Enigma Pt.2 - A Star Wars FanFic

Chapter 5- Facing Yourself

        "Her vitals are stable, ankle in a brace with some bacta cream for the swelling," a doctor in the neighboring town said to Flint and Alda as he scribbled some stuff in a clipboard. Alda was sitting up in a cot. They were in a small, rural hospital.

"And him?" Alda asked as she pointed to Synyc laying down in the spot next to her. He'd been slipping in and out of consciousness.

The doctor walked over and took a quick glance at a small, blinking machine next to his head. "Vitals are stable. Aside from a lot of scrapes, he should be okay," Flint and Alda looked at him like he was insane so the doctor hastily continued. "It is common for the Zeltron species, when exposed to electric currents, to take greater damage for a shorter period of time than others."

"So he won't be down as long, but while he is it'll be worse than average?" Alda asked for clarification.

The doctor nodded,"Exactly. He will be perfectly fine," he walked back over to Alda and Flint, handing them a small device with a big, red button. "If you need anyone to come help, ring that buzzer. I'll just be down the hall."

"Thank you, doctor," Flint said.

He nodded and smiled as he walked out of the room, shutting the door behind him.

"You need to go pick up Evander," Alda said.

Flint nodded and fumbled with the tracker he was holding, then started walking backwards to the door. "Right, I'll be back as soon as possible."

Jolie was sitting down in her now dismantled and destroyed house. She'd helped the locals put the fires out. It was just her now.

She had rummaged through a few bins that had survived the flames and packed some clothes for whatever journey she was about to go on.

Reinha was waiting out front for her, laying in the grass and soaking up the sun before it began to set.

Jolie smiled and gave her a pat. "Ready?"

The animal gestured to her back with her long nose, giving Jolie the signal. She walked over and got on, resting into the usual position on her back.

Jolie tried to pull her away from the house and back to the field they were in earlier, but Reinha had other ideas.

"No, come on! You promised!" Jolie moaned.

Reinha snorted in amusement and launched into full gallop in the direction of the town, despite to Jolie's whining.

"Evander? Evander, you there?"

Evander's eyes fluttered open and he rubbed his head. The pain hadn't faded yet.

"What's up, Flint?"

Flint's voice traveled across the weak signal on their comlinks. "Yeah, the tracker isn't working. The signal is too weak. Where are you?"

Evander looked around. The sun was setting and he couldn't exactly describe where he was. "Yeah, I don't know. I'm leaning against a tree if that helps."

He could almost hear Flint's frustrated eye roll. "I need more than that if you can."

"I'm between the house and the town you guys went to."

"Okay, that helps. I should be-" the signal crackled out into silence just as a stroke of lightning crashed down to the ground in the distance. Pounding rain immediately followed.

He sighed and closed his eyes. "At least it'll clean me up," he said to himself sarcastically as he dug into his pockets. A smile spread across his face as he pulled out his set of ear buds, completely intact. With that, he disappeared into the calm, serene world in his head; filled with music and peace.