[b] CHAPTER TWO [/b]
[b] VICIA [/b]
JACEN
I must have blacked out for several seconds. I could count the stars floating around my head. That hurt. I tried to get some sense of what was happening around me, but I felt like my head was filled with sand. I vaguely became aware of arrows, still flying by me. Had to get out of here. Fast. I managed to get up and I ran to the forest across the market place. Dodging locals, fallen stands and merchandise. Panic and chaos reigned over the market place. I wanted to stop and help, but I couldn't. Those – what ever they were – were here for one reason and one reason only. Me.
That wasn't an encouraging thought. What did they want from me? I thought by now we were over the stage of kidnapping and dark academies. The Force guided my actions and several minutes later I plunged into the forest. But right before I did and felt something sting my shoulder. No time to find out. Have to keep running. I figured it would be best to head in to the forest and then circle back to my ship and leave this planet. I'd seen enough of it.
Two hours later I stopped and leaned against a tree. I was dizzy. Probably because of the poisonous dart. I couldn't believe I got hid. Expect the unexpected, it flashed in my mind. Who had said that? I couldn't remember.
I have to get out of here. Unconsciously I had fallen to the ground. Have to get out of here. The world started to spin. I tried to draw on the Force for strength, but I couldn't anymore. Was I going to die? All that time after Jaina died, I had wanted to die to, but now I wasn't so sure anymore. I have to live, even if I don't understand.
The last thing I remembered was a cloaked figure standing over me. Then I drifted of into a welcoming darkness.
Later he would remember being dragged around the woods and someone talking to him in a soft, relaxing voice. The voice sounded vaguely familiar, but he couldn't place it. His mind registered a lot of green and a killer headache. He fell in and out of consciousness. Sometimes he found the warmth of a camp fire nearby and strange chanting a language he didn't recognized. He didn't know how long it was until he fell in a more permanently darkness and stopped noticing things. Not even the Force.
[b] THREE DAYS LATER SOMEWHERE IN THE ELROOD SECTOR [/b]
JACEN
I awoke with a killer headache. It felt like a tribe of Ewoks was performing some kind of tribal dance in my mind. It took me some time to remember what had happened and I wonder how many days went by since I lost consciousness. I felt surprisingly better that the last time I woke up. A poisonous dart. That was it. I was stung with a poisonous dart. And a hooded figure. That was the last clear moment in my mind.
I took in my surroundings and noticed I was on my own ship. Then who was piloting her? I tried to get up, but my body put up so great a protest I decided against it. So I laid back and tried to answer some of the questions in my mind, but all I got was 'I don't know'.
I was just about to try and get up again when a figure walked in. It was dark in the room, but I noticed it was the same figure as in the woods.
"Who are you and why did you help me?" I asked. Not sure if I wanted to know the answer.
"You know me, Jacen," said the figure.
It was a woman's voice. Wait, I knew that voice, but it couldn't be.
Then the woman lowered her hood and I thought my heart stopped breathing.
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[b] Believe what's right in front of you
--- (heard that once, don't know who said it) [/b]
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[b] VICIA [/b]
JACEN
I must have blacked out for several seconds. I could count the stars floating around my head. That hurt. I tried to get some sense of what was happening around me, but I felt like my head was filled with sand. I vaguely became aware of arrows, still flying by me. Had to get out of here. Fast. I managed to get up and I ran to the forest across the market place. Dodging locals, fallen stands and merchandise. Panic and chaos reigned over the market place. I wanted to stop and help, but I couldn't. Those – what ever they were – were here for one reason and one reason only. Me.
That wasn't an encouraging thought. What did they want from me? I thought by now we were over the stage of kidnapping and dark academies. The Force guided my actions and several minutes later I plunged into the forest. But right before I did and felt something sting my shoulder. No time to find out. Have to keep running. I figured it would be best to head in to the forest and then circle back to my ship and leave this planet. I'd seen enough of it.
Two hours later I stopped and leaned against a tree. I was dizzy. Probably because of the poisonous dart. I couldn't believe I got hid. Expect the unexpected, it flashed in my mind. Who had said that? I couldn't remember.
I have to get out of here. Unconsciously I had fallen to the ground. Have to get out of here. The world started to spin. I tried to draw on the Force for strength, but I couldn't anymore. Was I going to die? All that time after Jaina died, I had wanted to die to, but now I wasn't so sure anymore. I have to live, even if I don't understand.
The last thing I remembered was a cloaked figure standing over me. Then I drifted of into a welcoming darkness.
Later he would remember being dragged around the woods and someone talking to him in a soft, relaxing voice. The voice sounded vaguely familiar, but he couldn't place it. His mind registered a lot of green and a killer headache. He fell in and out of consciousness. Sometimes he found the warmth of a camp fire nearby and strange chanting a language he didn't recognized. He didn't know how long it was until he fell in a more permanently darkness and stopped noticing things. Not even the Force.
[b] THREE DAYS LATER SOMEWHERE IN THE ELROOD SECTOR [/b]
JACEN
I awoke with a killer headache. It felt like a tribe of Ewoks was performing some kind of tribal dance in my mind. It took me some time to remember what had happened and I wonder how many days went by since I lost consciousness. I felt surprisingly better that the last time I woke up. A poisonous dart. That was it. I was stung with a poisonous dart. And a hooded figure. That was the last clear moment in my mind.
I took in my surroundings and noticed I was on my own ship. Then who was piloting her? I tried to get up, but my body put up so great a protest I decided against it. So I laid back and tried to answer some of the questions in my mind, but all I got was 'I don't know'.
I was just about to try and get up again when a figure walked in. It was dark in the room, but I noticed it was the same figure as in the woods.
"Who are you and why did you help me?" I asked. Not sure if I wanted to know the answer.
"You know me, Jacen," said the figure.
It was a woman's voice. Wait, I knew that voice, but it couldn't be.
Then the woman lowered her hood and I thought my heart stopped breathing.
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[b] Believe what's right in front of you
--- (heard that once, don't know who said it) [/b]
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