15 for the micro story meme :)
15: trembling hands
Theron Shan has been trained to never let his hands shake.
A Jedi is stillness and patience and potential. A Jedi’s hands are quiet hands, and Theron is no Jedi, but he grew up meditating with the dawn and letting his doubt and fear dissolve into purpose. There are some things that never leave your blood. And to put the seal on his hands’ stillness, the SIS trained him to shoot dead straight, hack terminals without pulling the wrong wire.
His hands did not shake on Umbara. It would have alerted Atrius, would have killed them all.
Theron breathes the mist and dust of Nathema deep into his lungs, and steps out from behind the rocks. Out to face Lana and the one he loved enough to betray.Â
His hands shake, and he lets them.
