Private Flowers for Alderaan

[Liana Organa]

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Liana Organa needed help. The kind of help that only a handful of people in the whole galaxy could provide.

She’d long desired more control over her visions. Even back when they were just brief, inconsistent flashes of things that happened a few moments later. Helpful sometimes, most of the time an annoying parlor trick at best. But, at the moment of her greatest victory, the visions took an abrupt and sinister turn.

Blood and fire. Alderaan, a world of the Sith.

It had been so vivid and overwhelming that the inexperienced princess could scarcely handle all the information at once, prompting a scare as she collapsed in a state of apparent convulsion. The public had no idea the real cause of the scene, nor would they any time soon. Liana had no interest in giving the matter more time in the spotlight if she could help it.

But she needed somebody who could understand. Hence her presence at the Naboo Jedi Temple today.

She hadn’t stepped foot in Jedi turf since she decided to back away from training entirely. Her feelings on the Order as a whole were mixed, but when it came to matters of the Force, there weren’t many other options to turn to. She considered asking her mom, but she had enough on her plate already, and admittedly she wasn’t a seer either.

Romi Jade, on the other hand, was. A woman whose reputation preceded her, and whose knowledge might just help young Liana get her head straight. “Master Jade?” The Princess confirmed, shuffling into the chamber. “Thank you for meeting with me.” She hadn’t expected to be granted an audience with an actual council member, but was grateful for the attention nonetheless.

“I’ve heard a lot about you. I guess you’re pretty famous or something,” Liana winced at her own irreverence, but continued, “You know about, like, visions and things, right? Through the Force?

…I could use your help.”

Romi Jade ​

 

[Romi Jade]

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Her head whipped around at the shuffle of the door clicking through its cadence as Liana entered. She had been on Naboo to cross reference her research on the Blackwall with what she could find on High Sith in the archives -- she clicked out of the hologram, and the iridescent sheen on her skin disappeared as she moved forward a couple of steps to meet the princess half way.

Her mouth parted for words, she never knew initially if 'I've heard a lot about you' was a good thing or a bad thing -- she huffed, "Famous-well I don't know about that, but yes, I got your message-" she said,

"Why don't you fill me in a bit more on the context, tell me more about what you experienced. Lets start there." She continued.

There were aspects of the Force no one could understand, visions fell into that category, and not because they couldn't be interpreted, but because the source was always in question -- no one every really knew why or how they came on. Romi for example, she hadn't experienced her first vision until much later in her career, she had been studied, and her power grew....she'd get dreams here and there, flashes and things of the such....a very strong intuition.

But it wasn't until she lost a significant portion of her power, where her visions became more prevalent, and stronger. Becoming a seer, albeit she still doesn't refer to herself as one, was never something she considered.

And in ways...conversations like this had helped grow her understanding too.

Liana Organa


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[Liana Organa]

"Famous-well I don't know about that, but yes, I got your message-"

"Pretty sure I've seen holoshows about you-- y'know, this probably isn't important," Liana stopped herself from further avoidance. She was more nervous than she thought she would be. Sure, Liana had some preliminary training with the Jedi in her younger years, but the Force and its mysticisms always felt like a strange corner of her own existence that she couldn't-- or wouldn't-- grasp. Coming to one with a reputation for her knowledge on such esoteric talents for help was, in its own way, daunting.

"Why don't you fill me in a bit more on the context, tell me more about what you experienced. Lets start there."

"Right, well. I guess I've always dealt with this to some extent. Being able to predict things before they happened, reacting quicker than my peers. From what I was taught when I was an initiate, I figured it was just standard Jedi stuff. Maybe it is. But as I got older, they became more... obvious, I guess? In the last couple years especially. It's not just feelings, it's images, sounds, tangible stuff.

Still, they're always brief. Rarely ever did I glean something that wasn't about to happen two seconds later anyway. But a couple months ago I predicted the collapse of the Black Sun. And a week ago I had this vision so big, so real... I couldn't handle it." It had been all over the holo, embarrassingly. The Princess literally toppled over in the middle of a press conference, overloaded and overwhelmed by the severity of the vision.

Realizing she was at risk of rambling, Liana refocused on the details, "We were talking about the treaty Alderaan made with the High Republic. It was supposed to save us from the Sith Covenant. I started getting overwhelmed by the questions, and then I just... all I could notice was the smell of a flower. Like the kind that grew back in our gardens. Then I saw one. They kinda glow, and so did this one. But the glow turned into a flame that consumed it entirely. Real symbolic, I'm sure," She added the last detail with a hint of sarcasm, clearly unsatisfied with the vagueness. "Are your visions ever like that?"

Romi Jade​

 

[Romi Jade]

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Romi didn't answer right away.

She watched her, albeit listening to the details as well, but she watched...Not her face -- her presence.

"I've had some very vivid visions, and others, not so vivid." She said, "Come to think of it, I do remember hearing about your fainting spell in the later parts of the news cycle, though I never would've drawn the connection to this as the potential cause. The fact that you collapsed tells me everything I need to know." she said plainly. "You're lacking in control." she said.

And she adjusted her tone there too, she wasn't speaking condescendingly, or in anyway to ostracize her.

"Though, that is the tricky part. Control, in this aspect, isn't the same as learning your standard Jedi stuff -- as you put it. Foresight, premonitions, visions...whatever you want to call them, they're passive."

"All force-sensitives have the capability of getting them to some degree, but those of us who experience them on a whole different level are rare, and stepping into that doesn't always follow the most linear path. You mentioned you've always had that extra sense, but if your experiencing more aspects of them more recently, then it means your power is growing."

"But, you can learn how to handle them, when you do get them."

"Take me back with you to that day, that moment. When it started, did you feel it coming on before you saw it? Pressure. A shift. Like something was about to push through."

A Beat.

Then -- "Answer carefully. That moment matters more than the vision itself."

Liana Organa


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[Liana Organa]

Good to know even Jedi masters were paying enough attention to the holo to see her dramatic fall.

"I… Kind of. Yes." Liana thought hard about those exact moments. Like a distant dream, the more she concentrated, the harder it seemed to recall the details. "I started to feel sick. Overwhelmed. I thought it was just the lights, the questions. Maybe they made it worse, I don't know how any of this works."

The Princess rubbed her brow, feeling a headache come on, "I started sweating. I felt like I couldn't focus. Like my stomach was about to turn upside down, but I couldn't tell when until it was too late. Then it was like everything hit me at once. Like I got hurtled halfway across the galaxy in a second. All those sights and sounds, it just took me out. I couldn't process it all.

I guess that's what made me collapse?" She shrugged. There was a pause, as she tried to analyze the Jedi master's expression. Liana was usually good at reading people, but whether due to her training or simply her character, Master Jade was more inscrutable than most, "Does that tell you anything?"

Romi Jade​