Flying Tin Cans

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

He stiffened at her words, and she tried to work out just what that meant from him. Shock no doubt, she certainly was right now, had been...would likely be for some time to come. Uncertain, she tried (barely) to move back from him, only to find him drawing her closer and lifting her up. Slender arms wrapped around his neck, her face pressing lightly into the material of his robes as he carried her into the room and settled her down on the bed. She didn't bother letting go of him this time, even as he spoke. For the second time she'd met him she wasn't sure to laugh or be upset at his words. This time she voted laugh.

A small, almost sarcastic sounding, chuckle escaped her before she shook her head. Aunna muttered something unintelligible into the cloth at his shoulder. There was silence a moment as she tried to figure out just how to get it though that thick head of his that he wasn't the least bit offending to the eye. At least not to her. Her shaking had stilled, mostly, as she'd continued to hold onto him, as if for some sort of anchor to reality. Now only every so often would a short tremor run along her body as she took a breath and settled herself further. Opening her mouth to reply to that first statement, he beat her to it with another comment and she tensed slightly, pulling her face away from his shoulder at last and gazing up at him. Just what did that mean then? Finally she gathered herself together enough to say something remotely coherent.

Three things...
First...you know very well that I don't agree with you views on the topic of your appearance.

Second...unsettling...why? I don't understand...

Third...I couldn't remember until today. I'd tried before...recently I mean...when we were on Coruscant...I asked you about visions for a reason. The transport they were on...I saw it falling before it did...and once it did..well, you were there....but it jogged my memory. I knew there was something I was missing...something important, but I didn't know what or why. Then again...when I...when I told you you could leave if you liked...there was a song. It felt...

She paused, letting go of him at last as she sorted through her memories and explained to him just what had happened.

...it felt like...like my force help me this sounds so insane....it felt like my future was dieing the way the words and the music just kind of...cut off. It reminded me of something also, like I'd heard it before. Today...today I realized why. All of this...what happened just now...it started because I started humming that song, then I started singing it and....well from there it was just flashes of memories cut and pasted together all over the place....but that song was in all of them. I wonder why I couldn't remember....

Her eyes had wandered away from his face as she spoke, gazing down at her hands instead as she toyed with the silver wings that hung on the chain about her neck. Finally, as she ended, Aunna looked back up at him...hoping for answers, but not really expecting any.

[Vex]

He'd expected her to let go. When she didn't, that made things rather...awkward, to say the least. He listened to her words...gauging them. At last, however, he couldn't abid the unsettling intimacy of her still clinging to him like that. Her breath was brushng at the side of his throat and it was...unsettling for him. Reaching back, he was about togripp her wrists and extricated her arms from around his neck in order for him to slip out. Fortunatly, she did that for him. Stepping back, he'd lean against the opposite wall, crossing his arms over his chest as those eyes looked at her levelly.

"It seems the Force, for whatever purpose, has entwined our fates together...and as for how ou felt when you tried to make me leave...it was most likely a manifestation of that...revealing a tangent of possibility. Entwined so...it encourages your sensitivity to the Force to strengthen...to test boundaries. Trying to send me away would end that...as you would no longer have a way to train or improve."

"Like it or not...our paths have merged and we must travel together until the Force deems it necessary for us to part ways again. It was much as I had felt before Nar Shaddaa...though I had assumed the end of the trail would be there. I hadn't expected it to be the beginning."

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

Watching him quietly as he spoke, she sighed slightly and nodded. Yes, she'd thought it meant that as well...well, she did now that she REMEMBERED anyway. Pulling her legs in to sit cross legged, Aunna sighed slightly before giving a slightly annoyed look to one of her passing thoughts. Both swiftly vanished.

Knowing...heh, remembering is the proper word I suppose...remembering all of this, what you say certainly makes sense. I just wonder WHY I didn't remember in the first place. I think it would have been preferable to this kind of situation.

It most certainly would have been. Even though Aunna had calmed considerably, and had finally stopped shaking, she was still feeling the after effects of the ordeal in the strangest sensation of lightheadedness, and adding in a headache.

I find myself at a loss of how do deal with the situation as a whole...

Chuckling slightly and shaking her head a bit, Aunna turned and sat at the edge of the bed. She wasn't about to let this stop her from doing anything, she'd just have to be a bit more careful with HOW MUCH she did.

Well, I suppose it'll just have to sort itself out in the end. For now, however, what is your plan? I mean...aside from the typical glaring, growling, and just generally being unpleasant?

The last sentence was obviously a teasing jab at him. A small, quirky, smile curled one side of her mouth up as she raised an eyebrow at him, her tone lighter than she felt. After a moment, her expression became more serious.

Thank you, once again, for being there Vex.

For being a dark jedi, it was odd just how much she ended up thanking the man.

[Vex]

"Aunna, you've only recently understood and accept the fact that you have that connection and have begun to willfully draw upon it. Also, you have never spent a large amount of time with another Force user. Not a trained one, at any rate. There are some that believe that prolonged exposure can trigger latent abilities in those who are unknowingy Force Sensitive. Regardless of the reason, you've hardly had reason to suspect that you were 'seeing the future', as it were."

At her question over his plans and that teasing, he narrowed his eyes and proceeded to be his 'usual self'. "For now, we must simply bide our time until we reach Mygeeto and can link up with your brother. Once we've reached him, we'll retrieve what you left for him and hen head along our own way. I'm certain you'll be able to talk him into allowing us a resupply and perhaps get you a weapon more conducive with your talents and others that we can use to begin your practice. I would wait to really focus on training you until we re someplace more secluded. It is not for the average sort."

He simply shrugged off her appreciation, paying it little mind. The Dark Jedi was not used to appreciation or thanks. Not much of what he did ever really warranted it. "Perhaps the holorecordings and coordinates I provided to your former lover and the blind Jedi will help push things along in the direction I wish them to travel. It will help expedite my plans." He shrugged noncommitally. "In any case, you should, perhaps, socialize with your horned friends, lest they get any other misconceptions about you consorting with one such as I."
With that, he would slip out of her room and back ito his own.

[Talau the Ever-Lurking]

Patience wasn't a virtue Aunna had ever really found herself with an overabundance of. Vex, however, seemed to bring that patience out in her...most of the time anyway...and so she quietly listened to what he had to say. Mulling it over she shrugged slightly, a non-committal gesture to the whole thing. Watching as he stood there, closed off and emotionally cool, Aunna simply focused on his words. As he came to the last part of his little speech, Aunna's brow furrowed slightly, blue eyes trying to take in hints of body language that just weren't there.

That was the problem with Vex....or any jedi really...they just didn't often show whatever their intent was, emotionally, physically, sometimes verbally, they were all pretty closed off. This left her with few clues as to the thoughts or meanings behind their words. Vex wasn't as bad as some, but he was worse than a few she'd met, and when he wanted to be he was downright solid. A wall of nothing. It irked her at times. Either way, she had a few questions to ask, like what holorecordings and coordinates? Her former lover? Had he meant Rook? Certainly she'd not been that forward or transparent, had she? Well...Vex WAS a mental ninja, creeping in and out of people's thoughts without them noticing he was there until he was gone...if at all. What plans? The ones for him getting into the temple? She'd been about to bombard him with these queries when he'd given that last parting shot and slipped out of her room again.

Dazed mildly by that last sentence, she sat there and blinked for a moment wondering just WHAT THE HELL had gone on. Was he really that bothered by what Veera had said? Personally, Aunna could care less about what Miss Kitty and Mr Devil thought of her and Vex's relationship. Sure, there were times she caught herself thinking about the man that might not have been the most appropriate, like earlier during his training when she'd all but gawked at him, but it wasn't as if she was ever going to actually DO anything about it....right? Shaking her head slightly and chuckling, Aunna simple contented herself with hooking Ayer up to a power supply Kuuto had lent her before laying down with a book Veera had suggested she read.

The woman couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the title.

Maybe she'd go and "socialize" after all.