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Valery nodded and understood the woman was genuine in her offer and confident in her abilities to make it work. But she also agreed that it was Kahlil's decision to make, and he seemed to have other methods of keeping himself hidden when necessary.
Then at the mention of children, Valery would smile again - she was quite fond of kids. "Of course, it was a pleasure meeting you," she said in response to Ingrid before she stood up and dipped her head. It was a common way for her to show respect to others. She then lowered herself and turned her gaze to Kahlil.
Eleena set her plate of food into the soft, well-manicured grass, her eyes staring into the fire for a few moments as she contemplated how she’d tell her girlfriend the one thing she had been holding back from her for so long. The Twi’lek had heard Trinity speak of her blood family many times, enough that Eleena envied her experiences. However, it wasn’t like Eleena was bereft of a family of her own. When it came to people like her, family was often found and sometimes took the form of her batchmates. If anything, Eleena could call her previous commanding officer, Traimri Bruz, a father, then Isena Elysi, a mother.
After all, it was Isena who had inspired her to get into amateur racing, even if the Echani was ambivalent regarding her own past as an illegal skylane racer.
“You know I really enjoy hearing about your family, Trinity, but…” Eleena paused. “I felt it wasn’t fair that I never told you about mine or well...anything about where I come from, really.” The Twi’lek took a long intake of air, then turned to stare into her girlfriend’s wide, eager brown eyes. “I’m not an ex-slave or anything...sad, like that.” She continued. “But, I never had parents in the traditional, umm...natural sense.”
Then, a pause.
“I guess what I want to tell you is that...even though it doesn’t exactly look like it, I was created almost two years ago...by the Agents of Chaos. I began basic less than a day after I stepped out of the growth tube and from there...I eventually chose to do...this.” She explained. “Maybe I wasn’t lying when I told you that I was born to ride.” She added with a soft smile, before closing her eyes for a few moments, then opening them again, apprehensive regarding her girlfriend’s anticipated reaction.
Location: Arriving in the meadow
Objective: Have fun and flirt
Tags: Eleena Salwa
Trinity's heart was racing as Eleena began speaking and she listened intently to her. It was a shock to hear what she said, but also a relief. If Trinity was honest, it completely explained the one thing that had made her doubt the woman, the refusal to discuss her past, she didn't have one to discuss.
"My god Eleena," she said after her girlfriend had finished speaking "I thought you were going to tell me something awful." She wiped at her eye where unknown to her a tear had started to well up in anticipation of having her heart broken.
"Thank you for telling me this, I get why you were reluctant, I know not everyone treats genetically engineered individuals fairly." She wiped another tear away, her relief and happiness was showing in her face. "I thought you were going to break up with me or something, I mean, I have so many questions, but those can wait." She leaned over and kissed Eleena softly on her big lips before she composed herself and continued speaking.
She did have questions, she wasn't entirely clear who the agents if chaos were but she assumed it was an army thing. She wondered how much of Eleena's personality was programming and how much was her, she wondered whether there were other Eleenas out there. That thought actually made her a little jealous that someone somewhere might be kissing her Eleena too. "I want to ask you some things at some point if that is OK, but they aren't important right now, and I promise they don't affect the way I feel about you."
"Close your eyes please, and relax, I want to tell you something too." She had planned on telling Eleena this tonight anyway, but now seemed the perfect opportunity to do it.
Assuming Eleena did as she was instructed, she usually did. Trinity reached over and very gently cupped her hands around her lekku and stroked her hands down them in the way she knew her girlfriend really enjoyed. She pulled both of them over her shoulders, being careful not to cause her any discomfort or mess up her outfit. Then as her hands slowly moved down the head tails, she first crossed the tips over once and then a second time before resting them in front of her.
Trinity had a bit of a goofy smile on her face as she was trying to be sensual and romantic, but wondered whether Eleena would even use lekku sign language, not having grown up around other Twi'lek. But she wasn't too concerned, there was plenty of ways she could show the girl how she felt.
She removed her hands, leaving the white lekku in place. "I suppose you can open your eyes again now." She purred.
A lull in the sound of furniture downstairs was the sign that Fel had heard Anashja come in from the roof. The sharp thud of boots moving to the base of the stairs as a rifle pointed up the way before Anashja came into view. The soldier relaxed the aim before moving away to secure the rest of the house.
"Arin Oxvald. Is it that-" The man sighed as he walked away shaking his head.
"Heyo!" Fel gave a whooping holler of a greeting before wheeling around to look at Anashja proper. A shrug with a slight frown followed the question. "Nothing yet. I think I might have stubbed a toe though. Been keeping an eye on it but hard to do in boots."
She listened to the situation report before her head bobbed back and forth as she pondered. The droid had been mentioned, and she gave a roll of her eyes to the thing.
"Speaker head? He's a good one. A bit loud but reliable." She informed her before the question about the source became the hot topic. Her mouth puckered as she looked beyond the walls of the house, as if seeing something. She made no comment about the matter before looking back to Anashja.
"I can help with that. You be the eyes, I'll open the vein." She finally admitted as her hand reached out for Anashja's. There was a cautious look about her with a curious rise of her brow. "Just...don't...yell?"
There was no real way of warning someone for the experience they were about to have when it came to her. If Anashja took her hand, it would feel as though being dunked beneath water suddenly. Fel's mind wrapping itself around Anashja's with alarming ease before dropping them both down into the sharp focus of Fel's senses. A myriad of hands pulled them down, some attempting to pull Anashja from the careful hold Fel had around her as others pushed her against Fel's presence.
The girl settled them into a darkened grey space of the house, disconnected from the physical briefly.
Like a radar ping, a rolling wave of force energy was sent out by Fel. A multicolored glittering tide rippling across the grey tones of the area around them in a widening arc. Fel focused on sending out the wave, eyes shut tight beside her as she let Anashja do the searching. Anything that held force power would dimly glow as the tide of power rolled over it before shortly blinking out until the next wave arrived.
A few minor sources sprung up, residual energies before something in the distance seemed to glow with alarming fervor.
Echo looked around, scanning the surrounding area around the building as Anashja jumped up to the roof and entered the building. There were a few infected around, still shambling around, but the majority of infected in this block had been terminated, at least for now, depending on if more came or not. One infected walked near Echo, and Echo brought his foot down on it, crushing it.
As Echo observed the surrounding area, he could hear the people inside the building talking.
"I can hear you, you know." Echo said. "I do have a name."
Then, Echo heard them talk about finding a problem in the Force. Then, through Echo's health scanners, he saw the two females enter a sleep-like state, their brain waves changing to reflect normal REM sleep patterns, yet also showing consciousness. Echo knew what that meant, he'd done a lot of research into brain activity and Force usage. They were reaching out into the Force.
Then, suddenly, Echo detected a surge of energy from far away. The source of the surge was within the valley, further off from the town they were within. Alongside the surge of energy, Echo also detected large amounts of life-forms with the same bio-signs as the infected.
"Warning: massive surge of energy detected. Large amounts of infected detected." Echo reported. The situation had escalated, and it seemed to be getting worse.
Then, he began playing the EAS tones and the siren on top of his head at full volume, the tones and siren echoing all throughout the valley. "Attention: this is an update from the Eternal Empire, the following message is vital to your safety." Echo said, his voice echoing out alongside the siren. "Attention: this is an update from the Eternal Empire, the following message is vital to your safety. As of this time, the infected threat has risen, and the number of infected has increased substantially. Because of the escalating threat, the Eternal Empire is now issuing and enforcing a complete lockdown of the valley. All travel in and out of the valley has been prohibited. Please do not leave your homes. Remain in shelter, do not go outside. Any attempts of leaving the area will be met with possibly lethal force being used. More updates will follow." Then, the message ended.
"Sergeant Pants," Echo said, speaking to the soldier inside the building. "Help me defend the two females, they will locate the source of our problems."
The Twi’lek felt a tear slip from her eye in sympathy, even as her girlfriend moved in to kiss her, in spite of the fact that Eleena was all too conscious of the fact that she had just ate, bashful at having finally spilled the truth, and anxious due to the deluge of emotion overcoming her at that moment. In spite of everything, Trinity still kissed her, still wanted nothing more than to be with her, even if Eleena felt like she could barely hold herself together.
She had no choice but to accept her girlfriend’s kiss, thereby letting Trinity’s soft lips press against her own. As if on cue, she felt the tension in her shoulders relax and the storm in her nerves abate with the kiss, a fresh reminder that someone really, truly loved her.
“I-I’m sorry I waited so long to tell you. I shouldn’t have done that to you, Trinity.” Eleena said. “The truth is...you deserved my trust and I...didn’t give that to you. I just treated you like I would treat anyone, instead of treating you like someone I love.” She added.
With a deep breath, Eleena obliged with her girlfriend’s request, now truly letting herself finally trust. She giggled as she felt her fingers caress her lekku, feeling her nerves briefly electrify with sensation before Trinity moved her fingers to the less-sensitive, but still delicate, parts of her lekku. She could feel the soft appendages being gently manipulated, set on her chest and shaped into…
A sign.
The Twi’lek couldn’t quite place it, but something inside of her knew what it meant. While she knew Twi’leki, since the language was imprinted in her, she had never once used lekku signalling.
"Mhm," Trinity murmured to her girlfriend, "I love you Eleena, every bit of you." And she kissed her again. She didn't care that the two of them had food on their faces, or that the high couple were now staring with vacant eyes directly at them, she had something special here.
She pulled away after enjoying the kiss as long as she could without it seeming inappropriate. "I'm not mad or anything you know, for not completely just giving in and spilling everything straight away. That isn't how real relationships work, trust is earned, and I am so glad that I have earned yours."
She picked up her food again, she ate small mouthfuls but was food wasn't really on her mind any more and she scanned the are around the festival. "The first night we met, you suggested you might like to try henna ink on your Lekku, why don't we find the witchy henna lady? There is always a witchy henna lady at these things. I'll get some too, if you want."
She continued eating slowly while she let Eleena finish her own food, she was well aware that Twi'lek traditionally disliked food waste, part of that was the meagre food on their homeworld but it was in their DNA. She didn't want to run off to party and make Eleena feel like she had to abandon her own plate.
"Ooh, I just had a thought, I totally get to keep your bio-engoneered greatness in my back pocket if you ever beat me in a speeder race now."
Sitting next to the firelight, kissing her girlfriend on a mild, late summer night, with nothing but the stars for company and everything else simply blocked out…
This was heaven.
At that moment only one person existed in the galaxy, Trinity Harris. Eleena was naught but a lucky servant who had been granted entry into her blissful realm. By some twist of fate, this woman had decided to love her, while barely knowing anything of who she was with the exception of her skill as a swoop pilot. Even then, there were things that Eleena had held back from her, not including the fact that she was a strand-cast. The Twi’lek wondered if she would ever tell her girlfriend of the time she executed a deserter on Lotho Minor, or the horrors she witnessed firsthand in the Brotherhood of the Maw’s raid on Batuu. Eleena loved telling her girlfriend how freeing it felt to go fast, but she stopped at that. She had never once told her of how her nerves surged with adrenaline, then overwhelming pleasure, every time she strafed targets on the ground or killed something. A hardwired response that pushed her to greater heights of violence and skill, encouraging her to never relent in slaying the enemy.
Perhaps that was why she refused to quit.
“Henna?” Eleena began, pulling herself from the morass of her thoughts. “Oh! I-I remember!” The Twi’lek piped up, her features lighting up with a grin as she did. “That sounds wonderful, Trinity!” She continued.
Picking up her fork, Eleena worked through finishing her food, somewhat quietly as it was just that good. The Twi’lek savored every bit of it, saving her cookie cake for last in the process. Once she was finished, Eleena took a deep breath, then nodded to her girlfriend.
“Gosh, this is wonderful…” She said softly, as she followed Trinity to the henna artist.
As Felmorante's hand reached for hers, Anashja felt her Litr Gryttr in her chest piece instinctively react to defend her, but she quietened it and allowed herself to trust her friend.
She gasped as she felt her spirit pulled from her and into the strange realm, it was a mildly frightening experience but she felt the grip around her wrist holding on too her. As the transition settled and she looked around at the quickly appearing glows it was a surreal vision, she was a wispy and unsaturated version of her physical form.
In the distance seemed to be a cluster of brighter glows which she would need to head toward. There were numerous force presences outside the house, every few moments though the winked out as QEMD-15 Echo
continued his work. She saw the presence of the sergeant and of Fel, the girl sat with her eyes closed, radiating energy.
With no time to waste, Anashja willed her repulsors to lift her up. The repulsors themselves were not doing the work, having no effect here, but her willpower combined with Fel's manipulation of the force realm launched her into the air so she could scout. It did not take her long to find the target, a strong and growing cluter of presences led her to a small Chapel about a mile from their physical location. The force here was dark and it swirled like an icy Maelstrom around some entity in the very center. As it swirled, dark tendrils reached unto the ground and new force presences appeared. Something was summoning the dead from their slumber.
As she came closer, she felt an awareness in her mind, the entity somehow knew she was watching from her vantage point. A dark tendrils reached toward her like a claw. She felt a surge of power as the Litr Gryttr decided enough was enough and closed Anashja off to the force, slamming her back into her physical form do hard that her spirit hurt. The last thing she felt was a challenge from the entity to come and find her.
She opened her eyes, he skin was clammy and her forehead was beaded with sweat under her helmet. She took it off to wipe her head and spoke. "Did you see it too Fel? I know what is causing this and we have to defeat it quickly." She looked at the young girl, surprised at her power, having someone else's mind wrap around her own was a new and interesting experience.
"QEMD-15 Echo
, I am uploading coordinates to you of a small Chapel a mile away where this is originating. Together I hope we can eliminate the threat."
She looked back at Fel and the sergeant who was peering through the window at a momentary lull. "So what do you two want to do?"
Kahlil Noble
Ingrid L'lerim
