Corvus Raaf
Adieu...
‘It’s a little bit funny
This feeling inside
I’m not one of those that can easily hide
I don’t have much money
But girl if I did
I’d buy a big house where
We both could live.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9AFMVMl9qE
Corvus got the message to return to Corellia, so jumped in Raven 2 and got acquanted with Artie the astrodroid and once in hyperspace started to collect her thoughts.
The request to go to her home city came from her family’s lawyers it seemed. She went and sat on her bed and tried to think and not think at the same time.
Her sister was still missing but presumed alive. She’d not encountered her on Prakith but at least she felt her presence when they left. And she no doubt still had Raven and Archie the astrodroid too. And she wondered what was worst? Her sister alive and with the Sith or dead and now joined with the Force? Neither option was palatable and she turned the thoughts over and over in her head, her tears soaking the pillow beneath her face.
Corax the protocol droid was trying to fuss over her and that wasn’t improving her mood. She didn’t blame him for leaving the ship when instructed and actually, the flowers he bought were in a vacuum sealed bag waiting to be placed in the family home. Just like it was in the old days. White lilies and death – they went hand in hand. In fact her mother wouldn’t have them in the house any other time – for fear they might be some portent.
Corvus smiled. Her memories of her mother were simply glimpses, distorted by time. She was pretty, she was sure of that and her father was tall and gruff looking but soft on the inside. He was the one she could wrap around her little finger when she wanted her own way.
She smiled again. Her parents always seemed happy but looking back there was something wrong. As a natural Empath – or rather a Force-sensitive for whom this was a natural gift, she’d had to learn to block emotions out at the Academy once she’d learned to access the Force. But before then, she simply knew what everyone's emotions were. And looking back there was always a sadness about her parents she couldn’t put her finger on.
They loved her and her siblings but it was always as if they were incomplete. Maybe that’s why they had so many children? Corvus even wondered if they’d lost a baby and that would account for it, but these thoughts came to her long after she’d left home and was in no position to ask. And even if she could, how do you bring up that subject?
So she meditated and read until the warning activated to say they’d exited hyperspace and she set a course for Coronet City. As she approached she used the Force to sense for her sister – hoping, no praying she’d be there. The scenario had played in her head every night since they’d met. Melori would be apologetic but stubborn – the way Raaf women tended to be. And Corvus would console her and Melori would admit it was all a mistake and… And then Corvus would remember Melori’s inability to use her saber.
This feeling inside
I’m not one of those that can easily hide
I don’t have much money
But girl if I did
I’d buy a big house where
We both could live.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9AFMVMl9qE
Corvus got the message to return to Corellia, so jumped in Raven 2 and got acquanted with Artie the astrodroid and once in hyperspace started to collect her thoughts.
The request to go to her home city came from her family’s lawyers it seemed. She went and sat on her bed and tried to think and not think at the same time.
Her sister was still missing but presumed alive. She’d not encountered her on Prakith but at least she felt her presence when they left. And she no doubt still had Raven and Archie the astrodroid too. And she wondered what was worst? Her sister alive and with the Sith or dead and now joined with the Force? Neither option was palatable and she turned the thoughts over and over in her head, her tears soaking the pillow beneath her face.
Corax the protocol droid was trying to fuss over her and that wasn’t improving her mood. She didn’t blame him for leaving the ship when instructed and actually, the flowers he bought were in a vacuum sealed bag waiting to be placed in the family home. Just like it was in the old days. White lilies and death – they went hand in hand. In fact her mother wouldn’t have them in the house any other time – for fear they might be some portent.
Corvus smiled. Her memories of her mother were simply glimpses, distorted by time. She was pretty, she was sure of that and her father was tall and gruff looking but soft on the inside. He was the one she could wrap around her little finger when she wanted her own way.
She smiled again. Her parents always seemed happy but looking back there was something wrong. As a natural Empath – or rather a Force-sensitive for whom this was a natural gift, she’d had to learn to block emotions out at the Academy once she’d learned to access the Force. But before then, she simply knew what everyone's emotions were. And looking back there was always a sadness about her parents she couldn’t put her finger on.
They loved her and her siblings but it was always as if they were incomplete. Maybe that’s why they had so many children? Corvus even wondered if they’d lost a baby and that would account for it, but these thoughts came to her long after she’d left home and was in no position to ask. And even if she could, how do you bring up that subject?
So she meditated and read until the warning activated to say they’d exited hyperspace and she set a course for Coronet City. As she approached she used the Force to sense for her sister – hoping, no praying she’d be there. The scenario had played in her head every night since they’d met. Melori would be apologetic but stubborn – the way Raaf women tended to be. And Corvus would console her and Melori would admit it was all a mistake and… And then Corvus would remember Melori’s inability to use her saber.