CHAPTER TWO: ESCAPE


Suven woke up too early, rested and ready, where am I? he remembered quickly, Kashyyyk, prison.

There was movement next to him, startled he looked over his shoulder the young human female next to him, she'd rolled over in her sleep, poor girl, been here for so long, hope I can do something 'bout that, he shivered, the cold from the morning fog had arrived at the prison, from the sea into the prison as quickly as the Can-cell flew from tree to tree.

The girl opened her eyes and the gray irises pierced through his eyes immediately, who are you?, the eyes seemed to scream, then she relaxed "Oh, hello, did you sleep well?" Suven grinned and rubbed his forehead "It's better than the night rest I got with the Sith…" "You were a Sith?" her body tensed despite Fay's efforts to hide it.

"Unfortunately, yes, I was, and not a very good one actually…" he rubbed his neck and stood up, only to realize he couldn't do anything after that "Not a very good one?, how's that?" her simply screaming eyes forced him to answer "I couldn't bring up hatred, I had never been angry before actually, even though my parent's might have been Sith," Fay dropped her guard, no anger was a good thing now.

"So?, who taught you when you were Sith?" I don't know another Sith than Count Dooku, Suven clearly didn't want to remember, but he forced himself to "I've never seen him in person actually, Darth Sidious taught me," he laughed strangely "I still carry the scars…" he pulled up the sleeve of his robe and revealed a large thin brown stripe, done by a lightsaber clearly.

Fay found her hand touching the wound and quickly pulled it back "That… looks painful…" "Well, it was back then, now it's just… yeah," no word came up in his mind "So, how did you end up in the Jedi Order?" that came out too easy, it was weird, she didn't really know the person but she talked so, casual, with him.

"I ended up by the Hand first, they are described by the Jedi as grey Jedi, and after six years I was found by a Jedi and he took me to the Order, the Hand just, accepted, it then, so I was okay with it," he swallowed with some difficulty.


A door opened and the other prisoners came forward to the force-shields of their cells.

"The guards are coming, just follow me if you don't know where to go," Suven smiled lightly, for him it didn't matter if he was imprisoned or at the temple, or with the Sith, or Hand, there was no significant difference.

With a low hum the force-shields deactivated and the prisoners went to the exit opposite where Grievous had gone through the day before.

Fay joined the group of prisoners silently and Suven followed quickly, they entered the, or rather, exited to, the great forest floor, Wroshyr trees towering above them like the skyscrapers on Corusant, but more majestic, more alive, though more silent than Corusant, it was more real.

He'd stopped to watch for a minute, now he looked down again he saw he was falling behind.

In a short run he caught up with the group, which existed out mostly wookiees and a few unfortunate clones and citizens scattered between them.

Fay came to him "You know why there are no guards around?" easy answer "They don't think we can survive if we run?" "Correct, normally I'd say that it is stupid to think, but I tried it once…" Suven couldn't suppress his sudden curiosity "And?" she sighed saddened "A few days later I found my way back to this place, half dead," Fay saw Suven's compassionate eyes looking at her, seconds later he replied distracted "Oh…".

They'd reached an camp, clearly a military settlement, judging by the turrets and trenches, made to be an fort, an base.

There were ground reinforced palisades build around the place, Suven blinked, so this was what Fay had been doing for the time she'd been here.

"Fay, remember what you said about to much security consoles to slice?" she looked at him with an anticipating gaze concealed in it "Yes," "Well, I can send a jolt of lightning through their circuits easily, they wont give me much problem, the Hand had that made sure, do you know if there's a ship we can use, or do you know where our weapons are?" unsure she swallowed "I think our weapons are in the security lockers, they haven't really put much effort in the prison, we could, if what you say is true-" "You have my word," "-Easily take them, and-" she smiled "-You're in luck today-" a teasing grin appeared on her face "-a bounty hunter arrived just before you, I bet that ship is still there,".

A dark shade fell over Suven's eyes "One more thing-" "Hmm?" "Do you trust me?" that was a confusing question "Yes, I trust you, may I ask as to why?" Suven smiled at the 'official' voice she'd used "Sure, this way I know that I can trust you too," "Ah, so. You're more friendly than anyone else here, so, that's why…" she blushed unwillingly.

Why did he make her blush?, she was supposed to be able to control her emotions, she was a Jedi, a strange feeling befell her.

But that would come later, they had to work now, they had to survive another day on an empty stomach, if not, there would be no escape for them.


It was the end of the day on Kashyyyk, no one said a word on the way back to the prison, another prisoner had died, a human girl, crushed beneath a pile of wood, a painful death.

Fay had her head angled towards the ground in respect, another prisoner casualty , the third one this week, of course none of the Trandoshans cared, neither did the droids, they were programmed not to care.

She looked at Suven, he was silent, sad, why did he show his emotions? she wondered, she had decided he was different, like he remembered something bad every time he did something, perhaps he's had a traumatic experience? she thought after a while, and why did she feel so compassionate to him? He wasn't very charismatic, everything he did was wrong in the eyes of the clones.

Unknown to her, the exact opposite thoughts ran through Suven's mind, why was she such a perfect Jedi, hiding her emotions to others way better than he could hide his, calm, sensitive, soothing, maybe not to everyone, but certainly to him.

They'd reached the prison and entered the wooden building, walked to their cells and sat down until the force-field closed the cells, what got Suven's attention, was how quiet everyone was, it created an eerie atmosphere.


"Fay, let's escape…" "Now?" she was going to escape? Finally? "Yep, follow my lead," a grin appeared on his face as he walked to the force-field generator, it was a metal stick, made so that the wookiees couldn't break it, but a simple gesture of Suven's hand made a small crack in the metal.

Concentrating Suven sighed and put his hand on the crack, a small jolt of blue lightning shot from his finger-tips, and the red force-field immediately shorted out, free!

Fay's mouth fell open from surprise and a little fear, lightning was Sith, she had learned, based on anger, but Suven didn't look angry at all, she moved to the walkway and watched the other prisoners "Shouldn't we free them?" "I'll shock the first terminal that bad the whole system will go down for a while," ", If we get our sabers we'll be able to handle the guards." he added when he saw she wanted to say the extra guards would form a problem.

Fay put up a fake smile and walked towards the room where the security lockers were, a single gesture opened the nearest one and revealed their sabers.

"It's been too long," she said as she let the metal cylinder run through her fingers, "Way too long," she added nearly hypnotic.

Suven took his lightsaber, for him it had been two days, he looked at his lightsaber for a second and saw something, his unorthodox design looked very much like Fay's.


They moved on to the hall to the other side of the prison, this was where all the guards stayed during their free time, luckily, they were asleep.

The first obstacle was an energy shield blocking the path, one burst of finesse lightning took care of it, but it also sounded the alarm and soon the hall was filled with battle droids.

A blue beam of light rose before Fay and soon Suven was attacking the droids, inspired and encouraged by Suven-Fay activated her own saber, the shining silver plasma blade calmed her as she prepared herself in a Soresu opening stance, defense was the key in Soresu, tiring the opponent out, using your environment to your advantage, using your own agility to evade blasts on-spot instead of acrobatics.

She was running across the hall, slashing droids' limbs of the main body and piercing their unstable torsos, soon she'd reached the end of the hall, that what waited patiently for them was a red ship.

It looked like a freighter version of the Aurek-fighter she'd read about during her time in the Temple library.

The ramp stood open and they easily entered the ship, finding the engines primed and taking them away from the prison immediately.


After a second to catch breath they stormed into the cockpit to find out who was piloting the ship.

"Sev?" Suven called out with surprise as he saw the Silver-and-black astromech droid controlling the ship, he got a series of enthusiastic beeps and whistles in return.

Confused and feeling ill Fay looked at the droid and then back to Suven "Sev, as in Ar Seven, aren't those experimental?" she said now they were far away from the prison, pretty much blown by what had happened and not realizing she was finally free.

Suven stared at her worried "This is R7-X7, or Sev as I call him,… but eh, maybe you should sit down, you're face is really pale…" she fainted, she realized she was finally free, just only noticed she was caught by Suven and then black, all black in front of her eyes.