☻
SEND ☹ FOR A MUSE I USED TO PLAY, ☻ FOR A MUSE I WANT TO PLAY. NO LONGER ACCEPTING.
MARA JADE SKYWALKER.
it’s quiet on this planet. peaceful. if she listens, if she reaches out with her mind and lets go of the weight of her body, she can feel the LIFE radiating from all around her. flora, fauna, it’s all got a different signature, and it’s all peaceful, all gentle. it’s the perfect spot to meditate, to find peace and quiet and serenity inside of her mind. she thinks, maybe, this is why luke chose it ––– because he understands the disquiet in her head, the reality that she is a being who has been modeled by pain and war and thrives in the chaotic nature of battle. he’s tossing her a soft and easy ball with this one, something even a child with the worst hand / eye coordination could catch. he’s taking it easy on her.
IT’S NOT WORKING.
she’s certain she’s going crazy, kneeling there with her eyes closed and her hands delicately resting on her thighs. the picture of a peaceful jedi knight, with her thoughts racing at a hundred parsecs a minute. she keeps FIDGETING. a hair brushes the curve of her ear and gives her the feeling of an insect on her skin; she swats at it. her throat is dry; she swallows, works her jaw. her left leg is starting to cramp. she shifts around, frowning as she does, and can feel his amusement from three feet away, rolling off of him in an affectionate warmth that’s colored, in her mind, a soft red, like the color of her hair, the color of his cheeks when she calls him farmboy. one vivid green eye snaps open to glare at him.
❝ do you MIND ? i’m trying to FOCUS here, skywalker, ❞ she informs him loftily, which seems to only amuse him further, even as he apologizes, eyes closed the whole while. this comes so easily to him; his mind is so peaceful, so quiet, so gentle. not like hers at all. mara still doesn’t understand, sometimes, what he sees within the chaotic swirl of her aura that draws him in, but even now, even as she starts to doubt herself, she can feel luke’s presence in the force drawing back over her, soothing the disquiet. she is energy. he is serenity.
together, they are BALANCE.
silently, she smiles, and shuts her eyes again.










