Across the Stars (Reylo fanfiction)

Noon and Midnight

Rey looked at the wall in the flickering line of firelight. She could make out the forms of Teleri and wy'varas scratched into the rock. Off to the left, there were also figures of beings who bore swirling lines where their legs would be. In the centre where she stood, there was a virtual fresco of stonemasonry that depicted two Teleri facing off against one another. One raised an intricate spear in her hands. The artist had chiselled three stars above the head of the other. And above both of them there was a shape that seemed to be half sun, half crescent moon. Around this large portrait the artisans had imbedded many scenes that seemed to progress -- among these they repeated the image of two figures holding long sticks with handles. The queen handed her spear to one of her attendants and paced in front of the wall. She ran her fingertips along the carven images. Unexpectedly, grabbed Rey by the shoulders and placed her forehead on the jedi's own. The hieroglyphs seemed to blur and swirl, until three dimensional scenes rolled in front of her eyes like a silent holofilm.

"A long time ago," the queen narrated over the pictures filtering around Rey, "when my grandmother was still a fledgling, and her aunt Saor'inwe I was queen over this planet, seven winters after our long wars against the Huanari ceased, two men crash landed through our atmosphere and onto our soil."

Rey saw a Nautolan man, with a green complexion and a mess of tentacle tresses flowing from the back of his head, using a purple lightsabre to cut open a hole in a smashed cruiser from within its cockpit. His face was bleeding and clothing torn. He seemed to limp as he climbed through the hole and out of the ship, dragging behind him a younger male -- a human who had a clean-shaven face and dusky skin. This unconscious human wore a thin braid that hung down from his otherwise cropped brown hair. When they reached a ridge of rock sticking out of the side of the mountain, the smoking ship exploded in a burst of orange and red light.

"After our scouts came upon them," Khalinjahan's voice echoed around the scene, "we learned that they were a jedi master and apprentice, by the names of Wut Linsoo and Rourke Greyfall respectively."

Rey saw in the vision a contingent of Teleri warriors, not unlike the ones who had first found the Falcon's crew, attending to the injured knights and then leading them through the Telimaris wilderness.

"Of course, we had known dealings with the order sporadically throughout our history, but for the most part we chose to refrain from meddling with the force. Oh there are some exceptions; however, we have always distrusted those who did so frivolously. Still, these two came to us in need and my great-great aunt bestowed upon them her hospitality."

The jedi saw a Teleri woman, wearing a brass headdress and holding a jewelled spear, sitting in the throne in the great hall. These adornments were different from the ones that Khalinjahan herself bore; still there was definitely a resemblance between the past and present queens -- something about the eyes. Rey watched the jedi man kneel before the queen of old and speak with wide hand gestures. The unconscious force student lay with his head and torso bandaged on a fleece beside his master.

"At this time, the Queen had a daughter, the Crown Princess Shi'mayln," the force movie, or whatever it was, panned out and then focussed on a young woman sitting in a smaller throne beside the queen. She wore a simple silver band around her forehead, inlaid in the centre with a single grey gem. Her dark wings seemed to flicker with highlights of silver. Her long hair was also silver -- not the thin, withered silver of the aged, but a vibrant crop of wavy tresses glistening with the same light of youth that shone out of her molten brown eyes.

"She had her mother's wit and her father's charm, and was beloved by our people. She was also a gifted healer. As such, the Queen put her in charge of the young human's care, critical as his condition was."