“Let this last a while longer.” Dan felt her head rest down against his chest, and he began to run his fingers through her hair almost instinctively. “Dan, look at me,” She said again, in a more serious tone. She kissed along his jaw, his cheek, and when she reached his forehead, Dan realized she’d clambered up on top of him. “Open your eyes, love,” Nuvani murmured, barely above a hoarse whisper. Nuvani returned his kiss to him, touching her lips against the tip of his chin, where he still had a faint scar from a bad fall in training. Dan could tell she was turning herself so she faced him, and he was proven right when he felt her breath on his throat. She laughed quietly, and Dan felt a rare sense of belonging. He planted a light kiss on the tip of one of her pointed ears, and it made Nuvani squirm. Light fur with brown patches and stripes on her face, wavy dark hair that fell down to her shoulders and framed her face, and eyes the color of autumn. He didn’t need to open his eyes to know what she’d look like right now. She huddled back against Dan, and he responded in kind, leaning in until her hair was tickling his nose. He reached his arms out under the sheets, pulling the other being closer until her back was against his chest. Dan let his eyes close again as a rare smile creeped over his face. The other being’s warm Force presence reached him, and it was as though he was wrapped in morning sunlight. More interestingly, there was another body underneath them, huddled in just a short distance away from him. He opened his eyes for a brief moment, and saw that they were a plain white. There were sheets over him that hadn’t been there before. The bed below him was softer than the one he’d fallen asleep on, and he let himself sink into it. Dan’s eyes were too heavy to open, but he could stretch his tired limbs. The Inquisitorius would remake him anew.ĭan Brovil closed his eyes, and spent the last moments of his old life in a silent slumber. When he next awoke, he wouldn’t even have that. He could tell that the tattered, dirty trousers he wore were the only possession he had left. Dan hadn’t expected the Inquisitors to clothe him- the Dark Side offered no comforts. The jagged patterns of lightning scars patchworked all over his bare torso would only get more painful if he moved. Dan didn’t know what would happen if he hit the bottom. Now, he was in a long freefall, tumbling down into the black pit. The torture he’d suffered at Kedoa’s hands had blinded him until he fell into the pit entirely of his own volition. It no longer tempted him as it had in Odessen. The black pit in his chest had grown heavier in this place, feeding itself on the ambient Dark Side energy that permeated the cruel fortress. Dan was certain that it took him the better part of an hour to get himself up onto it, but compared to the floor, the thin sheets were heaven. He clutched at the slab of metal that served as a bed, clutching to it like it would give him life. Millimeter by millimeter, Dan hauled himself up. It felt like an entire Acclamator was resting across his back. Dan braced his hands against the floor and pushed, in an effort to raise his bare torso off of the freezing metal. He had a feeling that it wouldn’t open if he tried it. The second the soldier finished talking, the door of Dan’s new quarters slammed shut. Welcome to the Inquisitorius,” The Purge Trooper said. If you fail to understand the process, you get hurt. “You awaken tomorrow for lightsaber construction and armor fitting. After all, he’d cut off their commander’s arm, and left the man disfigured for life. The entire regiment would be hungry for his blood, Dan figured. He caught a glimpse of the Purge Trooper that had escorted him, and couldn’t help but wonder if one of the 411th was underneath the black armor. Dan collapsed onto the cold durasteel floor with a muted thud. How fitting, that the Force only spoke to him to tell him when he was going to fail. He knew his legs would fail him before he even began to stumble. Dan barely had the strength left to grunt out an ‘oof’ as he was shoved into his new quarters.
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