Aiden stood with the cool night air brushing against him as distant voices carried softly across the Homestead. The warmth of home still lingered on him. His daughter Lira's sleepy smile, Alina, his great love, resting peacefully within their room. Small moments that grounded him more deeply than any meditation ever could.
Somewhere out there, the enemy was waiting. But for what seemed so dangerous, for the first time it didn't bother Aiden in the slightest. His own lessons seemed to be catching up with him. The only way to get through this was together, and that's exactly what was going to happen. The darkness that was present, latching onto him, was there waiting. Perhaps waiting for a moment of weakness, but it wouldn't come.
Aiden closed his eyes for only a moment and breathed deeply. Tonight he stood surrounded by life, by love, by people who still believed tomorrow could be brighter. And for the first time in a long while, the Jedi Knight breathed easy, truly easy.
Naboo Plains - Somewhere
The field trembled beneath the fading glow, the strike of blue radian light that had pierced the field, began pulling back into the storm torn heavens above. Shadows stretched slowly across the grasslands once more, swallowing the warmth and silence left behind. The storm dissapated and all that was left was silence as the clouds dispersed and the darkness returned, taking hold of whatever the moonlight couldn't light.
The field trembled beneath the fading glow, the strike of blue radian light that had pierced the field, began pulling back into the storm torn heavens above. Shadows stretched slowly across the grasslands once more, swallowing the warmth and silence left behind. The storm dissapated and all that was left was silence as the clouds dispersed and the darkness returned, taking hold of whatever the moonlight couldn't light.
