;;;
She cups Ezra's face.
"Ni kar'tayl gar darasuum," she tells him. "Forever."
She says it as she hugs Hera, holds Zeb's hand, pats chopper's head.
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It will be okay. Kanan used to tell her that when she was hurt. It will be okay.
She repeats it in her mind even though the empire is so much bigger and they are so small because when she repeats it, it is like he is there- stroking her hair, holding her as she cries, telling her stories of time. It is like- his hand is on her shoulder, and his smile is still fond and proud, and he still laughs every time he sees her paintings.
So she looks- at the grass of Lothal, the leaves in the wind, the secrets in the breeze- at Ezra, next to her, at all the people around her as the colors of time and cloud over them like a haze of memory. If she looks close enough, she will see Kanan's shadow slipping in and out of the fog, but of course she never does.
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"I know I can always count on you."
What does it mean?
She is as flickering as the light from the stars.
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A cloud passes in the sky.
Nothing.
A bird flies low over paths paved of stone.
Still nothing.
Ezra by her side, warm, sad, and colors of home. Light from between cracks in the wall, as it filters over her, onto her, into her.
Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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He hugs her. "You're my best friend, remember? I'm counting on you."
"For what?" She nearly asks, but something always seems to stop her.
"Dye your hair purple would you? The black is kind of scary."
"What? Ezra what's going on?"
Is he-
"Be brave, Sabine. I know you can."
Letting go?
"Brave- Ezra what are you saying?
But he-
"Take care of Hera. Spend time with Chopper and Zeb."
Can't.
"But you said we could run away."
"I don't know, Sabine."
Who will she believe-
"Ezra you don't have to do this."
In?
"I'll always be there if you find me."
If he leaves?
"Ezra please."
"We have to go, Sabine."
She looks at him, paints his smile in her mind. He is all bold strokes, dark colors, funnels of light. He is leaves in the breeze, the way she is the wind.
"Will you teach me the star songs?"
She asks.
"They are always there. Just listen."
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time || a Sabine Wren fic||
FanfictionA series of one-shots about Sabine's life from when she joins the ghost crew to when Ezra leaves. [OR the one where all she has is her family and sometimes she can't win the fight without losing.] -:- She learns new colors around them; the br...
