Dangerous Ingredients

[Armand Temi]

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Location: Dathomir​

Uncharted Sith Alchemy Lab​

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At this very moment, Varas felt as though she was unraveling from the inside out.

It’s my own fault, she thought as she lay on an untidy slab of stone, a surface stained with blood and bile and other unidentifiable liquids. I pushed Primat away. I disavowed my father. And this is what I get.

I get what I deserve.

It didn’t used to be this way. Once upon a time, I frolicked on beaches, chasing colorful parrots with my lover. I met his parents, trying to hold myself together - my nervousness and my expectations. Saw the exact same thing in his glacier blue eyes.

And it both enlightened her and terrified her.

So much that she’d left it all behind in a reckless night, stealing a TIE fighter and leaving behind the world she knew so well.

And how sheltered I had been, she thought.

And now Varas couldn’t quite tell where she was. She guessed her location to be Dathomir, though she’d started out on Coruscant in an Undercity gambling den. It wasn’t the first time, she’d run off, but it might as well be her last. She put her credits on black and then, eyelids heavy, she faded away, the same color swimming in her vision.

Once the brunette clone awoke, she realized she was an experiment in Darth Endel’s laboratory, and for the first few days she was strapped to this same slab of stone as alchemical toxins ran through her bloodstream, causing her the most feverish dreams. Some of the dreams were not too bad, especially when [member="Primat Ren"] came to her, the two of them discovering together all of the things beyond this mortal realm.

Yet when life raft of consciousness rose her back to the surface, the Knight of Ren was terrified by what was going to happen to her. Darth Endel must be operating outside of the realm of the Empire.

In a slow, benumbed voice, Varas attempted to threaten him. “Doesn’t the First Order have a treaty with your brethren, Master?” If she didn’t call him Master, he’d whip her pale, skinny back with a neuronic whip. And while the Sith Lord was normally taciturn and wordless he answered, “I’m a free agent, operating on my own.”

“Why me then?”

“Because your unstable emotion makes you vulnerable. I’m going to cure you of that once and for all, young one.”

Chillingly enough, this was something Varas’s father, [member="Kyrel Ren"] often said to her, but she hadn’t believed him. Can’t I be a human with a full range of emotions and be a solider and a Ren?

But what it seemed like Darth Endel strived to do with the burning chemicals which rushed through her veins as he injected her with various fluids was make her into more of a monster than she already was.

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[Varian Alaric]

It had been five months give or take. Five long and grueling months. Give months since Primat and Varas had parted ways and agreed to a mutual break-up from their relationship. At least, that was how the young male Ren had seen it. He ignored the idea that Varas had ran away from the First Order. He had only told himself the lie that the two young lovers had a mutual breakup...when he had found her missing in her bunk at the Bastion of Ren the next morning. He had been shocked to find her missing and has tried his best to nonchalantly ask around as to her whereabouts, which was when he had found out eventually that she had gone missing...with a stolen TIE fighter. After that, the young man had only told himself fancy lies to quell and diminish the impact of her leaving the First Order, of her leaving him for...something, or someone else. The thought of the truth of what actually happened still gnawed at Primat's hand like the soft scrape of fingernails against glass, though he preferred...and now partly believed even, that him and Varas had a mutual break-up and gone their separate ways instead.

Their was rumor that a rogue Sith was on Dathomir, conducting experiments of all sorts on the natives that he could get his hands on. The Sith Empire hadn't wanted to waste resources dealing with this rouge, and thus had opted to ignore the rouge. The First Order, however, saw this is a prime opportunity to deal with a minor nuisance to their ally, the Sith Empire.Which thus resulted in Primat being sent to the planet of Dathomir with a small squadron of six stormtroopers to comb the planet of Dathomir in search of this rouge Sith. The young Ren didn't particularly want to deal with any sort of Force User at all, least of all a Sith. He still was wary against the morbid darksiders who he had heard so many rumors and myths about, it had become to discern what was truth and was of false idolatry. Though, the man assured himself that whatever were their intentions or motives, that they didn't commit mass ethnic genocides and mass executions if the First Order allied themselves with the Sith. Though, Primat just told himself that. In truth, he knew that the First Order was allying itself with the largest lion in the Galaxy to keep themselves safe from harm.

The shuttle had been left out on a landing pad a mile off of a nearby Zabrak village. The pilot hadn't wanted to spook the native Zabraks, which Primat saw as reasonable. He had heard that Zabraks were nasty fighters and were difficult to subdue, and that wasn't something that he wanted to test today. No, all he wanted to do was get in, get the job done, kill whoever he needed to kill, and get out. It still alluded him as to why he of all people was assigned, Kyrel Ren was the most capable of the members of the Order of Ren while Primat was just a lowly disciple of the Order and he had been so for a year now.

[member="Varas"]