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Chapter 12: The Gunslinger

"WAKE UP KID!"

He's screaming again- he's scared? He cares? Why?

"PLEASE I CAN'T LOSE YOU!"

Wait..that voice...it's not him....mom?

"PLEASE I CAN'T LOSE YOU!" Her voice wails as tears well in my eyes, I have no control over the sudden shaking of my body.

I feel my muscles tighten and my breathes shorten as I'm thrown into a series of convulsions.

"STAY AWAY FR- EVRYT-ALMANA- STOP!" Mando? His voice is deep, emotional, but it's cutting off.

Am I having a seizure? Am I dying? Why am I feeling as though I'm being torn in two?

I want to scream, but my body makes no sound. I'm submerged in water-void yet boiling within from the chronic pain.

This is a dream. Isn't it?

Help.

Help.

Help me.

Please.

Help me.

Mom?

Mando?

Is Grogu here too?

Are they in pain as well?

And it's back again-that feeling. This-this force. It's keeping me submerged. Am I doing this? Upon myself? I cry-silent, but hard. Because I'm scared. Scared that it'll be me who not only hurts myself, but hurts the ones I've grown to care about.

Collapsing. My chest is burning- I need to breathe- I can't breathe. 

My eyes snap open. I gasp for air as I go into a cough attack. My body flying upright as I sit on my floor mat. I struggle to breathe, gulping air which makes my head spin. 

Closing my eyes, taking slow and deep breathes. I try to focus on my erratic heartbeat. Slowly, my eyes open to survey my surroundings.

It's quiet in the ship; however, my heart sinks as I stare in absolute shock around me.

Sweat drips down the back of my neck as I heave for air. I try to calm myself, but can't as I witness everything inside the ship floating in the air around me.

Most noticeably, all the weapons are being pointed towards the ships closed entrance.

It takes me a moment to gather my scrambled brain- I had woken from a horrible nightmare. And in my moment of paralyzing unconscious fear had I been able to manipulate this force around me.

How? How could this be? Never in my life had I been so connected to this force- why now?

I'm alone and my heart races as I relay my dream. Trying to store every detail and feeling I could possibly remember. What do I do? I'm blank as I stare at everything. It's as if we lost all gravity. One of Mando's blasters hovers next to my head- aimed at the entrance.