A/N I'm baaaaack! So, this one takes place only a few months after the epilogue of 'Mirrors of Memory'. Those of you who haven't read it, go back and read it now. Pause Okay, have you read it yet? Good. Like I said, this one is a few months later, Luke and Ani are still Padawans, Obi-Wan and Anakin are being driven insane by them, and Qui-Gon and Taun We are laughing their heads off. But meanwhile, elsewhere on Coruscant….
Disclaimer: I didn't own this last time, I didn't own this yesterday, and I don't own it today. But I'll own it tomorrow! Just kidding. If I ever begin to own any of the characters you recognize, believe me, you guys will be among the first to know. And no, this is not what was happening meanwhile. The next thing is!
A/N2 Ha-ha, this isn't what's happening meanwhile either. Okay, that joke's getting old. Ooh, just one thing I remembered. Tiv's name is pronounced just as its spelt, rhymes with 'Give', Nami is Name-ie, and Colac is Cole-ach. Their last name is Mare (as in horse) Los (as in 'the' in Spanish, or for those of you who don't speak it, rhymes with Coast minus the t)
Tivania Merlos or 'Tiv' hurled the rock against the wall and stormed back to her seat. She sat there for a few minutes just glaring at it, ignoring the noise from outside, and then got up and picked it up.
"Please?" she asked the rock, for only the fifteenth time that day. As rocks tend to do, it ignored her.
Tiv glared at it. She supposed she shouldn't complain. She was lucky. Lucky to have a room to stay in after her mother died. Sure, it was small, and the noise from the bar it connected to kept her up until all hours, but it was kind of her best friend Nami to have gotten it for her. Nami's parents ran the bar, so it had been a simple matter to get the room for Tiv and her younger brother Colac.
The other thing people said meant she was lucky she didn't want to think about. She would have happily given it to any stranger off the street, if she could. At that thought, Tiv paused. Maybe she could give it away. Had anyone really ever tried before? She didn't know, but she was going to find out.
Tiv grinned to herself. How many times would this happen? Always, she would get an idea to get rid of this… curse, and spend hours searching every possible resource until she found another reason that this idea, too, would not work. Always.
Still laughing internally at the repetitiveness of her life, knowing if she didn't laugh she would cry, she turned again to the rock, and her eyes widened in surprise. It had lifted and was floating in midair.
"Colac, Colac, look! I did it!" terrified to move anything else, Tiv kicked the bed in the corner. Her brother groaned and rolled out of it. "Tiv, what do you…?" He stopped. He had seen the floating rock.
"I did it!" cried Tiv again.
"Yes, I can see that," muttered Colac, picking himself up off the dirty floor. "Now that you're the all-mighty Jedi, maybe you could clean up around here a little."
"Maybe you could," retorted his sister. "You're the one whose home all day."
The two siblings glared at each other. Tiv half-wished they could be really mad, like they used to be before all they had was each other. But, of course, common sense ruled out.
They looked alike; at least, people said they did. Both were small for their ages (eight and thirteen), with too thick hair, although Colac's was light brown while Tiv's was black. They both had green eyes, and their faces were long, although neither was very good-looking.
"Well, now that it works, maybe you'll stop trying to get rid of it," Colac said finally.
Tiv scowled. "Younger brothers have no right to as much common sense as you have," she snapped, and he grinned.
"I got yours," Colac retorted. "Or someone else's. Either way, I'm making up for what you lack."
"Give me my common sense back!" howled Tiv, tackling him. They rolled around for a moment, laughing, before Colac sat up.
"You have you common sense, now do you have the intelligence to know what to do with it?" he asked.
"Give me my intelligence back!"
Unnoticed by either of them, the rock had dropped back to the ground when they had first started fighting. Tiv wished, in the back of her mind, that her life would return to normal as quickly as the rock had. But she forced herself not to think of what had happened.
That would have been a good tactic, if she and Colac were the only ones who knew.
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