whatever had once lived here no longer did, or it never had. the remnants of a sith temple loom betwixt fog and smoke, old and forlorn. as two sets of boots stalk closer beneath the shade of the decaying branches of dry trees that curved like teeth, it is as though stepping into the jaws of something ancient. this voyage had been intended as a solitary one, as most of his journeys are, yet he could not deny the camaraderie of @thirdsght. they shared an understanding about power, about the dark that he did not always see mirrored with the others. โ such power seems wasted on ideology, โ kylo notes, gloved hand tracing over the runes of ur-kittรขt etched into the slanting dual pillars which had once proudly held up a grand entrance. their time had passed. ruins and relics, all religions turn to dust. ren thinks this and as he does, his mind conjures the image of that creature, their master, which had once seemed to him as infallible as any deity. that belief had been like chains, and now it all lay broken. the revelation of liberty is as freeing as it is haunting. โ to achieve control over the natural and bend it to one's will yet still bow before a code... ( something like a scoff, gnarled amusement, gaze shifting toward rivk, ) i'd say we've bettered the instruction. โ