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 by the river.
The Togruta was facing away from me, wearing a ragged grey robe I had never seen before. Perched on her raised arm was a pale green Convor, the bird leaning close to my Master's ear every so often as if it was conversing with her. It noticed my presence first, giving a quiet caw, and Ahsoka turned around to face me. I held my tongue for a moment, wondering if she would speak first, but she didn't.
"I know my stay here has been short and my training with you far from finished, but I have to go," I began, trying not to fumble with my words. It was almost like the presence of the Convor managed to make the conversation much awkward. "I don't want to leave you again, you must know that! It's my life or the entire Resistance's. I had to make a choice." The bird squawked, and I narrowed my eyes at it curiously. "I'm sorry, did you have time to get a pet in the hour between now and that meeting?"
"This is Morai," Ahsoka introduced the Convor, who nodded to me with her startling green eyes. "I've had many close encounters with death in my life, but she's always been by my side. When you first came along, she gave me some space so we could properly get to know one another. With you leaving, I wanted to introduce the two of you to each other."
"You're... you're not dying, are you?" I asked my Master, stricken. "Forgive the bluntness, but please tell me you're not... I can stay if you haven't been feeling well, I didn't mean-"
"Calm yourself; I'm not dead yet!" Ahsoka chuckled, stroking the bird with her free hand before growing grim. "It's you that I worry about. You're quite reckless at times... but at the same time, I was too, just like my Master. We must have driven Obi-Wan insane. The point is... I've asked Morai to look out for you. I'll feel better about you going with her by your side."
"No offense, but I don't think the bird would enjoy a trip in the Falcon."
"Morai is much more special than you think," the Togruta told me. "In a way, you'll always have a part of me close by." Morai gave Ahsoka an affectionate peck on the cheek before flying off into the trees and out of our sight, and my Master sighed. "I've tried to... keep myself together about you leaving." I turned to Ahsoka, who's eyes were glistening with tears. "I didn't realize how much I'd grown to appreciate having you around, and I feel like I should have done more with you. I wouldn't outright say I failed you, but I can't help but feel-" I threw my arms around Ahsoka before she could finish, and her tears began to soak the wraps I wore around myself.
"You've never failed me," I shook my head fiercely, my own eyes watering from seeing my Master in such a state. "Every battle I've gone into since I've met you, I've fought in the ways you've taught me. You've loved and taught me more than I could ever return the favor. I never had my Mom around except the few times she'd appear through the Force, but I feel like somehow... I've always had you. Even before I met you, it was like everything I'd done led up to it."
