Just like that he turned to venture further. The comforting hand was gone, but she realized that she didn't need it. She wasn't drowning, wasn't being dragged down, and so long as she followed the trail he was walking she knew she wouldn't run into a sink hole. Because that's all it had been. No monster, just a dip in the water basin.
Her eyes roamed the area for a moment, before she chewed on her lip. A lot had happened in a short space of time, on this world. A lot to mull over. A change in direction... And that meant that she had to be more open and honest with the idjit infront of her.
Her Master. Psht, wouldn't be caught dead calling him that!
"When I was younger" she said, as she waded through the water and resisted the urge to head back onto the grass "Like, real younger, maybe four..." It was hard to recall, if truth be told, though she tried anyway, "My old man did something stupid. Slept around like nobody's business, everyone knew it even my poor mama, but he was usually safe about it..."
She wiped her hands on her trousers, and looked back up to the sky. It helped, kinda, in her recollections.
"Guy was an Imperial Officer for the Sith Empire, stationed over on Kaas. Swell guy, you'd have simply loved him." Her voice was laced with venom for just a moment before it evened back out. "Anyway, he traveled a lot with them during the Empire's heyday. Met a lot of women. Well... He was stationed on one world - Velusia - for a little while longer than the others. Slept with this woman, one of the native Aquar... Next thing he knows there's a half breed baby on the scene. Well, my old man was many things but he didn't shirk on his duties. He also wasn't one for askin' permission either, very self entitled..."
She shrugged. Though deep down she hated that he'd cared more about the mutt than his true blood daughter.
"He took the babe - Levia, he named him - and left Velusia. Brought the kid back home. My mama wasn't happy, broke her heart it did, but she didn't hold it against the boy. My pop'? Sure. But not Levia. I didn't know any better, I hadn't had a sibling before and I liked that he was around but... Then the woman turned up out of the blue. Armed to the teeth."
A long pause. She even ceased to walk for a couple of seconds... But a sudden shuddered breath took care of that and she continued following Connor through the river.
"Wasn't just content on taking back her boy though, was she? She was furious, worse I've ever seen anyone in my entire life -- and my story includes freaking pirates -- well... She took me too. Away from Kaas, away from my mama and my pop'... Honestly? I barely even remember them, my parents. It's all so hazy. But her? Her I remember clear as day... I was just a kid, hadn't even been to school yet. Well when she realized that there was no legitimate way to keep me - I mean, Velusia is mostly water. Pop' had lived on a temp base while there - she uh..."
Kyra coughed. Her hand lifted to rub the back of her neck. Can't stop now, Kai... You're on a roll and if you back out here you'll never get it out.
"She put me in a containment tank on their ship, and put out feelers on the holonet's darkspace... To uh, have me sold off..." Another pause. This time she didn't exactly snap out of it though, she just stared down at the water.
"The tank was the worst part. I don't care about the rest, I mean I'm alive now aren't I? So she didn't sell me to anyone too bad..." Well the pirates were pretty damn horrible, but she had her protection among them. "It was filled with some strange liquid, like water but... Not. I had a rebreather, but... She'd randomly come and shut it off to watch me struggle..." Her eyes were closed at this point, hands fidgeting their way into her pockets. "Suspended there, drowning... Right on the edge of the void... And then she'd force the air back into me before I could slip over the edge." Days and days and days... "Every day until the pirates arrived." That was another story all together, though.
"My old man never came for me, you know? Not once. I must've been in that tank for weeks, and he didn't even try... Knew where I was, knew who had done it. Went on to have other kids, though why my mama let him near her I don't know."
She chewed on that for a second, before her feet kicked back into action. She had to keep up before she lost Connor too.
[member="Connor Harrison"]
