Jarra (Reeath) Tell Morrath/Aftermath Stories

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* Jarra's Earth Flight Summary
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#### Berlin Dig Site

Earth Prime opens on 17 November 2789, two days after the conclusion of *Earth Flight*, and Jarra and Fian have returned to the Asgard class to finish their Foundation year course at Berlin Dig Site. Jarra initially believes there will be five weeks before she and a small group from the Asgard 6 class begin excavation work on Fortuna, but Amalie explains that off-world courses end on December 11, so there will actually only be three weeks. During that time, dig team 1 must organize a class farewell party, for which they decide to order a set of Betan style banners to commemorate the class. The design for these banners becomes a mild disagreement among dig team 1, but it is eventually agreed upon that the banner will contain several small images displaying significant moments from the year, with Petra facing away from the class.

After a few days of rest, Playdon asks Jarra if she would like to learn to ascend skyscrapers in the Berlin Spire Complex. During this conversation, Playdon reveals some of the relationship struggles he had after spending a significant amount of time in a regrowth tank, and Jarra discusses the difficulty she has had adjusting to her new appearance. She does not reveal the issue that she works through internally over the course of *The End, and The New Beginning*, which is her anxiety that she may have been cloned without her knowledge during the immune system override procedure. After Playdon gives a lecture that includes a Berlin Spire Complex training video, Jarra agrees to learn spire ascensions.

The next day, the Asgard 6 class joins the Cassandra 2 team, with whom they will be doing joint work on the spire complex. In order to ascend a spire, lead line anchors must first be embedded in the spire wall, a difficult task that is set up as a competition between Asgard 6 and Cassandra 2. Jarra performs impressively well for a novice at firing her anchors, a skill that she says she learned in firing reproduction trebuchets with her school history club.

Once the lead line anchors are embedded, Jarra begins her first ascension with Keren, which involves the two of them using a winch system to control the speed at which the ropes lift them up the sides of the spire. Because new safety lines are being set up on the spire, Jarra and Keren must ascend on insecure lines that have a small risk of dislodging. Keren stops them at the sixth floor to give Jarra the chance to end the ascension before they reach a height from which their impact suits would no longer protect them from a fall. They wait on a windowsill while Jarra considers the choice, and she decides that since skyscraper work will likely be necessary on Fortuna, she will need to learn to face ascending one on Earth first. Keren asks that Jarra prove she believes the one in a thousand risk of an insecure line dislodging could still happen to her, to which she points out that as a person with Immune Syndrome, she knows such a chance could and has happened to her. Satisfied, Keren unclips himself from his insecure line and attaches himself to a securely embedded piton. He explains to Jarra that she will need to do a training jump in which she will also unclip herself from the insecure line and jump from the sixth floor, which will be safe because she is attached to Keren via a safety line, in order to prove she can control her fear in a real emergency situation.

Before the training jump, Jarra voices concerns that as a Foundation year student, she doesn't deserve to be doing spire ascensions or excavating the Fortuna ruins. Keren explains that the off-worlder teams feel she's actually the most qualified out of any of the Fortuna-bound archaeologists, both because archaeologists from Earth are generally considered to be the real experts and because she tag led the initial excavation of the alien device in Africa.

Moments before Jarra intends to jump, Todd interrupts Jarra and Keren's private comms channel, causing her to slip and fall from the windowsill. When she hits the wall at five floors above the ground, her backpack and harness become jammed against glass shards, holding her in place. She does an emergency release of her harness and falls onto safety cushions with no injury.

After a discussion with Cassandra 2, Jarra asks to help finish setting up the secure lines. She begins a second ascension with Keren, and at the twentieth floor they stop to remove a small tree in the way, which Jarra asks to keep. Keren objects at first, but allows it when she explains that she wants to keep it as a Next of Kin personal memorial. At the thirtieth floor, they set up secure lines. Jarra accidentally shouts "Hoo ee!" on the broadcast channel.

While Jarra is explaining to Asgard 6 how the Next of Kin system works, Raven informs them that an airborne attack on Jarra is imminent. Dig Site Command says that the pilot Gradin just arrived, but Jarra asks him a question that proves he isn't actually Gradin, who was her flying instructor. Keren and Jarra hide inside the spire, but the lack of wall space between window gaps makes effectively hiding difficult. Archaeological research teams across Berlin Dig Site, including Earth 3, Earth 14, Zeus 2, Romulus 1, Apollo 1, Beowulf 4, and Osiris 1, begin firing their lead line anchors at the attacking aircraft to deter it while they wait for Military fighter pilots to arrive. When the aircraft closes in on Jarra to fire its incendiary weapon at her, she uses her piton gun to shoot out one of its thrusters. The aircraft quickly recovers and its pilot fires a missile at Jarra. Immediately afterwards, Drago and Marlise arrive in prototype model fighter jets and capture the hostile aircraft. Jarra blacks out and is brought to an air ambulance being flown by Ramon, where she is given short-term field treatment for her injuries, which includes a punctured lung, by Dr. Capria Kar Broussard.

Once Jarra is stabilized, General Torrek enters the air ambulance to speak with Jarra about her sister, Gemelle. He explains that she and her husband, Royal Tar Destin, are on deep undercover assignments to find the individuals behind the assassination attempts on Jarra. Torrek warns her that because they have been undercover for three months and have no way of communicating with the Military, they will be announced missing presumed dead, but this is merely a formality. He also reveals that Petra was the informant who warned the Military of the incoming airborne attack.

Leveque then informs Jarra that she will receive regrowth treatment for her injuries and remain at Military Base 79 Zulu with Fian until the Fortuna excavation begins, since he has confirmed there are no hostile operatives in the Alien Contact programme. Jarra then requests that she carry out the Next of Kin memorial ceremony before leaving for Zulu base, to which Torrek agrees.

#### Next of Kin Ceremony

Jarra invites the Asgard 6 class, Cassandra 2, Keon, Issette, Valeska Orlova, and Gradin to the Next of Kin ceremony, which will take place at the Earth America Dig Site Federation graveyard. While the class waits at their dome for preparations to be made at the graveyard, Jarra also welcomes Torrek, Leveque, and Capria to attend the ceremony. Playdon asks if the group can make a detour on their way to the Next of Kin grave to his wife's grave, to which Jarra agrees.

Keon and Issette join the group at the graveyard, and Issette scans Jarra's injuries. When Issette mentions her partially functioning left little finger, Jarra realizes that she can't be a clone because a clone would have had function to the finger fully restored. After some lighthearted bickering and some delays while the class banners are set up, the group makes their way to the Next of Kin grave, with a stop along the way at Cadee's grave. At the Next of Kin grave, they meet up with Valeska and Gradin, who are now working with the Alien Contact programme as civilian advisors.

Jarra plants the memorial tree, then begins the speech she must give as part of the ceremony. She explains that she decided to apply to University Asgard instead of University Earth because of something that happened while she was having flying lessons off the coast of Earth America in 2788– she came across human remains, and in being the first person with Immune Syndrome to touch those remains, she became that deceased person's Next of Kin. The skeleton had a hole in the front of its skull, indicating a violent death, and the remains were sent off to the Dig Site Federation to be analyzed. The report took unusually long to be sent to Jarra, and when it was, it revealed that the individual was a woman killed during the Runners and Changelings Era trying to protect her newborn baby. Jarra says that she got the report on 13 November 2788, held the burial ceremony the next day, then applied to University Asgard on 15 November 2788. Becoming a Next of Kin had tipped her existing anger over the edge, and she made what she knew was a thoughtless decision in the hopes of joining an off-worlder class to take revenge on them then leaving, but decided to stay once she came to like most of the class and see that they weren't her enemy.

After her speech, the group has a discussion in which Leveque reveals that Raven has discussed the injustices of Hospital Earth with Aadi Quilla Amarion, who intends to push for a full investigation once elections for the new leadership of Earth has taken place. Issette and Jarra both affirm that they prefer the term Immune Syndrome to Novak-Nadal Syndrome or Handicapped.

Finally, Valeska reveals that she became Next of Kin to the man who killed the murdered woman, and she dumped his bones into a sea of toxic waste. The original anthem of humanity as written by Sean Donnelly is played. Valeska then explains that the lead excavation teams going to Fortuna will be known as Prime rather than team 1 and that Playdon's team will be known as Earth Prime, rather than Asgard Prime, since they have the only Earth archaeologist who is able to go to Fortuna.

Torrek tells Jarra and Fian that three days after they lowered the alien defenses on Fortuna, the shields reactivated, and there is a third device on the planet that will need to be activated in order to permanently lower the defenses. A transport aircraft arrives, and Jarra reflects on her year with Asgard 6 as she prepares to leave for Zulu base.

### I’ll Be Right Here Waiting

#### Part 1

*I'll Be Right Here Waiting* takes place from Fian's point of view and begins where *The End, and the New Beginning* ends. Ramon picks up Jarra, Fian, Capria, Raven, and General Torrek in a six-seater transport to fly them to Zulu base, where Jarra will enter a regrowth tank for twenty four hours to heal her injuries from the Berlin Spire Complex attack. While on the transport, Jarra's punctured lung treatment begins to wear off, causing her breathing to become restricted. When they land by Jarra's medical dome, Capria sedates her so that she may be brought to her regrowth tank without issues.

#### Part 2

General Torrek discusses with Fian his relationship with Jarra's grandmother, with whom he had a triad marriage.

#### Part 3

While Jarra is in sugery, Alpha and Omega News falsely announces her death. In reality, her surgery goes smoothly and Fian visits her afterwards before her day of recovery in a regrowth tank.

## References

### Bibliography

* *Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1)* (2020)