ahphra.

                      YES   ,   of   course   ,   sir   ,      ❜                 She   murmurs   ,   nodding   ,   though   internally   she   still   has   her   DOUBTS   .      The   Rebellion   still   has   record   of   her   ,   though   what   they   have   spread   around   about   her   involvement   is   a   MYSTERY   .      If   it’s   known   what   she   did   ,   who   she   worked   for   ,   then   even   her   contacts   might   TURN   ━━━   it’s   one   thing   to   sympathize   ,   it’s   quite   another   to   be   INEXORABLY   TIED   to   Darth   Vader   .

She   knows   people   on   all   sides   of   the   conflict   ,   contacts   from   before   her   own   allegiances   became   more   than   just   IDEAS   .      They   were   the   dangerous   kind   of   rebels   ,   Empire   -   hating   with   none   of   the   goodness   of   those   like   Leia   .      It   would   be   facing   Sana   again   ,   but   TENFOLD   ,   and   with   no   remnants   of   past   care   embedded   in   THEIR   hearts   .

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The   course   is   set   ,   and   she   turns   from   the   console   ,   leaning   back   against   it   with   arms   crossed   over   her   chest   ,                        Do   we   have   a   shopping   list   ,   or   am   I   just   playing   it   by   ear   ?       

               VADER LEANS HEAVILY against the wall, his massive frame easing into as comfortable as position as his suit allows. A black mist strobes across his vision, its edges radiant with the reflected, sterile light of the ship’s makeshift medbay. The light converts to pain, && the pain covers all that follows, muffles the dull ringing in his ears. Light becomes pain becomes power becomes empires falling at his feet. Becomes the fleshy give of forcing his lightsaber through another rebel’s chest. Becomes his angel, clawing at her throat, begging him to—

               The pain he knows how to deal with. It’s this damned guilt that’s been eating away at the dark lord. Emotions he thought had long been burned away, suddenly searing lines of empathy up && down his nerve paths. The man in the machine is waking up, && Darth Vader isn’t sure what’ll be left standing when he does. 

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               A breathy pause to predate his answer, Vader is immobile as marble even while he speaks. ❝ I will need replacement prosthetics with third-generation neural interfaces. ❞ Anything more advanced would be incompatible with the sockets. Sidious left him purposely reliant on constant maintenance to stay functioning. A once-clever strategy to ensure his loyalty. But no longer. ❝ Whatever else you choose to acquire is your decision. ❞ Which basically means: go wild.

 
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