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    The light of Hapes was distant. Drawn as a heavy shroud around the world, the Transitory Mists darkened the dazzling lights of the Cluster and suspended Terephon in an unsettling state of perpetual twilight. On the rolling moorlands to the south of Villa Solis, a darkness marred the otherwise unbroken sea of grasses and lilac-coloured heather. A shadow, drawing into it whatever light and life it touched, watching the horizon with empty eyes.

    His will stretched out across the landscape, touching a familiar presence.

    Come to me.
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    Inside the fortified compound that was Villa Solis, the young Chume was abed. Lira Terranova dutifully close by, as well as her Chume'nor. Chume'doro patrolled the grounds about the small, dome shaped buildings connected one to another comprising the well appointed and opulent Hapan villa. The Queen Regent had taken to her bed even earlier than her daughter, complaining of a persistent ache in her head. Those who dared to speculate assumed it was due to her recent strain in regards to The Incident at the gates of the Fountain Palace. Or from the travel, or both. What they knew was that the Regent had taken to her bedroom and would see no one.



    It should have been harder than it was, Anxia supposed, to leave the villa right out from the watch of the Chume'doro. It was no lacking on their part. They had not been trained to deal with the likes of her.. She had gained much experience with this concept on Onderon, having escaped both the palace and city walls of Iziz countless times before. Properly using the Dark side of the Force to maximize stealth was among the many skills she had learned from the one who called to her now.

    Heavy chains could not have held her back.

    Each step brought her closer to him. For her, drawing near to Callidus was like approaching a singularity in deep space. The closer she came, the less she would have been able to turn away had she wanted to, and she did not. It was inevitable. Their bond drew her forward to his location, as surely as the light that was drawn in and erased..

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    As she neared, the white core of a lightsaber seared to life in the half-light, the blade staining the soil blue. The Sith Lord's voice was a low growl.

    "Arm yourself."
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    There was no confusing this creature with the Queen Regent of Hapes. No jewelry. No silk. All that made up Chume'la lay in a discarded heap on the Villa Solis bedroom floor, shed like a serpents skin. She had been stripped down to her core, and had walked out Anxia, armed with the her weapon of choice, a Sith sword she had claimed for herself years before on Onderon. Part of a horde she had discovered along with the combined efforts of her master, her sister Creas, and Captain Victer Dejan. Something that had been purposefully lost to time, but that they had found all the same.

    Pulling the sword now from the scabbard at her left hip, she continued forward without breaking her stride. She could fight him, or fuck him, as long as she was with him, Anxia was content. The blade rotated once in her right hand, before she took it up in both hands, running forward now..
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    In one moment, he was a statue etched in shadow. Callidus held his saber low at his side, his head bent forward, eyes imperceptible in the dark hollows of his mask. In the next moment, he surged towards her. The folds of his cloak snapped in the sudden shift of air created by his Force-enhanced sprint towards Anxia. When their collision was imminent, he swung his saber high above his head, ready to strike -

    - and then he vanished. Gone, in the blink of an eye.

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    Eyes could betray you, so do not trust them.

    It was not just something the Jedi taught. It had been at the core of her training with the various master's her father had provided. Her eyes had been bound in stripes of cloth and she had slowly, sometimes painfully, learned to anticipate the attacks and feints of her opponents. The end result was that she could now literally fight with her eyes closed because of it. Instead she relied on other senses to see for her. Even the slightest sound of soil compacting beneath a footstep. The brush of dark fabric against the tall swaying grasses. The flight of a marsh bird startled away from it's nest, but there was nothing.

    She would have to rely solely on her own instinct, and the guidance of the Dark side. Continuing her forward momentum, she ignored the threat of a lightsaber bearing down on her from above. She used her speed and agility to send herself sliding, feet-first, beneath the obstacle of her master's legs, based on where she judged him to actually be. She kicked up off her back, swinging in two hands from her right, to spin around and defend her now unprotected back..

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    Her instincts were sharp: Callidus was behind her and moved as quick and soundless as a knife. Lightsaber in two hands, he twisted the point of the beam towards her gut in a corkscrewing lunge.

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    The svelte Sith apprentice followed the direction of the Dark side as it urged her to bend, arching backward away from the thrust of blue light, aimed to penetrate her abdomen. Her hands, one still gripping her sword, pressed into the rich moist ground the of the marsh, releasing the earthy sent of mud and decay. Her lower half pursued her acrobatic tumble backward, booted feet coming last to kick, one after the other for his middle as she went down.

    She did not stay there long, bouncing off her shoulders, right back into action. Callidus would find that she had an amassment of pent up energy where he was concerned, one that demanded an immediate outlet.

    Without hesitating Anxia attacked, determined to not spend the entirety on the defensive. Her sword practically purred in her hands, wanting blood as much as she did. Not necessarily his, but he was here..

    Here was so much better than not here.

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    It was as if they had stepped straight from the wilds of Onderon onto the moors of Terephon. Anxia was a blade now, as she had always been, and Hapes had done nothing to dull her edge. Behind his mask, Callidus grinned for an instant as his apprentice tumbled and twisted right back onto the offence, pushing him back with an expert cut of her sword.

    He stepped into the attack, matching her fencers' prowess with his own.

    "Have you had much time to practise your swordplay, Chume'la?"
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    Gritting her teeth, the Sith knight didn't let the taunt distract her. She knew when she was being baited, and from him she liked it.

    "Practice...", she growled back, from beneath the mask concealing the lower half of her face, ".. implies a lack of perfection."

    She displayed for him that the defect of practice was not her problem, by pressing her advantage, setting the twilit moors alight with the crash of forged alchemical steel caressing blue sparks.

    "What I lack, is worthy opposition."

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    Their blades locked together for an instant, but no more. The saber's snarl was short and vicious.

    "Hapes has not been challenging enough for you?"

    Callidus threw out his free hand, the Dark Side rippling from his clawed fingertips in a concussive wave.

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    Hapes.. Beneath her mask, Anxia's lip curled in barely contained hatred.

    The blast of Dark Side energy barreled toward her. The palm of her left hand lifted, a gesture signifying to stop, but her desires were unheard by the Force. The wave met her outstretched fingers, even as she pushed back, but he was simply stronger than she was. Even adding both hands to the task of pushing back, her boots slid through the soft terrain, losing whatever ground she had gained - which only set her off more.

    "It's a damn cage. You put me in a cage!", she accused, and not for the first time.

    A beautiful gilded cage it may be, but a cage no less. Since Razielle Shadana had come of age, on her own island paradise on the Sovereign world of Davora, she had wanted nothing so much as to break free of the burdens that came attached with her royal title. Onderon had been a less restrictive prison, one that she had almost grown content in because of who shared it with her - but being stranded inside the Transitory Mists somehow felt even more cage-like.

    Some husbands bought their wives brand new houses for a wedding gift. She'd been given sixty-three inhabited systems, but it would never be enough to please her. Not as long as she remained on one side of the Mist while he remained on the other.

    However... that inflamed nerve did give her the push she needed. Strengthening her, planting her firm, as she pushed back harder.

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    The energies of the Dark Side blasted Callidus like a cold wind, his cloak rippling like a tattered flag behind him. With a twitch of his claws, the Sith Lord sharpened the focus of his power and lunged at the empty air - willing the Force to lock around Anxia's throat and lift her from the ground.

    "And you were powerless to escape?"

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    Lifted off her feet, the Sith Knight dangled there, booted feet idly kicking but with no purchase to be found. Eyes narrowed, one gloved hand pulled ineffectively at her throat. There was no relief forthcoming. Her sword did her little good when she could not reach her opponent, unless she decided to throw it and skewer him with it, but that was beneath even her.

    The truth, painful though it may be, was that he had hit upon the truth of it. She was powerless to escape.

    "Yes.", she rasped, choking out the response.

    Then more quietly, but with far more sincerity. "Yes."

    If Razielle had been there of her own accord she could have walked away at any time. But she was not there for herself..

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    His hand still outstretched, Callidus stalked towards his captured apprentice with his blade lowered at his side.

    "Do you hate me for what I've put you through?"

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    She was no stranger to hate.

    She'd hated her father, and he was gone.

    She'd hated Ishara, and she was gone.

    There were others... and they were all gone.

    But apply that feeling to Salem? That was unfathomable to her. Salem was the rock she was built upon. Her entire existence was as secured to him as the Fountain Palace to it's basalt cliffs. It would take an act of the gods to tear her away.

    "No..", her voice low, and scratchy.

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    His hand fell and with it, the hold on Anxia slipped away. Callidus was there to meet her as she returned to solid ground. He drew her body against his with one arm, the other arm behind his back, lit saber still in hand.

    "You don't belong in a cage."

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    Once booted feet touched down upon terra firma, her body pulled against his, the anger went out of her. Contact with the source of all of her strength and emotion working both as a balm to her ire, and a charge to her drive. She could have continued their fight, invigorating as this was, but fighting was getting further from her mind with each repetition of Salem's heartbeat beneath her ear.

    "If you're going to crush me like a worm...", she breathed out a shuddering sigh, "..you could at least use your hands. I'd have enjoyed that."
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    There was a hiss, the sound of his saber's blade dying. The absence of it's ice-blue glow left the two of them in star-lit darkness. The skeletal mask of Callidus rippled like moonlight on dark water, the rictus vanishing to reveal the face of Salem Ave beneath.

    "It's not too late."

    The hand at the small of Razielle's back ran upwards, until his fingertips curled around the back of her neck.

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    The barest hint of a smile twitched at the left corner of her lips, unseen behind her mask. Hooded head tipping back into waiting hands, that smile made it's way up to her twilight violet eyes.

    "Well.. thank the Force for that." The Sith sword dropped from her hand, it's ancient point embedding itself deeply into the soil of Terephon.

    This time, the crushing squeeze came in the form of slender arms coiling about her master's waist, sealing them together even more tightly from hips to chest.

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