Dev Shadows of Atrisia

[Junko Ike]

The ruins around them seemed to fade, the crumbled arches and weathered stones no match for the quiet intensity of the moment. "Barca," she said, her voice steady but gentle, "you're telling me the big, bad Mandalorian likes it when I take the reins?" Her eyes sparkled with amusement, but there was no mockery there only understanding. Barca shifted, her helmet dipping as if she couldn't quite meet Junko's gaze through the visor. "Yeah," she admitted, barely above a whisper. "I didn't expect it. But with you… it feels right." Junko stepped even closer, her free hand resting lightly on Barca's armored chest, her fingers tracing the edge of robed plate. "Well,"

She murmured, her voice low and warm, "good thing I like leading, then." She tugged Barca's hand gently, urging her to keep walking through the desolate streets, the ruins casting long shadows around them. "Come on, cyar'ika. Let's see what else this forgotten place has for us. And maybe…" She glanced back with a grin, "We'll just have to find the time when we aren't in an ancient city... in the desert... with a glacier that could in theory melt and drop a mountain on our heads." There was a smile on her face that was playful about it. Barca nodded as she was following with Miyoung and Ahri standing there and looking at the pair of them.

 

[Junko Ike]

JUnko turned to look at her. "What?" SHe said it and the researcher, archaeologist, friend... sometimes lover just smiled. "It is so cute watching you interact with all of them... like seeing one of the empresses of legend. Junko and her handmaidens each one selected for their skills, for their talents and drives... and their beauty of which she never failed to take note... nor has she ever failed to make everyone feel special. If you were to ever actually have a single person Junko... I envy them the life that they might have with you." She said it while wrapping an arm around Miyoung and motioning. "Come on, lets go find some new discovery."

Ahri said it and Junko looked at aas she was walking with Barca through the streets. The glow from the moonlight filtering through the crystals this far underground gave a soft glow... casting them all in strange shadows but she could see even more. Miyoung motioned her over while Ahri was getting Barca to help her move some stone to get inside. "Princess, we have bioluminescent lichen. It seems to respond with the light." She pointed it out and had a stick in her face as she was poking and moving things. Her ultimate scientific capability was to poke it with a stick but the young researcher was the brightest mind on Atrisia... so she likely had something.

 

[Junko Ike]

JUnko looked at Miyoung and offered her a smile as her attention was on all of them. Walking through the streets themselves was proving to be quite fun she had to admit. The younger girl was one of the brightest minds on the world... possibly in the galaxy itself there was few who could compare to her... better yet she understood generally everything that she studied which only added to it... as they were able to get technologies, information many would have deemed long last after the decline of so many other great civilizations. Miyoung offered them a lot more though as she also was better then a lot in the galaxy in terms of her athletic abilities.

Miyoung caught her looking and offered a wider grin to her princess. "You look like it is my turn now princess. You already made out with Ahri and based on how Barca is blushing... I am going to guess she admitted she likes you being in charge... sadly I don't want the chill of the cave and city otherwise I would totally show you some precision archery." SHe said it with a wink and Junko walked over to her as she wrapped an arm around her waist standing there in the city as the glow of crystals were around them. "Well, I wanted to some little time for you." She said it and traced the girl jawbone with a finger. "You who has done so much already for your homeworld that I am greatful."

 

[Junko Ike]

Miyoung blushed, it was harder for most to see it. Her richly dark skin was like fine milk chocolate dusted with the faintest if you looked close enough gold as she practically glowed. Her charcoal black air having a sheen that you could see even down here in the caves and her dark eyes that many would say were black but were a shade of dark honey brown that was refined. She smile though was important as she looked a little down at the princess. not much the four inches difference in their height only made it needed while her lithe dancers like body with its muscles was warmed like a small heater under the handmaiden robes she was wearing.

Miyoungs breathing hitched a little and Junko was able to show a smaller smile. "There we go." Her smile never faltered... her look never had to change. For the moment she was checking on it before she allowed herself the smallest chance with her hands going around the womans waist while she held her close. The glowing moss around them in the cave pulsing for a moment with Ahri and Barca both looking on as they cast shadows looks to the scene with amusement and approval. All the while Junko spoke while she made small kisses from exposed neck to cheek going up the jaw to her lips.

 

[Junko Ike]

Miyoung almost melted into her arms with that... enjoying the feeling as the lichen illuminated more and more... casting wonderful shadows around and on the pair. Her breathing hitching for just a moment when she paused not speaking. Junko almost there... her lips mere nanometers above the skin to the point the tiny hairs standing just barely brushed her smooth lips. Their comlinks spoke up for a moment as Phaidors voice came through.... "And then you make out." It broke the tension and there were laughs as Junko pulled back looking at the Lichen as Miyoung was observing it. "I think it is reacting to the force energies around you princess."

Junko gave a small nod of her head when she was looking at it. Allowing the force to guide her thoughts as she unwrapped herself frorm Miyoung and spoke with a grin on her face. "Do be continued.. later when I can bespoil you with the otherrs. A jedi's stamina needs to be made legendary after all." She said it as a joke but was already moving as the force swirled around her hands... invisible caressing but she saw as the lichen glowed where she was moving it as it seemed to follow her. Ahri and Miyoung were silent as they were moving to watch and document it. This further in and down though she could see a lot more.

 

[Junko Ike]

Junko's attention went to the movement against her hand as the lichen followed her. Taking a moment here and longer... then longer before she went further along the wall. The cave opening into the streets of another area. The buildings more and more beautiful. Murals in shadows and overgrown as she could see parts of it. She could see some of it and Miyoung grunted as she was being lifted by Barca up. The remained of a stone shaft there as she pulled away the vines. THen she was crawling up and into the area as Junko could see the light appearing. Junko looked up as Ahri looked at the mural before wiping away the vines and lichen.

"What did you find?" She asked it and was looking at it. The lichens illumination going away for the moment as she was checking on some of it. THen she wiped it away as her hand came out with another glow rod. The lichen once removed from the wall and the rest of itself giving way to inscriptions. "It is what we were thinking, the courts of Starlight and Ash... beautiful in my opinion. Back then before the ice and the sands... this might have been a sight to behold if the lichen was glowing and reacting with the force... being able to see it under the moon and starlight." She had a grin on her face though while reading or trying to.

 

[Junko Ike]

"There isn't much but the courts here in the city were at least something liked it seemed. The ability to see all of the children... to learn their strengths and weaknesses but overtime the ones people liked were praised and others became petty and jealous." Ahri said it while she was looking over some of it. "The rest is faded but it looks like there was infighting among the children when the emperor and empress passed... discontent in some cases, murder in others. The legends as I recall them were a little more mystical but this looks more like it was intended to ground it all in something akin to never meeting your heroes."

Junko had to agree with that, there was always a danger if they managed to find some of the places from the older Atrisian legends.. mostly it was in that the legends rarely were as cool and awesome as it was when you heard them. Junko had experienced it as well.. she had seen the chances for a few legendary places now but the only ones she was interested they could not get close to. The ancient Sarnoi and the palace of the dragon emperor... no one got close to there or worse they did and no one knew what it was that happened to them. The Taintai were somehow mysterious but they were also non-violent in all cases she had seen.