#nniedra

location: a quiet empty hallway one floor above the hangar bays date & time: 1/04, 3:00PM tag: @nniedra 

The ship lands on Yavin, and its inhabitants disembark like they haven’t seen the jungles and felt the wet sticky heat of the planet in decades. It feels like a different group disembarking, then when they took off. When they’d exited the atmosphere, there was a tinge of hope tying them together - adrenaline coursing along its tendrils. Despite the haste of their plan, they were doing something. Making a difference. 

Now, they scattered to their various jobs; falling back into their routines like drowning men in the desert sinking their lips to the first pool of water they found. Grief and shame followed like a low hanging cloud, fear clung to their skins. 

Fein tugs his blanket poncho around his shoulders a little tighter as he steps off the loading ramp, and ducks his chin down into the folds of the cowl neck. Dorian is waiting, but he can’t bear to see him now. Somewhere to his left Rishla barks Matthias’ name and he winces, but he can’t wait. 

He doesn’t want to witness the aftermath. 

Blindly he pushes through the crowd, headed for the underground, headed for his x-wing, for the silence of the hangar bays and the peace and the comfort of machinery. 

(Headed for her, a cool voice murmurs in the back of his mind and he shuts his eyes hard against Thena’s memory).

Noa. He trips a little as his pace quickens, adjusting his stride to head for the main hallways, hoping she’s there waiting to hear a debriefing. He gets as far as the offices on the first level, when he turns a corner and she’s there. Her skirts snap against each other as she turns the corner, and comes to a halt at the sight of him. 

He doesn’t even think. 

A soft, broken little sob tears from his throat, and he crosses the distance between them in a moment. He’s six years old again, crying for the mother that didn’t want him, and she’s humming him to sleep in the creche. He wraps his arms around her waist, and tries to beg for absolution but it won’t come. 

On Coruscant, light is for the rich or the powerful. Those identities often intersect, and still, there’s always the discussion of what richness means. She would have considered herself powerful, back there – not truly rich in possessions, but certainly rich in the means she had at her disposal, rich in that she had less to fear than others serving the Empire. As such, she got a decent amount of natural light.

Here, though, there is light in abundance, filtered green through the canopy of leaves that hides the ground of Yavin IV from the outside galaxy. Jungle planets still feel unfamiliar to her, with its abundance of rustling life and muted air, and she steps over a piece of tree root to catch up with her guide. She swallows a little of her curiosity – now does not seem the best time to prod as aggressively as she can, and instead opts for a brand of politeness.

“Do you go off-Planet often, or are you mainly staying on the base?”

Happy Birthday Maggie Extravaganza!!

Moodboard for Noa Niedra & Fein Komo:

send me three names + a number (accepting.)

adopt, be adopted by, marry

HMMM. many possibilities, each weirder than the last :^) llewyn is the odd one here – both dorian and noa are adequate to adopt or be adopted by, though a marriage to llewyn would probably end in one or more corpses and divorce. i think dorian would be adopted in the way a pet adopts an owner (bc honestly, i think everyone on the resistance base + dorian is like a flock of geese and their herder), noa can be the Wise Mom who’s not listened to most of the time, and llewyn can be a proper first step to khadis getting the counseling she really needs (maybe it’s useful for him too, who knows)

send me three names + a number (accepting.)

adopt, be adopted by, marry

i mean are you really surprised if i said khadis would marry rishla? noa might be a close second but she has All Those Kids and khadis ain’t ready for that much extended family. i think she’d like to be adopted by jezha. i mean he seems like he’s Suffered so one more disappointment should be doable, which leaves noa to be adopted, which is fine by khadis since noa’s fun-sized anyway