No Second Time Fool

by Dawn1000

Alexia has died like an idiot once already. She'll be damned if it happens again. Though with a second life in a galaxy torn by war, laden with highly corrupt leaders and space wizards wielding laser swords, that might prove to be harder than she originally thought.

On a crisp fall day, a young woman is walking down a street amongst the bustling of New York City. She's looking at her phone and has her earbuds in, bobbing her head in time to the music she's listening too. This woman, thinking about her next video game or book or something of the like, isn't paying attention to what's going on around her. And why should she? She's done this many a time before after all, and always gotten away with it. So when the car comes, she doesn't see it, doesn't here the warning screams or the honk- only feels the blazing pain running through her as she flies through the air and slams back onto asphalt.

This woman, dying a fool's death with her legs twisting and arching like tree roots and her arms splayed unnaturally at her sides, sobs and prays for dear life. Please, she begs, Please. I'm too young. I don't want to die. And perhaps there is a god, or some higher power. It could just be luck. Who knows?

What is clear is that in less than a second after her death, a child in another time, another universe, another dimension, takes her first gasp of wailing air. And just like that, the Force shifts and future fractures.