Salina Aviner
Seeing is believing, but one must see first.
Amidst the bustling crowds of people on Courascant, the Republic capital, a dark clothed woman with a hood covering her eyes called out to the passerby "Come! Hear what fate may decree for your future. Seeking guidance down the unknown path that is destiny? Let my words be the light to illuminate your path. Allow me to aid you in seeing the choices before you and those that will lead you to what the divines call you forth to. Ask and you shall be answered. Only a credit for a reading."
She sat at a small table in one of the busier areas, a number of smaller stand and shops around her. With someone like her making a proposal like that many waved off or laughed at the idea of someone telling the future. Some made comments like "Bet you it's more Jedi tricks. That's what she is." or "Watch it. The pretty face will steal a pretty credit from you." The woman acted as if she heard none of them, choosing to let them discover their futures for themselves. As she continued on, waiting for someone to ask, she took a small piece of meat from a pouch on her belt and seemed to tuck it into her hood. When her hand came back to the table the meat was gone, any seeing thinking she might have just put it up in her hair for some reason; even someone else joking "Ha! So blind she missed her mouth."
Eventually a young boy, a teenager who looked very down trodden, stopped when she spoke more of seeing the future. He observed for a moment before she surprised him by asking "Seeking comfort about your unknown future, young man?" He was surprised that she knew he was there before timidly saying "Y-yeah. I kind of am." She gestured for him to sit down, which he did, before saying "I see you are troubled." Her hand motioned on the table in front of him as she said "You have had great pain in your past. A broken heart over one whom you thought to be yours forever. Yes?"
More surprised the boy said "Y-yeah! That's right...how did you...?" She chuckled a little and said "The workings of the universe are a mystery. We are all pulled by strings of chance and destiny." She removed her hood, revealing her pale blue eyes staring blankly ahead. "By I have been blessed with being able to see the strings." She held out her hand saying "One credit, and your question." He placed the credit in her hand before asking "Will I ever find someone else?"
The woman closed her eyes and took deep breaths for a moment before saying "You will not look far. So many steps to take before fate intervenes. What will seem an accident may be destiny and a heart once broken will be mended with jades." She opened her eyes and said "That is all I can say." Not really knowing what she meant the boy silently got up and began walking away. Not a moment afterwards he bumped into a woman, nearly knocking her down. He stopped and helped her before there eyes met, she having such amazing green eyes like....jades. The boy was surprised, glancing back to the woman, before offering to help the girl home.
The blind woman, still staring blankly forward, smiled before taking another piece of meat, this time slipping it down her sleeve.
She sat at a small table in one of the busier areas, a number of smaller stand and shops around her. With someone like her making a proposal like that many waved off or laughed at the idea of someone telling the future. Some made comments like "Bet you it's more Jedi tricks. That's what she is." or "Watch it. The pretty face will steal a pretty credit from you." The woman acted as if she heard none of them, choosing to let them discover their futures for themselves. As she continued on, waiting for someone to ask, she took a small piece of meat from a pouch on her belt and seemed to tuck it into her hood. When her hand came back to the table the meat was gone, any seeing thinking she might have just put it up in her hair for some reason; even someone else joking "Ha! So blind she missed her mouth."
Eventually a young boy, a teenager who looked very down trodden, stopped when she spoke more of seeing the future. He observed for a moment before she surprised him by asking "Seeking comfort about your unknown future, young man?" He was surprised that she knew he was there before timidly saying "Y-yeah. I kind of am." She gestured for him to sit down, which he did, before saying "I see you are troubled." Her hand motioned on the table in front of him as she said "You have had great pain in your past. A broken heart over one whom you thought to be yours forever. Yes?"
More surprised the boy said "Y-yeah! That's right...how did you...?" She chuckled a little and said "The workings of the universe are a mystery. We are all pulled by strings of chance and destiny." She removed her hood, revealing her pale blue eyes staring blankly ahead. "By I have been blessed with being able to see the strings." She held out her hand saying "One credit, and your question." He placed the credit in her hand before asking "Will I ever find someone else?"
The woman closed her eyes and took deep breaths for a moment before saying "You will not look far. So many steps to take before fate intervenes. What will seem an accident may be destiny and a heart once broken will be mended with jades." She opened her eyes and said "That is all I can say." Not really knowing what she meant the boy silently got up and began walking away. Not a moment afterwards he bumped into a woman, nearly knocking her down. He stopped and helped her before there eyes met, she having such amazing green eyes like....jades. The boy was surprised, glancing back to the woman, before offering to help the girl home.
The blind woman, still staring blankly forward, smiled before taking another piece of meat, this time slipping it down her sleeve.