── for where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. it is all. it is undying. and it is enough
IN WHICH A WOMAN
FALLS THROUGH SPACE
AND ENDS UP IN A GALAXY
FAR, FAR AWAY...
STAR WARS AU-EPS. II-III
ANAKIN SKYWALKER × OC
ST...
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Aliss paced back and forth in her cell, trying to think of what to do. She needed to get out of here, that much was certain, but she couldn't figure out how she would do that. Maybe it could have been the pain in her stomach from where she was punched and in her arms from the hand shaped bruises that were rapidly forming, but she just couldn't formulate a plan to escape. She didn't have a comm, she didn't have her lightsaber.
She didn't even know if Anakin and Obi-Wan knew she was gone. It could have been moments she was unconscious, simply as long as it took to put her in a shuttle up to the larger ship they were clearly on and drop her in a cell. If that was the case, they might still be in the ship they took to Cas Leoch, giving her some air or some space. And even if they had figured out she wasn't there, they could still be figuring out where she could have gone. And if it had been longer, if they had figured out she had been gone for too long to just be getting air, it still didn't mean they had figured out where she went. In this scenario, they could be totally unaware of Atlas' ship. It was entirely plausible they believed she had simply run away, an idea that broke her heart. She hated the idea they believed she would simply abandon them, especially since she now had her memories back.
Memories, she realized.
Sitting down, she took a deep breath in, held it for a moment and then released it, centering herself. She closed her eyes and clasped her hands together in front of, searching the mess she called a brain for what she remembered on meditation. If she could calm herself, she would be able to think properly. That first day in the temple after she'd woken up, Anakin had taken her to her favourite spot. He hadn't mentioned it then, but she now remembered she didn't just like going there to watch the sunset, she liked to meditate there and that was how she felt the entire planet connected together. She was good at meditating. She'd always been good at it. She could do this.
Aliss focused inwards, steadying her breathing until she was taken even, deep breaths. She concentrated on the pattern of her breathing for a while, the slow inhale and exhale, the brief pauses between each. When she felt a sense of calm wash over her, she realized she wasn't thinking about her breathing anymore, she was just doing it and her entire body had relaxed.
Now centered, she focused on stretching out her awareness beyond just her cell. If she could get her bearings on the ship beyond what she could see, she could formulate a plan. The first step of which would be to make contact with Anakin and Obi-Wan or even both of them. To make contact with them, she would need a way to make contact. Her own comm, ideally, but any would do if that wasn't an option. Once she had that, once she made contact, she could tell them where she was, let them know what happened, who had taken her.
She could apologize profusely.
It was different now. With her memories back, she wasn't the stranger in a strange land any longer. She understood things now, knew things. The people in front of her weren't strangers to her, just characters from a movie. They were her friends. The people she'd grown up around. That part of her which had been vying for a way home, a way back to Ivan, was now equal to the part of her that wanted to stay. Ivan couldn't be more important than Anakin and Obi-Wan. And, in fact, in the wake of the interaction she'd just had and the bruises still forming on her skin, Ivan seemed to be becoming less and less important as she thought of him and saw the face of a man who had tried to kill her once and now beaten her as well.
