A.N: Yeah i forgot to update again this last week sorry. Btw...DON'T TALK TO ME I'M EMOTIONALLY DISTRESSED THANKS TO THE LATEST REBELS EPISODE BYE!
Melissa: Rain probably might have made it better to deal, yes.
Alejandra: A little help from Bendu goes a long way.
Sneaking Around
part 1
Nitza finally worked up the courage to go to High Trees. Whoever held the power of the Bogen within High trees had made no move to attack her or Bendu or any of the creatures of Atollon. So she figured it was safe to go. As long as she kept her promise to observe. She wanted to see what Ahsoka had been up to since their last meeting, maybe observe what she does daily at High Trees.
Nitza waited behind a couple of trees that lined the clearing around High Trees. There was a spot near the base of High Trees that many of the bigger ships docked. There, not many people walked around unless they planned to take a ship to fly out. But no one seemed to be up to fly at the moment, so it sat empty. Nitza snuck in. She passed the line of metal sticks that were rooted to the ground and circled the clearing. Then she hid under a ship. Seeing no one around, she ran to the next one and ducked under it too. At one point she ducked behind a medium sized ship shaped like a diamond, and in seeing no one she continued on.
She made it to the trunk of the tree and found that she would no longer have to use the pivots of the trunk to climb up. There were flat metal planks now built into the trunk. Like how vines would grow, the metal planks encircled around the trunk and went up towards the first level of leaves. Carefully, Nitza put a bare foot on it. It was cold to the touch and she stepped back. She had forgotten how cold stairs could be. "Stairs…." She whispered remembering it from long ago. She then walked slowly up to the top one step at a time.
When she got to the end of the stairs, she saw the first level where people were definitely walking around everywhere. She had to back up a few steps to make sure she wasn't spotted. She then got on all fours and hobbled on over to the first thing she could duck behind: a bunch of metal box shaped items. She found a space in the center while the boxes surrounded her as cover. Poking her head out from within the pile, she looked around the people. They were the same as they had always been. Heavily clothed from neck to toe, some with some sort of head wear that Nitza couldn't remember the name of.
But none of them were Ahsoka. She looked around. All of them, different kinds of people from men to women, from humans to…. well… she couldn't remember the names of those either. She didn't even know what Ahsoka was. They were all just people to Nitza. She had to wonder what someone with Bogan powers would look like, but none of them seemed like the sort…. At least from far away. She remembered Rex and how he looked and sounded. He did seem scary but Ahsoka wasn't afraid of him.
She didn't notice as her mind wondered that someone was coming close to her pile of boxes until she heard a female voice behind her. "Hey Zeb, do you remember which team these crates are supposed to be handed to?" Nitza ducked, hiding deeper in between the boxes… crates as the female said. She was young, that much Nitza could tell.
An older, gruffer voice responded the female, "Nah. AP-5 probably has it cataloged."
"And no one thought to updated it on everyone's datapad? What are we supposed to do, guess?"
The sound of footsteps was then heard and Nitza figured out they were walking away as they faded farther and farther. Nitza poked her head out see who had almost spotted her. The female turned out to be girl but very much older then Nitza… making her a woman? Nitza couldn't remember exactly. The women wore heavy clothing kind of like Rex but it looked like it was painted by a rainbow, at least in Nitza's perspective. Even the women's short hair was colorful with white and pink. Next to her was just as surprising to Nitza as the colorful girl. A very tall person, the one the women had called Zeb, had purple stripped fur all around him. His face was flat and he had big green eyes and pointy ears. Zeb walked hunched over but his flat and big toed feet gave him support. He did where heavy clothing but it didn't cover him as much as the rest of the people around him.
Nitza wasn't afraid, just amazed. But that's because they weren't close to her. What would she do if she was caught? Feeling like her luck had been pressed so close, she waited until the two people were far from her crates and she began to crawl back towards the tree trunk. She made sure no one was walking up or down the stairs before she herself went down. She made it to the end and crawled quickly to the nearest ship. As she ducked under she looked out that no one still has came down here. She figured she could run without being spotted the whole way to the edge of the clearing and back into the forest. So she did. She went without stopping but as she ran around the diamond shape ship, Nitza went into a skidding halt and then ducked behind the ship.
Peaking around, she saw a man sitting down cross legged and just staring out towards the forest. At least that's what Nitza saw, because this man's back was to her. Nitza needed to get back to the forest but somehow without this man seeing her. Nitza went to the other side of the diamond ship and then went on all fours to hobble over to the next smaller ship. Ducking behind, she only peered over to see if the man saw her. "Huh…"
The man had a green mask that covered his face from the ridge of his nose to the top of his forehead. Nitza cocked her head. She wondered how he was able to see through that. Taking advantage of the situation, she walked out from behind the ship and then tip-toed towards the edge of the clearing. Just because he couldn't see didn't mean he couldn't hear. That's what Bendu always said about the creatures ofAtollon when it was dark out. She made it all the way to the row of metal sticks in the ground without making a sound. Then she made a break for the forest.
A.N: First time for Nitza getting around… won't be the last. And yeah Zeb, Sabine, Kanan…. Who else will make an appearance? Find out next. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!
