The Wayward Gun
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New Wounds
Tag:
Serina Calis
Armor:
Taral-type Sith Trooper Armor Mk. II
Weapons:
HG-88 Big Iron
SD-L1 Long Blaster
HESTIZO-201 "Silverrain" Vaccine
1 x VB-113 "Tidefall" Class Vibroblade
Gear:
Slicing Glove
DS-102 "Aegis" Personal Energy Shield
Sentinel Tech Gloves
VKA-7J "Hurricane" Combat Stimulant
G1 Omni Link
The descent felt endless.Alana wasn't sure how long she'd been walking, only that each step sent a fresh jolt of pain up her side, that the metallic taste of blood still lingered in her mouth, that her breath was shallow and uneven no matter how hard she tried to steady it. Perhaps she had a bit rougher of a fight than she thought. The new armor did help if nothing else.
She had lost a bit of blood. Not enough to kill her—but enough to make her legs shake, enough to make the obsidian walls around her seem wrong, shifting at the edges of her vision like they were watching her, waiting for her to collapse.
She wouldn't.
She couldn't.
Not now. Not here.
The underground corridor was eerily silent, the only sound the faint echo of her own footsteps against the smooth, black stone. Obsidian. Cold, sharp, and unnatural in the way it swallowed the dim light of the torches lining the walls. A place shaped by hands that knew how to make something beautiful—and how to make something deadly.
Much like the woman who lived here.
Serina.
Alana exhaled sharply, forcing herself to focus, to push forward, even as her vision blurred at the edges. She didn't need to be here—shouldn't be here—but where else was she supposed to go? Her dislocated knee stung, clearly the medical droid had set it right. In fact most of the medical treatment she had received felt like a torture session. At least she was mobile.
And despite everything, despite the danger, the manipulation, the way Serina twisted things until Alana couldn't tell where her own thoughts ended and hers began—
She had come here anyway. Maybe…she really did want to trust the woman.
The realization settled heavily in her chest, alongside the pain, alongside the exhaustion.
She reached the threshold of the chamber at last, pausing just long enough to steady herself. Straighten her spine. School her expression into something unreadable, something that didn't betray just how much it had taken to get here.
And then, finally—
She stepped inside.
And collapsed onto the nice smooth stone floors.