and i will never see the sky the same way

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koddiaa:

He imagined embracing her like they always did when one was upset, the other acting as a pillar to hold their twin up in a time of distress. They would hide away from the eyes of their master and the other workers, even the other slaves, and whisper to each other and gesture in a language indecipherable to other beings.

But they weren’t children hiding under blankets in the corner of the slave’s quarters of the ship anymore, holding onto the night before another day of being objects came around again. They were free people now and wishing away a day wasn’t something they did now, instead they wished for one more day.

One more day, Shocadi had to hold out another day, and another after that until a cure was found.

Koddi smiled ruefully at her. “Is anyone in there causing trouble? I know some of the people in there with you, they must be stirring things up. You know, Sho, I almost wish I was in there with you”

It was a joke, he didn’t mean it… 

That pang of fear rushed through Shocadi. The thought of her brother getting sick and becoming trapped in here with her would would nearly break her. She wanted her brother to be far away from the infected-- away from all of this mess. Not right in the middle of it. 

They couldn’t hold onto each other like they normally would. They had to talk to each other through this wall of glass. Shocadi wasn’t sleeping and she doubted that Koddia was either. 

“No one is causing trouble. Everyone is too tired to do that. Even those in the Order are being relatively tame.” And they had the leaders of the Order in there with her. “I don’t,” Shocadi said softly. “I miss you, but I don’t want you to get sick too. I’ll be out of here soon enough. I know between all of you, something will come up and I’ll get out of here.” 

[koddiaa]

 Out of the corner of his eye he saw a familiar flash of movement. Grey fur edged with pale purple. In the chaos of bursting lights, crashing pillars and people of all kinds running around screaming as the structure around them groaned and came down upon them… He was getting away. 

                 He was getting away.

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rebelfugitive:

“woulda noticed you anyway,” jyn replied honestly, shrugging a shoulder and scowling at the way the ache in her muscles seemed to increase with the small movements. she was already losing muscle mass, and it wouldn’t be long until she would be barely able to lift a blaster. “not many…twi’leks in naboo.” not to mention that she’d only just met shocadi and realized that koddi wasn’t the only one.

at her observation, jyn’s mouth twisted. her and koddi weren’t friends, per say, but she did enjoy his company more than most people on naboo. however, they’d eaten tide pods together, which had to count for something––and when he’d held her hair back while she’d puked in the toilet, that had made a sort of weird-ass connection between the two of them that she didn’t have with anyone else. “i suppose,” she replied evenly, for lack of better words. “liana hallik.”

“Wish we were meeting under better circumstances,” Shocadi mused. But it is what it is. They likely would not have approached each other when they were well-- Shocadi tended to keep to herself most days. But right now, with no one to talk to, she had been a bit more social. 

“You don’t know anything about what’s happening outside, do you? Koddi told me they were looking for a cure, but there wasn’t much he could do for them.” Shocadi also suspected that was the stress talking when he started putting himself down. 

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macabrynn:

“we’re going to be fine,” brynn said. in truth, brynn was losing faith that everything would be solved, but she put on a brave face anyways. acting sad and hopeless wasn’t going to help anyone. “yeah, i’ve never been anywhere as nice before.” she shrugged. “if these are what the sick quarters look like, it makes me kinda wonder what the rest of the palace looks like.” she hoped she’d survive long enough to see.

Shocadi hoped the same. She hoped she would be able to explore it with her brother. But not like this. “Probably extravagant. Fit for royalty.” This was much better than how her own mother lived while she was sick. “I think I’ve explored the quarantine dozens of times.” There wasn’t much else to do right now. 

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galacticqueenpadme:

Padmé let out a helpless breath at her words, wishing desperately that there was some way that she could speed up the process. But it took time to investigate everything closely and with precision, and precision was exactly what was necessary to find a cure so specific to this one disease. “Have the symptoms become much worse? Has anyone…deteriorated significantly?”

“Not in me, not yet.” It would soon, though. “Though, I’m sure that some have. Those who have been here longer than me.” Shocadi dreaded the thought of things getting worse, when it was already bad. 

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persesed:

what she requests would mean spending time elsewhere, searching for her brother, as opposed to a remedy to the illness that torments her. however, anakin holds the subject of family in high regard. he understands being alone and feeling helpless all the same. to deny her needs when she’s in such a state would go against his every moral. when she finishes speaking, he nods. “ of course. ” a twi’lek her color wouldn’t be difficult to spot. he wants her to feel reassured, so he stays away from asking questions he can figure out himself.  “ what’s your name ? i’ll tell him you sent me. ” 

“Shocadi’atar,” Shocadi uses her full name instead of her shortened one. “This is the first time we’ve ever been separated,” she murmured. Being sick made her a little more open to speaking then usual. “Even in slavery we were never apart. I don’t like being without him.” But Shocadi especially didn’t want Koddi to feel alone. 

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koddiaa:

When he found out Rey was sick he had lost his breath from the shock of the news, and then he found out Jyn was also sick and felt a pang of something he refused to put a name to.

But when he heard talk of a female ruby Twi’lek enclosed in quarantine Koddi had dropped to his knees in the street, back of his hand to his mouth barely covering the harrowing, distraught scream. He had batted away the attempts of bystanders to help him, instead grabbing onto the wrist of the strangers who mentioned Shocadi and demanded to know if they were telling the truth. 

Now he was here, looking at her through the thick clear wall at his beautiful sister’s frail form. Letting out a broken sob, Koddi dropped against his side, palm over Shocadi’s and forehead pressed to the glass.

“No, no you not” Koddi said thickly, trying to look at her and failing. She looked like their mother in those last days… “They’re looking for a cure, I’m trying to help but there’s nothing I can do”

Koddi took a deep breath and looked at his twin, his everything, through the glass dividing them. “Please don’t leave me”

Koddi could see right through her lie. He could see that she was afraid and ill, despite trying to put on a brave face for her brother. Shocadi could lie to the world, but never to him. She ached to be by his side again. To fall asleep and know he was safe. This was the first time that she had been so separated from Koddi and that shook Shocadi to her very core. 

Koddi’s words broke Shocadi’s heart. She hated this barrier between them. She wished the cure was found so she could embrace him and apologize for scaring him so much. 

“Never,” she swore. Shocadi refused to let death take her. She had only just now got her taste of freedom-- she would not lose it now. She would not leave her brother alone. Anyone nearby would not be able to understand the language the twins spoke, a privacy that Shocadi appreciated. 

“If I can survive twenty-two years of how we grew up,” she murmured, pressing her forehead against the glass where he stood. “Then this will not take me.” 

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persesed:

when he hears a voice beside him, he casts his gaze towards the twi’lek. she vaguely resembles a friend he had had on tatooine, and his interest is piqued. anakin’s eyes are as stoic as ever, eyebrows permanently furrowed in disappointment in himself after the events that have recently occurred, but he still decides to answer her call. “ yes ? ” he asks, leaning closer towards the glass so she can address him without feeling lowly.

Shocadi appreciates that he knelt down. It would have made her neck sore to look up towards him when she was unable to stand. She was dizzy and sometimes she could see two of him in her hazy sight. “My brother,” she started. “He’s all I have. He’s... he’s my twin, he looks like me. Taller. Probably redder than me right now.” Her complexion was paled from the illness. “Everyone he cares for-- me and his friends-- are in here and he’s alone. Can you... please check on him? Just see if he’s okay?” 

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So how do you know Niamh?

“Oh, well she was there when the Resistance helped free my brother and I. We started talking a little more, bonding a bit over being some of the few non-humans.” 

@stars-in-her-eyes-niamh

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fmk : a wookie, an ewok , yoda

“am I hallucinating?” 

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tell us about your relationship with koddi.

“We grew up with a horrific childhood. We learned that we could only rely on each other very quickly at a young age. We could only trust each other-- no one else. I still only trust him, but I’m grateful that Koddi has found friends now.” 

@koddiaa

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what are your thoughts on your brother

“He’s my best friend. I love him and I would do literally anything for him.” Shocadi would do anything to protect her brother and keep him safe. 

@koddiaa

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stars-in-her-eyes-niamh:

The Mirialan nodded, before she clicked her tongue and lay herself on her back on the sofa, giving a cough before she sighed out “Ahh well, at least we ain’t in a box, we get to chill together?” she offered, looking to her, wanting to cheer up the Twi’lek since she liked her alot. She was one of the only friends that she had that wasn’t an angry little droid “Oh no, I guess I just thought in here was more fun, you know, what’s better than being surrounded by glass? I also hated being around those First Order goons where they could jump me in a dark alley and beat me up” she giggled with a wink “It kinda jus’ snuck up on me. Started as a cough, then I was brought here”

“I think they’re too sick to even think about jumping us,” Shocadi mused. “We’re all too tired and sore to really do much of any fighting.” Shocadi, personally, wouldn’t mind just curling up and laying down for awhile. She was sure she wasn’t the only one. “Yeah, as soon as I started coughing, I was brought here. Thought they were being paranoid at first, but it turns out they were right.” 

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rebelfugitive:

jyn stretched out her legs, wincing at the ache in her bones. it seemed that no matter what position she was sitting in, there was constant pain. and since she wouldn’t let the medics get anywhere near her, not caring if she lived or died, it was only getting worse. sooner or later, she’d start coughing up blood. maybe in a couple days. 

“oh, really?” jyn asked dryly, quirking an eyebrow. “you look nothing alike. koddi is much taller, and,” she squinted, leaning forward dramatically, “quite a bit redder.” of course, that was all fabricated; she wouldn’t be able to tell the small differences between the two unless they were standing next to each other, and with this illness separating them, there was no way she’d see that. “never would have guessed.” 

A rare smile crossed Shocadi’s lips. “Well, I am sick. I’m a little paler than usual.” Her skin was clammy. Sweaty. “But you are right about the height. I never claimed to be identical to him.” Shocadi had her knees up to her chest, her chin resting on top of them. This was a common position for her-- as if she could ball herself up enough to be small enough that no one would notice her. But everyone seemed to notice the tall red Twi’lek. 

“I’ve seen you around Koddi.” A mere observation. While Shocadi was cautious about those who got close to her and her twin, Koddi seemed to be happy around her. So she never pushed the topic. On a more sadder note, that meant most of the people he cared about were sick. She really worried about Koddi right now. “I’m Shocadi.” 

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Shocadi was getting worse. The normally tall and elegant Twi’lek was leaned against the glass, too tired to even sit up straight. Part of the exhaustion came from being unable to sleep without her brother nearby. Her body shuddered as a wheezing cough came from her. It didn’t help that she barely knew anyone in here-- and no one that she could trust. Her eyes caught the movement of someone walking past. “Hey,” she called out, though not very loudly. “Um. Please, wait a moment.” @persesed

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macabrynn: 

never had brynn been so close with her own mortality before. even when she was flying, imperial tie fighters hot on her tails, she could always tell herself that she was a good enough pilot to get away. just moments before her death, she was laughing as if she was invincible. here, she tried to convince herself that the force wouldn’t bring her back just to kill her again, but the more she coughed, the less sure she became. she tried to distract herself from her own death, often by talking to strangers. “everyone’s working,” brynn told a twi’lek as she sat down next to her. “they haven’t made any real progress yet, but they’re going to. they have to.”

The closeness made Shocadi a little nervous, but she stayed frozen in her spot. She was okay, she reminded herself. The other was just as sick as her. “I hope they do,” Shocadi said. “Otherwise we’re in trouble.” She wished there was something she could do in here to help. But all she could really do was sit and cough. Not very helpful. “At least its comfy in here.”