Chapter 12-Limbo
Aruna Ni lay there, neither dead nor alive, oblivious to what was going on outside her physical body. She was dreaming.
But the dreams were unlike any others she had experienced. First she had the dream that she had been dreaming for the past two weeks, over and over again, like a broken record; and somehow it was even more tortuous due to the fact that she couldn't even scream.
Then she saw, over and over again, in her mind, what she had seen just before she blacked out. She knew that Ralya would be trying to find out what had killed Dashana, and what had done this to her. She also knew that she was the only one who knew what an anigari was.
Ralya would die. Everyone would die. Because she couldn't tell them. Trapped in the tortures of her own mind, she wondered if there was still a chance for her to become alive again, or if the only way out of this was death…
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"Tenel, let's go, you need some rest," Jacen said to his wife. Tenel Ka hadn't slept ever since they arrived on Yavin IV, and she hadn't left her daughter's side.
Tenel Ka shook her head. "I want to stay here," she said stubbornly. "And I'm not tired."
An argument would have followed but for what happened next: Aruna Ni began to talk, or at the very least, try to. "Ah-ah-ah," was the only sound that came out of her mouth. Her lips were trembling, as if she was trying to move them but couldn't.
Tenel Ka began crying tears of joy. "Listen, she's trying to say something!"
But she could never get farther than that one vowel sound. And they would never know what she had been trying to say.
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Aruna Ni lay there, neither dead nor alive, oblivious to what was going on outside her physical body. She was dreaming.
But the dreams were unlike any others she had experienced. First she had the dream that she had been dreaming for the past two weeks, over and over again, like a broken record; and somehow it was even more tortuous due to the fact that she couldn't even scream.
Then she saw, over and over again, in her mind, what she had seen just before she blacked out. She knew that Ralya would be trying to find out what had killed Dashana, and what had done this to her. She also knew that she was the only one who knew what an anigari was.
Ralya would die. Everyone would die. Because she couldn't tell them. Trapped in the tortures of her own mind, she wondered if there was still a chance for her to become alive again, or if the only way out of this was death…
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"Tenel, let's go, you need some rest," Jacen said to his wife. Tenel Ka hadn't slept ever since they arrived on Yavin IV, and she hadn't left her daughter's side.
Tenel Ka shook her head. "I want to stay here," she said stubbornly. "And I'm not tired."
An argument would have followed but for what happened next: Aruna Ni began to talk, or at the very least, try to. "Ah-ah-ah," was the only sound that came out of her mouth. Her lips were trembling, as if she was trying to move them but couldn't.
Tenel Ka began crying tears of joy. "Listen, she's trying to say something!"
But she could never get farther than that one vowel sound. And they would never know what she had been trying to say.
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