Shadowlands Sidhe

[Belle Morte]

*deep within the shadowlands of Kashyyyk a hut is located, within it is an old wookiee who helped the daughter of a "man" who wanted understanding of plants and culture and protected him from a slaver. So in return he protected his daughter for the past unknown years. Training her with his bowcaster and ryyk blades so that she could defend herself when the time came for himself to die. From outside the fey woman stood and cooked a tach that had wondered close enough to camp. With a small laugh the small woman sliced the simian and slowly cooked the parts of it as she moved with an ethereal grace and deceiving look. With another laugh the small woman with the body of a child walked into the hut and put some of the food down as her serpent tattoo shimmered along the length of her body*

All's quiet tonight, what should we do?

[Talau]

Talau watched the planet rise up to greet her as she passed over the trees of Kashyyk. She had been here to many times to count, and it was nearly the best place for any jedi to hide. It was here that she had brought her precious cargo of younglings and padawans after the attack on Taris' temple...it was here that the jedi had established a temporary base....it was here that she had lost her brother....it was here that she had told Sana how she truely felt about him so many years ago.

It hurt her heart to be back again....yet here she was. Why? Perhaps it was hope...perhaps it was a foolish and futile attempt at finding anyone left of the jedi who might still be alive....perhaps it was just to put to rest old ghosts from her past....she wasn't yet sure, but something had brought her to Kashyyk, just as something had taken her to Naboo over 20 years ago, and something had taken her to the cantina where she met Latus over 25 years ago.

It could be nothing else beside the force...that was her only explaination. As she landed her black Rilan fighter and lept out of it, she pulled her hood over her face, shadowing it once more. Her robes slowly began to take on the colors of the area around her, and she touched the side of her ship out of habit, the black coat acting like a mirror for it's surroundings.

[Belle Morte]

*Quenladose quickly tilted her head with alarm and interest as she sat the utensil down and reached for her bowcaster and Ryyk blades in their sheath. With caution she blew out the candles and kneeled down by the window to the hut and held the bowcaster propped on the sill while she looked out. Her awareness of the area told her something was off............... close, but nothing more, a small scent on the wind told her a ship had landed but couldn't be seen. Her blood pumped faster and her heart beat thrummed in her ears as she fired a shot into the tree's and disturbed a small gathering of tachs. With a clear and level voice she spoke with what seemed to much audio for her frame and the echo*

WHO'S THERE, SHOW YOURSELF

[Talau]

Talau glanced around, not moving, her hand on the hilt of Talon out of habit. Her purple eyes glittered from under her hood as she gazed toward the hut, and the voice that came from it.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]I mean you no harm.[/glow]

Talau replied calmly, her muscles relaxing as she caught sight of the silvery face in the window. The young woman was nervous...obviously, Talau could all but see the emotions pouring off of her. Putting her hands up slightl, she walked toward the hut slowly.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]I am here. There is no need to have that bowcaster aimed at me.[/glow]

[Belle Morte]

Quenladose looked at the woman and lowered the weapon on the sill, with caution she looked at the woman and where she stepped before she went out the door and spoke with her hand on a Ryyk blade near the door*

Who are you? Why are you here?

*Quenladose spoke with a soft voice while her eye's pin-wheeled into it's three diffrent colors*

[Talau]

Talau chuckled softly, and lowered her hood, exposing her dark brown hair, slightly pointed ears, and well shaped features as her eyes turned a deep blue.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]I could ask you those same questions...but for the sake of being fair, since I do seem to be on your land...

I am called Talau, and I am here hoping to find some of the people I once knew.[/glow]

She stated, not directly answering the second question.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]Either way, I am not here to harm you in any way...it is against my nature, and all I believe in.[/glow]

Talau folded her arms before her, tucking her hands into her sleeves as she had often seen the other jedi masters do....it had become a habit she had picked up from them, but why?...she still didnt know.

Talau's voice was calming, and had a musical edge to it due to her thick Rilan accent, causing her words to roll easily as she spoke.

[Belle Morte]

*Quenladose looked at the woman and gave a gallic shrug that could mean anything and nothing. Her words came out like a with a wistful tone as her eye's began to look like clouded skies*

My name is Quenladose, I have been here for many years. These friends you seek, if they are slavers then I don't recommended remaining on the planet, the wookiees are violent around them. If you aren't then please enjoy some f our food and drink. The shadowlands are dangerous even to those who are strong.

*Quenladose sat down and offered a seat to Talau and some of the food*

[Talau]

Talau grunted angrily. Slavers!

[glow=9999ff,2,300]My friends would never become slavers. If anything, they would be killed by those bloody fiends for stopping them to many times to count.[/glow]

She replied, her eyes flashing a bright yellow for a moment, then dulling to a dark, stormy, grey. Talau sat down lightly and looked at the woman, her gaze sharp and clear, as if she were looking into the very soul of the woman.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]Thank you for your hospitality. It is not often show these days.[/glow]

Talau looked around the hut quietly, and nodded to the wookie who sat in the corner, before speaking a little to him. She wasn't Sana, but she could still speak enough of the wookie language to get by.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]You have a fine friend here...did you raise her?[/glow]

[Belle Morte]

*The wookiee looked at the woman and roared a little and stood beating his chest and then showing the planter and apparatuses in the corner with a small picture of a little child, the wookiee a woman and man. With more roars and grunts the wookiee sat down and spoke to Talau*

She was going to be sold to a hutt, I owed a life debt to her father when he sacrificed himself to save me. I protect and train her for years.

*The wookiee sat down and Quenladose smiled a little as her tattoo shimmered and her she let down her hair to fall to the floor like a fall of feathers and silk. With a small movement Quenladose offered a small drink to Talau*

What are you? Your stance is of power and movements sound, but you are troubled. *with a small look and pin-wheel of her eye's to show the three colors in separation Quenladose gave a playful smirk* From what I have heard and seen the only ones who need to be afraid are the jedi, lucky for me the jedi are good people who deserve protection. They're safe here...

*Quenladose looked away from Talau with a small girlish chuckle*

[Talau]

Talau nodded to the wookie with a small, sad smile.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]Yes....I am glad that you did. She seems to have grown well under you, and i can sence that she is happy....oh!....and forgive my terrible way of speaking...I'm not good at your language...Sana.....he was much better at it.[/glow]

She added, before looking at the woman once more.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]I was once a jedi. I am still, in a way....I was a master, close to being on the council at one point...but several wars changed that...[/glow]

She said shaking her head slightly.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]I am now the leader of the Feanturi...the people who helped create the jedi order in it's beginnings....The jedi are the reason I am here. I know the good relations between the wookie and the jedi...I had to come here to hide many times. I am hoping there might be some here that are still alive and....sane....[/glow]

She explained, looking at the floor slightly, then shaking her head. There was time for mourning losses later....right now she had to focus on the task at hand.

[Belle Morte]

*Quenladose looked at the woman and gave another shrug as her eye's pin-wheeled*

When I was little my father spoke of the jedi, said that one of our species became a master in the jedi and was able to bring much honor to her people. The wookiees are protecting people on this planet, can't say jedi for sure. Do not worry, the jedi will return and bring peace. Of that I would gladly help you do. But it is not safe, we should be moving. It is time to leave this place I fear, something has changed, something near, something far, several somethings. If you would have me, I would like to join you and help in any way I can.

[Talau]

Talau reached out through the force and senced several hunting beasts and nodded.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]you are welcome to come with me, but it will not be an easy path....but you are right, we must go...there are hunting beasts out now, and they are hungery.[/glow]

She said, standing, and double checking her sabers.

[Belle Morte]

*Quenladose looked out the window and spoke with a calm voice as she rose and moved towards the corner with the equipment and picked up a few pieces of obsidian stones*

Those creatures are strange, they hunt for different things. Attack in packs only certain creatures of a species. Whatever they are we can outrun them but they come back. We should hurry. Can you jump from tree to tree?

[Talau]

Talau laughed at the question, her eyes becoming an emerald green.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]Oh yes....that I most certainly can do.[/glow]

She replied, walking out the door with a bow to the wookie. Talau put her hood up once more, and easily scaled the nearest tree with a practiced grace, then looked down at Quenladose.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]Joining me?[/glow]

She asked, in an almost playful manner.

[Belle Morte]

*Quenladose nodded and leaped from the root to the trunk and then to the next closest tree showing a crude version of an untrained force jump. With more jumps and twists Quenladose hugged the trunk of a tree overlooking one of the beasts on the forest floor and ran along a branch with a quick turn Quenladose looked at Talau and spoke*

We've made the branches into small walk-offs for quick runs to the nearest basket. We can make it back to your ship this way.

[Talau]

Talau chuckled slightly.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]If that's the only place you wanted to go then we could have stayed on the ground. I landed just feet from your home! No...I need to see if there are others here, and this is the safest place for my ship[/glow]

She said, and easily jumped from one branch to the next.

[Belle Morte]

*Quenladose nodded and jumped up a few more branches and spoke as she climber between two trunks*

Very well, there's a village about twenty meters forward and three hundred meters above the forest floor*

[Talau]

Talau listened and nodded slightly.

[glow=9999ff,2,300]Alright...then we'll head there. I can sence something...or someone...nearby, hopefully it's one of them.[/glow]

She said thoughtfully as she headed through the trees.

((let's go join their thread eh?))