Gaze Into My Crystal Ball

[Anastasia Rade]

Anastasia wasn't a normal witch, she had an ability that not many others did. While she was learning more about the Force and how to handle her abilities her natural ability as a seer still befuddled her.

Flashes of the future, present, and even past came to her randomly. She couldn't control them nor understand them. It was a garbled mess most of the time which wasn't useful to her at all. It was in fact frustrating as she couldn't use something so special and unique.

As such she suck out another seer whom agreed to meet with her in order to help Anastasia better understand her gift. The young witch was hoping for tips on how to make sense of what she saw as well.

Being that the witch she fought was a Nightsister she waited in the middle of the forest away from the rest of the clan. As she waited she sat and relaxed underneath a tree.

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

It had been a curious thing... mostly because not many asked for the more neutral nightsisters help. She hadn't found much value in fighting to corrupt or turn but she also didn't find much value in being a goody good. No she much preferred this, this being in the middle and using her abilities as she needed to for the best results. Seeing the future helped when you knew where to send people however and so she had fought with the mandalorians by their side on several instances. So when one of the witches had asked for her to come she had looked to try and find what she could of the woman and there was not much. Sometimes sight was funny if it wanted to play a joke upon you. Lavania stood in the woods where she had been told to go following the directions carefull and using the staff in her hand as the beskar alloy gleamed where her witches staff worked to fight for the mandalorians. "Hello you one? What brings you this far out into the woods?" Her smile came being partially obscured by the headdress that hid her empty eye sockets and more of her tattoo's.

 

[Anastasia Rade]

"I am waiting for someone," she looked up before standing up and leaning against the tree. There was something that told her this was the witch whom she was waiting for. "I believe it may be you whom I'm looking for. Thank you for coming." Once against she was lucky to have so many help her along her path of trying to find herself and better herself.

"I heard you were one of the Clan's seers and I had to meet you. You see, I have the gift of sight myself but I can't make sense of anything I see. The flashes I see are all a blur and it's very frustrating. I was hoping you could help." She didn't want to waste the witches time as she was sure that she was busy.

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania listened to her request and moved forward moving her shirt to grab her bottle of water. The green mist escaping a little and she held the staff between them. "Visions are a tricky thing, I could teach you how to focus them, how to see them clearly but forcing them can have consequences. I didn't think of the dangers when I used my visions to help my clan fight the witches and things happened." She didn't have to say carving her eyes out to stop the visions that was something she kept. "So do you truly wish to continue knowing the risks?"

 

[Anastasia Rade]

"I understand that they can be dangerous but I have been though so much already. I have been tortured, in prisoned simply because I had these visions. I would like to be able to utilize and understand what it is they sought so valuable."

Anastasia understood that for everything there were consequences but she could pay the price plus she truly believed that she could handle it. She had been training for such all her life and now perhaps she may understand those flashes.

If she could understand it all than perhaps she would be able to get answers for herself on why and find out whom her parents were. Anastasia didn't think Bane cared but she wanted to know where she came from. Her visions were not only a glimpse into the future for her but the key to her past.

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania looked at Anastasia and smirked a little as her hand came up with the green mist in it. She was focusing the magics and brought it to her finger as it wrapped around before she spoke. "Then we shall have to see about that won't we." Her hand came out quickly as Lavania pushed the force to use mesmerism or at least half of it, the shattering mental barriers and defenses so visions can flow freely through ones head was how she had been taught to slow down and sift through what she saw. Then it had been used against her to break that focus and flood her, a useful tool to train and a powerful weapon against seers as she brought her hand away and tapped the staff on the ground. "Now open your mind."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

Nodding she closed her eyes and took a deep breath trying her best to clear her mind. She always did have a hard time with that as every time she did the nightmares came but [member="Lavania"] did not need to know about that nor had she asked. It was better to keep that to herself and just focus on her visions. No sooner had the young woman closed her eyes that she did receive a flash.

“Tag your it,” giggled the three year old little girl as she touched her older brother. The little girl was wearing a pink dress with a pink bow in her hair which wasn’t appropriate play attire. She only got away with it because she was the youngest and only girl, daddies little angel.

“Fine,” the little boy stuck his tongue out at his sister before turning around to begin counting. Once he did she took off running to find herself a good hiding spot. Hopefully he would find their other brother instead of her.
Before the little boy could finish counting a woman’s voice was heard from the house calling the children inside for dinner. The three siblings all came out of hiding to race to the door.

“The past, I saw my past just now or at least a little bit of the good part of it. It was clear than before.” She sighed opening her eyes. It pained her even more than the nightmares to see what had been stolen away from her.

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania looked at Anastasia as she focused and cleared her head. Going into a vision while the seer remained still letting the force and the spell on her lips so she could prepare it. Slowly Lavania brought her hand up almost to cup the woman's face but it was more so she could push the force around it. She needed to see her clearly for that few moments to touch the proper point as her finger tapped at her forehead. Lavania pushed the spell into the girl. "Good now look to the future, look to me and see what has happened to my eyes. The mind and flow of time are there and can be felt with our magics."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

She always hated when she saw the past. The past only served to remind her how much she truly had lost in the galaxy and couldn't assist her in helping those she now cared about. If she would have saw this or that things would be so much different now. That was why she needed to learn.

"Your eyes, you took your own eyes due to the visions. They must have been that bad but that was the past. You still though even now see the future. I see glimpses of war and pain but nothing concrete. War is everywhere."

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania focused on her and had a smile on her face. Many could see that she had done that... few liked believing the visions could get so bad you would rather carve your eyes out then keep having them. It hadn't worked i had only made them stronger since she wasn't concentrating on some other sight. She was looking into the force to see the war and she could see it, death destruction, chaos. The witches and nightsisters would more then likely be banding together against threats to Dathomir then other places. "We shall have to work on tat then, work to make the future shift in our favor. We are going to take a trip, I shall set the course and we shall gather from the planet if they are there something old and ancient that came from this world before."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

"Yes, I want to learn how to clearly see the future and utilize my gift so that I can turn the future in my favor." She knew that there were consequences to doing so and the future was ever changing however she wished to try. Anastasia would be careful as well not to do anything rash.

"Where are we going?" She was always up for taking a trip anywhere but she was curious where and why they were going.

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

"We are going on an adventure." She stood there for a moment and then moved a bit while she tapped the staff. "There is a world the jedi have used and on it there are old creatures if they are still there we are going to return them home to their people." She was moving and slowly started to remove the more ornate parts of the headdress but left the sash on as her short blonde hair shook out with hat/bed hair a litle. "You can fly correct? I know where we are going but do not know how to fly a ship."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

"Yes, I can fly well enough." She had had a few teachers whom had showed her the proper way to fly a ship. The young woman wasn't the best however she wasn't going to crash them.

The description of where they were going was vague so she wasn't exactly sure what they were doing. It sounded as if they were going to help some creatures which she was up for doing. Anastasia just wasn't sure how this in the end would help with her visions. "How does this help focus my visions?"

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania looked at her with a smile. "Because where we are heading you have to find with your vision in the force. I have been there, I have fought on its surface against sith forces and know what I am searching for. You have not, you need to learn how to find things in the galaxy with your viion. Things from the past, from the present and the future there are always more mysteries off of Dathomir and you would be amazed at what has come from here to parts of the galaxy." She was moving and did have a ship, a jedi ship from helping them as she entered her defender class. "Now close your eyes and reach out, you are searching for the largest ripple within the force."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

When she thought about it more it made sense to go to a ace that would help with this. The young witch at some point wished to find out where it was she came from. Anastasia understood her brother didn't but she wanted to know whom she was and more of what happened. She believed it would help her close that chapter of her life.

Closing her eyes as instructed she reached out with the Force to find what she believed to be the ship. She could feel the Force all around them but the ship was big and thus stood out to her as well as other users of the Force but they were different. "It's on our right," she stated and pointed.

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania looked at her for a moment and moved to the ship as she opened it with the droids looking at her. The ones hands taking the headdress and she moved about going towards the cockpit as she spoke. "That is good but the real trick will be getting to Tython, it is a world teeming with the force, with life and there is power there. The delicate balance of light and dark that when swayed one way can cause storms. We are looking for the moons and we shall push ourselves to find the creatures of the moon." Lavania sat in the seat and motioned with her hand. "Come and lets us see how far your senses can reach out."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

Anastasia followed her onto the ship and sat in what she could only assume to be the co-pilot seat. Flying was something she was still trying so hopefully they wouldn't crash. The young witch was more interested in that than sensing the actual planet at the moment. She hoped that they could understand that concern.

"I have never been able to sense out that far before. I actually have stopped myself from doing so. It was just so overwhelming for me. I didn't like what I saw."

[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania understood that. "I know what it is like to reach out and feel the universe to feel all the heartache and suffering. It is why I became so different, the nightsisters are usually more dangerous but I have seen the suffering I caused. I have felt the pain and carving out my eyes did not help stop it, I know there is much more in the galaxy and I have aided the jedi to stop it when I could. For now though there is the dangerous part of you need to learn to focus, sensing everything can be helpful but you want to try that and then you pick a single thing. A person a place, an object. In this case a stone marked with the blood trail is on Tython and that is how I can always find my way there or home. Now for you reach out with your senses and find the strongest point, the brightest star in the force."

 

[Anastasia Rade]

“I can agree with that if I don't focus I would go crazy plus I would never see anything. I have blocked out my sensitivity to things around me. I had to in order to survive. It's just hard to open myself up to others. My visions of the past show me that I can't or I feel I can't. I will try though.”

Closing her eyes she took a deep breath trying to focus her energies. Beyond that be open to the Galaxy around her.
“If we head north we should get there in about 14 hours. I can get you there.” If she just focused she could sense more and further. If she was more open she bet that could help her with her visions.


[member="Lavania"]

 

[Lavania]

[member="Anastasia Rade"]

Lavania looked at her a little and frowned only because this was space and direction was somewhat two dimensional... she wasn't thinking in the full three which could be a very common practice and Lavania slowly pressed the setting, she had gotten a few to preprogram the destinations for several places in republic and silver jedi space. Her head coming back to rest while she looked up speaking. "You are doing well, now how good are you at bonding with beasts? if what is there is still around. We will need to be friendly."