Vac glanced up from his book, and set it aside. He stands up and moves to stand behind Moren, and reads over his shoulder. He frowns. "It might be a good idea not to go any further into this. I don't want you to get into any trouble for knowing any knowledge of it. I have no idea what it is used for or anything else....."
Moren sits back after Vac's comments and sits on his feet. "Well, thats kind of a bust. Guess we could look else where on the drive, see what else is on there." Moren exits out of the program and move to a directory "Lib". Moren didn't really want to stop looking, the tracking info he didn't care about, but maybe there was something else on there that would lead to something not so, bothersome.
Vac continues to write,"Sure feel free. I didn't know what was on it, was more curious then anything." He looks up from his paper, looking very preoccupied in his thoughts.
Moren noded with out saying anything and started to go though the data drive some more. He founds lots system files, and things that he found fun, but he wasn't sure if Vac would see them the same way. After a bit he truned to Vac, "So Vac, Where did you learn skill of... well... work with dead things. And Why work with them. Its not somthing you normaly see, and well, it kind of strikes me as a neat kind of trade. Or at lest in contrast to my trade of healing, saving living thing from death." Moren Truned around breifly and typed in search phrase, "death" in the unit and truned back around to see what Vac's response was.
Vac smiled. "I learned it from my grandfather. I enjoy it because very few others, enjoy it." He looks over at Moren,"What are you looking at know?"
Moren smiled, he was an indvidual. Even in the enlighted relam of Ramath-lehi that was hard to find. "Well it looks to be some kind of fun files, or at lest I think any way, telling the system how to find data. You can see from the instruction set in this file that most the data was stored off site in this LEM-115." Moren pointed to the line showing this. "The really fun part, is that it uses an old Networking protocall call bio-trans. Which it seems your unit has." Moren Swiched to a screen which showed the status of the unit and it showed the network port as "BIO-TR 7" compatable. Moren leaned back to see Vac's reaction, just to see if he was into it as much as Moren was.
Vac thinks about this for a moment. "I don't know much about it but, some of the stuff you are saying does sound some what familiar."
Moren noded his head. He looked at the time on a clock on the wall, it was getting late. "Do you mind if I spend the night here, its getting late, and I don't know if I was to spend an hour getting back, and I don't know if the transports run at this time."
Vac glanced up at the clock, and let out a colorful line. "Shit, I didn't realize what time it is. Yes, you can stay here tonight follow me." He stood up and stretched. He walked over to a wall and pressed lightly, on it. He stood back and a door opened up in front of them. He stepped inside, and turned on a light. He took a couple of steps, and then turned right. He turned the knob of the door, and pushed it open. "You can use this room, it is one of the warmer rooms. I have to go out for a bit but, I will return within the hour." He starts to walk away, and then remembers. "By the way, I wouldn't sit in the chair near the window. It has a mind of it's own, at times."
Moren got up with Vac, and folowed him to the room, listening to all he had to say. Vac then started heading off and then told him about the chair. Moren rased an eye brow and said, "Ok..." and watched him leave out the door, closing it behind him with a rush of cold air. Moren shivred at the brust of cold, and walked over to Vac's work area and started looking around. There where fish, lots of fish on the work bench, in all kinds of stages of still life. Up on his selfs he had little fuzzy things, birds, lizrads, and more fish. Moren really like the Blue fish, which he had never seen befor any where. He just looked at it, not touching. But In the back of his mind the Chair thing keep poping up. What was it about the chair that he had to watch out for? "Now Moren, Vac told you that for a reason, respect that." The mom like voice poped into his head. "Your right," He said out loud," I need to respect that." Moren then walked over to the computer unit, which was still running and he started playing with it. Look at its expations, version, com specs, etc. But the Chair thing keep pulling at his mind. Moren got up, looked at the chair, which was across the room and walked to the bed room that Vac said he could use. He started adjusting the bed, covers and what not to get ready to get some sleep. The chair keep calling, Moren couldn't keep it off any longer. He walked over the chair and looked at it. It was an old wooden chair, well loved form the lookes of it, and very nicely carved with patern all up and down its rockers, arm rests and back. Nothing seemed strange about it, so Moren sat down in it. He didn't do anything at first, just waiting for somthing to happen, nothing. He started to rock back and forth a little, seemed normal. Then the chair bucked him foward like some one pushed him out of the chair. Moren fell to the floor, and quickly turned aorund to see nothing but the chair slowly rocking to a stop. "What the??" Moren said to him self. He sat down in this again, and rocked a little. But this time he filped out backwards from the chair, landing on his back and sliding along the floor a ways. When looked at the chair, it was still siting up right. "Ok, that dose not work that way." he said, almost changlening the chair to explane its self. Moren got up and walked over the chair. He looked closely at it. Seeing if somthing was going on here, some magnets, or somthing. He started to look under the seat, and, smack!!! The chair hit him hard on the head. He quickly moved form under the chair, rubbing the top of his head just ahead of his ears. He glared at the chair. Next he got some books form the shelf, set them on the chair, and watched. Nothing. He started the chair rocking, it slowed to a stop. He went to pick up the books, and the chair learch forward and got his head again. The books fell on the floor as Moren let out a yelp. "man, what is up with this chair!??!" He then got a little idea. Useing the laser com port on the computer units he set up a conection, with the chair righ in the middle of it. He had to move the chair of course, which nothing happened when he did this. He set it up so that every time the chair move one way of the other, it would cut off the com line, causing the computer to beep. Just as he was setting up the last bit, the computer beeped, he looked up, and the chair was slowing to a stop Like it was just rocking. He looked a way again and this time he heard it bounce, and the computer beeped. Moren begain to scrach his head on this. "A hanted chair?" he said to him self. It then got very quit all the suden, the computer shut off, all the fans in the hut where off, it was just him and the chair now. He looked at the chair, not wanting to take his eyes off it, wondering if somthing was going to happen. He finly look away to turn the computer on and he head the sound of wood hiting the floor. He looked, that chair was closer. He looked a way again, and hear the noise again, he looked back and the chair was yet even closer. He then turned around, showing his back to the chair this time. The chair then hit is back, he spun around and the chair lunged forward. He blocked evey hit form the chairs back he could, He finel started to say some old words, the chair started to flot in the air, Moren never knew he could do that. The chair then started trying to hit him with its rockers, he had a harder time blocking this and it nailed him twice really good. He then grabed the chair, it tryed to pull away form his hands. "You won't get away that easy infested chair!!!" Moren then heard the door open.
Vac quickly finished his work, and headed back to the hut. He knew that Moren wouldn't be able to stay away from the chair. He sighed as he seen, that all the lights were off, and the fans even shut themselves off. He walked over to the main fan and kicked it as hard as possibly could, and then he hurried inside. He stormed into the room, where Moren was, and pushed him across the room. He looks at the chair and curses. "This is the last straw, I didn't mean to be rough with you. This chair has caused nothing but, problems, since it came into my posession." He picked up the chair, and carried it further down the hall and locked it into a room. "I would recommend that you stay away from that room."
Vac Stormed into the room as Moren sat there fighting off the chair. Vac push Moren hard and he slid arcoss the room stopping only for the wall. The chair keep floting there. Vac aplogized and explaned then grabed the chair from it spot in the air and carried it out of sight. Moren was still trying to figure out what the hell went on and how he made the chair flot. Vac came back and in a booming voice told him not to go near that room, as he pointed down the hall way. Moren shook his head, more to clear it from the fuzz of what happend. Then whish he hadn't as the pain from the two welps on his head got to him. "who knew a chair could be such a pain." Moren said to Vac as he got up, Holding his head and check behind him to make sure that he didn't damge anything in his little Vac induced ride. "So what the hell was that about? And do you have any pain killers?"
He pointed toward another door. "You will find a bathroom, through that door, you will find what you ned in there." He sighed and shook his head. "I don't know why I have bothered, keeping it. It was a gift from my a friend of my fathers. The chair is cursed, and is a major pain in the ass. Until today it has actually been semi well behaved, for several years. Looks like I will have to finally destroy it, especially know that...."
Vac Pointed to another door, telling Moren that the bathroom and what he need was there. He then filled Moren in on what the deal was with the chair in an exsapreated voice. As Vac spoke Moren walked into the bathroom and found the Pain killers. They where dried roots in a pill form that Moren knew well. He took two after looking at the amount in the pills. The last comment Vac made he trailed off. Moren finished taking the first pill, and just looked at Vac, he was now looking out into space. "You know, I don't think it a bad thing that you keep the chair. I mean you didn't want to insults your father friend." Moren made a shrug with his hands, one of them holding the second pill. Moren took the second pill and just as he finished he could banging at the door where Vac had locked the chair a way. "You know, this is a crazy Idea but, maybe we should find out why the spirt in that chair is so angry. If nothing else we would had made a good effort in good faith, rather than just destroying it and causing the spirt to find something else to hold on to." Moren watched Vac, unsure of the mans willingness to show compassion to this object that has caused him grief for what seemed to be a long time.
Vac listened to what Moren had to say, and walked towards the living room. "Come with me and I will explain more." He went and grabbed a couple of beers, and walked back into the room and sat down. He handed one of them to Moren. "You can drink this directly after, what you took. There are no side effects." He opens his beer, and takes a drink. "I think it is for the best, that the chair be destroyed. It was made around the time I was born. It is know 29 years old. The man who designed it, was an awesome carpenter but, he fell in love with an evil woman. They married and had a son, who was just as evil. He was warned about staying away from a forest. He didn't listen, and was found, dead in a tree. The tree was cut down, and turned into the chair, which is locked in the other room. The chair holds his spirit, and I don't personally think that is right." He stops talking and finishes his beer.
Moren Noded listening to Vac, slowly siping his beer. He thought about what Vac told him, and the best move to make. In Morens mind, there was no such thing as evil, just miss guided intensions. But, He didn't think there was really any other way to do it. "We need to burn it then. Mark it with signs of good intent and burn it. So that way there is nothing left for the spirt to hold on to. We also need to do this as far away from your home as we can other wise it may attach its self to your home." Moren took another sip from his beer, He didn't like the idea of this, because its a razor edge of rather the soul lives, or dies. But if it dies, its the soul choice to live or die. "I can help you if you need. " Moren finaly said, with a flat tone to his voice.
Vac looked at Moren, and raised an eyebrow. He could tell that, Moren wasn't thrilled this idea at all. "Moren, I appreciate you offering to help but, I can tell that you do not like this idea. I will do it on my own, tis one of those things I must do." He sits back in his chair, takes a drink of his beer, and looks out the window.
"No, I will help. Thats part of what I do. Some times healing involse death as well. I'll get what we need to do this." Moren downed the rest of his beer and smiled, kind of a weak smile at Vac. "I get this way cause the pain of a friend passing on is still a bit fresh with me. Its somthing I have to work though." Moren walked into the Bed room where Vac let him set up "camp" so to say and begain getting all the things he needed form his jacket.
Vac stood up, and looked over at Moren. "I am sorry to hear about your loss. I am greatful for your help, with this matter. He walked over to the door, and opened it. "You might want to bring your jacket, it is going to be a bit cold, for you. Oh and grab your sled, you can recharge and warm back up once, we get back." He walked back to the room, where he locked the chair, and opened the door. He grabbed the chair, and headed towards the front door.
Moren walked out with his jacket and heavy paints on and had all his things ready. He grabed the slead and moved it out side and waited for Vac to come with the chair. It was bitterly cold out now that the sun had gone down. But could see the stars so clearly here it was amazing. There where no lights for miles to block his view of the sky. Moren just stared up and enjoyed a bit waiting for Vac to come out with the subject of their task.
