Unknown Force

Chapter 5

The halls were so quiet so hollow, seeing the layers of bodies piled up in different parts of the palace brought a shiver down her spine when slowly walking around them; tears fell down her cheeks while she held herself in her own arms trying to calm down her shivers of fear. Covered in dust and blood that wasn't her own was a sight anyone could be frightened of, she ventured to the only room she thought was the safest for her now, the throne room. Her mother would know what to do, mother always knew what to do.

The sight of the throne room was in ruins, the moon shined through the cracks and holes in the walls and ceiling of the palace; seeing two figures standing in the middle of the room, the young girl felt her heart race with fear while she slowly walked closer. Daring to speak in the silent room, her voice caught in her throat when the sight of her mother dropping to the floor made her blood run cold.

"Mommy!" she called out in worry, running to her mother to find her lying there on the ground covered in her blood that leaked out onto the floor to cover the girl's sleep attire.

She shook her mother's shoulders, wishing the maker that she would wake up by the sudden movement she made; her eyes blurred by the tears that bult in her eyes when looking at her mother longer.

"Do not cry daughter, you have a higher calling now" the voice of her father's voice spoke to her, from behind her kneeling form.

Slowly turning her head to look behind her, she could no longer bring herself to run or even move by the sight of her father's masked face looking down at her; the face she never wished to see killed her own mother in front of her for a reason she would never understand at a ten-year-old child.

Qyn woke up with a jerk after being knocked out while facing the first order, looking for her sister Rey in the chaos; she tried to move but couldn't move her arms which brought her attention to them seeing they were locked down along with her legs. Glancing her purple eyes around the room she knew where she was and it made her stomach drop a bit in worry, sensing someone staring at her brought her attention to the man dressed in nothing but black along with a masked face that almost resembled the legend of Darth Vadar that she heard stories about.

"Where am I?" she asked the man in front of her not showing any ounce of fear in her face, not wishing to give him the satisfaction of a simple thing like that.

"You're my guest" his voice was deep and robotic like from the mask he wore, it made her wonder what kind of voice he truly had without the mask.

"You always put your guests in interrogation rooms?" she couldn't help but scuff at the word guest when hearing that from him; she might be tortured later for being sarcastic but that was her nature.

The man said nothing to that question of hers, she could feel his eyes on her from where she looked at his mask; she wondered what he looked like under the mask, was he human? Or was he handsome? The question was something that she wished to know, not that she had much to say since she wore a mask for her bounty hunting work made it easier to not be recognized outside of work.

"If you hurt my sister or worse brought her here, I'll make damn sure that your death is a painful one" Qyn spoke again this time with meaning behind her words when she worried about her sister Rey being here.