Private Tell me no lies

[Faith Organa]

Location: Carida

It was impossible to invite Karlie Lynn Destat to Alderaan, with her affiliation to the CIS her ship would be a target once it entered Alliance space. Instead she chose another place, Carida with its mountains and just breathable air.

With everything that was happening to the Senators of the Alliance Faith felt to speak to someone who had shown kindness to the people of Alderaan at a time when they needed it could shed some light on the situation. Was there something to know, or understand?

She hoped this meeting would provide some answers. If it did not then she could at least express her gratitude one more time to the Viceroy.

The room where she sat waiting alone felt comfortable, the chairs dated and aged but they were the kind you wanted to sit in for hours listening to old music sipping on a brand or ale. The light was natural filtered from the outside. Outside the door stood Alderaan Knights, and around the building Alderaani Militia and Navy. It was a bit of a show but necessary in case something happened and a quick getaway was needed.

Here she sat alone with her thoughts waiting.

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

Carida System countdown commencing...

Karlie's AI ship computer announced, displaying the current ship's coordinates as it sped through hyperspace. Karlie had opted to take her own personal ship the LCX-L3 which punched through hyperspace at 0.3
She had been contacted by Queen Faith Organa of system Alderaan. Karlie knew Alderaan. Knew enough of the system to know that the CIS had failed it on several occasions. Her own effort to provide aid from Castagne came a little too late as the CIS had kept the sith invasion from public knowledge.
By the time news of the invasion reached Castagne, there was little her system could do but help with the clean up. In short, the only two representatives from the CIS that had come (and a bit too late) were Karlie and another Viceroy, Maud Dib.
Karlie had been greatly disappointed in the CIS' lack of empathy for Alderaan and of the FWC, which ultimately led to the collapse of the FWC faction itself.
And that had been Karlie's first experience with the CIS as it pertained to Alderaan...and there had been more which later followed.

in her heart, her center, she felt she owed the Queen the risk she were undertaking in meeting with her on Carida...

"...final countdown to emergence in 30-.......4...3..2..1...*
The Castan LCX-L3 emerged out of hyperspace and in system Carida.

Karlie had the coordinates the queen had given her under a secure channel and entered the planet's atmosphere.

Shortly after, she touched down at the given coordinates. There had been no capital ship from the Alliance or it's allies that had tried to intercept her as she made for the planet's surface. It were as the queen had promised....no capital ships. This meeting was to be private between Queen of Alderaan and Karlie...or rather the Viceroy of Castagne.
Only that Karlie had not passed on the request to her father. It were better her father the Viceroy of Castagne had no knowledge of her meeting with the queen of Alderaan The two factions each were under had already engaged in some altercations. There existed much conflict between the twp great factions.
Karlie were in a way committing treason in the eyes of the CIS. She were protecting her home world of Castagne from the CIS's wrath should they discover about this secret meeting with one of an Alliance's Senator.
Karlie had no official permission to from either Castagne, nor the CIS to meet with the queen of Alderaan.

She recognized the the uniforms of the Alderaanii knights and security which as she had expected would have to be present. It were something she knew the queen could not go anywhere without. It were protocol.
Passing through the guards, she were not stopped, nor searched. Karlie bore no weapons.
She were quickly welcomed inside and escorted by a young woman. Karlie recognized her from when she had first met the queen following the sith attack. She politely identified herself as Becca and welcomed Karlie to followed her to the queen.

"Yes..Becca..." Karlie rolled the young woman's name on her tongue again so as not to forget it next time.
"I do recall we've met once before... not under the best of circumstances.." Karlie looked over to the young woman to see if she remembered her. The girl's smile said she did.
"...but good to see that you are still well."

With little time for small talk, she came upon the queen.
"Queen Organa..." Karlie began, bowing her head to the queen in respect.
"It brings me joy to find your highness well." Yes, the queen did appear well...much better centered than when she had last met with her under the billowing clouds of smoke in the distance by which the sith had left most of Alderaan in.


Faith Organa

 

[Faith Organa]

Faith woke up from the day dream she had been having rising up she turned to Karlie Lynn Destat , "As I am pleased to see you well too, come sit here with me." Faith smiled warmly wanting the young woman to feel comfortable and welcome.

"Tell me what you can about what you have been doing?" She didn't want to put her on the spot quite yet but she wanted to know what the enterprising young woman had been up to. Karlie had struck her as someone who didn't sit around long waiting she would rather take the mynock by the neck and deal with things.

Here on Carida things were quiet the smoke filled images of Alderaan would be far away right now. Even if fresh in the minds of everyone who had seen it.

 

[Karlie Lynn Destat]

A sit-down with the queen...
Well, it were perhaps why she had been requested.... or rather invited to Carida.
It were long overdue.
Truths had to surface.

Karlie's eyes looked about as she approached her. It were not that she didn't trust the queen of Alderaan, just that she were from the CIS...a faction that had for the worst part, had turned a blind eye to Alderaan.
So, so many times.

Karlie took the invite to sit and chat.
"Been doing a lot of soul searching for the most part..." She lightly joked.

But it were no joke. Karlie's mother was gunning after her life, literally. Then discovering that she had a sister. Again, someone whom Karlie's mother had given to traders and wrote off for dead. Only her sister survived and had somehow by the grace of Berkana (Karlie's deity) had found her way home.
Of course these were personal family matters that would not interest the queen. What did matter in these halls were the people. people who's lives seemed to change on a daily basis on whims of the sith or empires like the FO.

"I've been watching our galaxy churn like it were part vinegar and oil. Never mixing.... always dividing, no matter the outcome of wars or peace." Yes, Karlie were disenchanted of the fact that peace was but a fleeting hope of the hopeless. Strength was what seemed to guarantee one's people to prosper.

"It were heartfelt to have heard that Alderaan had become part of the greater Galactic Alliance. It is such a beautiful world...a beacon really. That's what many call Alderaan. A beacon of Hope in this chaotic galaxy.
Still... she had stood alone in her past and up till she became part of the Alliance.
I wish my people... I wish Castagne could have done more." Karlie knew that if Castagne were not part of the CIS that they would have most likely stood by Alderaan. It were the right thing to do, especially due to the fact that 9 centuries earlier they had a hand in the destruction of ancestral Alderaan, as they were supporters of Palpatine's reign.
Castagne had atonement to pay.
Only once more they had found themselves in liege with a sith overlord...a Vicelord of the CIS.
And the churning of the galaxy once more were like vinegar and oil.

"I'm here on my own accord, Queen Faith Organa
My father the Viceroy of Castagne has no knowledge of my presence, nor of me in dialogue with you, your highness.
What I do for Alderaan is what is in my people's heart...I know this...I can feel it. But they along with my father have no knowledge that I stand by you and Alderaan" There. Words that she should have spoken when she had come to Alderaan's aid in the aftermath of one of TSE's attacks were spoken now.
But Karlie could only speak for herself and not her nation. Castagne, nor the CIS would have knowledge of her speaking like so.