First Reply The Lost

[The Scion]

It was raining.

There was nothing worse for the Scion. Trapped in a world of darkness like was, unable to see or hear, it limited the few senses he had left. Scent, touch. It was beyond frustrating to be trapped out in the rain. At least it wasn't like Iridonia, where the acid rain would burn and singe his skin. He was in a forest, that much he knew. The scent of trees, plants, animals, confirmed as much for him. But the rain, that blasted rain, made it so much more difficult to find a way back.

So much for a nature walk.

With a grumble the red skinned Zabrak plopped down in the mud, arms crossed, brow furrowed. He'd just wait for the rain to end. That was the smart thing to do, right? If he couldn't properly sense his way around, he was more at risk. Frustration had another grumble escape him as he scratched at the back of his head. Why did these things have to be so complicated?

 

[Tes'Reya Hedroke]

The Starfighter landed in a clearing not too far off from the location of The Scion . The humming engines coming to a halt made her presence known as creatures of the wooded area looked on from a distance. Rain. Something about it made Tes feel at peace. She loved the darkness and gloom it portrayed. Within it was her light. Originally arriving to scan for a few ingredients the forest is said to have, She felt something different. Something, or someone. Cold. Calculative? She wasn't sure. She powered down her vessel inside the cockpit and activated the shield defense mechanism. Can never be too safe.

"Ok." She murmurs to herself.

"Time to find that plant...Soon I'll have all I need for the vile. Then..." She paused with an evil grin as the hissing of the ramp made enough noise under the spattered raindrops. Her feet hit the ground and she double-checked her belongings. A traveler's pack, her utility belt with an adrenaline syringe. And of course, the lightsaber that has seen it's share of encounters. She continued forward cautiously, but confidently.

 

[The Scion]

Movement. Vibration.

The kind that he could feel even with the pelt of the rain. A ship. His brow knitted together in focus. Cold fury, in truth. Someone he didn't know, for certain. His retainer wouldn't have arrived this quickly, would they have? There was an audible click of his tongue, a sound he could never hear but feel none the less before he slowly stood.

Darkness. Sith? A presence of the dark certainly, walking near, towards? He reached to his back, plucking from it the axe he kept carried there. Survival of the fittest was a theme of the Sith he often had to face. It was easiest for him. The primal urge, the basicness of fury and rage. No need to converse or the like. No need for thinking. His time at the academy really had dulled that instinctual edge.

So he spoke. Not with words, but intention, broadcasted through the Force.

Friend or foe?

Tes'Reya Hedroke

 

[Tes'Reya Hedroke]

Movement. Vibration.

The kind that he could feel even with the pelt of the rain. A ship. His brow knitted together in focus. Cold fury, in truth. Someone he didn't know, for certain. His retainer wouldn't have arrived this quickly, would they have? There was an audible click of his tongue, a sound he could never hear but feel none the less before he slowly stood.

Darkness. Sith? A presence of the dark certainly, walking near, towards? He reached to his back, plucking from it the axe he kept carried there. Survival of the fittest was a theme of the Sith he often had to face. It was easiest for him. The primal urge, the basicness of fury and rage. No need to converse or the like. No need for thinking. His time at the academy really had dulled that instinctual edge.

So he spoke. Not with words, but intention, broadcasted through the Force.

Friend or foe?

Tes'Reya Hedroke

she let her presence bloom in the Force—slow, suffocating, sharp-edged. A storm given shape. A crimson echo wrapped in hunger and pain. She stepped forward, the dark mist of her aura pressing outward like a tide.

Friend or foe?

She smiled.

"If you must ask... you already know."

"This is unexpected. Your presence here. Or is it? I mean no harm. Just a passer by. An anomaly , If you will."

 

[The Scion]

He didn't look her way, though that was simply because he had no sight to be able to. He kept his head turned where it was, facing nothing. But his senses were trained on her and her alone right now, sizing up the threat, the danger if there was any. Nothing, yet. Sith were never at peace. I ask because I don't. Speak plain, or be foe.

Tes'Reya Hedroke

 

[Tes'Reya Hedroke]

He didn't look her way, though that was simply because he had no sight to be able to. He kept his head turned where it was, facing nothing. But his senses were trained on her and her alone right now, sizing up the threat, the danger if there was any. Nothing, yet. Sith were never at peace. I ask because I don't. Speak plain, or be foe.

"Friend... In a manner... Not hostile... What brings YOU out here, stranger?"