#veelah

Vess, as Veelah, was born to one of the last homesteading Thals, before all were moved to Domes in the Thousand Year War. She fell ill and died alongside her yak-like beast, which was one to plow fields. It was believed to have resulted from the yak eating Varga Plants in flower, and the beast and Veelah inhaled pollen.

Veelah was hastily buried in a shallow grave, wearing the traditional funerary headpiece of volcanic glass made by these Thals. Bombings soon after destroyed the homesteads and survivors were removed to the Domes.

As the Varga Plant's pollen worked, it prevented decomposition and began making the bodies a living vessel to gather and carry seeds from other plants. Veelah would awake with her beast and wander the wastelands of Skaro.

By chance, Veelah and her beast would encounter a stranded Kaled convoy, but find only one survivor- a young Davros. She would take him back to Kaled territory, spreading Varga seeds and teaching him about the landscape's changes, and what else the Varga tells her. Mutos would weep seeing her, offer her food and water (which she would give to Davros), crying out at a Wanderer.

Davros warned her that she will be killed on sight, but she told him, "I've no fear- I've been dead long enough, wandering." She signaled Kaled Military Elites to their location with flares.

In the light of those flares, her glassy eyes shed tears over her waxy face.

She warned Davros that the Kaleds will very likely slaughter, carve up, and eat the beast. "No matter how good it smells, or they say it tastes, do not. Its meat is sweet with heavy metals, marrow infected in radiation."

Veelah was peaceful, eerily so as Kaleds executed her (single shot through the chest), securing her body to be examined by Davros in his studies. Davros heeded her warning to not eat from the monster, and observed the men who did consume meat as they suffered poisoning.

If she had intended to harm them, why would she have warned them?

On the dissection table, Veelah suddenly woke after being executed and screamed, and had to be decapitated. This was from Vess suffering a sleep/wake error and night terror.

Veelah's sacrifice meant Davros lived. This Davros is the one who now commands the Dalek Time Gathering project and boasts the 'deepest, purest gene pool of Daleks and Kaleds"