Chapter Forty-Two: A Serious Plight
River woke feeling sore and completly drained of all energy from the previous happenings of the day before. As she walked over to the window she sat down to face the door as if staring at it would bring it down trying to fight her pain and hunger.
She finally won the battle over her stomach and sat there sorting things out that she had caught snips of but not fully understanding and thought it was just a good time as any since she wasn't going any were any time soon.
Her thoughts went to after her reporting to Count Dooku of the events that had taken place on Geonosis. She never thought any of her days that she would ever personally experiance her masters wrath brought down upon her at full capacity. It had scared her beyond reckoning but not only that she had gotten to see what he had become, but his true colors.
He wasn't the General that she had known so long ago when he was passonate about his home and pertecting it against their enemies. He was no longer compassionate, caring, loving, and sensitive. No he was nothing but a mean lean killing bucket of bolts that Soreka had reffered to him as.
The Separatist had altered him, she now understood what Count Dooku had ment when he said that he had flaws. They didn't like it that he had honor, pride and love of things and they changed him to fit their wants and desires for a tool they could use in battle.
The thoughts horrified her to no end and she wondered how long San Hill and his buddies had planned to recroute Grievous and wondered if they had wanted her also. But she highly doubted that because she had only been confronted once by San Hill on the matter of her and Grievous joining forces with the Separatists. No they wanted Grievous for his intellectual abilities and his skills in combat no doubt.
As she was putting the pieces together concerning her husbands actions she remembered what she felt while in the room with him. As his anger seethed off of him it hit her then ran into her pircing her heart and body with fear and contempt. It was like she could understand what he was feeling, he felt like a complete and total failure as a Kaleesh, master, husband, you name it he felt like a fool and failure.
She remembered the many nights they had sat on watch on the palace walls talking about their hopes, wants, and feelings. His had been to be the best he could in all aspects of his life, chief, general, husband, leader, and father, he wanted to excell in all those areas and now he couldn't because of his "enhancements". She was going to have to do some serious snooping but it would be no trouble for her because when it comes to snooping who better to call than a female?
She resigned herself to figuring out how she could get out of the room so she wouldn't have to resign herself to him coming and getting her which she doubted he would depending on how long he stayed mad. She searched high and low for a air vent or something she could crawl through that would lead her out of her prision. It took her only half the day to search the room top to bottom and came to accept that there was no getting out.
Over a period of days she couldn't tell how long because she lost all since of time as she scoured the room over and over again drawing on her weariness for strength, she also tried to melt her way out and was slowly but shurly making it through the doors. Currently she was on the second to the last blaster door with a hole big enough that she would be able to fit through when she accomplished such a feat as this serious plight of hers.
Another lesson she had learned was patience in her frustration which was rewarded when she stepped triumphantly through the huge hole in the door and found a droid to take care of the damage done. Then she being very fatigued with her efforts but all the more patient which she had no idea how that would help her in a life and death situation with the General again. She whished it had been him that had been improsioned in his own quaters, but she figured that with his unhumanoid strength and persistancy that he would have had the door in pieces in less than five minutes if not less.
She made her way to the cafiteria where a group of Geonosians stood chattering to themselves Suci being included. When she walked in they looked at her as if she had accomplished something as great as destroying Grievous himself. She hid a smile to herself relishing the fact she no longer had to stare at continuous seneray of her room or the never ending deapths of space that had turned its back on her.
After she had eaten she decided to go hunting. Hunting for scrape metal that was of no use whatsoever in any way shape or form (Oh you wish he wasn't useful in any way shape or form). She soon located him in a small room talking with no other than Count Dooku though she waited outside the door listening intently.