Onna o yametai (Anastasia Rade)

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Ana’s head slightly turned to watch Matsu as she drew something in the sand. It looked as if she was trying to communicate with the creatures and it was actually working. She had been free for only about a year and half now so she couldn’t help but be a bit worried. The last thing she wanted was to be misunderstood and be thrown in some sort of jail or taken away as a slave again.

Slowly lowering her hands down to her side she took a few steps closer to where Matsu was kneeling. “We don’t mean any harm, we are here to learn.” She smiled as she put her hands up in a V shape and closed them before opening again. Ana was not sure if she was doing a good job but she was trying to demonstrate learning by showing a book. That was much of how she learned many things especially about her culture. There were other ways of course but this seemed to be the easiest of ways to demonstrate.

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Matsu was looking at Ana coming to join them and the girl got it, they might not be able to speak the language just yet but they could find some ways to communicate. The jedi had a small smirk on her face though under the radiation suit while she made some more images and was getting a response. The others had gathered around and were looking as what looked like children were standing in the back and looking at them. Matsu was mouthing their words in the suit to try and find the common tongue she could before looking up and standing as she started speaking as best she could.

"We came from the free territories and wish to discover what we can about your species. Is there a place we can talk inside." She was registering confused faces as she was guessing that wasn't all what she was intending. This would be much easier if she could open their minds with the force but she didn't know how to use that technique in a pleasant way... It would hurt them and not be good for diplomacy like this while she got a few chuckles and pats on her suits shoulders as they were motioning for them to follow. She walked with them and was able to see more of the place as the homes nearly blended in with the landscape.

Matsu was led into one of the homes and it was slightly dug in with the large walls. High hoof and she could see a statue in one corner near some chairs they had for use. The architecture was quite a sight to her while Matsu took the moment to stand there with less of the people around watching them and she saw some of the food on the table. She was hungry but taking the helmet off would be dangerous while she scanned everything. Dangerous spikes of radiation from the surface but in here it was less. She was guessing some shielding from the walls but only just as they made a seat for her and Anastasia.

 

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It was hard communicating with the species but it seemed as if they were getting and understanding what the two were trying to say. It seemed as if they as well meant no hard to her. Ana didn't know what they could possibly learn from them with communication being as rough as it was but Ana was willing to give it a shot.

She eventually followed them to their hut and sat down in a little seat for her. Glancing around it seemed as if this was their home and they had dinner. It looked good but she knew better than to take off her helmet so she wouldn't touch it which was probably for the better. Ana didn't know what it was and for all she knew it could possibly be poisonous to humans. Hopefully they wouldn't be offended. "How long have you been here?" She spoke slowly as she looked to the leader or well whom she thought to be leader. She didn't know if Ana would be understood but it was worth a shot.

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Matsu was looking at them as she said the words in what she was hoping was the proper language. They seemed to understand and speak while she remained there looking around. "All our lives." Which could mean many things but she was looking at scanners and the readout. Also pictures, she was taking as many pictures of the species and their homes as she could to study later. There was more things, the sight of children, the sounds of others who had come to see but weren't coming in and under it all she could feel tension in them. The force could give many things but that underlying tension that seemed ready to spring on the pair as they sat there and were getting regaled with what and how they came to be. The gods from the sky coming and teaching the different tribes different ways to exist in the world. From the sea to the skies above and on the ground before they left poisoning the skies. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Anastsia. "If I am interpreting that correctly... they were possibly experimented on by a more advanced species and them they tried to kill them off."

 

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"That's so sad," Ana sighed closing her eyes for a moment remembering what it was like for her. She knew very well the pain of being experimented on and could only imagine these people's pain. It was something they could perhaps share and bond over. It wasn't the most positive of things to bond over but it would have to do. Despite the language barrier Ana wanted to understand and learn what she could from these people.

"Your survivors," she looked up to those sitting before her. "It happened to me as well but they are gone now. They arn't coming back. We came only to learn from you, what can you show us?" There was a small part of Ana wondered what had happened to them but she knew that this wasn't an appropriate question. It was one she wouldn't enjoy having to answer herself so she wouldn't ask but just let them show what they wanted.

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Matsu nodded in agreement with Ana at being experimented on, though she was glad her encounter hadn't been that long enough to have the dangerous things that could happen. As she continued to listen to them speak she was getting better at understanding them as she started to comprehend and form the language in her head putting it into the datapad for Anastasia to read and learn. She wasn't certain how good she was at it but she was letting her energies flow as she expanded them along the surface of the planet and was letting her eyes rove over them. "Thank you for telling us, we would love to explore and see if we can find evidence against the ones who did this. Something like this we might be able to bring their people to justice for starting the experiments." There was a look between them and nods of agreement as Matsu rose up a little seeing in the distance the sky was shimmering almost and moving against the wind.

 

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Taking the datapad Ana did her best to read and understand the best she could the little Matsu had on their language. It was certainly more than Ana had and it would hopefully be enough to get though to them. She wanted to assist them in anyway that she possibly could.

Getting up she followed out of the tent. Ana was hoping that the other species had left some sort of evidence that she could trace back to them. Killing them wasn't the answer and it wouldn't change what had happened. If the young woman could get the language down she hoped maybe they could always talk. Therapy helped her and perhaps it could help them.

"Do you think we will find anything? Do you think therapy could help? I know what they have been through." She glanced to Matsu.

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Matsu looked at Ana as they were being led towards the large mountain where the remains of the ship originally should be. A look on her face though while she thought about it under the suit. "I do not know, they have had tens of thousands of years like this and that can be hard to reverse but we might be able to help them find a way to live. Maybe a way to grow them crops offworld somewhere they can try and live but I fear they may have become dependent on the radiation within their bodies." She had seen some worlds like that with species adapting to survive but they would have to see what there was and if there was anything able to recover. She was looking up into the sky as there seemed to be shimmers of prismatic color in shapes and Matsu pointed up at them to Anastasia. "It looks like something is up there."

 

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"Do you think growing crops off world would really help? It seems like they aren't sustaining themselves than. They have to rely on others and I'm not sure that's what they want. Could we have a greenhouse type thing set up for them here? Would that work?" Ana questioned as she continued to walk along with Matsu. If it was her, Ana wouldn't like having to use someone else for food. She had a feeling that these people after everything just wished to be left alone. Hopefully she could give them at least that.

Blinking a few times Ana looked up to where she was pointing. "What is that?" Ana was still quite new to the galaxy so there were several things that she didn't know. Everything right now was new and a learning process. It was frustrating at times but Ana did her best to be patient with the learning process.

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Matsu was looking at Anastasia and she nodded her head to that with a look. "Possibly I am thinking about it from our perspective, helping them would be fine but it could make them appear weaker then they are. They have survived this long on their own after all." She was watching the sight above as she looked at the ones who were gripping their weapons and she spoke. "What is that?" There was a look at her as she stood in the suit and the word they said she couldn't make out fully but the rest. "Scavengers who fly around in the clouds and make their homes at the top of the highest mountains." Matsu was looking at Anastasia for a moment while she could make out more of the creatures and they looked like prismatic flying women... or what the species was."

 

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"Think it would be better to just learn? Not mess with what they have going on?" Az left her on her own like now to explore as she wished. He was very much aware of what Ana had been though. She had spoke some of it to him about just to get it off her chest. It was nice to have that in him, her brother.

"Flying, wow. Do you think they are the same species? Maybe a different kind? Can we go check it out?" Ana questioned obviously pretty excited over it. She was wondering if there was a way for the two of them to get up there.

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Matsu looked at her and she wasn't certain if they were the same species, they looked similar in build beyond the skin and hair colors. Slowly as she watched them for a moment and was looking at Anastasia. "They might be and if they were experimented on, perhaps it was in a greater scale then we had thought originally." She was thinking it over and observing the others as she saw hands gripping weapons and there was a tension as they looked up. Their ship coming down might have alerted everything on the planet since they hadn't really been able to scan. She was able to make out some of them as one slowly descended towards the mountain and Matsu motioned with her hand. "We'll proceed forward and see what these ones are like, maybe learn a little more about what happened."

 

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She sincerely hoped that they hadn't been experimented on. Ana knew how it felt to be experimented on and it wasn't anything pretty. The young woman could only imagine how these people would act if they had been. Ana was interested in seeing the species though and would take the chance that they had been experimented on.

As she began to walk closer to the mountain she saw a few more begin to descend down the mountain. Ana was pretty sure that the two of them had been spotted. The young girl was hopeful that they would be able to communicate with these people and learn more. She was a very curious about other people as the only things she saw mostly were the Graug and Sith but she tried to ignore them. It had been better for her that way. Ana began to wave as they got closer.

"Do you think they are friendly? Do you think they are the same as the others?" She questioned but before she was able to get answers one stepped forward to greet them. Instead of saying anything Ana froze.

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Matsu was looking at the creatures that stood before them. It didn't seem like the ones here were the same as the others but they were, there was the general shape of the body and at the base they were the same but different. She was guessing the experimentation they had found and heard about well... Making the species different likely for it but these new ones seemed hostile to the newcomers. Matsu stepped forward and spoke. "Hello we're here in peace." There was a look from the thing that seemed to just hover there looking them over while their hair changed colors same as their skin. She couldn't say what color their eyes were before she was moving and offering a hand in the suit. The creature shook her hand while the other moved closer towards them and Matsu stepped back near the pink mando with a look towards all of them.

 

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Smiling Ana reached her hand out to shake the creatures hand. She was happy to see how very open and friendly they seemed to be. It was a breath of fresh air from being thought of as the enemy. She couldn't blame them though after all Ana was of others as well. "We were hoping to learn more about you." Ana stated hoping they understood which she felt they did just from the way the two were greeted.


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Matsu was looking at them as they shook her hand and she had to admit no fighting was a good thing as the creatures seemed to look at the others and back away. Rising into the air and darting up to the top of the mountain as the jedi was looking it over and raising an eyebrow. Before she was looking at Anastasia moving off towards the top of the mountain they were near as she saw the remains of a large ship and ruins. Matsu turned. "Well we aren't going to learn about them if they run away and we have come to far just to turn back." She was moving up the rocks as the loose ones dropped down and slowly reached the peal where the multicolored ones were fluttering around with their hair flowing and she could feel it now. The thinner air and their bodies were far lighter up here, she was guessing thinner bones so they weren't weighted down as in the center of them were crystals they were floating around. She could just make out the inner fire within the crystals and was grinning to herself. "Fire crystals... well that might explain how they could heal their healing potential can bring someone back from the brick of death."