Just For Them
Hello again! Happy May the Fourth!
Hope coronacation hasn't been too hard on y'all. I've been more worried with school, so that's why even with all this free time I'm still slow to update.
Blue-white-black-white-black-blue-blue.
Hyperspace was like a picture that couldn't decide on a final shape. Like it was constantly evolving and searching for a new form. If she ever tried to paint it, she'd go mad after about five brush strokes. It wasn't like Krownest's snowy forests, or Lothal's plains of tall grass, or even someone passing through a doorway. With those, there was usually a baseline, a standard series of motions you could discern after a few minutes watching and sketch from memory. But with hyperspace, it was all unique. All chaotic. No pattern, no form- just shifting colors.
It was some combination between calming and enraging, currently.
"I just don't know how to say it."
"Well, repeat after me. I-"
"Very funny, Hera. I mean, like..."
"I know what you mean."
The two women sat in the cockpit of the Ghost, observing the hyperlane outside. Sabine was sitting cross-legged in the copilot's seat. Hera was next to her in the pilot's seat, one leg on top of the other, with a mug of caf in hand.
"I don't think there's any one way to do it," Hera said, slowly. "It's a... spur-of-the-moment thing."
"That doesn't help."
"I'm not sure I can help, Sabine. I'm not you." Hera's tone was patient to an extreme.
"I know that," Sabine snapped. "But anything is better than nothing."
Fek, when did I turn so snappy?
Hera noticed it too. "Well, I think it's best to just get it out there, myself."
"Ezra?"
He was sitting in the dorsal gunner's seat, again. At this point, as usual would probably be applicable.
"Yeah?"
It's just Ezra. You know Ezra.
"I... um... I think..."
Fek, why is this so hard?
"I..."
"You're madly in love with me and want to confess?"
Sabine did a double take. He... the little loth-rat!
"Y-you knew?!" she stammered out.
"Wait, actually? That's... that's what you were going to say?"
"Y-yeah. Yeah. It was."
Ezra's heart must have melted. "Sabine..."
"I... I know it's silly." She hung her head. "I'll go now, I guess."
A hand on her shoulder stopped her. "Sabine, wait. I..."
Something insane welled up inside her. "Just kiss me already."
So he did. It was tentative. It was too slow and too fast. It was...
It was theirs.