it past the point of it having upset Lanam. To Anara, it was just an essentially normal activity for males of her race, even young ones. Even many Kazon females, owing to their race’s years of slavery and the necessity of their revolt against the Trabe, learned the basics of combat when they were young, though only against others of their own gender. To Kes, before for her recent experiences and her seemingly ever deepening connection with her wife, physical violence of any sort, even in play, had been an almost entirely absent concept in her life. True, incidents of violence did occur among her people at times, but such acts were singular and usually brought on by intensely emotional circumstances. One of her kind might lash out against another, but the act itself would usually be enough of a shock to stop the perpetrator from committing any further violence… To her people, an act of violence was a deeply shameful thing, and, while she would never consider herself a conformist to her people’s mores and fears by any means, she found she did see the sense in viewing violence in that way and was hard pressed to entirely dissuade herself of such feelings.
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KES did it,oh what a beautiful thing.LANAM being able to see .Still not trusting ARTEM,even TRESIT still looks at him as the enemy not to be trusted.KES being able to read his mind is a huge plus and he knows it.Thanks for update