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Docking in hangar bay of the Starfall.
It had only taken a short trip to Quarzite and a brief jaunt through the crystal caves with the Lord Protector for the woman known as Hazel Scheler to take an interest in the Protectorate. The talks with the man lead the woman to believe that perhaps there was something a bit more centralized to be had in her life than simply footling across the spacelanes of the galaxy. This last year had seen her traversing the Wilds, leapfrogging the planets of the now defunct Sith Empire, and threading a trail from OP space to the vast Republic system. She knew no homeland like she once did, and truth be told her heart had ached for it.
A place to maybe, finally call home.
She wouldn't deny his offer to join the Protectorate to have tugged at her mostly dry-rotted heartstrings. Not only did he serve ideals similar to her own, but the very name brought back vivid memories of a time she once belonged to a different Protectorate - a long, long time ago, in what felt like a galaxy far, far away. Ivy had followed the Lord Protector back and made a silent, personal vow to invest what little was left of her resolve into helping the man reforge what had once been something grand, something great. She knew all too well what it felt like to live in the shadow of former distinction.
She knew what it felt like to watch your foundations fester and your walls crumble. Ivy would never wish it upon anyone.
So it was through the halls of the Starfall that the Merc walked, armed and battle ready with Lying Hound at her heels, until she made her way to the bridge.
When the doors hissed open her hazel eyes gleamed with the reflection of the man's lightsaber blade, catching the power for which it stood in the flecks of green and specks of gold. With the galaxy rumbling around them, violence shivering along an unseen current that one could only feel if they'd felt it before, the woman reached down to place a gloved hand atop the scaled head of the tuk'ata. She could feel the beast bristle, sense the jolt of its growl before the sound left its jowls.
"Lord Protector," the woman spoke from where she stood just before the brink of the doorway, "permission to enter the bridge."
@[member="Ayden Cater"]
It had only taken a short trip to Quarzite and a brief jaunt through the crystal caves with the Lord Protector for the woman known as Hazel Scheler to take an interest in the Protectorate. The talks with the man lead the woman to believe that perhaps there was something a bit more centralized to be had in her life than simply footling across the spacelanes of the galaxy. This last year had seen her traversing the Wilds, leapfrogging the planets of the now defunct Sith Empire, and threading a trail from OP space to the vast Republic system. She knew no homeland like she once did, and truth be told her heart had ached for it.
A place to maybe, finally call home.
She wouldn't deny his offer to join the Protectorate to have tugged at her mostly dry-rotted heartstrings. Not only did he serve ideals similar to her own, but the very name brought back vivid memories of a time she once belonged to a different Protectorate - a long, long time ago, in what felt like a galaxy far, far away. Ivy had followed the Lord Protector back and made a silent, personal vow to invest what little was left of her resolve into helping the man reforge what had once been something grand, something great. She knew all too well what it felt like to live in the shadow of former distinction.
She knew what it felt like to watch your foundations fester and your walls crumble. Ivy would never wish it upon anyone.
So it was through the halls of the Starfall that the Merc walked, armed and battle ready with Lying Hound at her heels, until she made her way to the bridge.
When the doors hissed open her hazel eyes gleamed with the reflection of the man's lightsaber blade, catching the power for which it stood in the flecks of green and specks of gold. With the galaxy rumbling around them, violence shivering along an unseen current that one could only feel if they'd felt it before, the woman reached down to place a gloved hand atop the scaled head of the tuk'ata. She could feel the beast bristle, sense the jolt of its growl before the sound left its jowls.
"Lord Protector," the woman spoke from where she stood just before the brink of the doorway, "permission to enter the bridge."
@[member="Ayden Cater"]