Black is the color that is no color at all.
Black is the color of a child's still, empty bedroom. The heaviest hour of night—the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky.
It is a road. A forgotten night sky broken up by faded stars.
It is the barrel of a new gun, leveled at your heart.
Black is a promise of tomorrow, bled dry from lies and hate.
Betrayal.
Black is the color of memory.
It is their color.
The only one they'll use to tell their story.
Black is what they are supposed to represent.
It is a uniform stretched over their shoulders, but the woman who was in front of him was wearing a red coat over her uniform.
He knew the young woman.
"Commander Ren, I would like to ask you to put my assistent down and alive." despite her words, she was not asking but demanding.
"Layla Hux." he said her name while letting her assistant fall on the ground at their feet, alive but fearful for his life.
"Commander, as much I hate to know that my subordinates are acting foolish ad that they are useless, I like to be informed before one of them is killed." she took a step closer to the man that nearly killed her right hand man. "Go to the medical bay." she added, without turning from Kylo Ren. "And that was an order, so move before I kill you myself, Minka."
Layla Hux, sister of Armitage Hux, also a general in the ranks of the First Order, was not a woman someone could ignore without consequences. She was strong both physically and mentally, and much more dangerous than her brother, as she was unpredictable, by hiding behind smiles and desires that were turning themselves in orders as fast as they rolled down her tongue.
"Your assistant, as you named him, came running after me demanding for something that was not his business." he spoke as he was analyzing the women in front of him.
"Then he will be punished, but not by you, as he was sent by me to investigate why the control panel in that room was not working properly." she smiled at him while talkig one more step closer to him, they were nearlly touching."If you keep killing them, the Starkiller base will not be ready in the time Snoke wants it."
She was probably the only person that could moke him like that, and get alive with it.
"He is still an imbecil. I do not understand why you still keep him around you, General."
" Just because you think someone is useless, Commander, it does not mean that they actually are. Because I can say that you are a danger to this base, but you do not see me wanting to strangle you."He felt how his anger was boiling and wanted to erupt just like a volcano, but he still could not bring himself to treating her like he did with her brother.
"We should go, Commander and see what Captain Phasma found after investigating both the planets and the room of our deceased subordinate. And you should move."
In that second the situation was transformed in a matter of pride. Neither was going to move while being ordered.
"Commander Ren, General Hux." a small voice was heard behind Kylo Ren, making him turn towards the one that spoke.
"I am sorry to interrupt you, but general Hux is expecting you in his office." just like most of the people who were working on that base, he was afraid of speaking to them, as both the generals and the commander were impulsive.
"Then we should go." Layla walked passed him with determination, her heels clattering on the metallic surface.
Kylo Ren could feel how the situation was enjoyable to hear. It was just a game for her, one that she could not seem to lose. Every time he thought that he had won, she would play out one more card. A game that started a few months back, when she first stepped on the Starkiller base, turning everything upside down.
The atmosphere in the entire base changed with her arrival. It was also not a welcome thing that her quarters were right beside his own.
"It is not like you to be late, Layla." Hux spoke as she sat to face him. "Ren, there is not like you to let someone alive after they annoyed you."
"Well, brother, there is a start for everything. Now, we should continue." she smiled while tapping with her foot on the floor.
"First of all, I would like to tell that we have found new places where the rebels are hidding, and possible pieces of the map to Skywalker. I am going to send you the details, so you could come up with a plan." Phasma intervined as she looked at them.
"Second of all, for the death of Landon Onesimus was caused by an arachnid. The medical team found this guy in his clothes. It is small,but highly dangerous." The woman put on the tabel something that looked like a small box, but made of glass. Inside it was a creature with eight legs that was fighting to escape, jumping from side to side.
The fear travelled in Layla's veins but never made it to her facial muscles or skin. Her complexion remained pale and matt, her eyes as steady as if she was talking about her manechiure.
It was intoxicating.
"We have to be carefull, there might be more." said Hux stading up showing that the meeting was over. but for Kylo that meeting was an amusing one, as he found one way to entertain himself, in that sea of black.