Mini Nano, Day 8 snippets
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morgynleriWord count goal made, if only in the last half-hour. Only worked in two AUs today, so snippets from each.
More Sabé/Padmé on Serenno:
"None of the others left Naboo with me." Padmé is shaking, and Sabé supports her to a couch next to the empty fireplace. "I don't even know if they're alive."
"If they are - and I'll believe they are until I see their bodies - they'll escape and they'll join you again." Sabé rests her hands on Padmé's shoulders a moment, feeling the tension under her fingers. She knows each death had struck Padmé deeply, though she always had the strength to walk away without looking back when it was needed. "You are our heart, our Queen, and our commander, Padmé. For you, we would do anything."
She doesn't say that without Padmé, they would break, because it's not a truth Padmé needs to hear. Without their heart, they would still fight, they would still seek to see her will done, her ideals realized, but they would be dying a long death, not living.
And then Maul & Obi-Wan & Eea (Sith Ascendant: Into Shadows):
"My second cloak should fit you well enough, Kenobi." The Sith smile briefly, as his apprentice turns back to the closet, pulling out another black cloak that matches their own. "Wear it."
"Or you'll do what?" Obi-Wan crosses his arms, not willing to trade his servicable brown cloak for the black one being pushed on him.
The sharp, amused smile the Sith gives him is worrying. "I will do nothing."
"Your apprentice?"
"Will do what I tell her." The Sith continues to watch him, waiting patiently for him to make his decision.
(Yes, Obi-Wan can figure out that Maul saying he'll do nothing is not a good sign, but stubbornness carries the day.)
More Sabé/Padmé on Serenno:
"None of the others left Naboo with me." Padmé is shaking, and Sabé supports her to a couch next to the empty fireplace. "I don't even know if they're alive."
"If they are - and I'll believe they are until I see their bodies - they'll escape and they'll join you again." Sabé rests her hands on Padmé's shoulders a moment, feeling the tension under her fingers. She knows each death had struck Padmé deeply, though she always had the strength to walk away without looking back when it was needed. "You are our heart, our Queen, and our commander, Padmé. For you, we would do anything."
She doesn't say that without Padmé, they would break, because it's not a truth Padmé needs to hear. Without their heart, they would still fight, they would still seek to see her will done, her ideals realized, but they would be dying a long death, not living.
And then Maul & Obi-Wan & Eea (Sith Ascendant: Into Shadows):
"My second cloak should fit you well enough, Kenobi." The Sith smile briefly, as his apprentice turns back to the closet, pulling out another black cloak that matches their own. "Wear it."
"Or you'll do what?" Obi-Wan crosses his arms, not willing to trade his servicable brown cloak for the black one being pushed on him.
The sharp, amused smile the Sith gives him is worrying. "I will do nothing."
"Your apprentice?"
"Will do what I tell her." The Sith continues to watch him, waiting patiently for him to make his decision.
(Yes, Obi-Wan can figure out that Maul saying he'll do nothing is not a good sign, but stubbornness carries the day.)