Kiera,
You have been a great apprentice and I foresee you becoming so much more. I am sorry I will not be there to see you on your journey, well at least in this form anyways. I fear that if you are reading this, I have fallen on the battlefield... again. If I do not return then you can have the...
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Kiera,
You have been a great apprentice and I foresee you becoming so much more. I am sorry I will not be there to see you on your journey, well at least in this form anyways. I fear that if you are reading this, I have fallen on the battlefield... again. If I do not return then you can have the bar on Nar Shadda. Make sure that Malodin keeps up with his tab and please keep an eye on him for me since I will be dead. He thinks of you as a niece as I think of you as a daughter. Of all the things I have ever done, I will never regret taking you in when you tried to steal my ship on Naboo.
To be honest, Mal wanted to sell you to the Gungans as a jester and I am so glad I talked him out of it. You showed that spark of fire within you that I have watched grow into a raging inferno. When you take over the underworld on Nar Shadda, make sure that you wipe out the Blood Gang in the Duros sector. They always proved to be a very dumb bunch to deal with. Also, do not forget to feed the dogs. They love you and I feel ok knowing that you will be taking them in.
In closing, I hope that someday when you are one with the Force we shall meet again but until then, make sure to raise a glass to my memory on my birthday.
GJW XVI Phase I] Fiction - Strange New Worlds
“Entrenched”
Now what?
Ethereal Realm
The Shattered Plains
ABY 41
The bleak sky of the Ethereal Realm turned from haze to black. As the light failed across the plain,a small blue Twi’lek sat cross legged in the bottom of a ravine.
“Now what?” she...
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GJW XVI Phase I] Fiction - Strange New Worlds
“Entrenched”
Now what?
Ethereal Realm
The Shattered Plains
ABY 41
The bleak sky of the Ethereal Realm turned from haze to black. As the light failed across the plain,a small blue Twi’lek sat cross legged in the bottom of a ravine.
“Now what?” she queried out loud to herself. The events of the day had not gone to plan and the diminutive Rutian was out of ideas. Here she was on an enemy world in a strange dimension, out of food, low on water, and even lower on hope.
“How did it come to this…”
16 hours earlier….
Ethereal Realm
Reflection of Eos
ABY 41
“Well, guess this is the place,” the diminutive Twi’lek said to her astomech as they exited the wormhole. A distorted version of the city of Eos lay before her, with its massive skyscrapers shimmering then momentarily blinking out, like a Holoprojection with an intermittent short circuit. The sensors showed a huge field stretching from the portal’s exit in all directions with a disorganized jumble of trenches criss-crossing the surface and floating land masses of various sizes hanging in the sky. In the distance was a fortress made of the same crystal infecting the Children of Mortise, and beyond that, the Chain.
The droid tweedled nervously as they continued to monitor the ship’s systems. The energy fluctuations and gravimetric anomalies already caused the droid distress while they worked fervently to make adjustments. “Don’t worry, R3. I’m sure you can handle it.” And handle it they did until the ship passed near a sky island. Suddenly the ship was plummeting…up? The ship and the droid were having a problem figuring out the orientation as gravitational forces shifted towards the massive rock that defied physics.
R3 screamed as they frantically readjusted to the changing conditions. The engine roared as it suddenly accelerated beyond its own capabilities, jettisoning the spider cruiser out of the floating isle’s gravity. This time, the droid couldn’t compensate, especially when the engine completely cut out–.
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Ethereal Realm
The Shattered Plains
ABY 41
Having calmed her mind, the stranded Twi’lek Nightsister stood. “It can’t get worse, so it has to get better,” she said aloud to herself. “But nothing will get better sitting in this Force forsaken ditch.” She donned her climbing claws and started climbing out of the ravine…
It had taken her two hours to climb up to the crest. She collapsed in sheer exhaustion as she wasn’t conditioned for that level of exercise. The shattered plains stretched out before her in the fading light. Her rendezvous point was somewhere between her and the fortress, but that left a possibility of several miles to go. She didn’t know if she could manage it. Especially without the Force as her ally. She scanned the horizon with her macrobinoculars– THERE! She spotted another Brotherhood ship, as it settled on a steep not five miles out.
Gathering her gear and what strength she had left, she began to walk. As she reached the next crevasse, she could feel the Force returning. She leapt across the twenty foot trench like it was nothing. Sinya’ni reveled in the revitalizing energy coursing through her. The start of her journey had been perilous; however, with the Force as her ally, the remaining distance to the rally point went smoothly.