A Hermit is as a hermit does. (Kiara)

[Shaddi]

Location: A Fury approaching Dagobah.

He wasn't sure why but then again he had delved deeper into the force and more often than not it showed him to places that ended up piquing his interests or even meeting some interesting individuals. However as he came in for a landing on Dagobah he was very reserved in his opinion. The planet was in every sense of the word a back water but then again he himself came from a back water, just a backwater that was a little less swampy.
When he left the ship, which he had made sure was on solid and stable ground, he began to look around as he placed his hand on his chin while he thought this through. 'Why is the force leading me here? What's so special about this place?' He thought as he noticed the dark side nexus quite far off. 'Well that explains at least that.' He thought as he began to walk through the swamp land of Dagobah looking for what the force had lead him to, or was it even the force was it simply a gut feeling or a simple whim?


[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Of all of the natural chirping, slurping, goobling and cricking, the sound that of a ship could come clear if you lived in the swamps just long enough. Stopping from picking berries, an old dark blue robed woman stood up from her tiny bush and squinted into the distance. With a small huff, she grabbed her metal staff and went on her way to greet the visitor...

It was usually the same on this planet. Some people didn't know it was private property, looking for a way to disappear from the galaxy, some people wanted to take the land for business, some lost, some crashed, and at times there were those who thought a hermit in the swamp could kill two birds with one stone. You'd have to ask them if their assumptions were correct.

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

As he looked around he saw someone approaching the landing site but it was hard to discern that someone through the foliage of Dagobah but with a little concentration he could at least get the outline of someone. 'Who might this be?' He thought as he made his way towards [member="Kiara"] as he moved a few of the branches in his way with his hands as he made his way to intercept Kiara.
Once he could properly see her, he stopped and waited for her to come to him in the last few moments. "And who might you be?" He asked her as he looked at her through the force while his mask showed nothing of his face.

 

[Kiara]

Puzzling, could be taken from a first glance at the woman both physically and spiritually. Her Force signature raged from both Light, Dark, and even a hint of Gray pieces sticking out from both sides, barely grasping each other. Mostly she was empty, full of words surrounding a giant black void that echoed into forever. Her physical form was that of a trashy woman's, a weak old robe being torn from travels in the swamp, barely covering slippers, and red hair with icy blue eyes that begged for a clean-up.

The stranger on the other hand didn't look to be from around here - another traveler that didn't know what they were doing or why they were doing it. The woman adjusted her pose at the question, leaning onto the dulling metal staff of hers. "That's usually my question. I'm the person who owns the land you're standing on. This is private property."

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

'Own's the land? this is an ungoverned planet right?' He thought when she replied. "Last time I checked this planet was not under any law that would include property laws." Erebos remarked but then crossed his hands over his chest as he observed the woman before him. [member="Kiara"]'s force signature was puzzling at best, a disheartening reality at worst. "Then how about we exchange names at least? I'm T'zanith Zebron." He then said after pausing a little while he looked Kiara over, her appearance mattered little to him, the mind was usually what he judged in others, but then again there was a rugged something about her, he could appreciate that at least.

 

[Kiara]

A small silence fell over the mysterious oh so mysterious but not really Kiara. She turned her head gently to the side and leaned a bit harder on her staff, using it to support herself as her body came those few inches forward. After a small while she shrugged. "I wouldn't recommend telling my name to someone who won't respect my property. Please, leave this place. I do not like visitors."

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

With that response from [member="Kiara"] Erebos grew very annoyed, almost to the point it would influence his mind but with a loud sigh he expended it. "And were does your property end then if you wouldn't mind me asking? I might have parked my ship on your property and I wanted to make sure it wouldn't stay there given your apparen't dislike of visitors." Now this was a challenge and Erebos had to admit he was now very intrigued with [member="Kiara"] and wanted to know more about her but he'd at least try as best he could to be civil about it, for now.

 

[Kiara]

The lady made a few steps forward with her staff, then pointed up at it into the tree tops. "There is a small boarder of sting creature's nests traveling at least five meters from each other. That will form a full oval, which is marked my property." Putting her staff back down, she leaned to the side and blinked at the stranger in front of her.

"So will you be leaving soon?"

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

At that Erebos simply chuckled. "No I think I'll be staying a while, you won't mind if I come over to ask you for a cup of sugar will you?" He said with a jesting tone as he looked up and saw his ship was just outside the oval which [member="Kiara"] had refereed to. That was good as he wasn't sure he'd find another suitable landing point this close to the enigma before him. As he turned around to walk away from Kiara and let the thought of him staying sink in a little he suddenly saw a small creature run past them, it's aura contorted in terror. On it's heels came three large Tuk'ata that stopped once they saw Erebos and barked in happiness of the new play enviroment.
"Oh and if they come over a simple shoo would suffice to send them back." He said in a tone that made it obvious he was smiling under his mask.

 

[Kiara]

Like child with it's playthings, you should just let them have it until they get bored. With an unamused face settling in, the woman gripped and pulled herself up the staff, then turned back to walk away from the man and his pets. "Well if you want to stay around you may, but the moment I see someone digging or building on my property there will be a lot of discomfort in the air."

Not really a threat if you read it the right way, but the woman didn't exactly say yes or no to inviting him into her own home. It was cramped enough as it was either way.

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

With a few words in the ancient sith language to the Tuk'ata hounds he sent them on their way to play around the ship and began to walk after @Kiara. Despite being most likely like a child with a plaything that he might eventually grow bored with he was a stubborn fellow as well and Kiara had piqued his interest well beyond a simple momentary interest. He walked only a small distance behind Kiara before he spoke once more. "I understand that you might be a hermit but what I think is that you are in fact running from something... whether this might be a bad past or simply the hustle and bustle of the galaxy at large I don't know and I will leave that entierly up to you but what I want to know is simpyl two things. What is your name and why do you stay here?"

 

[Kiara]

Very shortly the lady had stopped in front of a bunch of bushes, carefully pulling a few twigs out of the way before she climbed forward into the small wooden door that was her hut, turning around at the entrance with a small tilt of her head facing [member="Darth Erebos"]

"I don't want attention, like all of those new bounty hunters, smugglers, and any fame crowding folk. I just prefer to be alone. You can call me something along those lines if you're looking for a story. I've already been interviewed, so don't get your hopes up." Walking away into the cramped dirt that shaped her home, she sat down on another wooden stump over a table filled with spare junk parts that - none of them - looked to ever work again.

 

[Shaddi]

"Fine then, I'll call you lonely red then for now." He said as he moved into the small hut and sat down at any available place he could. Taking off his mask he scratched his head a little which sent strands of his long white hair flying around his head before he combed it back with his hand. A blindfold was over his eyes but the way he moved his head around and then fully towards [member="Kiara"] made it seem like he could see without his eyes, which he did in fact.
"Well then I might ask you one simple question which I'm fairly certain you haven't been asked before... Are you a force user and what happened to you to make you look like you do in the force?" He then asked, all feigned jest and jokery gone, his expression calm and oddly coldly calculating.

 

[Kiara]

Another Force user on Dagobah wasn't something to be surprised at. Almost every other visitor who stumbled upon this bit of land was a lost acolyte making their way to a Sith temple or the mysterious cave that was used for some training purposes. She gave a tiny little shrug, pushing her staff in between her legs and using both hands to wrap around the middle of it.

"My signature, you mean? It isn't rare in these swamp lands. The place is nearly crawling with Sith on special days. I just happened to pick it up. Why are you so curious about it?"

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

This made Erebos lean a little forwards. "It is simple my lonely red, it's because I see with the force, my physical eyes are blind and what I see when I look at you not only intrigues me but worries me as well. I've never seen anyone like you in the force." He then stated simply to [member="Kiara"], he felt that keeping this hidden would be utterly pointless and would only be a detriment to them both.

 

[Kiara]

"Hmm." She mumbled as she brought her attention to her fiddling junk pieces, slowly wrapping a finger around a wrench to put on top of another one, slowly organizing a tiny table of things that would take far too much time to make into anything useful. "Well, thank you for your concerns. I'll add it to my reasons to stay hidden."

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

At that Erebos had to sigh a little to himself. 'I forgot how hermits can be a stubborn bunch.' He thought before he looked towards her again. "The fact that your signature in the force is so chaotic is unprecedented, most beings all belong to one side or another you however seem to in a way belong to all of them and yet you also resemble a wound in the force. Whatever is causing this in one way or another this I suspect might kill you." He then said as he taped into every ounce of knowledge he had managed to devour since he had joined the sith and nothing came up pertaining towards [member="Kiara"]'s peculiar look through the force.

 

[Kiara]

A few longer moments of fiddling with her tools later, she shook her head and stood up with the support of her staff, using it now to help her lean forward without falling completely onto the ground. "I do try to avoid the subject of death in my house. Please respect that." She slowly made her way closer to the small kitchen area of the hut - a dirt and clay furnace leading outside, with barely enough room to cook on.

She pressed a few sticks into the upper part of it, then sat down without so much as lighting it. "If you're done rambling about on your religion, I can offer you a piece of food to eat before I will have to ask you to leave. Would you like some meat, or some berries?"

[member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

He sighed once more and then when she spoke again inside the kitchen area he moved to her. "It's not my religion and just because I can use the force doesn't mean I'm some zelot." He said as he created a small spark of flame with a flick of his wrist. "I have power nothing more, nothing less and when I say I see with the force I mean I literally see with the force." He said as he then removed the blindfold to reveal his pitch black eyes. "And meat would be preferred if you could manage it." He then said pointing at the flame spark to gesture if she wanted to use it or not.

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Kiara nearly rolled her eyes out of her head multiple times over. She had heard a lot of this mess before, and didn't generally care for it, which was why she was being quiet now. She fished into a small box of tools, then pulled out what seemed to be a packaged toad's meat. After pulling it out and putting it in front of the package, she held it out with an empty look. Raw toad.

"Here you go. Now get out of my house."

[member="Darth Erebos"]