Where the Moon Walks

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.