Where the Moon Walks

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Parts 1
Time 37m

Reads 364
Votes 17
Parts 1
Time 37m

Ahsoka Tano had been on Onderon nearly two months before she understood just how rare a moonless night actually was.
    
    The shadows were so thick she could practically breathe them in as she stepped from the old hunting trail into a small clearing made by the recent fall of one of the Iziz region's giant jungle trees. The night air was rich with a thousand scents: pollen, petals, leaf litter, humus. Her lekku twitched against the rough wool of her cloak as they worked to interpret and track bird calls, moving undergrowth, fluttering insects, and--
    
    Lux Bonteri stumbled into the clearing after her, hissing curses in his mother tongue -- most of them filthy enough it was obvious he'd learned them from Saw Gerrera. And the passage of errant Senators, she finished, smiling fondly.
    
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    A 'deleted' scene from the night before the events of Star Wars: The Clone Wars S5E5 "Tipping Points".
    
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    Cover by me, pieced together with clipart of a jungle environment and digital interpretations of extrasolar moons.All Rights Reserved

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Where the Moon Walks
Sun, Jun 6, 2021

Ahsoka Tano had been on Onderon nearly two months before she understood just how rare a moonless night actually was.
    
    The shadows were so thick she could practically breathe them in as she stepped from the old hunting trail into a small clearing made by the recent fall of one of the Iziz region's giant jungle trees. The night air was rich with a thousand scents: pollen, petals, leaf litter, humus. Her lekku twitched against the rough wool of her cloak as they worked to interpret and track bird calls, moving undergrowth, fluttering insects, and--
    
    Lux Bonteri stumbled into the clearing after her, hissing curses in his mother tongue -- most of them filthy enough it was obvious he'd learned them from Saw Gerrera. And the passage of errant Senators, she finished, smiling fondly.
    
    -:-:-:-:-:-
    
    A 'deleted' scene from the night before the events of Star Wars: The Clone Wars S5E5 "Tipping Points".
    
    -:-:-:-:-:-
    
    Cover by me, pieced together with clipart of a jungle environment and digital interpretations of extrasolar moons.

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