Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word.
the ever-talented @shootingstarpilot me with the word MYTH (great word, and GREAT excerpts wahhh) and gotten me to crack this bad boy back open (it has been... altogether far too long. so thank you!!). Longer snippets cause I was feeling generous.
"Master Kenobi!” She exclaims, hugging him right around the middle with a content smile on her face. She pulls back and allows him to place his hands at her shoulders, steadying them both. “It's been way too long."
"It's been barely a month, Snips.” Skywalker points out, waving incredulously. “You've gone longer not seeing your own agemates.”
“Yeah, but it's Master Kenobi.” She retorts, shooting her General a stinky look. Cody still finds their relationship perplexing; the give there is just as good as the take, somehow.
“Oh and I'm yesterday’s news now apparently…”
“Ahsoka,” Kenobi says, smiling down at her too. “It is good to see you. Have you been treated well? Anakin being fair?”
“Hello? What about me?!”
Cody watches Ahsoka’s grin turn conspiratorial. “He'll do I guess. How have the 212th been doing?”
“HELLO?”
“You have tea?” Obi-Wan asks, pleasantly surprised. “I thought you were at least thirty-percent bloof-caf volume by now.”
“I have tea because certain junior medics are sneaking it in my stash as a fruitless effort to have me switch.”
“Don’t knock it ‘til you try it, dear Helix.”
“Nice try Sir, sit your butt down. Caf or tea, Commander?”
“...Tea.”
Helix whips around to gape at Cody. “No. Blasphemy.”
“'Don’t knock it ‘til you try it', Helix.”
“You’ve changed Cody. You’re being infected.”
The door hisses open and a concerned-looking Polymer pokes his head in. They all turn. “Who’s infected?”
Obi-Wan smiles. “Hopefully not me, as this meeting will establish.”
“Macabre. Force you’re both terrible. Ugh.” Helix scowls at nothing, then grabs the kettle as it roils and dumps out four mugfuls of water. “Can’t believe I’m outnumbered.”
“That’s because Polymer and Cody here have good taste.”
“Infectious.”
They’d said he was scheduled for a scan tomorrow, for the staging. But what should he do with the remainder of today, now that everything has changed, and – looking out over medbay, feeling out across the ship, as he always can – simultaneously nothing is different at all?
On the galaxy turns, but, somehow, here, nothing can be as it was any longer.
“Obi-Wan?”
It startles him, then makes him feel bad, realising he’d forgotten Cody was there. He feels acutely ill, wondering whether this means Cody is seeing him differently, with revised opinions and fresh doubts. He feels none of that from the man he’s come to call a friend, knows Cody is better than some shallow revision of opinion such as those, but the worry, it flays him open.
Here it is, presented to him quietly, and without fuss. This is not the way things usually go for him in this medbay – there is none of the panic, the urgency that comes with landing himself in here. There are no medics running around, no beeping machines or wheeling-carts ready to rescue him. He is lucid. His medics are calm, if a little apprehensive. And the path before them, while unclear, is something rote. He is not the first being in the galaxy that has been told such things, and he certainly shan’t be the last.
Why does it feel like the galaxy is collapsing down to this one, single room, then?
He comes back into himself, seeing the room around himself again, when Cody’s chair creaks. It comes a moment before the man himself lays a firm hand on his back, just over his nearest shoulder-blade. It is quiet for a moment, as this whole process has been. He wonders why no-one is screaming and shouting about this. These medics will have to learn medicine they’ve not been trained for. Will have more on their plate. His capabilities as a General are about to be called into question, surely. It is too quiet in this room for the way his mind is raring and racing.
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