Lake Connor (In, Around and the Cliffs Above)

Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:51 am by Phantom

*Managing to shut out the disconcerting vision of the red, he gathered himself as best he could. He would have vomited if he'd had a stomach to vomit from. Struggling to make sense of his surroundings he forced himself to SEE. He suddenly sound himself looking at an expanse of water roughly a hundred yards in front of him, the shore lapping at a small pebbled beach. He concentrated further and suddenly sound assaulted his senses. Painfull at first, it soon became managable as he seperated different sounds. The sound of the water slashing around the stones, of birds chirping in the morning breeze. Calmed by the familiar sounds, he looked down and was surprised to see he had somehow gained form. He was now clad in a black robe of a homespun material, covering his legs and feet. Frowning, he looked up and started to glide more than walk, down to the lake...
He stood there for some time, staring at the sparkles as the sun reflected its majesty in hundreds of flickering lights, defying right as they appeared and vanished in concert with each other. Glancing to the right at the towering cliffs, imposing in their size, a natural border, denying travel to the west. Turning his ethereal head to peer to his left, he noted the lush forests reaching all the way to the lakes shore.
Snapping out of his reverie and setting himself, he focussed himself. He could no longer sense or hear anyone near, yet the after-image. The imprint. A certain recognisable, yet elusive, pulse in his mind had called to him earlier. He wasn't sure what it meant, or why he was here, but he was determined to make his presence back in the living world count.
Peering ahead, into the tree's, he started 'walking'*

Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:26 pm by Caoimhin Shan

She's really gone.

*Caoimhin stood staring blankly out at the lake, not really seeing what was before him. It just kept hitting him, over and over again.*

She's really gone.

*He blinked, and a small spark lit in his eyes as he registered what he was looking at. It was beautiful; he had always admired the view here. His sister had too.. or so he had been told.*

I thought I was making up for all the time we were apart. But she was never really there.

*It wasn't fair. He had thought she had made it, thought that she had survived, but it was a lie, it was all a lie, she was gone, she was really gone, she had been gone for years and years and he had allowed himself to believe that this.. this machine had been her. He had known as soon as he had seen her on the Pride that she wasn't his sister. But he had wanted to have her back, so much.. so very much...*

She's gone.

*Part of him wanted to just lay down and cry, again. He knew that the pain would pass with time. Some very small part of him reminded him of this fact. But another small part of him told him to lash out, that it would all feel better if he just let it go, that it would feel better immediately, that there would be no more waiting, no more false hope, just him and his own actions.

That small part was getting louder, more influential, and it was sounding more and more.. Right.*

Just let go.

*It would be easier, after all.

His hand clenched into a fist, and he heard the leather material, laced with taozin, rubbing against itself as his fingers dug into his palm. He glanced down at it, his thoughts growing faster, more frenzied.. darker.*

I haven't let myself feel the Force, not fully, in so long. It's been so long without it.. I would have known. I wouldn't have let that thing deceive me.

*He reached over with his left hand, the fingers of his right slowly unclenching.*

I've been afraid to let it in.

*He pulled the glove off of his hand...*

Now it's time to let it out.

*...and flung it to the side, his eyes suddenly flaring yellow, as something -- someone -- who had been lurking within finally came to the surface.*

Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:49 pm by Caoimhin Shan

*The Force came flooding in: he could feel everything around him now, clearly, and everything with the sensitivity for it could feel him too. He had never learned how to shield himself from the Force without artificial means, nor had his sister. He relied on the taozin, and his sister had relied on the special Force Mask in her helmet.

But his sister was gone now, and she wasn't coming back.

Caoimhin's face twisted into a sneer, his sickly yellow eyes gazing down at the pale flesh of his right arm. It hadn't seen the sun in ages, because he had been hiding from the Force. He had hid so he wouldn't be hurt.. but it had still managed to punish him for that, too.*

You're free now.. Free to do whatever you like...

*A few sparks lit on his hand, and his sneer turned into a grin. They danced over, under, and around his fingers, and he started laughing; it had been so long since he had done this, so long since he had stopped caring about meaningless philosophies like light and dark. He had once been carefree, doing whatever he'd liked.

A small voice inside him reminded him, and that hurt you even more... but that voice was quickly silenced. He had been hurt in the past, but right now...

Right now it felt good.*

You are free, Caoimhin. You are free.

*He turned on his heel and started walking, away from the discarded glove, away from the one thing that had become his signature. The dark cloak billowed out behind him, caught in his wake as he strode briskly back towards the base.

He had matters to attend to..*

Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:20 pm by Dav Man'Sell

*The wind swept across the lake, and a gentle rain patted down on the area. It was a typical autumn for this region of the planet - mild, vaguely comfortable, oft overcast. On this day, a gentle, yet bracing, breeze accompanied the usual weather.

Atop the cliffs, looking out over the lake, stood a figure in a Dark Green hooded robe. She watched over the lake, in quiet contemplation. Her slender, graceful feminine form was concealed by the great swaths of fabric around her. The dulled, washed out sunlight that permeated the cloud cover illuminated her face beneath the hood, her brown eyes glinting with the energy and strength that was finally beginning to return to her. Her beautiful, delicate face, marked with the twin scars on her left cheek that had in many ways defined her for so long now, was beginning to carry some colour, some optimism again.

And more than anything, she felt like she was on the mend. It may have been some months since she had been cured, but the recovery, emotionally more than anything, was taking it's time. She knew she couldn't rush these things.

She took a deep breath, allowing the calming sensations of Osarian to bring peace to her, and the subtlest of smiles spread across her lips.*

Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:04 pm by Dav Man'Sell

*Once more, Tebana Niobe Sor walked along the cliffs above Lake Connor. This place, above any other, made her feel tranquil. At peace.

She missed the company of her loved ones, though. Dav especially. He visited when he could, but his duties to the Jedi Order, the new Republic, and the Galaxy at large kept him busy; and usually in some kind of danger, much to her chagrin. She rolled her eyes, entirely to herself, at the thought of the stories she'd heard from him, and even more at the ones he'd opted not to tell her, that she had subsequently heard from everyone else.

She drew the emerald coloured cloth of her cloak around her a little tighter as a stiff breeze swept by, and turned back toward the base.

Perhaps it was time, she thought, that she got out amongst the Galaxy again. At least made her way to Yavin, taught a little there. Osarian was quiet, the number of Jedi in the base were few, and life there was generally unchanged day to day. The peace and quiet had done her good for a while, but perhaps she had been at rest too long. Perhaps it was time to get out and do something.

Perhaps.*

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