Is that you chapter 10
Unfortunately the rest Ashla had been seeking had not come to her. Sighing in frustration she threw her legs over her bunk and sat up. Rubbing her hand through her brown hair that covered her small montrals she looked down at her nightstand where the holoprojecctor rested. She started to reach for it but stopped midway, she needed to do something to keep unwanted memories from surfacing. Standing up she made her way out of her room, there was some wiring that she could tinker with to help the systems run a bit more smoothly. Grabbing some of her tools before she left her room she made her way back of the ship where the hyperdrive was located.
Stepping into the room she was immediately met with the rhythmic humming of the hyperdrive. Walking inside and closing the door behind her Ashla sat her tools down on the floor next to one of the many electrical panels in the room and sat down. It was always dangerous to be messing with the electrical components of a ship when it was in flight, epically if you didn't know what you were doing. However some systems where only on when the ship was in flight. Carefully she removed the panel and sat it to the side, looking back at the exposed wires that were tangled together and looked like some of them had a rough patch job.
Shaking her head "Han" she muttered under her breath, if this was what he considered 'working' on the Falcon was it amazed her that the ship didn't just suddenly blow up. Slowly she began untangling the wires "Han don't freak out if some of the ships sensors start going off, I'm fixing everything that you supposedly fixed" she said into her comm. "Just don't get shocked alright kid" Han replied.
She sat the comm. down and pulled out a pair of wire cutters after manually shutting power off to that system before cutting the wire. She cut around the rubber casing that protected the wire on each side exposing enough of the wire so that she could connect them back correctly. Twisting the tips of the exposed wires she took a connecting piece and stuck the wire tips into each side before clamping down on the connecting piece securing the wires together.
Flipping the system back online Ashla nodded in approval at her work and turned to the next wire. Still even as her hands went through the same motions and she tried to focus solely on her work her mind began to wonder. Her life hadn't turned out that bad, in fact she thought she was doing fairly well for herself. She had worked with Han for several years now and for the first couple it had been rough. She had helped Han pay off his most pressing debts, the ones where bounty hunters are usually sent if you don't pay up. After that they did several odd jobs here and there but tended to shy away from the ones that wanted them to deliver goods to heavily patrolled Imperial places.
Han hadn't always been the best caretaker but he was always there when she had needed him. Han and Chewie were really the only family she had, the only ones she considered family aside from Leia. Leia, her big sister. A small smile found its way onto Ahsla's face when she thought of Leia. Her big sister, she could remember running through the halls of the giant mansion she used to live in laughing as Leia tried to catch her. Leia had been the one to teach her about the force and give her her first lightsaber. She had showed her how to use it, simple and straight forward movements with the blade but that was still more than what her mother had ever done for her.
Taking her leather jacket off she wiped the sweat off of her forehead as she finished another wire. It took about two hours and when Ashla finished all the rewiring she could do while the ship was in flight she put the panel back over the now straightened and repaired wires. Twisting her back with a satisfying pop Ashla grabbed her tools and jacket before heading out of the room. While on her way back to her room she passed by the room where there man they were transporting was staying.
She walked by the room but stopped just a few feet past the door. Something was calling out to her from inside the room. Turning around she walked back to the door that was open. She couldn't explain the feeling but something was calling out to her from inside the room. Glancing around to make sure no one saw her she quickly entered the room closing the door behind her; her eyes immediately fell upon the man's briefcase that was sitting on the bed. Whatever was calling out to her was inside of the briefcase.
She thought about leaving before the man came back but curiosity won out over logic and she made her way over to the briefcase. Kneeling down at the edge of the bed she took a deep breath "this is a stupid idea" she muttered as she reached out for the two latched that secured the case closed. It looked like there was a lock on the case that you had to have a key for to open it.
She didn't know how to pick a lock and the only other way to get it open with out the key was to pry the case open….unless…Closing her eyes she took a deep breath and concentrating on the lock. Reaching out with the force she pictured the tumblers and small pins in her mind. She imagined the case unlocking as if a key were inserted and turning. A moment later there was a soft click and Abby opened her eyes to see that the latches had popped open.
Slowly Ashla reached out and opened the case and her eyes widened. Inside were at least fifteen too twenty-five crystals. They weren't just any crystals though no, these were kyber crystals that were used to power a lightsaber. Green, blue even yellow there were different color crystals. Just one of these could go for a fortune on the black market and this guy had a entire briefcase full of them. Just one of these could pay off any debt they could possible owe, that's how valuable they were and they were nearly impossible to get there hands on because they were closely guarded by Imperials.
It was calling out to her, one of the crystals. She looked through all of them until her eyes locked onto a green crystal lying in the corner of the case. It wasn't the largest or even the smallest, it was somewhere in between and it was calling out to her as if it was hers. Her hand reached to grab it but stopped, what if the man noticed, what if he found out one was missing? The more she thought about it the more she realized that taking the crystal could be a very bad idea. She began pulling her hand away but the crystal called out to her louder, stronger, begging her to take it. She inwardly groaned after a moment of thought before snatching the crystal and quickly hid it in her pocket. She closed the case and locked the latches back before hurrying out of the room.
Once inside of the room Abby locked the door behind her so no one could just barge in. She sat down on her bed and looked at her hand that held the kyber crystal. She knew she didn't take the crystal because they were valuable or because she liked the color of it. There was something about this crystal that separated it from all the rest, it had called to her, wanted her to take it like it belonged to her.
If she didn't know anything about the force and said that a inanimate object was calling out to her she would have thought she had lost her mind. She would of course blamed her dramatic experience as a child being the cause for that insanity but knowing what the force was, being able to use it for simple things and knowing that it could indeed call out to her reassured her that she was completely sane.
The only question was why, why had the crystal called out to her when she already had a lightsaber crystal. She looked down at her hand for the longest time pondering this question. Slowly Ashla opened her hand and looked down at the small emerald kyber crystal. Then her eyes moved over to her night stand where she kept her lightsaber when they were on the ship.
Laying the crystal on the bed Abby went over to her nightstand, opening the bottom drawer and reaching her hand underneath it she hit a small button and the bottom of the drawer popped up. There was a false bottom so she could hide her lightsaber incase their ship ever got searched while docked at a spaceport.
Pulling the false bottom up and reaching her hand inside Ashla pulled out the small silver cylinder. Closing the false bottom and then the drawer itself Ashla carried the lightsaber back over to her bed. Grabbing the green kyber crystal in the other hand Ashla sat down on the floor. The first time Ashla had taken her lightsaber apart she had used tools but for some reason she had the feeling she wouldn't need them this time.
Sitting down and crossing her legs Ashla sat both the lightsaber and the kyber crystal in front of her. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes reaching out to the force. It was strange, she thought as a feeling of peace and tranquility washed over her. This calmness that she felt as she reached out to the force during her meditation felt different from when she used the force to lift objects. What she was feeling now was a sense of peace, a warmth that seemed to envelop her and it only happened when she meditated. However when she used the force to lift small objects like her sister had taught her the force felt cold, dark but powerful in its own right.
Shaking the thought away Ashla took another deep breath letting the force flow her and guide her. Slowly the hilt began to rise and spin as its outer casing slip back to expose the inner workers of the lightsaber. Guided by the force Ashla disassembled her lightsaber until she could get to the synthetic crystal.
The pieces of the lightsaber that had been taken off floated in the air as the red lightsaber crystal slid out and fell to the ground as the green crystal began to float. Hearing a soft click Ashla knew the new crystal was in place as other pieces began returning to there rightful places.
When the final piece slid into place and the casing slid back into place with a soft click the hilt floated slowly into Ashla's hands. Her thumb ran over the activation stud and with a firm press of the button Ashla opened her eyes as the room was lit up with a green light.