The Fleeting Sand Beckons
1. Comfort
She readily accepts his consoling embraces after her first miscarriage, but only becomes aware of his own need for comfort after he arrives home with bloody knuckles.
2. Kiss
In the mornings he kisses her as he used to when they first met, as though she would break under his touch, but in the evenings he would hungrily slam his lips upon hers in a silent revolt to his previous well-hidden yearnings.
3. Soft
The hairs on his arms are as soft as a baby's bottom, and she takes a teasing delight in pointing this out soon after the arrival of their daughter.
4. Pain
As she watches him carry away the second-born twin in his arms that one fateful afternoon, she is enveloped by the fiery pain upon the realization that she would never encounter him again.
5. Potatoes
She grimaces at the sight of the lumpy potatoes, but knowing full well that this will be their only sustenance during the drought, reluctantly succumbs to the torture.
6. Rain
It rarely rains in this harsh wasteland, albeit the morning of the birth of their second child, where he sits back on his heels after their hard-earned vegetable garden had been soiled and declares that this son will run him ragged.
7. Chocolate
After one particularly brutal argument in which afterwards she began to pack her bags, he spent his much-needed credits to surprise her with black-market Alderaan Chocolate, for which she sloppily kissed his entire relieved face in gratitude.
8. Happiness
By the very awe on his face as he holds his child for the first time, she is consumed by the happy comprehension that he carries no regrets for the abandonment of the Jedi laws that he once so proudly upheld.
9. Telephone
Upon her arrival she was struck at the loneliness of the desert tide, and begged him for some viable link to the outside world, but then with an ache she realized she had no one else to call upon.
10. Ears
Her son was the spitting image of his father, even down to the ears in which the left one stuck out in stubborn tenacity.
11. Name
For protection against Imperial spies she suggests a change of names, and though he happily accepts "Ben", he stubbornly refuses to call her anything but "Sabé".
12. Sensual
The lilting tongue of his accent always sends a sensual shiver up her spine, a motion of course that he has always been oblivious to.
13. Death
She knows there is nothing worse then lying on one's death bed regretting a life unlived, but happily shoves that worry away; she's certainly lived more then a thousand lives.
14. Sex
Since the first time they made love and every time after she wonders how he is completely silent all the way through, as though captured in a state of complete disbelieving reverence.
15. Touch
She wonders if it was his touch that made her seek him out through the vast corridors of the universe, but quickly decides it was rather the look in his eyes whenever he set his gaze upon her.
16. Weakness
She knows she is his greatest weakness, and though this revelation worries him greatly, she cannot help but glow in loving satisfaction.
17. Tears
He twirls her in spinning glory when he discovers her pregnancy, but later she finds him staring out into the distance clutching a braid given to him by his old Master, a tear engraving itself along the contours of his face.
18. Speed
She shrieks with delight on the back of their cheaply-bought speeder, white-knuckling his laughing sides as her hair whips in disarray.
19. Wind
The swirling sand rolling in billowing ecstasy against the horizon reminds her of a painting she had seen at Theed Palace as a child, and briefly wonders if the Artist had looked inside her soul.
20. Freedom
It is only when she loses everything that she feels free to do anything, yet stubbornly hangs on to the past when she begins to rebuild her future.
21. Life
She spends her last Republican Credit on a green bean plant in the market, and watches delightfully as is blossoms amidst the desert heat.
22. Jealousy
She tries to ignore the heaviness surrounding her when he abruptly leaves the birthing room of his first-born child after sensing a danger to a flaxen-headed boy who lived miles away, but knows that for Padmé's son she would have done the same thing.
23. Hands
For such a quiet, inconspicuous man he has quite the ability to make her tremble and scream with the raw power in his unassuming hands.
24. Taste
She would gaze at him for hours while he toiled shirtless in the heavy drench of the heat, eagerly awaiting her opportunity to taste the salty tang of his skin.
25. Devotion
He gave up his Jedi knighthood that morning, his sole-bred purpose, when he packed away his lightsaber and whispered his love for her.
26. Forever
She knew she would never be alone again when he slid a grass ring of spun dried Nubian wheat over her slender finger, his breath hitching as he laid his forehead against hers.
27. Blood
Never in all the years that she had known him had she seen him panic the day of her labour, when all he saw were the bundles of bloody linen, and she would have laughed at his expression if it weren't for the blinding pain.
28. Sickness
He clutches the tiny still form of his youngest daughter in his arms; stoically weaving his fingers through her long hair and placing her upon the funeral pyre for cremation, slicing away her padawan braid.
29. Melody
The one time she ever saw Ben wholly embarrassed was when she caught him singing a particularly crass Toydarian drinking song, and late at night she would laughingly whisper the coarse lyrics to his beet-red ears.
30. Stars
She often catches herself wistfully gazing out into the stars, dreaming of times long gone, and frees herself to her memories.
31. Home
As she watches her daughters small body run as swiftly as a bird along the scorched earth, she thinks that this is her children's home, and though she misses Naboo dreadfully, her place will always be with her family.
32. Confusion
She scrunches up her eyes in perplexed humour as she watches her son valiantly try to use the Force to lift his sister, but frantically rushes forward when he loses concentration.
33. Fear
She didn't fully understand the weight of her fears upon her soul until she found him, and breathed in relief as they washed clean from her.
34. Lightning/Thunder
She delights in the rare bliss of lightning, as she would a holocard from home, but at night when thunder rolls in aching agony she almost always curls tighter in his embrace.
35. Bonds
The deep scars carved in her back are the wretched ties to her past, and a horrid reminder of her punishment for her participation in the Rebellion.
36. Market
She loses sight of her child one day in the market, and after a frantic search she eventually finds her perched sagely on a particularly revered Hutt statue, casually defacing the unsightly countenance with a marker.
37. Technology
Considering he is a man well versed in hundreds of languages and philosophies and survival skills, she finds it difficult to maintain a straight face as he tries to figure out how to use the water pump.
38. Gift
His greatest gift to her were their children, her greatest gift to him was herself.
39. Smile
She had fallen in love with him years ago, when he dared grin cockishly to a Decoy Queen he should have known better to fear.
40. Innocence
She catches a glimpse of the young Luke Skywalker at the speed-races one day, and marvels at the innocence bred in the wake of tragedy.
41. Completion
One morning her daughter captures a Terran firefly that had glinted in her eye atop a sand dune, and before she is made to release it she lovingly names it in honour of her departed sister and declares the family "complete".
42. Clouds
There never seems to be any clouds in this desert sky, and she mourns the idea that her children will never grow up deciphering funny shapes upon grassy hilltops.
43. Sky
His eyes are that of morning daybreak, hers are that shade of evening twilight; light and dark, they complement each other nicely.
44. Heaven
Ben knows he will become one with the Force upon his death; however the side of her that remembers her mother's tales makes her feel that she will one day end up in the thrones of her ancestors upon a life complete.
45. Hell
She's already been in Hell, she knows better then to fear it again.
46. Sun
Her eyelashes become white and illuminated as she shields her eyes from the heavy glare, and wonders if there is more sun then sky.
47. Moon
There are two moons in Tatooine skies, both en-coupled brightly at night yet only one remaining in the broken reverie of the next day.
48. Waves
The desert dunes remind her of Nubian oceans, the shifting sands reminiscent of arched, heaving waves consumed with unforeseeable strength.
49. Hair
When his locks eventually began to grey, she silently mourned the loss of the hair that used to keep her up at night dreaming in the days of her youth.
50. Supernova
On her flight to her new home she glimpses the rarity of a stellar explosion, her cockpit window radiating a brilliant burn that stretches for an infinite number of miles, and she knows this, this, is goodbye.
Again, inspired by Starrika's 1-sentence works in Last of The Mohicans forum.
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