#cinvhetiin

             Such SYMPHONIES of guffaw, of chastity and HARMONY. To think that they would EVER get a moment’s worth of TRANQUILITY was far stretched with the war raging over their heads. Regardless of SUCH though, Obi-Wan couldn’t take this for GRANTED. Who knew when it would be the next time he’d ever lay EYES on the Duchess?

                                       On the woman that had CLAIMED his soul?

             Whiskers purposely BRUSHED themselves against her porcelain surface, ginger wires sprouting from his beard seemingly CONCEALING the smile that threatened to paint itself on his face. It almost felt so FOREIGN to feel this emotion, one he discarded so long AGO when the unspoken agreement to ‘remain friends’ had been placed intact. THIS seemed to change EVERYTHING.

                          “Do you know what FINE stands for?”

             A rhetorical inquisition - he didn’t dare PUSH the buttons on someone of high respect such as SATINE. He knew her better than that. Besides, he wasn’t here to PROVE A POINT ; he was genuinely concerned about the emotions stirring.

                                                    Lying in WAIT to be called on.                                                     He KNEW, but the question remained:                                                                               Would he address it?

The plans one makes hardly ever go as expected. It’s naive to believe hardship will never come to your doorstep, and so you prepare for it, plan for it, pray to the s t a r s that you’ll make it through-- and you survive. But then comes the guilt, the mourning and longing for how things once were. So can it really be called surviving when you feel so hollow?

Ventress doubted it. But all she had left to do was survive. Even with both the Separatists and Republic breathing down her neck, she had to live, and hiding out in space for weeks... it just wasn’t living. She needed a place to go, somewhere she would be out of her enemies’s eyes for even just a while.

Much as she hated to admit it, there was only one place that came to mind.