The hermit who lived in the swamps of Dagobah.

[Kiara]

Dark and loud swamps of Dagobah served themselves a home for many creatures, large animals, small, bugs, mysterious being that we cannot comprehend with our bare minds. Around a special creature - a near-human at that, was patches of some of the most stable land for landing a ship on, as well as paths to some of the most common Jedi and Sith visiting of ancient caves and temples.

In the mist of creepy sounds, sat a peaceful woman who fiddled with holopads and strange bits of metal parts in a small dirt hut, one of which produced barely any light, and made strange humming sounds from it's ancient and patched generator which helped fuel all of the monitors and audio systems for hundreds of meters from the house.

With an audible groan, the woman leaned back onto what seemed to be a torn apart and used battle bot, using it as a small recovery zone for many moments before standing up and walking a whole meter to her monitors to see who had landed - if anyone today. Usually it was an empty planet, but you never know with population...

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

Alexander sighed as his ship looked fine from the outside, a droid repairing loose panels from his little trip through fog and wood before landing thankfully on solid ground. "OF all the places to get lost on, its dagobah. I swear i should not be the one doing this damned run when my skill at navigation is... well look at this mess we are in, wouldn't you agree..." His head turned the the droid that only paused to look back at him before going back to work and fixing the ship up. "Ya, you are right, i complain to much. Atleast we are alive and not dead from a cliffside. Plus, ive always wanted to visit this place so two birds with one stone ehh?"

The droid just continued working and he sighed. The Former Senator was so used to other people being around these days that the silence of this massive swamp planet, well relative silence, was odd. He knew that there wouldn't be much around for miles so that didn't worry him, and pirates rarely used this sector anymore thanks to the Techno Union and Alliance presences nearby. But still it was a pain to have to wait in what he could see as solitude after so long.

The beauty of it though, he could get some of his writing done while he sat about. Always time for a new poem if he got bored of waiting and looking over the area.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

A long and uncomfortable pause stopped the woman as a few flickers of something passed in the many cameras set up in the area. She had a few long seconds of adjusting her controls before the camera moved a few inches to the left to see the ship - looking crashed and in ruins. It would be only a few days before she went out and blasted the thing to bits, then stole it's repairs.

Or perhaps she could wait a month... A small sound of a toad-like creature hopping through the cracks in her door suddenly echoed in the audio set she had set up to the single microphone she forgot to turn off - the one that activated near the camera the controls were stuck to. Metallic croaking and footsteps echoed into the deep forest, as well as wooden doors creeking and a small "Shoo," every now and then.

Returning to the stump seat, the woman went to turn on one of the many recordings of giant animals that populated the swamp, only to turn off the microphone and play the own sound in her hut. It was then, she realized she messed up.

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

Alexander blinked as his head turned and found the sounds echoing around him and the direction they were coming from. For a few long moments his eyes blinked between the shooing and sounds of metallic croaking that he almost thought they were not actually happening. Yet none the less there they were and surprising as this fact seemed to him his feet moved to find out what just was making these noises while the droid worked on repairs. Luckily it wasn't too big a worry and would be done by two days minimum yet still he now knew something was nearby.

It took him but a ew minutes to find the camera from which one of the voices and sounds were coming from, yet what intrigued him more was from where was the source. That much was easy enough to figure though as he heard more of that echoing far off yet still it meant they were not far from their source. So his eyes followed a direction he felt was right and started walking, right towards the woman's hut without so much of knowing what it was he would find when he found the source.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

Tiny disappointed sighs left the woman's lips. She slowly leaned back against her dirt desk and closed her eyes. Well done, you got yourself a real visitor now. After waiting a few long minutes so the man could catch up to her hut, she got herself up and into slippers, taking her staff from the wall to use as a support.

The hut itself wasn't very easy to spot, but by the noise and lights no one bothered to turn off, it could be easier to find in the nestle of bushes and vines she put around it many times before, so many times it began to look natural. She opened the wooden door and stepped out, waiting with her hands wrapped around her staff for the stranger to come.

Perhaps one of the most interesting things about this mysterious hermit was her strange Force signature - Light, Dark, and Grey strands connecting and barely grasping onto one another while circling a dark void of letters drifting about in several locations. A whole mix of everything, and a little more.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

What Alexander found certainly surprised him as he looked at the woman who emerged from the hut which at this point looked like it had been grown rather than built. His eyes found her signature almost immediately but that didn't even bother him enough to look at in full because she was more interesting to him than the force part of her. "Hey, i was looking for whoever put up the cameras and speakers around here... was that you?" He knew the answer but wanted hear her answer first to see if she told the truth right off the back.

With the question out there and his watcher found, his legs collapsed out from under him as he showed not a hint of hesitation when it came to sitting down on a root that reached out from the ground. It wasn't the best seat in the world but he was more focused on the situation rather than getting a comfortable seat so he just shrugged mentally and focused on her. After all, a hermit in the middle of a swamp with this much tech laying around an being powered is not something you get to see every day. Actually it was more than far from the norm.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

There was a terribly long, and awkward silence as the hermit stared at Alexander without even blinking. Finally, she did, and gently prodded the ground with her staff. "Yes, you already knew that. I can point you out in the nearest village here for your ship." Though she, herself already knew what was probably going to happen, it was always worth a shot to tell someone to get lost.

Even if she did want their ship for scrap metal in the near-future. Her voice was something of a smooth buttery tone, yet fit with a losing firmness to it that worn off from years of being alone, or at least nearly alone from visitors who had come up by accident, coincidence, or purposely.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

"That ships not moving for another day or two even if i wanted to go to the nearest village. And i do thank you for speaking with honesty, that is something i find lacking in most people." His body turned as he leaned against the trunk of the tree that the root sprung from, his eyes closing as his hands crossed behind his head. It seemed he had no intention to move so much as leave as he sat there relaxed and leaning back like it was some summer resort and he was in a lawn chair.

"So, how come you live out here in the middle of no where and not in that village you pointed out... or rather how come you live on Dagobah of all places? I mean i find the place cool and its interesting, but to live here is beyond the realm of what i would call home." He didn't open his eye for a minute, letting the question hang in the air while. He expected her to either shoo him away again or to straight out hit him with the staff but there was always the chance that she might speak again and give him a conversation.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

This kid was already giving the impression that it was a locally known brat at his home town. She let out a small sigh, then flipped her staff right out from her hold on it and went to swipe it at the young man's head, aiming to give his noggin' a well deserved bonk for asking such a terrible question. "It's not nice to ask why people don't live with other people. I'm not going to sit around in some comedy series like you may be used to."

After a small moment of scowling, she looked up into the trees, then looked back at the boy with a puzzled expression. "The village is just a few miles of here. It's only a walk and a small swim. You'll find repair services cheaper than the fuel your droids are using right now."

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

"As you said, though villages annoy me as im around people more than enough that im curious more about why you are out here..." He had taken the hit to the head without so much as moving to stop it, his hand only raising to rub at it afterwards and listening to her words, even if they hadn't stopped his continuous prying as he was curious about this one. She didn't seem all that much older than him but hell if he could actually tell the age of someone these days with all the abilities granted to them through technology, or even force users for that matter.

"So ya, ill let the droids i trust repair my ship, the damages aren't too severe to warrant my use of the little services." His head rested on the trunk now as his eyes once more closed. "So, whats your name..." He paused and opened the eye closest to her. "Or can i just call you Red, you have the hair for it."

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

It was starting to become more and more apparent that this kid didn't understand the words that spoke out "privacy". Kiara slowly rubbed her face with a single hand, then sighed and walked into her hut, closing the door firmly behind her, though there was no locking mechanism of the sorts. "I've already done interviews, kid. Leave, it's not worth your time to pester me about my social life."

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

"Perhaps." He raised a brow at her reaction and smiled as he continued to sit there and leave his eyes closed this time. The hermit of a woman interested him greatly and it was that fact that kept him where he was. Sure he knew he was pestering the woman, hell it was easily seen no matter what it is that you are looking at. Yet none the less his eyes found their way to the closed mental world.

While he waited for the woman to speak once more or just simply until his ship was done. He let his mind reach out and touch the life around him. It felt good where he was, trying to understand the world in a way that was beyond the physical.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

From inside the hut, various dark energies spurted out like lava - hot and deadly to the touch. The hermit wasn't letting her good side out today, she wasn't quite in the mood for giving away her toys of wisdom and training. Laying on the dirt bed she made herself, which was actually quite warm, a little more than one would hope so, she pictured the boy leaving over and over, so she may resume doing nothing over and over again.

Perhaps he would feel it, maybe not. It wasn't up to her to what he sensed in his surroundings.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

Alexander's eyes turned to look at the hut and for a few moments he sat there with nothing to say as he wondered what she was doing inside there. It wasn't his business granted but in the fact that she seemed to be as secluded from others for such a long time he figured it was him needing to leave. So what he did do was simply lean back once more and let this woman figure out that he wasn't moving till his ship was ready to go and that was all she would come to expect. He wasn't doing it to taunt her, simply because she was the most interesting thing on this planet and that would keep him occupied till his time to go.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

The door did not open, and no more sounds besides the occasional hum of electricity came from the dirt hut, nothing more than the quiet sounds of a single soul breathing, and occasional movements on the bed. The woman in the hut had taken one of her data pads from the various shelves lined on the wall and took a habit of reading through them, occasionally switching their subjects to see what new things she would like to learn that day.

It was lonely once again - besides the close unmoving Force presence of that little boy. It was annoying - but it was better than physically being pestered.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

Alexander shrugged as he was left to his own thoughts and soon his eyes brought him to the woods around this woman's hutt. With a smile his legs brought him up once more and he looked around him before letting his feet propel him from the ground and up to grab onto one of the vines that hung from the trees. It was sturdy enough to climb from what he could tell, giving way to his doing so and occupying him while the hermit treasured her loneliness. Maybe he could figure out why this woman was so bent on being alone when he returned as to him... no one deserved being out in the middle of a swamp with not a soul to be around.

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

Data listings and more, soon Kiara had learned what she wanted to and put the datapad away. She couldn't sense the boy in the same place, and as such, went out to scavenge for berries. On her travels, she went to the ship location to see if there were any spares - if it had taken off.

From above there was not much to look at - but perhaps one of the most trained and keen eyes of a warriors long lived life, one could see a vent far off into a nearby hill, one that wasn't so much protected by the woman's security cameras and alarms. That is, again, if they would see in between bushes.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

"Hey. finally came out for some foul air and dull fog. Just another beautiful day on Dagobah, ehh?" He smiled as he sat up in the trees above her little hovel with a smile. The young man had no intention of doing much more than seeing this woman's loneliness a little less than the time that he arrived, yet it would take some time so he just decided he would help her with that. "You know, there are places that are better suited for your abilities with this grid of cameras... its obvious that you are smart enough so how come you don't get out into the galaxy and make a life with those talents?"

 

[Kiara]

[member="Alexander Sannes"]

A moment in time - Kiara was frozen with shock. She turned around quickly after recovering herself, planting her staff firmly into the ground. With a small scowl on her face, she turned her head to the side and stared at the boy - now resting on top of her house. "Just what do you think the galaxy can offer from my basic camera skills, and I cannot get myself?"

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Kiara"]

"Well, im sure that your skills would be a bit more than that if you had the technology and training, i mean you did all this on your own so with a little aid, hey who knows." His yawn left him back to dropping to his legs and smiling. "Plus pretty sure it would be healthier than being out and alone in the middle of planet with no one around. Seclusion harms the brain and sooner or later it is better to have those around you than not to. Medicine, food, and companionship are all things that you need... being out here makes all those far harder."