Missing You
(backdated to Mother's Day)

As a Martian, K'hym did not not fully understand the holidays of Earth, though she had spent both Thanksgiving and Christmas with the extended family her father had built up upon Earth.  But she was intrigued by the concept of "Mother's Day."  And greatly saddened by the fact that her mother was no longer with them.

There was a teleporter tube on Mars, put their ages ago when her father had broken down his own mental blocks and recovered the fullness of his memories.  It was from the YJ headquarters that K'hym accessed this tube.

"Great H'ronmeer," she began, speaking in the words of her people.  She let her body change and flow, assuming her private Martian form for this, most intimate moment.  "This lost daughter of Ma'aleca'andra returns to you."

She closed her eyes and reduced her density, sinking into the surface of the planet.  There, she solidified slightly, pulling in mass and matter from the planet itself.  "I merge myself with the dust of my world, and merge myself with the past, with my ancestors, and all those we have lost."

Slowly, she rose up out of the ground, transforming again to the shape she used around her human friends.  A tear rolled down her face, striking the dirt.

"I miss you, Mother.  The touch of your mind, the sound of your voice, the gentle wisdom and love you brought to every day.  Father takes good care of me, and I am happy to have him still.  He misses you deeply.  We both do.  But I have new friends, and I am continuing in the tradition of Father's heroism."

More tears fell on the ground.  "But I am still so alone.  M'gann and Father are the only ones of our people left.  The silence deafens me.  I... do not understand things the way my human friends do.  I do not know if I ever will."

She brought her head up.  "I miss you.  But this is a human day for celebrating mothers.  And I celebrate all the you were."

She turned and returned to the teleporter tube, heading back to Earth.