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Change

Helga found a love richer and deeper than anything she had ever imagined when she looked into her daughter’s eye for the first time. Her emotions overwhelmed Helion. Emma had become her whole world in that single moment. The feelings she had expressed  while she was in the womb were strong but these were so all encompassing it was unfathomable to Helion.

Helion shared the feelings. His were more of a protective nature. He wanted to make sure nothing bad ever happened to Emma. That she would never want for anything. 

The next six months were spent bonding with the child more than anything else. Helion planed and schemed inside the mind but Helga held sway. She wouldn’t relent to any of his desires. She worked on the ship plans when something needed to be fixed or added. The plans had not changed for their future at all really but they had been delayed. A room and accommodation for the child had been added to the ship’s design.

Whatever happened they would go through it together as a family. The design of the temporal shifter had to be modified for an area large enough for the entire ship. Making those adjustments had forced yet another redesign. The design had to be symmetrical for the temporal shifter to be incorporated. The ship’s final design had twelve flat surfaces  on the edges of the disc shaped body. The top and bottom surfaces were triangular leading to the central twelve sided flat centered disc.

The transmitter and weapons systems were contained inside and would be repositioned to the outside after it was in space. It wasn’t immediately necessary. After they had traveled through time and were ready to travel through space they would be necessary for defense. The fuel would be the radiation canisters. The shift could be made in one shot with the increased fuel and improved designed. At least that was what Helion’s calculations turned out to say. He had even planned a way to control how far through time they would travel.

He wasn’t positive the power wouldn’t blow the ship to pieces. It was a possibility. It had been a long road getting to this point. The new addition to the party made the desire to be at the end of the journey worth a risk. He wanted to be able to have his own body. It was selfish, but he wanted to be able to love them both from his own body. He could provide for them with his families wealth. He might have to find a new world for them to live as a family. It would be worth that.

He wasn’t afraid of the possibility his choice would be excepted. This journey had taught him more through self discovery than all the wealth of knowledge he had learned in school. He had traveled though time. He learned to see through a woman’s eyes. He had felt emotions that he had suppressed. Those had made him feel more alive than he ever had before. He had found what he wanted for himself. Without that he was already dead. He was gambling all their lives for a future together. 

At the end of the six months, Helga packed her things once more. She put on her speed suit and had the supplies shipped to Liberte. She rode in the craft with the first load. The team erected a clean tent the size of a large circus tent. It would be her home for the next two years as she built the device for cleaning the environment. In truth that would take six weeks out of the slotted time. The bulk would be in crafting the ship and the machines necessary for the task.

The first step was getting transmuting chambers crafted and working. They would be going night and day the whole time. The cleaning device would be crafted and put to work scrubbing the poison out of the old city. Restoring this site was important to Helion. This had been his refuge while he weather this storm on this planet. It may have no importance to anyone but him anymore.

Helga and Helion worked together to achieve their goals. Emma’s care was always the top priority. It slowed the completion of their primary objective at first. In time she got used to the routine too. The land around the tent had been purged of poison in the first three months. The framework was finished three months later. Then the shell was done six months later. The remaining year was consumed largely by waiting for transmutation of Stelernum. The computer components were made of the material and gems  it was easy to place when a batch was completed. While they were waiting they purged more lands around the camp.

They had recovered many relics in the area. A lot of crosses and many statues of the blessed lady were found among the ruins. They took the little statues of him and placed them inside the stone chamber that had been his home for centuries. They were left to be buried in time and forgotten. He may had effected the faith of these people but did not wish to have these relics found here. If their faith in him had caused their destruction he didn’t want it to happen to anyone else.

He set his machines to work making a new cross to replace the one he had taken off the knight all those many years before. He made a chain for it too. He placed it in the chamber too. It rested on the bed that he had slept on so many days over those centuries. Then he made another prayer. He asked to be forgiven his transgression and to be watched over during their journey home.

Helion wasn’t sure if he would be forgiven. It wasn’t something that had been a part of his upbringing to believe in gods. He knew they existed but his race didn’t put much stock in waiting for their assistance. They didn’t try to offend them either. That could lead to trouble and they knew it. His time as a human had instilled some measure of faith. Maybe because of Helga and her emotions and feeling more alive because of it. To him this existence felt more real than his controls emotions. Maybe because he had seen the death and destruction these people reigned down upon one another and yet they rose up again. He was not sure where they found the strength to continue that without the assistance of some higher power, his people were unaware of with all their advanced technology.

This was life. He wanted to be apart of it now more than ever. He had changed.