happy new year, everyone! may your year be filled with health, happiness, & prosperity!
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𝙶𝚄𝚁𝚁𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙴𝚁𝙾.
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“ Yes sir, ” Cassian followed Vader’s lead, keeping his voice quiet. Yet it wasn’t just a need to maintain his cover what kept him guarded. Something about that place, those trees with their aerial roots like exposed ribs, the heavy atmosphere boring down on him with suffocating strength. Even he could feel the life within that place, pulsating with every breath of the earth. It made him feel small in a near primal sense. Too human, made of nothing but flesh and bone.
As he waved his way through the vegetation, he couldn’t help but feel his own insignificance weighing him down with each step, as if the trees grew taller and taller, or he simply grew smaller and smaller. A child, a boy, his light steps seeking refuge within the trees, a plain blade in his hands as he hid from the white armored soldiers and the man with the flaming blade, bright and blue as burning ice.
He plucked those sensations and memories from his mind and discarded them, aided by the cold logic of Joreth Sward. Imperial efficiency was all he was allowed to portray, high functioning and unfeeling like a well oiled machine. Joreth had nothing to fear from Lord Vader as long as he remained useful and competent. Cassian Andor had nothing to fear from their prey, his only concern was to time it perfectly so that they could make their escape. He could be both, he could have them coexisting in balance within him. He could lie to himself and pretend it didn’t chip away at a fundamental part of him every time he put on either mask.
But there was a bigger problem there, something not so easily brushed aside. If someone was following them, then it wasn’t his contact. They should be ahead, already making their way off world. Whoever was hunting them was an unknown, he couldn’t measure unknowns, couldn’t plot against their interference.
“ I could easily lose them, double back, ” he offered in a voice so hushed it was almost imperceptible, stepping lightly within the mouth of a particularly massive weave of roots, like the columns of a gnarled temple.
THE BOSCAGE IS PROUD & IMMEDIATE. ITS DENSE, VERDURE CANOPY BECOMES THE SKY with only the approaching moons’ light filling the venose sprawl within the canopy’s ceiling to suggest otherwise. his senses fetter him — overwhelmed in force by polyrhythmic breaths first & last, compounded by unresponsive filters — he’s so small in comparison. he can’t understand most of it. he can’t keep up. but life seethes here, contracting & unloosing under your raw skin until you boil. sunfall has not unbaked the ground. neither movement nor idleness will discourage the air which, like penetrating, hispid trichomes, latches & stings the overheated blots that have formed on you. it’s an excellent diversion for an alien like him to get caught up in.
the morass affixes to his boots, adding no insignificant drag to his gait. body & spirit are stuffed into one useless suit. this planet makes no secret of the absent borders between them. he debates whether or not its nature is as malleable as kyber but the nerve-dead cool in his mutinous / mutilous flesh sinks through to cartilage & slows him before he tries anything; what could he do but provoke the silva & whatever stalks in it into retaliation ? a few minutes further into the dark & grovy incline, not warmth, but a heat penetrates his armour, it feels like a scan. a deliberate assessment. it’s enough of a concern to be willing to reach out into the violent eddys of the force, to risk proximity to whatever is waiting.
in surrendering himself to the force, he invites fear as well as power. the cauma that twisted his spirit into a wraith that gave him strength has since chilled, & he can’t call upon it in this state — it’d be firing a plasma cannon blind. he loathes this, loosening his grip due to exhaustion. being at the mercy of a power he has abused, having to depend on his cadre & sward to have their competence anchor their ambition & keep themselves — & by extension, him — alive.
sward is quick to handicap that hope. ❝ lieutenant sward, you will do as i have instructed. ❞ he doesn’t have enough focus to emphasise his authority, there is a distracting anticipation feeding into his sore flesh. not like his, this isn’t his. how do the blind like sward live as long as they have without his power ? ❝ they have the home advantage. but you have me. rally from the valley to my position. & do not permit your men to scout ahead. notify me immediately of any diversion to your route. ❞
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ok rq ive mentioned this before but ive been not super active here but id like to resume some threads. some are like…old. so if ur cool w me cont anything of ours lmk! if not also lmk lol!
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𝙼𝙰𝙳𝙴𝚆𝙴𝙱𝚂.
❝ no, no, i’m not force sensitive, that’d imply my powers are way cooler than i am, and as you can see.. i’m definitely lightsaber - less. ❞ / @jedie·.
❝ I WOULDN'T DISCOUNT THEM SO QUICKLY. all power comes from the force, lightsaber or no. i—i’ve never even thought to . . . climb walls like that. you know, there are jedi who’ll go their entire service without so much as leaving the temple grounds. ❞
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