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003. VADER [ @astramessianic ]

             stomping towards towards her crew ryoo’s barking orders, the sudden tension of a battlefield falling on them like a fog and she’s spinning where she stands, her blaster out as she rushes back towards the ship. why hutta? hutta is miserable. the swamps, the barely hospitable environment, the hot bed of crime. it’d changed marginally for the worse under empire control, but not to the extent she could’ve imagined that they’d turn their eyes here properly.

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          beneath the mask that covers the lower portion of her face, her teeth are grit. eyes sunk back into the deep bruises that mar the skin below earth-colored eyes she’s struck by the enormity of the change in the force.   vader. it has to be vader, and if not vader another sith. nightmares, realized.   at first she’d assumed inquisitors. it happened sometimes, aboard those large ships there’ll be a group of them, hunting prey like a pack of beasts. but the shade that was anakin is a heat on the back of her neck and a dryness that makes her feel the phantom pains from where she can still imagine his hand, through the force, around her neck.

            there’s good in him, she doesn’t stop to try and find it before the blaster is raised, and she’s firing into swamp gas.

               SPARKS FLARE, NERVE endings ruined && wasted by all-annihilating flame suddenly standing on end. It triggers a highly condensed swell of reminiscence, stunning as the wash of white starlight that signals a ship’s jump to hyperspace. A coiled ache settles deep in Vader’s chest, the sensation a grappling hook that sears icy like a midwinter sun. He senses…

          Ani? Is that you?

               No! The Dark Lord’s reaction is physical, && nearly violent. The troopers that tow loyally behind him come to an abrupt stop to see their leader standing stock still, his shoulders heaving with something that cannot be his breath. That still comes slow && modulated, hissing through the chitinous shell of his vocubulator. 

               He wants to kill the anonymous bounty hunter just for making him feel this way. One moment of weakness is all it takes to ignite Vader’s curiosity, && his rage. 

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               Vader draws his saber to deflect the blaster shot, but the action is soon proved unnecessary when the bounty hunter raises their blaster into the air && sets it aflame. They’re trying to escape him, && he’s not even here for them.

               Time to alter the plan. 

               He raises a finger to follow the bounty hunter’s slowly diminishing shape as they burrow further into the swamplands. ❝ After them. Capture the leader, kill the rest. ❞ 

               He, on the other hand, will be taking a shortcut.

 
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