TWISTED.
❝ i'm not a jedi, but I'm not a sith. i'm me, and that's what matters.❞
Despina Anseris never asked for her mission. She never asked to see the place she called home get torn apart because of her best friend's rath. She never asked to see...
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I found Ahsoka kneeling in the snow an area not too far from my training grounds in the forest. In front of her was neat rows upon rows of rocks, each of different size and grey color. BD-1 was sitting next to her, staring at the organized nature intently.
"Did you sleep well?" the Togruta asked me as I came closer, not turning toward me. I could now see that the two missing lightsabers currently not in my holsters were in her hands.
"Somewhat," I answered, rubbing the front of my head where she had placed her fingers before I had fallen unconscious. "What happened?"
"To put it simply: you snapped," she sighed. I joined her and the droid on the ground, sitting so that BD was between us. "I'm not surprised. It happens to the best of us. I take it Poe's message wasn't good news?"
"Yeah..." I nodded grimly, my attention drifting to the stones. "What... what is this place?" Ahsoka was quiet, skimming her eyes over to one of the larger rocks. "Master Tano?"
"Remember how I said I lost my friends?" she asked me, but I could tell that the question was rhetorical. She pointed over where she looked; a circle of smaller rocks surrounding the big ones. "Fives, Echo, Jesse, Tup, Fox, Denal... every clone trooper of the 501st." Her finger moved to the larger rocks. "Rex, one of the bravest men I knew and one of the dearest friends I could have. He died in the second war... then there's Obi-Wan. He was friends with my Master. The last I saw of him was before the siege of Mandalore." Ahsoka's finger dropped along with her head at the next stone. "Anakin. He... he was my best friend. Believed in me more than myself. I always hoped I'd get to see him again before he died, but that just wasn't my luck."
I watched as my Master struggled to take a breath of composure, turning away to look at the small memorial field. I could see it clearly now; every rock was a friend, an ally, or a Jedi from the time when Jedi still existed. Even though they were just fragments of nature, I could almost feel each of the passed's life force. They spoke to me, connected to me.
"It wasn't Poe's message that sent me... overboard," I admitted, and Ahsoka chuckled.
"I had a feeling."
"It's... it's my mom," I continued, and my Master changed her sitting position so that she was better facing me. I did the same, lowering my arm so BD-1 could climb up to perch on my left shoulder. "She and my father disappeared when I was very young on a mission. No one ever told me what they were trying to do or that they died until I saw her one day as a ghost. She won't even speak to me when I ask what happened; the only time she's helped me was to find you."
"She showed up last night?" Ahsoka questioned curiously. I thought I almost heard compassion in her tone. "But I take it your reaction to her visit was different than normal."
