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Vima Sunrider

[tobeajedi]

[This room is a library. It has the recognizable shelves of books, most of them weighty tomes. It looks just like you'd expect for a repository of ancient knowledge: rustic, quiet, and dry. The area looks oddly warped--or maybe you are just very small? It's difficult to tell.

If you try taking a book and reading it, though, there's nothing inside: not blank pages, just, nothing. However, there are a number of objects scattered around the shelves and tables.

Some things you might want to try: a cube-shaped Jedi Holocron, a pyramidal Sith Holocron, a lightsaber, a green lightsaber crystal, and a ragged cloak.

Sitting on one of the benches is Vima, but she doesn't look like the teenager who got kidnapped into a space reality show. She's four years old and blonde.]

[ooc: There is nothing hugely graphic upcoming, but some of Vima's memories involve war and some blood, so let me know if you'd like to avoid.]

[dancingmd]

[By now, it doesn't surprise Beverly to appear in an unfamiliar place. Whatever Atroma is up to, it's obviously going to be continuing for a while. At least now she knows to look for an exit and not to touch anything, if she can help it.

Naturally, the first thing Beverly is going to notice is the lone little girl on the bench. Not knowing who she is, Beverly approaches the girl slowly, squatting down to her level to make herself less imposing. The last thing she wants to do is scare the child. Her voice is soothing and motherly when she speaks.]

Hi, there.

[tobeajedi]

[Tiny Vima looks up and then away. This woman seems nice, though, even though she's a stranger... and she's here, so she must be a Jedi.]

Hi. Who're you?

[dancingmd]

I'm Dr. Crusher. And I'm afraid I'm also very lost. But I bet you know where we are, don't you?

[tobeajedi]

[Vima nods.]

Of course I do. This is the Ossus. [Um... well, everyone knows that, the planet is Ossus. She looks shy again.] This is the Jedi library.

[She doesn't give her own name; it hasn't occurred to her yet that someone might not know it. Nomi usually takes care of that.]

[dancingmd]

[Jedi. So this girl must be Vima.]

Is your mother somewhere nearby?

[tobeajedi]

[She shakes her head.]

She's training with Master Thon. [There might be a tiny bit of wistfulness there.] Why are you looking for her?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Another unfamiliar room. Whatever was going on, Wanda was beginning to get used to it. There was still that natural disorientation of finding herself in someplace new, someplace unexpected; however, it was fading quicker with each new room she found herself in. This time, the room's contents catch her attention and hold it. She doesn't even notice the small girl in the room at first. Her attention fixated on the floating holocrons. She can't help but reach out a hand, trying to touch the pyramid-shaped sith icon floating in mid-air.]

1/2

[tobeajedi]

[Vima looks up, but she doesn't say anything--she simply watches as the unfamiliar woman walks around the room, looking at things. Vima wonders if she should ask who she is and what she's doing there.

When she reaches towards the pyramid, Vima jumps up and exclaims just as the stranger's fingers make contact with it.]

No! That one's dangerous!

[tobeajedi]

[There's a bright light in the sky that isn't the sun, a blazing white-and-yellow line that's growing incrementally. Everyone--robed Jedi, uniformed soldiers, normal civilians--is rushing to and fro, arms full of books and lightsabers and relics. Your mother puts you onto the broad back of Master Thon, saying that you need to get to the transport ships. The planet is going to be scorched lifeless.

You're terrified. Not even the Jedi can do anything--so many Jedi have died, Jedi you've known as your mother's friends have come back and tried to kill her, Thon, their masters.

Cay Qel-Droma exclaims that his brother is here. Your heart leaps: you know Ulic, he loves your mother like your father did--but Ulic left for the Sith and the few times you've seen him since, he isn't the man you knew. You don't understand how the dark side turned him from the brave, kind man that loves your mother so much. Cay leaps into a starfighter as everyone else hurries towards the transport ships. You keep watching, trying to see which one is him. The other fighter shoots him down. Nomi and Tott Doneeta run towards it, but Thon doesn't hurry so quickly.

There's a familiar sound: lightsabers clashing. Something horrible is happening up ahead. You clutch your doll closer to your chest, but it offers no comfort. There's a blood-curdling scream. You can hear your mother crying. You don't. You're just trying to breathe. Every time you thought there was nothing in your life that could be scarier--than your father dying, being attacked by dark side creatures, attacked by servant droids--something new happens.

Thone reaches the scene. Cay is in Ulic's arms. You can tell he's dead. He's covered in blood, his droid arm is gone, but you can feel it, a place in the Force that howls in sorrow. He's dead. And Ulic killed him.]

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda this feeling of panic, of fear in the face of seemingly insurmountable evil. Yet, it was far from an experience she wanted to repeat. Then, the sorrow, the despair and the anger of loss... yes, Wanda was very familiar with this sensation. The feeling of a hole in your heart, something that can never be mended. It was almost sickening how familiar this sensation had become to her.]

[When the vision ends and Wanda finds herself back in the library, it takes a moment for her to reign in her feelings and emotions. Even though it wasn't her memory, she still needed a few seconds to remember who she was. Once she's recovered her senses, she looks over at the girl who had been seated at a nearby bench, giving her an apologetic smile.]

I'm sorry. You tried to warn me didn't you?

[tobeajedi]

[Tears are running down Vima's face. Cay Qel-Droma... killed by his own brother. And it can't be undone. Nobody can go back and make it un-happen, not even Ulic. She nods.]

That day... that day is the worst day. [She looks down at her feet.] Why did you pick it?

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda looks visibly hurt, feeling guilty. She honestly hadn't meant to. She had no idea what touching that symbol would mean.]

I am sorry. I did not mean for that to happen. I merely saw the symbol and- I'm sorry.

[tobeajedi]

It's okay. [It's not her fault--she didn't know what it was.] You recognize Sith holocrons?

[stefanged]

[A library, huh? Stefan missed these places. He used to lose so many hours of his life here, sitting down by aisles of books and devouring as many of them as he possibly could.

This time, however, it's not the books that catch his attention so much as the four year old girl on the bench. As he approaches her, he kneels down so that he's at her eye level.]

Hey there. Are you waiting for someone?

[tobeajedi]

[Vima sits still as the stranger approaches. She's not afraid, exactly, but she's a little hesitant. Lately, not everyone in Jedi places or even Jedi robes has been nice. But when they're not, they usually make it clear immediately.]

No, I'm just here a lot.

[stefanged]

[He nods, his gaze briefly shifting towards the rest of the library.]

I used to come here all the time too. Hey - actually, why don't you tell me your favorite thing in here?

[Why "thing" slips out instead of book, he's not sure, but he'll roll with it for now.]

[tobeajedi]

[Vima looks around. The library has a lot of interesting things in it. Some of them she isn't going to pick out herself... she gets up and walks over to the shelf that has the cube-shaped holocron on top.]

That one is good.

[stefanged]

[He follows her over to the shelf, staring up at the holocron. He's not sure what it is exactly, but he reaches up to get it and examine it better.]

It sure looks pretty cool.

[survives]

[And here's another of these rooms. All right, all right. That's not incredibly weird at all, nope.

Carefully, Leanne walks past the shelves, pausing only to open a book (nothing, figures) before moving on, from one shelf to the next. She doesn't even notice the girl for the moment, as distracted as she is, and in the end, it's the cloak that really captures her attention.]

Who left this here... [she mutters to herself, slowly reaching out for it.]

1/2

[tobeajedi]

[Young Vima doesn't offer any kind of greeting--she just watches. When Leanne moves towards the discarded cloak, Vima stands up and follows her over, but she doesn't protest when the older woman reaches out for it.]

Ulic did. Ulic Qel-Droma.

[tobeajedi]

[The wind howls outside of the enormous, abandoned pipe. Snow and ice strikes the exterior like pepper. It's cold inside too, but a cube floats in the air, glowing with light and warmth.

The man who sits with you is big, and he used to be handsome--it's clear he was once a strong, proud individual. But his face is lined and worn. His eyes are sad. Weary.]

"Nomi doesn't know you're here, does she?"

"My mother doesn't notice whether I'm there or not," you say--this is the familiar fourteen-year-old. "She doesn't know how badly I want to be a Jedi."

"Do you realize the cost of being a Jedi?" he says. "I have watched my master slain, murdered my own brother, betrayed your mother... all of this, only to become blinded to the Force.

I no longer enjoy my memories, Vima. I have wandered too far, seen too much... I have the blood of enough children on my hands. Why would you want anything I can teach you?"

[It's all true, you know it is. You were there the day that he struck Cay down--you watched your mother sever his connection to the Force. You heard Sylvar denounce him and demand they hunt him down, bring him to justice. But you don't waver. There is more to Ulic than the crimes he committed--the Force led you to him for a reason. You need him. And maybe he needs you.]

"Because... you're Ulic."

[survives]

Ulic?

[Leanne can only repeat the name once before she's swept up in the memory.

She think she jumps in surprise at the sound of the wind, but... It's hard to tell, when all her attention is taken up by the man beside her.

He's... Is this Ulic? And he's... Of course. He's speaking to Vima and--

--And Leanne doesn't really get it.]

Wh-what... What was that?! Why did that...

[Yeah, she's not gonna be touching any more cloaks any time soon.]

[tobeajedi]

[Vima watches the woman react. She seems more confused than anything else--well, of course she'd be. She doesn't know who Ulic was, or even the Jedi.]

That was when Ulic agreed to train me as a Jedi.

[The incongruity of referring to her older self in the past tense doesn't even occur to her.]

[survives]

[Leanne nods, slowly. She's only got half a clue what any of this means, but... Wow, this must be really important to Vima then.]

Oh... It sounds like... [She shakes her head, frowning.] It sounds like it was really dangerous or something, huh?

B-but he's gotta have taught you a lot, too.