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Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: July Planet!
When: The month of July!

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[sandhate]

[ he hiss ] But you will.

[ he's quick to reply and each word sounds harder and his voice an octave lower than normal. his scowl never leaves and his teeth shows more and more.

barriss doesn't get to say that - not because it hasn't happened to her yet, but because of the things that she had said already. she doesn't even bother looking guilty, shamed, repentant. that gives him confirmation of her intent and validation for his anger. ]

All you remind her of is your betrayal. The fact that you exist hurts her.

[ he knows ahsoka better than that, he knows she would be kinder and more receptive.

but he doesn't care right now. ]

[ontrial]

[ that nearly stops her. because it's the sort of thing that would stop her, normally. her very existence causing anything directly has always been a source of dread for barriss, after all. she's needed so badly to be neat and perfect before now. but before she can inhale to concede defeat, she remembers ahsoka's words, her hug. the connection the planet had momentarily deepened between them.

come back to me, barriss.

she's trying. ]

You've spoken in the last few days? Because Ahsoka's the living person with the most right to judge me for what I'll do and she's told me her verdict already.

[ and it's here. it's alive. barriss still isn't sure what she feels about that. ]

spoilers he should have really talk to his former padawan

[sandhate]

[ there's a flicker of uncertainty that breaks him away from his anger. his eyes remain narrow but he breathes and he lifts his chin and looks down at her.

he sneers at her for assuming that he'd need to talk to her to know, that he doesn't know his own padawan well enough to know. ]

She wants her friend back. The question is if you are still the one she befriended or the one that took advantage of her friendship.

yeah maybe?

[ontrial]

[ she rocks back on her heels with an exhale, his unspoken admission cooling whatever anger she felt. her expression returns to something simply stubborn. ]

You already know what answer you want to hear and you won't hear any other. [ she'd want herself away from ahsoka, too, given the circumstances. but ahsoka and her kindness are the closest things to not being alone barriss has right now and so long as it's allowed, she's keeping hold of that. ] It doesn't matter what I say to you.

[sandhate]

[ there's a moment where he desperately wanted to just ask barriss for an honest answer. they live in such complicated lives in their world, that being away from it gives them -- has given him an opportunity to be honest in a way he couldn't have.

it gave him a hope that barris could also answer with truth. but he remembers what is at stake if he hopes too much and falls back to the absolute trust Jedi give each other. the trust ahsoka had employed in barriss that nearly sealed her fate.

with a growl, he reaches out and grabs her arm and his other arm raise as if to strike. ]

[ontrial]

[ nearly as quick to react as he can be to move, barriss jerks her shoulder back to tug out of anakin's grasp. she knows how he fights well enough to know that just moving won't be enough, so the next thing she does is turn moving her arm into a gesture forward, both palms out as she pushes him back hard with the force.

it would enough to topple someone else, maybe send them flying into something, but she just needs him far enough away that he can't get a hit in. a guilty party she may be, but she will not let him decide her fate. ]

[sandhate]

[ behind him, there are shouts and gasps of surprise as he is forcibly pushed back into both people and shops stands. he stands his ground though, and braced himself for it once he got his footing.

he doesn't glance back at the disturbed scene behind him, he looks up and she is gone. he can't find her in the force anymore; he finds himself nearly assaulted by the life force around them, made worst by the commotion they caused. everything is a solid hum and it's as if she was never here. there is only anakin and his evaporating haze of red. ]