Silver Stained Crimson

[Alexandra Feanor]

Alexandra drew her hands to her lap, sitting alone and away from the Temple with her mind venturing to the forest around her. It was a place that she was far more intimate with than most that came to the planet or even lived on it. Every animal, every tree, every change in the river's course and all of it around her as she sat there. Things were so different now, with time having revived the idea of the grey in the few that had returned, but the many that were still lost to her.

She smiled, though, this place was a place she drew a great amount of knowledge from, a place she was connected to and suddenly a spike in the force woke her from the familiar. Suddenly the life of a being she had long since not seen or heard from became known to her, eyes opening and focusing in the direction that it was coming from. An old friend who she wasn't quite sure of why he had returned. Her hands snaked their way into her robes before withdrawing her two sabers, twisting her hands and letting them turn in her hands.

Her body rose and with no other movements, she waited, waited to see a very familiar being to arrive.

 

[Dezoti]

"Sup."

Krest spoke rather casually from the other side of where [member="Alexandra Feanor"] was looking. A neat trick the Zabrak had learned, storing the Force in objects, as well as shrinking his own signature. Feanor should have remembered that. He sat rather casually atop a rock, his blue gaze resting on her form. "You got young." It was a statement of fact more than anything. In his hand was his sword, deactivated of course, but the metal rod was still a weapon.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Krest"]

Alexandra's eyes turned to the side before turning her head over her shoulder to look at Krest with her chin touching the fabric that moved down her body. Her eyes focused in on Krest as she stared at him and just sighed as her body moved to sit back down on the ground. "I assume you aren't here to kill me this time if you are so quickly ready to reveal what would have made it easy to simply end my life. So why are you here, and if you say because you missed me, im going to have to be inclined to not believe you."

She would take the time to casually stroke the fur of the tail she now had, annoyed by it sometimes but finding the action to be calming and nice. If he was here to attack her, she could simply pick her blades back into her hands. Something told her that Krest was not here for that though, so she gave him the benefit of the doubt and waited for him to explain.

 

[Dezoti]

"Sorta did, truthfully. Can't blame me though, I've been a pawn of the dark and a slave and all that crap for years. I miss my buddies." It was all the Zabrak said as he stared at [member="Alexandra Feanor"] . She had a tail now? That was new. And odd, to be honest. He pushed himself down off the rock, still with blade in hand. "And something something darkside. Does it really matter why I showed up anymore? It's been almost decades now, right?"

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Krest"]

"Ive only been away from the sith for seventeen years from my original training under them Krest... your mind must be waning if you think we have known eachother for decades. As for the whole darkside thing, forgive me for my caution but do you mind putting down that rod of yours before you decide to join me over here on the river? Id like to live a bit longer and into old age this time rather than die before i even reach my mid-forties..." Her eyes focused in on the Zabrak again, turning her body to face another nearby stone so that he can sit down and talk to her. She did enjoy talking to her friend, even if in the past he had been one to harm her when she trusted him. What remained of the old her, the wise and calm one was barely still there, her mind shifting between the personality that was her, and the one that was Hel. She had become that way thanks to betrayal, and she trusted almost no one.

 

[Dezoti]

"Eh. Only have it in hand cause, well." His eyes traveled down towards [member="Alexandra Feanor"] 's own blades beside her. He knew all to well how easy it would be to send one of those flying in his direction. But he put his own blade away, sheathing it at his side. "So.. This is pretty ackward huh? You're all.. Weird now, with a tail. I'm all not a Sith Lord, Epicanthix, and a walking dark side nexus. So.. Yeah."

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Krest"]

"And not trying to kill me on sight while i decide to trust you enough to offer you a seat? Lets be honest, you know its not my sabers that i can do the most damage with so you really dont even need the blade in hand. So put it away and get over here so that we can talk like the old friends that we are... Its been a long time and id rather not damage this body like the last one was... speaking of which, thanks for the help at that trial Red." Her smile had returned, the same small smile that was on the woman's face so long ago as the illusion she wore to appear as she had when she was an echani remained in place. She preferred her old appearance, both to spite the one that had put her in this body and because it felt more natural even if she knew that it was just an illusion giving her the silver colored hair and the face that belonged to another body.

"Now, Krest. Tell me about what you have been doing lately, and i do hope its more exciting than my own last two years here. And please don't tell mme you are here to rejoin the Order. Veino and Saran already came back and if you rejoined i might just cry knowing all those that can return have."

 

[Dezoti]

"No, I'm not here to return to the order. I'm too busy for that after all." He paused as he sat down, mulling over his words. "Actually, no. I'm not busy in the slightest. But I've already left the Grey twice. And I'd rather bring back the Templars. As for what I've been doing? Nothing. Really, nothing. I hid on Tatooine for the years, hiding from my mistakes and my daughter, who wants me dead."

Blue eyes traveled over to the waterfall, just staring. It had been some time since he was able to stare at rushing water, or any water outside a bottle, and the sight made him smile. IT was a tranquil space after all.

"I need to reconnect to the Force, Alex."

[member="Alexandra Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Krest"]

"You know, while im probably delusional in thinking that i can talk to the force, im pretty sure that even if i a say please, its not going to just give you back your connection Krest?" Her smile grew a bit as she stood slowly and moved over the stones that seemed to have formed a walkway in the water, only stopping once she was beside her friend and there she hugged him with a smile. It had been long since she had seen her friend and while her warstaff was still in reach, she didn't think she would need it. This was the actual Krest, that much she knew for sure an even if he did try to attack her, se had a feeling he had lost his touch.

"When was the last time you had last been in the garden Krest?" She asked him the question, the years that had passed mixing together for her. Her mind was not as it used to be, jumbled up and with three beingss claiming space in her head, it was hard to really recall events before her death. Sure she still could do so, but time was out of whack for her so what could have been ten years before might have been three, she wasn't sure.

 

[Dezoti]

"No no. I still have a connection to the Force. But it's rusty after all these years. I need to reconnect fu-" He stopped mid sentence as [member="Alexandra Feanor"] hugged him. He could only laugh as he patted the girls head. Still the same, after all this time. Well, sort of. Krest wasn't so naive to think that all her body swapping would keep her from being different. Same thing happened to him after all.

"I haven't been to the garden since I left the order way back when. I helped make a new one on the other world, but not the one here. Perhaps a decade or two?"

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Krest"]

"It sounds about right..." She smiled as she let go of him, her hands still clasping his arms as she had to look up at him with a frown. "Thinking about it I guess we are about the same age in that regard, myself being a few years younger if I remember right. Though it seems unlike you I am much better at aging, you, on the other hand, are starting to wrinkle and I'm pretty sure I can see a few gray hairs sprouting. Turns out that you really are the old man here Krest."

She looked at him with both hands leaving his arms now, her one hand crossing over her chest while the second came to her chin. She seemed to be looking at him quite intently, this time, peering at his features and peeling them back before reaching up and poking at his forehead.

"By the way, only I get to pat the heads of my students, and the last I checked, you were my student Krest, not the other way around. Unless I missed the memo which explained that teachers were supposed to learn from students instead of the other way around. Now, how about we get to the garden so that you can reconnect to the force more easily... it's a bit impressive these days considering the amount of time I've spent feeding our little attempt at a nexus back then. Thought that you might want to see it as a full grown Nexus after all this time."

 

[Dezoti]

"Don't poke my forehead. Remember, respect your elders." He was serious as he spoke, but a crack of a grin showed his sarcasm. [member="Alexandra Feanor"] was older than him after all. He motioned for her to lead on, then quickly followed behind, setting both hands behind his head. It really had been some time since he had seen the garden, and he was curious on how it turned out. "This gonna help me in some way though?"