Private Crazy Rich Jedi

[Xian Xiao]

Xian watched her go, standing still for a heartbeat longer than she meant to before her body finally remembered to move.

"…You're being dramatic again," she called after her, already pushing into motion, boots crunching softly along the path as she hurried to close the distance Noriko had so pointedly created.

She slipped through the drifting clouds and between the rows of trees, refusing—on principle, mostly—to let herself be left behind over whatever that little performance was supposed to be.

"I do trust you," Xian added, raising her voice just enough to be heard, though it sounded more like she was arguing with the air than admitting anything to an actual person.

A beat passed. "…Mostly."

She caught up at last, falling into step beside Noriko with a look that tried very hard to be annoyed and didn't quite manage the conviction.

"But if you actually leave me to get lost in a palace in the clouds, that's on you," she muttered, the words slipping out with more resignation than threat.

Then, quieter, almost reluctant, as if the admission cost her something small but real.

"And your heart isn't broken. You were smiling."

Noriko Ike

 

[Noriko Ike]

Xian Xiao

Noriko looked at her. "I can do two things at once, sometimes I tear up when spending an enjoyable time with a paramour padawan..." SHe said it while walking between the trees and up another set of stairs as there was more people around. NOriko was skipping though as she walked... not worried about Xians reaction as she moved. "Come on if you are going to follow me might as well show you where to go. The things I do and go back even though you are so cruel to me over and over again." She mocked cried but was moving now through the hallways before she opened up large doors and the room was massive filled with a central bed but also a large panoramic window that wrapped around and gave a view of the mountains, clouds and the sun setting to the side. "THis will be your room."

 

[Xian Xiao]

Xian followed, still half-annoyed, half-curious—until the doors opened.

She stopped.

Completely.

Her mouth opened just a little, but no words came out at first.

The room stretched out in front of her, the light from the setting sun spilling through the panoramic windows and painting everything in gold and soft orange. The clouds drifted below like an ocean, the mountains cutting through them in quiet silhouettes.

For a moment, she forgot to breathe.

"…This is… mine?" she asked quietly, like saying it too loud might make it disappear.

She stepped forward slowly, almost carefully, as if the space might reject her if she moved too quickly. Her hand brushed lightly along the edge of the bed, then turned toward the window, drawn to it without thinking.

Xian moved closer until she stood just in front of the glass, staring out at the horizon.

"…You can see everything," she murmured.

The earlier irritation was gone.

Completely gone.

She glanced back at Noriko, her expression still wide with quiet disbelief.

"This isn't a padawan room," Xian said softly.

Noriko Ike

 

[Noriko Ike]

Xian Xiao Xian Xiao

"Oh." Norrko looked at her as she was standing in the room and raised an eyebrow as she looked at the girl. "If it isn't to your liking you can go and tell the Lady Unaga of the house. She took care to pick this room out for you but if you want to tell herr she was wring. I am sure she'll understand. She is used to being told no and that she is wrong.... all the time." NOrriko said it while she was walking. "She is down the hall to the right. In the throne room of the palace. I believe she is hearing the latest information on what some of our less savory family members are doing and debating what she is going to do and wherre she is going to put them but if you know better you should tell herr."