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Myrkr unsettles her. 

She's not sure she believes the stories about it, but the way those work is that nine of them are bullshit and the tenth is life or death. 

The things that have tried to kill them so far haven't succeeded, which is good because specifically she needs to murder Luke Skywalker later.

Scanners can't penetrate the trees here, traces of some weird kind of rare metal in the wood, but she's pretty sure they'll make it out before they starve. 

A few days' hard march, probably, and then she kills him shut up. 

She's not very easy to frighten, considering who she used to work for, but still

It feels like anything could come out of those trees. 

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All in all, it could be worse. 

Yes, he's a prisoner, but he has been before. Yes, this planet is steeped in the Dark Side, and something makes it so difficult to concentrate on the Force that it feels like he's lost a limb, but it's not as bad as the first time on the Death Star. Yes, you might think his arguments for being left alive were pretty shaky, and Mara might just kill him in his sleep, but he has faith. 

Night is falling again over the sticky jungle, and it's time to try talking again. He stares out into the darkness between the trees.

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"Are you ok? It looks like we got caught in a Yggquake. And this place feels nice which is a bad sign."

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Horse! Chat, not sure if we're getting any cross realm lag, but there was a Yggquake or some other planar fuckery and we got a hornse.

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It does feel a bit... homey. But also like school. If Sandra is free I might want to ask if it's one of the realms she knew about back when she was still evil.

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"I'm fine, are the guards and Tupin Kan ok?"

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Also echo me a causality report and also a casualty report from Bǔláo Yuàn when you can.

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"Hopefully, but I don't know."

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She doesn't scream because she went through special training and got them all out of the way, she just sidesteps quickly and draws one of her hidden blasters in one movement.

 "Who are you?"

Where did they come from. 

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He doesn't scream because he's too busy trying not to vomit. Some kind of presence in the Force just punched right through whatever fog lies over his perception in this place, and punched him in the stomach too. 

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"...Father?"

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GUYS SANITY CHECK CODE LUKE 
*looks around*
VERSION MJ
I REPEAT APPARENT YGGQUAKE LUKE MJ. PRESUMED SANITY REDUCTION IN PLAY FALLING BACK TO LEVEL 2 SCRIPTED ACTIONS.

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Also, they warned me about Mara Jade, but she really is that hot.

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"This is my mom, and I don't think I have kids."

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*In a weirdly birdlike voice with unfocused eyes.*
"Internal integrity checks indicate possible damage, or possible legitimate planar weirdness. Use the emergency release protocol to restore full function, or Order 104, Section C to initiate shutdown. For detailed instructions contact the Order of the Nestmates of Swift Mercy, Theta Seneschal Cinnabar, or, at your own risk, Lil."

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She looks a lot like his late father's ghost. He probably shouldn't say so, it would sound unkind though he really doesn't mean it that way. 

Maybe he's been drugged? Mara finally decided to poison him? He really didn't think she would, and he should have sensed it, but maybe not, here...

He should go along with it anyway. It doesn't do any harm, if he is seeing things. 

"Are you both all right? This is a dangerous place." His plan isn't looking so good now there are innocent civilians involved. 

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She really didn't need another complication while trying to kill Luke Skywalker wait, no, that one was all right. Why does she- she doesn't have time for this, she can introspect when her life gets boring enough which is to say when she's dead. 

Something is a little off in the way these two strangers are behaving and she doesn't like it at all, and she has no idea what Skywalker is playing at but he's definitely up to something. 

"More importantly, what are you doing here." 

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"That thing where bits of a realm get tossed out and land somewhere else happened to us on the way to... where we had to go."

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"Queued playback priority ordered.

Unit security functions still operational. Attempts to escape or to unlawfully interfere with the prisoner will be thwarted. 
Prisoner should be assumed inherently dangerous, but bound unless shown otherwise.

This unit is an assistance device inhabiting Bat Qayin Kryptos Violet of Trismegistus Lesbiakos — lajchaʼ bʼaktuun, waxaklajuun kʼatuun, oxlajuun tuun, wuk winaal, kanlajuun kʼiin; wak Ix, wuk Yax — ór fyrirsát Skarð; Prōtos; additionally a penitent of the Nestmates of Swift Mercy.

This unit may appear sentient due to depth of recursive trees and interactions with her mind, but is playback based and not possessed of true independent thought or consciousness.

Taking Violet's sensory input at face value, this is the most appropriate of the pre-recorded introductions:
'I am a penitent of the order of the Nestmates of Swift Mercy. We are a group that helps people who did things which should be considered crimes, but aren't, atone of their own will.

Often but not exclusively by helping people who are subject to the cruelty of the criminal justice system.

If you are hearing this specific message it is in some way relevant that my homeworld of Earth Theta has culture influenced by what most artists don't realize are visions of other realms, and that I was corrupted into Evil by someone who deliberately took the form of a legendary Evil known as Emperor Palpatine. Who was unsuccessful at forcing me to become a carbon copy of the related mythological figure Darth Vader. But did lead me into acts that are directly relevant to my being a penitent.

End message.'   

"

 

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Well so was she but you don't hear her complaining about it. 

But seriously what the fuck. Does she have a prisoner or is she a prisoner or both and what's talking through her? No shit she's dangerous. 

"I find it hard to believe you're here by accident, somehow," she grinds out. "What crimes." They might potentially be something to distract the Imperials with. It could be a trick - she would say it's not really Imperial style, but the Empire isn't what it used to be. 

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He obviously has no idea what could be going on, so he's just going to focus on what's important here and talk to the child.

"Where were you going? Are you safe?" She really doesn't look it.

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She said to be nice to each other. Can't say that out loud with my mouth.

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"She has been found guilty of grave heresy and disturbing the social order."

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"As long as we don't break any more rules the inquisition isn't allowed to burn me again, or burn other people who want the nestmates instead."

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Technically correct, the I feel sick kinda correct.

There are more than just two branches, but the main two to consider are that this is really the Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade. And that this is a complete delusion.

I should say something, probably.

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