Reality is an illusion...

[Nima Tann]

"You punched a Cthulhu in the face, but you are talking to me." The voices were mixing together slowly...

"Do you think I am real? Do you think this is all real? I think you do." The voice distorted into a devilish laugh. A laugh that sent a shiver down her spines.

"Why are you talking to me... when you know that I am not real?" The devilish laugh turned very loud and crispy for a second.

As she continued to hear her dark voice, she felt that the chains holding her was getting stronger, her mind was playing her still, as she stood frozen and waited for her end as the lightsaber continued to came towards her. She knew, that inside none of this made sense, but the Mind Twist was so strong that it held her inside the world that both her imagination and the effects of the nasty Sith magic created for her to endure or lose her mind to it. As they continued to stay in this place, the visions became more real. She saw that her own imagination was talking to her, saying her that everybody she loved has left her. Her sisters... Her parents... Even her wolf... The sound was so in pain... So real... And it was the reality that they've left her. Even her little sister, after she found her she promised that she would never leave her. And now... She was gone. She didn't know any idea where she did go, infact, she was used to being left alone so she didn't even go search for her. She didn't know that if the woman was seeing what she was seeing, but just opposite of her there was her mirror reflection, with the Sith markings and a dark lightsaber, just as she saw before in front of her where all of her Sanctum members were dead and she was the only one alive with all the blood on her.

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Then, she's felt a sudden pain on her cheek, which made her hold her cheek with the free hand while trying to look at the one who slapped her, her heart stopped bumping too much and her mouth half open since she didn't expect something like this. All of her mind shattered like a glass, the shadows disappeared suddenly and all she had was the woman that was really holding her, not a vision, but a presence of a real identity. "Sio... Siobhan?" She said between the sobs and the shock, confused and tired. "Where are we?" The shadows started to reappear, as well as the mirror image that she just saw seconds ago, feeding on the poor girl's confusion. The Mind Twist had its ways to spread in a weak mind like a virus when it found any doubts to infect with. "What's... going on?" She said with a weak voice, it was like she just forgot the minutes, maybe hours of torture she lived. The Master turned into a Padawan, not a clue of what she was doing here. "Where is this?" The woman continued asking questions, trying to understand and collect her mind of what she was going to do.

"You can't fight with it."

"You are mine."

"You are a prisoner. You are going to serve... Or your reflection will." She could hear some voices coming from the depths of her mind, targeting both of them.

"Wha... what?" The mirror reflections has stopped mimicking them, instead they had the free will of moving, or granted by the Mind Twist, they had that evil smile on their faces and moving towards the victims of her own mind. The last mask... her becoming a Sith, was broken now. The last line, was about to be breached. The virus spreaded as she was still in confusion in the grip of Master Kerrigan. In reality, the girl felt like she was choked, trying to breathe as she gagged for more oxygen. The problem was, it was like this in Nima's brain every day. And it was such an easy task to place a virus to her mind to destroy the girl inside.

"You can't escape." The laugh again.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


"Your mind. That's evil you over there. Go kill her," Siobhan said hoarsely. Ok, apparently I'm not the only one who fights the evil mirror her in bizarre dreams, she thought to herself when she beheld the evil but admittedly very hot evil reflection of Nima. That said, she found that she preferred purple over red!


"Why struggle when it is futile?" a dark, sinister voice spoke from the ether but gradually a solid form materialised. "Day after day you struggle...but you know they're gonna lose. The Jedi will never appreciate or understand you, the Dark Side is ascendant. Hell, it's where you draw your power from." It appeared that not only Nima was facing an evil twin.


"And do what, run to the Sith and bend a knee to their fictional Dark Lord? Or to that pathetic Host Lord? Please, I have standards," Siobhan spoke mockingly, though she stiffened when she felt the mental claws try and brutally tear through her mind. She sunk into the Force, trying to strengthen and harden the walls around her mind but it was clearly an effort and the strain was showing.


"Hahah, no. Be the queen you're meant to be. Leave that silly girl here, she's unworthy. You have Firemane, the Jedi's pathetic struggles aren't your problem. Do what's right for your family." Before her eyes was a Siobhan gone rotten, beautiful and terrible to behold. Darkness permeated her entire being and was draped over her like a cloak, her glorious firemane fell down her shoulders and she wore a red dress. Her eyes were wells of blackness, devoid of compassion and mercy.


Visions of power and glory assaulted Siobhan's mind, of conquest and victory, of a colossal palace where awe-struck slave girls serviced her every whim. Magnificient monuments were constructed in her name...of her daughters who likewise embraced the dark path.


Siobhan's breathing intensified and she clutched her forehead with her hand, rubbing it. "Yeah, what's right for my family. I don't care about anything else. And you know what the right thing is?" Power writhed inside her and she unleashed a shattering shockwave of telekinetic energy that hit like a freight tram and slammed the mirror her into the ground. "Making you shut up. We've been over this."


"Fool! You will go down and perish. You cannot defeat me. I am a part of you."


"Yep, and I'll want what you could offer...and still refuse. I just happen to be the cooler part. You're the cliched one." The evil mirror Siobhan called upon her own power, unleashing a torrent of blue-white lightning, and the other responded in kind. Across the astral plane the area was cast in an eerie light as a thunderstorm swept across it, with both Siobhans fighting one another. Both of them tossed lightning and telekinetic blasts of immense power at one another, twisting and breaking the landscape in truly absurd ways. "Nima, snap out of it! You can get rid of the evil queen over there. All you have to do is will it," Siobhan called out to the blue Twi'lek, yelling to make herself heard over the cacophony of sound.

 

[Nima Tann]

"Mind... evil... what?" Although the Master's instructions were so clear, the mix of the thoughts and the torture she has been taken for at least an hour the girl's mind was pretty much a mess, but she understood what she meant as the hiss of a lightsaber just flew near to her. If she wasn't trained to show fast reflexes she would've been dead already. It was her evil, red ... kinda hot... version. Well, it was the clothes, probably. Or should she say, not enough clothes. She looked confusedly to the mirror image as she took her lightsaber to her hand, still the events were going so fast. "You are weak. You've always been weak." She said, her voice was so dark and evil that if she didn't know it was her mirror reflection, she wouldn't know that it was her. "Wait wait wait... What's actually happening here?" She asked, even though she knew that she wasn't going to answer that. "You've always tried to stay on the good side of the Force. What good did that get you?" Was that the of getting insane? Talking with herself? Well, nothing really made sense in here actually, so why not, she thought. She had enough of it. "Well, first of all I am happy that I don't look as bitchy as you... At least I have my honor and clothes on me." Dissing herself, well, that was another entry on her "Getting Crazy" book. It looked like she got her twin pissed, as she lunged towards her attacking directly to the heart to finish the job quickly. "They love me, at least. Do they love you? Does anyone love you, Nima?" Figures... They always hit her with this.

She blocked the attack with her lightsaber just a second before it was gonna touch her purple skin and jumped backwards to get familiar with her enemies' strategies. Hell, it was her. She knew her strategies. She rushed towards the woman then jumped towards her, turning her lightsaber around her like an orbit, and evil Nima jumped backwards to evade the attack, which was successful. What was she going to do to defeat herself? Well... maybe she had to improvise a bit. No matter how she looked different, it was still Nima. "You know why they love you honey? That's because they see you as a queen you are. They don't love you because who you are, because you open your body to them to see and enjoy." She was sure that it was enough to get the evil twin angry, she could see that the expression of her darkness was changing into angry one, and angry people always made mistakes. "No, that's not true. They love me because of my strength. That's what you'll never have." Good, good... She was getting angry. And also, the real Nima was done with all this. Being the scared little girl, letting herself to be played by people that doesn't even know her correctly. It was enough. And starting with herself... well, that was a good start. She could feel that her strength was coming back. Then she heard Siobhan's voice, gave a little nod, then telephatically said to the woman. "You know what, Siobhan. You are right. I am sick of this. I am sick of these people. Let's hunt ourselves some Sith." This sudden burst of courage might make the conflict easy for the Master too.

The evil Nima jumped towards her, their lightsabers clashed and a sharp hiss escaped their clash, the mix of red and blue. Clash of the Dark and the Light side. They continued to try dominating each other. This time the real Nima had the smile on her face. "That's too bad. The servants of the Dark side are full of themselves, that they can't even see the truth." Nima said, trying to get her concentrate out of the clash to get an advantage on her. She felt a satisfaction as the woman was "red" from anger, grinding her teeth and trying to dominate her as well. "SHUT UP!" She shouted. Then sent an electric towards both of the masters. She wasn't going to lie though, the dark Nima was powerful, yet as weak as the real Nima's mind. Maybe that was the key, the key to dominate someone's mind... Make them angry enough to let it open it for you.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


You're aware that I'm darkside, right? Siobhan wondered to herself, though she did not voice the question. The dark aura sort of made it obvious, though fortunately she had so far avoided the whole veiny skin, yellow eyes look. See, it was kind of a massive turnoff and did not go well with the ladies. However, she was soon pulled out of these thoughts becaue her evil counterpart decided it would be a good idea to grab her by the throat and throw her across the area at truly absurd speed.


Ouch. A wall ended up caving in due to the impact. The not-so-evil Siobhan responded by smashing into her evil counterpart's spine with an invisible hammer. And so the dance between the two continued. Shattering blast of telekinesis was answered in kind, as were torrents of lightning. Both were the same, so they knew each other's techniques and knew exactly how to counter them. Within moments both were covered in blood, their features obscured by it to such an extent that both appeared like furies.


The elements themselves bent to their will as powerful whirlwinds sprang to life, electrically charged by lightning. "You could have the world," the evil twin called out to her counterpart when she managed to grip her in a powerful vortex and send her flying through the air. Her sheer rage generated flames and they licked at Siobhan's flesh, burning her. The stench of cooked, roasted flesh filled the air as a flaming tornado seemed to have sprung up. Siobhan bit down on her tongue so hard with her teeth that she drew blood. Piles of debris were gathered up by the wind and thrust at her. Her body seemed to be bleeding from countless wounds as the shards dug deeply into her flesh. Of course, all this was illusionary, if this were the real world it was quite likely that internal organs would have suffered from the blunt trauma, though if she managed to wake up there would be a headache from hell.


"You talk too much," she hissed then rather than try and dissipate the wind pushed back with her own power, directing it towards her opponent, who responded in kind. One tidal wave of power connected with the other, producing a titanic explosion as both were tossed across the astral battlefield, buildings being ripped apart and blown to bits in the process. Siobhan fell from on high, though her descent was cushioned somewhat by her power, and crashed into ruins.


Covered in dirt and blood, barely able to stand, she forced herself to her feet. From afar she heard a groan as she limped across the wasteland, seeing her evil twin likewise trying to emerge from the rubble. Rage and cold fury overcame her and, gathering every inch of power, she abruptly grabbed ahold of her evil twin. Her counterpart struggled against the invisible binds and summoned all her power to break them, but she was persistent and lifted her into the air. Then smashed her back into the ground from on high. Repeatedly. With the force and velocity of a meteorite collision.

 

[Nima Tann]

The electric hit her, and thus gave her a flashback of taking a hit on her spines, which caused her to lose he balance, which, she was starting to remember slowly as a bad memory happened recently. She was slowly getting back to reality, but not until defeating the evil twin who now gained advantage of her losing her balance and kicked her through the stomach, which caused Nima to move backwards until she regained her balance, as she managed to do that, getting the strength from the invisible wall that has been placed there for some reason, the evil twin attacked again, this time with more rage and concentration. Thus she understood that the other Nima was fueling herself with those bad words instead of the real Nima, who lose morale with those things. But yet again, to attack with such anger, one would have flaws in their strategy. She felt the durasteel of the twin's lightsaber pushing to her throat, and the lightsaber's temperature was very near, almost burning away her skin. "You are going to be dead! Then I'll take your head as a trophy without ruining that smile." Oh the Force... Was she going to be that talkative if she turned to Sith? Well, she was happy that she didn't. Instead of talking like her, she concentrated on the battle. She didn't struggle, since she knew that struggling could make things difficult. Yet instead she moved her legs near to the invisible wall, to get the strength she needed, to put her feet to the wall as she jumped herself up to send a lower kick to the stomach of the evil twin. "Is it just me, or are our reflections... kind of... annoying?" She said to Siobhan as she sent the kick.

The kick was succesful, which made the twin move a step or two backwards from the invisible wall, which gave the real Nima time to collect herself. Then, with a quick shoulder-lunge, she tried to make her lose the twin's balance, which worked, but the evil twin sent her a quick but effective Force Push. She with the effect of the push flew away, and the friction between her legs and the rocky ground left a burning feeling and open wound. "Oh.. by the Force..." Just as she was about to stand up, she felt a kick at the abdomen, that made her hold it in pain as the twin laughed and sat on her. "I told you. Dark Side is stronger." She wasn't going to kill her without some humiliation, it seemed. She started to punch the woman right and left, trying to dominate her, make her defenseless. Real Nima let out of a battle cry. Then with all her strength caught the twin on the throat and with a bit strength she managed to kick her private parts to make her get off of herself and then as the woman still in shock of getting a kick there, lying on the ground, she managed to get on her. Now, the roles had been switched. "I agree. For the ones who know how to use it, not for its servants." She said, being around the people who were interested in Dark Side always, she never let the Dark Side out of her, but... she didn't use it for everything in her life, just for the emergencies, like this.

She started to punch the woman, herself, as she punched her before. It was the payback of all the things the nasty Mind Twist had this girl live. All the fears it caused her to live. She felt, powerful as the twin squirmed in pain under her attacks. No matter the fact that she was beating herself. "YOU." She then called for the evil twin.

"STOP." She took a deep breath, then a hard punch to the left eye followed.

"TELLING ME." The other punch to the throat, which made the twin gag under the pressure of the punch.

"I AM WEAK." With this, she united both of the punches and sent a big one to her face.

The twin looked out of it as she finished punching her face for the last time. Damn, it felt good.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Ok, you're all kind of hot when you get angry. These thoughts were obviously totally relevant. Maybe darkside temptation was not the only form of 'seduction' Nima would be confronted with in this thread! There was a loud, sickening crunch when evil twin Siobhan impacted upon the ground, with such force that the impact created a small crater.


Ouch. As for annoying, well, yes, the reflections sort of were. They also talked far too much. Personally real Siobhan immensely disliked talking in combat. Sith kept yammering about how strong the Dark Side and their imaginary Dark Lord were, Jedi kept prattling about the Light and trying to convert their opponents to the fluffy and happy side. Being a combat pragmatist, Siobhan had long concluded that talking was not a free action. That said, she had to admit that her counterpart's fashion sense was not bad because those leather boots were wicked.


Anyhow such thoughts were banished from her mind when finally, in an act of will, she crunched down upon her opponent's heart with her power and ended her. Her body exploded in a massive shockwave as the volatile energies of the dark side consumed her. Siobhan dropped down to one knee when the wave impacted upon her, drained and spent. Breathing heavily, splattered with blood and suffering from having seemingly had several bones broken she coughed. Her gaze fell upon Nima, who seemed busy punching the hell out of her evil, red-skinned twin. "Finish her off, then we can get out of here."

 

[Nima Tann]

As hearing her advice, she started to talk, her tone was like a child that wanted 5 more minutes to sleep. "Just give me a second. Enjoy the show." This powerful moment... was indeed powerful for her. She never felt this powerful, seeing the evil twin under her this desperate,powerless. In that moment, she felt like she was at the top of the chain, and of course she still had the anger that was bugging her. She sent two or three more punches to her face as the girl moaned that's enough. Take a deep breath, breathe, breathe... continue... She continued until the face of the girl had no resemblances to her own anymore. This little moment was a disturbing scene for a Jedi, but she didn't care, fortunately, this whole thing was happening in her head. Yes, she realized that before the fight with her evil twin, there was no way that there would be two Nima's in one place. Or someone did invent a time-travelling machine and her evil self came from the past to destroy her present-self to conquer the world. Yet, it wasn't that logical, no matter how it sounded cool.

She slowly stood up, out of breath from the top of the poor girl that has felt the pain that she's endured for the past hour, after breaking her neck. The real Nima, was strong both in spiritual and mental from the evil twin, yet the twin was strong in physically. Her fight with herself was somewhat epic, and she was feeling good after beating her, but she wasn't sure that why this little torture... amused her a lot, and if it was okay?... Yet, she felt pretty good. It wouldn't be crime if she did it to herself, right? "Okay, I am done. Uhh... sorry for the mess." She said with a smile on her face, still trying to control her breath as sweat and blood mixed together and dropped to the ground from the open wound the evil twin caused as she stood, her robes were a bit harmed from all the fight, so it was revealing some of her purple skin. Could someone sweat or be harmed in their own mind? Well, why not? It was her imagination.

"How do we get out of here?" She asked to the woman, "Never been this deep before." She always meditated, and explored the parts of her mind, but she was scared of getting down to the Deepest Fears, and this fear was confirmed by the events they had lived in her own imagination for a... she didn't know how much they stayed in here actually. She was more than ready to get out of here.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Siobhan did not at all mind the mess. After all, she was used to being knee-deep in blood and guts. Such a nice image! So the shower of gore, violence and bloodshed did not faze her at all when Nima beat the crap out of her evil twin. That said, what she did appreciate was the lovely view of Nima's purple skin that was now being offered since, alas, her robes had ended up a bit torn during the fight. Siobhan did not mind at all.


After all, the purple Twi'lek was very beautiful. Leave it to Siobhan to get turned on by all the violence. "You look really hot right now, you know that, sweetie?" Totally the height of wittiness and subtlety. She clearly got the girls due to her amazing wit. Anyhow, she managed to concentrate on the fact that they needed a way out and looked around. "I guess we...go through that door there?" Suddenly what seemed to be a door at the end of a tunnel had manifested. Oh, and yes, there was light shining out of it. Light at the end of a tunnel? Goddess, that's so cliched, Siobhan thought what we were undoubtedly all thinking.

 

[Nima Tann]

She lifted her right eyebrow as Siobhan spoke to her that way. If she didn't know her, she would totally think that she was hitting on her. Yet, there was something else in her look as well. She awkwardly laughed as her brain tried to process what was all that about, yet saying nothing would be rude. She continued to smile and totally acted the dumb and pretended that she was joking. Yet, this little compliment made her happy enough to make her cheeks red since she didn't hear something like this from anyone in her entire life. "Uhh... thank you, Siobhan. You look great too.." She said with a laugh, the tone was awkward but sincere, almost thankful for the compliment but she tried to conceal that part. Wait a minute? You look great too, really? Then, she realized what she has done, this was a pretty bad mistake and so open for the ideas. So, she tried to explain the last sentence... There we go. "Uhh.. I mean... You look good... in... uhhh.. good in a friendly way?" An awkward laugh followed this little fiasco. By the Force. Even worse. Well, that was the reaction of a girl that has been alone for her entire time, yet she tried her best.

Then, she tried to totally change the subject. No need to make it more awkward, right? So, she tried to get her attention to the door. A door that a light was coming from the back of it. Pretty suspicious, it seemed since there was a saying that don't go to the light. Well, it should be better than the darkness, shouldn't it? "So... how about we go to that door?" She said, starting to walk slowly. As she turned her back to the Master, she had a facepalming moment and she sighed, thinking that how awkward she got there for a second. She continued to move towards the door, yet there was something bothering her. A door with a light in a darkness was strange, to say the least.

This day was getting more and more awkward as the minutes passed by.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Siobhan had many qualities, but at times she could be a bit oblivious. For instance, she often seemed under the impression that any beautiful woman she was interested in would be receptive to her not particularly subtle advances - and not at all uncomfortable. "Aww, thank you, darling. But only in a friendly way?" she asked playfully with a gleam in her eye, winking at the Twi'lek. However, she dimly a part of her seemed to notice that Nima was probably not used to being hit on.


This was clearly a situation Mistress Thuella would have to rectify. After all, loneliness was not very nice. Anyhow, before the awkardness could skyrocket and pierce the atmosphere, they had a door to go through. A door with a light in a darkness. It all sounded a tad absurd to Siobhan, but she could not find another exit! "I guess we go through it, yeah," she said a bit awkwardly, taking Nima's hand. Limping very badly she approached the door. On the way a few annoying voices made themselves heard, but she annoyed them. She had grown past the point of paying attention to the noncorporeal whining out of the ether. As they stepped through the door they were suddenly bathed in light, vanishing in a flash...


And woke up inside the beautiful garden! It took Siobhan a moment or two to figure out where she was, blinking once, twice. Then she realised that she was lying on her back since presumably she had passed out while mucking around in Nima's mind. "Nima, you ok?" she asked, stretching slightly. Her limbs protested against movement and had apparently fallen asleep on her.

 

[Nima Tann]

Just as she was sure that they got past the awkward part of this little meeting, Siobhan dropped another bomb. What has gotten into her, she didn't know. Yet there was something more disturbing that she was liking the playful way she was talking to her. Or was it disturbing? The woman had indeed ways to talk... persuasive, if it was the right word, according to her first impression. Breathe, breathe, breathe... "Y-y-yes of course friendly way. What else can it be... Siobhan?" She said and gulped, running away from the flirty talking again. Then she laughed, the next sentence was sarcastic but it sounded a bit flirty from this little shock she had. By the Force, she hoped that she wouldn't get the tone. "Force, what has gotten into you all of a sudden?" Did she just wink at her? Nima was a bit uncomfortable for all this, since all her romance attempts were handed back at her with such negativity, and hearing someone doing moves on her she just wasn't ready for it, or was ready for it but shocked, to be exact. Especially after beating someone to death. Then, she continued walking as the woman reached her hand. The embarassment was growing, growing and growing... She held her hand because... there was something in her legs... right?

Together they continued to walk towards the light, as they continued to move, there were some more voices coming towards them, screams, threats... Just another obstacle that they needed to pass before continuing on in their lives. She didn't feel as much pain as before since the warmth of her hand was giving her strength. That was why she probably held her hand, to protect her. Yet, after moving enough and passing the door to the light she started to feel dizzy, and she blacked out... Was that a trap?... Seconds later, she woke up, her vision was still blurry as she blinked couple of times, still processing that what place was this? Different from the place she has just been, this place was all green and peaceful. And, she was on a wheelchair. That was when she realized the events of the morning. Shielding of mind, that was when she met the Master. [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], now where was she? She could hear a familiar voice, as she turned her head towards the voice, she saw her. "Siobhan?" She said, her voice was weak from all that alternate reality stuff. This whole thing was pretty tiring. "Did we make it?"

She was still in that state when you just wake up, still trying to adapt to the reality. By the Force, it was pretty bright. "Ugh... I feel like a mess..." She moaned and placed her palm to her forehead as the headache hit. She straightened herself in her wheelchair, to get in a comfortable position. Her back was killing her, probably it was because she stood motionless so much for a long time. "I am sorry for all this. Are you okay?" She asked, yet seeing her seemed like she had her own problems.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Damn, it was bright. At least Siobhan woke up next to a beautiful Twi'lek. Well, not right next to, since Nima was in a wheelchair. "Got a bad headache...but I'm ok. I think," Siobhan said. Well, she was not quite ok, but she sort of liked the view. With a groan she finally managed to stand, though she was clearly wobbly on her legs before she picked up her cane and stabilised herself. However, she winced in pain since her back and leg decided to protest against the slightest movement.


She felt a mess and probably looked like it. Taking a deep breath she limped over to Nima and reached out with her free hand to rub across the woman's head and lekku. Totally only to help her with her headache and for no other reason. "You want some aspirin, darling? You did very well. Don't let anyone tell you you're weak. You're strong...as strong as you are beautiful."

 

[Nima Tann]

"I am sorry. Shouldn't have dragged you there with me." Sorries, sorries, sorries...Whenever she wasn't really. She said, a guilty tone could be clearly heard in her voice. Yes, she wanted her to think about the torture and she came for help, but it was all her fault whatsoever since the girl's mind was full of fears and bad memories and she couldn't stop it whenever she had the chance. Nima watched her as she tried to stay still, and she wasn't going to lie, the woman was strong indeed, but it seemed like this whole experience made her tired like her. This was one of the reasons that she was trying to run away from these sort of relationships, she had her record of hurting people around her. So, she always concealed those emotions inside her no matter how it hurts. This whole fear and bad memory stuff was because of her own doing also, and Siobhan already learned about her a lot since she had the chance to see her memories first hand.

She stood silent thinking about the events they lived this morning as she felt the woman's hands on her lekku, dancing just like before they started their adventure in her own mind. She let out a relaxing moan as the woman found just the spot where it hurt a lot. "This means a lot to me, Siobhan." She said, and added, closing her eyes and feeling the dance of the Master's fingers as the woman's fingers continued to find the spots in her head which the headaches most existed. The woman had the magic indeed, she never saw someone that did a massage like this, yet of course she wasn't the type of a girl that always went for a massage. "I always thought that I was a bit out of strength after getting handicapped. This little adventure made me realize that I still have that fire inside." She said, still her eyes closed. The massage was helping of course, it was like the feeling when a cold wind touch your skin in a very hot day. "Thank you." She said, in a shaky but yet strong voice. And she totally didn't realize that she didn't have any comment on her hitting on the girl again. Yet, she would understand from the smile that the message was taken.

"And no aspirin, thanks. Your fingers are doing the job alright." She smiled, after a tiring experience, the massage was the gift. It was a sincere compliment, Siobhan had pretty gentle fingers, it wasn't a lie. "Say, Siobhan. Do you think you were a masseuse in one of your past lives?" She continued to breathe calmly as the woman continued massaging, where were you in all that headaches in the past, she thought, smiling at her own joke.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


For all her qualities, Siobhan was not subtle at all. She was also very susceptible to flattery, so Nima's words made her smile brightly. "Aww, thank you, darling. Glad I'm helping. Maybe I was a masseuse? I know I'm very good with my fingers. The girls like it," she said, sounding just a bit smug. Her lines were also as corny as a maize field.


Anyhow, while she spoke her very nimble fingers kept working their magic and danced across Nima's lekku, soothing and stroking as she did her best to relax the Twi'lek. However, it was not just the physical fingers on her hand that massaged across the woman's lekku. You see, telekinesis has several practical applications that go beyond mere mass destruction and homicide. And so Siobhan had seen fit to manifest invisible fingers that would not only soothe Nima's lekku, but also her back to a degree.


Totally just to make her comfortable. "I meant what I said: You are brave...and very beautiful." There, she winked at Nima again. Totally not just in a friendly way. Subtlety, that word did not exist in Sio's dictionary. "I've been handicapped and maimed plenty of times. Don't let that hold on you down, sweetie. Unless I'm using the Force I need a cane to walk."

 

[Nima Tann]

"I don't know about what the other girls say, but you've proven that for me." She said, with a smile on her face. She already understood that Sio was a playful one, but hearing it from her confirmed this for her. Yet, she wasn't as comfortable as before, Sio had some serious gentle fingers. She felt that as the fingers continued dancing she started to feel less pain on her back also, as if Siobhan was magically massaging her back also. Yet she was feeling fingers on her back also, and it was a bit ticklish, to be honest. She started to wiggle from the tickling feeling, yet the relaxing was more dominant in this, so that feeling left as soon as she let out another happy sigh that Sio would understand her massages were the best. "I should have met you sooner." She said, then sighing, this one made her remember some bad things. "I've had many aches in my life, not the good kind I tell you." One in Shri-tal, the man she loved hit her head several times to a rock, almost killing her. And one, same person different place where he almost broke her arm. And her parents tried to kill her once almost making her blind... The list could be longer if she tried to remember.

And she tried to hit on her again, Force, the woman never gave up. Yet the words were amusing to listen no matter how she denied her over and over and over. She felt bad, thinking about it actually. "Why thank you! Those compliments will turn me into a tomato, you know." She said laughing, a sincere smile, and a bit red on her cheeks since the compliments were making her blush but of course that was besides the point, was seen on her face but then she held her right eyebrow up, question was about to come. "Do you say that to every girl you meet, Master Kerrigan?" She said in a sarcastic tone, yet it was a bit serious question, the woman was a player, that was for sure. And she didn't know Nima that much, Nima was so much complicated to be the game. She saw much, she lived much, and she's lost the feeling of love a bit for all the things she lived. She was the one person who was always abandoned, no matter how much love the girl had in her heart. And it was tiring, to say the least.

"I would walk with using the Force, but it'll be a lot tiring than actually making people come to me." She said, she was talking about illusions and mentalism, of course. The girl had the excitement of a Padawan whenever she was about to learn new things. "I will walk again, some day. At least that's what the healers said." She was a bit sad about this one, of course. It was difficult to wake up to several aches every day.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


It would not be wholly inaccurate to compare Siobhan to a kath hound on a trail. Once she wanted something - or someone! - she pursued it. Besides, as a Mistress of the Order of the Torch it was her duty to help. Clearly Nima had not received nearly enough affection in her life, which would obviously have to change. Admittedly Siobhan did not know her well at all, but she had gotten a glimpse of her mind and liked to think it had given her some insight.


"Just the special ones I like. The very pretty ones," she responded, flirtatiously batting her eyelashes at the purple Twi'lek while her fingers, both real and invisible kept working their magic as she did her part to help Nima relax. "You will walk again. I know it sounds trite, but give it time. Many years ago I got my leg chopped off by a chainsaw blade and a hand annd an eye fried by lightning. I got better. Be proud of yourself for what you faced and accomplished today, darling. Besides, you've got the perfect excuse to get pampered a lot."

 

[Nima Tann]

No matter how many times she continued to reject the moves of the Master, she continued doing them. Yet she wasn't complaining, she couldn't complain because she was in a state of such a relaxation that she wanted to just pull her to her side and kiss as she continued talking like that... no no no what was she talking about, no kissing... yeah, correcting herself, since those little moves she was doing were making her feel happy about herself and boosting her confidence. This was proving her theory about Siobhan being so much persuasive, or was it the massages she was doing, she didn't know. She was feeling like more than ten fingers were wandering through her body, and she was feeling up in the clouds as they continued doing what they were doing and bring relaxation in such a way that no one could do any better, at least in Nima's situation that everyone in her life tried to hurt her in some way. "I... suppose you are right... Thank you." She could say, after a little laugh when she said that it was a good excuse to get pampered. "I am not that used to getting pampered this much though, you know. I might get... mischievious." The tone was a little playful, what the hell are you doing Nima? The massage was getting to her head, she was so relaxed that she started to... get a bit warm... but still she had the control. She took a big breathe.

"You should have seen me when I was 18 before meeting..." She cut there for a second, didn't want to talk about him right now, so many bad memories and thinking about him was giving her a headache. Probably because he tried to kill her with the rocks, so she continued totally jumping that part. "There were no wounds, I had red skin, I had Sith marks. And I didn't even have the bad manners that my mirror image had. Dream girl." She giggled then, Sio was managing to crack the girl a bit. "The best compliment that I got in my whole life was how good I fought... So this whole thing is a bit strange to me... if it makes sense?" She said in a joking way, trying to clean her head from the thoughts and put the cold act back if she wanted this to stay in friendly way. "Look, Siobhan. I really... appreciate... what you are trying to do here." Sigh... Here you go, depressed Nima was back. Or some part of her at least, since the girl didn't feel anything while saying those. Massage helped her actually. "But I am wounded, Sio. You have seen what is going on here." She said, pointing her head with her index finger. She was totally trying to run away from the woman right now, yet one part of her still wanted to kiss her. And knowing Sio, she wouldn't give up yet.

"Ughh... I don't know." She said, she was being such a drama queen again. "I am bad luck. I don't deserve getting... pampered like this." This whole experience she lived with her "loved-ones", was so draining that, she started to feel like she didn't deserve to be loved. Then, she sighed again, the girl was almost about to sleep from the relaxation she got from the woman's gentle fingers. Maybe it was one of her games to get girls, who knew? The thoughts were slowly getting into her head, so it was a bit working on her. "Do I even make sense?" She said, this was a serious question from someone about to sleep. Whenever she got into emotional speeches like this, the ones she was talking always told her that she was over-reacting. No one really understood the girl's emotions. She was even surprised at herself that how she could manage to stay sane in a world like hers.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


"Mischievous, huh? You said that as if it were a bad thing. I'd really like to see your mischievous side," Siobhan said sweetly with a playful wink at Nima whilst her fingers continued working their magic on Nima's lovely lekku and back. However, tone and expression soon turned serious when she absorbed what Nima subsequently. Clearly she would not be an easy conquest! However, though Siobhan was very self-centred and probably a bit narcissistic, she was not oblivious to others' pain.


Those of people she liked at any rate. "It's ok, dear. Really, I don't mind. I probably don't know even half of the crap you've been through, but I can it's been a lot. And don't ever call yourself bad luck or believe you don't deserve any of this. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't like you. If the only people could ever compliment you for was that you're good at stabbing things, then they're blind."

 

[Nima Tann]

"You really don't want to see my mischievious side. I am concealing it from people for the good." She said with a soft, ladylike but a playful laugh, joking around and getting warmer and warmer to the Master as they continued to speak. She was really sweet by saying those words, and it really helped and put a smile on her face in a moment of depression. The woman could understand that Nima was getting there slowly, since Siobhan really hit her weak spot with the emotional talk thing. She actually made her feel good after all those times she had been rejected from her own emotions, they were what she wanted to hear. And she never did get a good massage like this before, so it was win-win for her. "I... don't know what to say." She said, this time there were no shaking in her voice, yet a relaxed, calm tone and she took a deep breath. "You are the first one that complimented me for my beauty. Hell... the first one talked that sweet in my entire life." She was probably going to regret this, but her left hand went for the Master’s hand as she continued to massage the lekku and held it tight, yet she was still trying to keep it in a friendly way. She didn’t like women in “that” way, did she now? “Thank you for this, really.” She said in a soft voice, if she wasn't relaxed enough, she would get emotional and cry right there. Keep it friendly, keep it friendly... Whenever she got emotional like this she would always do something wrong.

When she said that Siobhan was indeed persuasive, this was becoming more clear to her right now. She really had her ways of speaking to the people. As she felt her hand's warmth, happiness was filling her heart. No fears, no thoughts, just... happiness, peace. "Siobhan... I..." She stopped there for a second. No, no, no, no... She immediately let go for the thoughts popping in her mind, also let go of her hand. No... She wasn't going to hurt anyone again, she wasn't going to let anyone hurt her. So, she improvised, not to look all awkward. "I want to thank you for all your help today... For the lesson, for the massage, for the... talk." She said, then continued. "Do you want to stop by my house for a dinner later?" It was a good lie to get away from the thoughts in her head and also get away from her a bit, but it led to another disaster, a whole evening with the woman she was having some strange thoughts that she was even shocked for herself. Well, she was already going for it, so there was no going back from that. "I'll cook." She said as a joke, then laughed softly again afterwards.

The day was getting more and more awkward. And it was all her fault yet again. Good job inviting her for a dinner, what did she expect, really?

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Awkward City. Present population: Two.


Siobhan was not blind to the wave of confusion and awkwardness. But there was something else she sensed from Nima. Maybe she was reading the signs wrong, but it seemed to her the Twi'lek was slowly taking the plunge, despite all her hesitation and doubts. Yep, this would take time, effort and understanding, but Siobhan did not mind. After all, she liked a good chase.


So she gave Nima a dazzling smile. Well, Siobhan thought it was dazzling, though she was probaby a bit biased! "That sounds great, darling. I'd love. I'll go rest a bit - bit tired - and then come by later," she said warmly. Then suddenly she leaned forward and bent down, planting a quick kiss on Nima's cheek. Strictly speaking it was less of a kiss and more a peck. Thus it could either be interpreted as just being friendly or something more. "Where's your place?" she asked sweetly. Internally she was wondering about what to wear for dinner. Maybe her lovely red dress. Or perhaps it was time for sexy leather pants again.