Daughter of Mortis

Escape

    Ania blinked her eyes open in the dimness of her hut. Already, Lothal's sun had risen and morning had begun. Ania peeked out of the window in the hut and spotted Ezra approaching. She quickly ran back and sat on the cot. The door opened with a hiss and Ezra stepped in. He stared at her with his cool blue gaze.

    "Here. I brought you food." He set a plate on a table nearby. He quickly turned to go, but Ania held out a hand to stop him.

    "Wait. I...I'm sorry. I just can't believe what you guys told me. It would mean that everything I've ever known was a lie."

    Ezra glanced back at her, secrets held within the depths of his gaze. "You shouldn't take Ahsoka for granted. You never know when she'll be taken from you."

    "Wait, what do you..." Ania trailed off as Ezra left, sealing the door behind him. She sighed. "So much for that."

    She quickly ate the food from the plate, then slipped on her boots. She stood up and paced the length of the hut. Maybe if I can get a look at the locking mechanism, I can use the Force to get out of here, she thought. Ania sat down and folded her legs, resting her hands on her knees.

    She let her senses expand and spread through the small hut. She saw herself, the dirt, the walls, the door; the locking mechanism was almost in reach. Ania moved her senses about as garbled voices rang through her head. She ignored the lock for now, focusing on the voices. She quickly followed them, weaving her senses in  and out through various tents and huts until she reached the voices.

    This was a tent, not a hut. Ania looked around, waiting for the voices to start again. Her lightsabers lay on a table and next to them, her comm. Voices crackled over the comm. Ania moved closer, letting the Force enhance her hearing.

    "The tracker worked. We know where she  is." It was Kallus speaking.

    "And Fulcrum?" Vader's distinct breathing echoed over the comm.

    "Ania is with him. I'm sending the squad to the extraction point. What if she joined the Rebels?"

    "She hasn't, but if she had, she would be killed like the rest of them."

    Ania drew her senses back away from the comm as a new figure entered the tent. It was Ezra. She watched him move about for a bit. Thankfully the comm remained silent. I've got to remember to switch the frequency next time, she thought. She continued to watch Ezra, hoping the comms wouldn't turn on. She let her senses wander, examining every part of the tent for when she escaped.

She brushed her senses past Ezra. He whipped his head around, almost as if he could see her! His blue gaze filled with disbelief as he stretched out a hand. Ania shuddered as she felt his hand on her arm. She withdrew her senses from the tent, pulling them back to herself. She paused briefly to look at her locking mechanism.

Ania opened her eyes, quickly grounding herself in her body. She shook her head, disbelieving. "It was like he could see me!" She said to herself quietly. "No one has ever seen me before. I'm not even physically there! And Kallus is coming for me. Should I tell Ahsoka?" She shuddered to think what would happen to her if she warned Ahsoka of the coming attack.

Ania stiffened as the door to her hut hissed open. Ezra brushed inside. "What was that?" He demanded.

"What was what?" She asked, playing dumb.

"Don't act stupid. I know you were in my tent. What were you doing?"

"How could you sense me?" Ania asked, dodging the question.