The day was exceptionally warm for Autumn, the sun shone warmly on her skin as she puts on her eye protection and sits back in the chair, allowing the rays to warm her skin and relax her muscles. "I could get so used to this." She whispers to herself. "I remember doing this once in a while.. but it was more to get my Children out into the wild a bit, to let them stretch their legs. It's never a good idea to take a wild animal and keep them indoors all the time... they get... jumpy."
She feels a sharp pang of loss at the thought of the loss of her Children, but she quickly closes her eyes and turns within, breathing deep, starting her meditation rituals. "so to center... so to ground... balance comes" she whispers as her mediation mantra. Her body visibly relaxes as her training takes over. Before she opens her eyes, she sends a silent thought along the Force to those she has lost. Reaching down and picking up one of the holonovels , she sits back in the chair again and starts to read.
Suddenly the book drops from her hands and she sits bolt upright as a familiar presence brushes against her mind... familiar, however this time, it was full of remorse and self loathing, which was quite a shock.
*Noel? Is that you?*
*Dev... where are you?*
*I'm on Dantooine, in my usual day camp spot, enjoying the sunshine and treating myself to a completely lazy day. Where are you?*
*On my way to you. I need to... I need to talk to you.*
*Okay, I'll be here. Anything you want to talk about as you travel?*
Noel procedes to tell Devia about what had transpired on Talus.. the rampage he went on, killing 600 Troopers. Being stopped short by the 501st Garrison. "I'm a monster" he tells her. "I do evil things. Evil, but necessary things."
"You're no more a monster than I am, Noel. I've done my share of thinning out of the Snowflake herd myself. The less there are of those... people ... the better. Fewer people that can opress all the other races and people on countless planets." She uses her mind and her words to talk to him, to draw him out of the circle of hurt... just as she has done before, just as he has done for her before on countless occasions.
*I've just landed on the planet, I'll be out to you as soon as I can.*
*I'll have a drink ready for you when you get here, Noel.*
