꧁•⊹٭𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟷: 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚊𝚢٭⊹•꧂

Now: The Teth System, Tattoine...

Inside the abandoned monastery in Tatoinee, it has been almost 22 years since the Sith Lord captured the child. She has grown up into an adult who began having trouble sleeping because of the dark thoughts that almost consumed her mind: 

'It feels cold at night... But there's heat in the abandoned, just...cold...with more darkness and..a little light ahead. Wait, I am close to dying! Please, take me away from the torture. I cannot live any longer! And I wish I knew my name but...WHY CAN'T I DIE IN PEACE?!?... Is there a reason... for me to live?' 

She's taken for another beating by an evil Sith apprentice named Ventress. The prisoner is tortured and punished without any reason or remorse. Unfortunately, her thoughts were interrupted when a droid entered with a message from her boss.

Ventress then had her droid take the woman back to her cell. The woman had long pink hair, an oval face with tiny magenta freckles, and white marks that had been covered in black and blue bruises. She was wearing prisoner rags underneath. Her white skin was pale as ice with scars all over her body, and her blue eyes were like the midnight sky.

Abruptly, the cell opens to reveal Ventress, Count Dooku's apprentice, being accompanied by her droids, who usually beat her up every single day. She's the only one who hands her a tiny baby Jabba. She was also unaware that she's secretly going to keep an eye on Jabba the Hutt's son, Rotta. 

From what the prisoner remembered, was that Ventress kidnapped the child by Count Dooku's orders.

"...?" 

The female prisoner slowly stood up, her eyes curious about ever seeing someone other than Ventress and the droids. She was uncertain of the baby in front of her. The baby began whimpering in the dark until he stopped crying. 

He finally saw darkness. 

The woman hid herself away from going his way. He started giggling and smiling, trying to reach out to her for a hug. They both hugged tighter together until the child fell asleep. She watches during the night, allowing herself to gradually succumb to sleep in the darkness.

For the next two days since Ventress had given the female prisoner a baby, but her hobby of being a punching bag for Ventress hadn't been over since she could remember, for already gotten so many untreated wounds and scars all over her body while on a sunny afternoon, the female prisoner has kept an eye on the baby for 4 hours.

No food or water has been fed to her or the baby, which is already getting into her weaker state, but as always, she manages to survive since she's been malnourished after being captured by the Sith Lord himself. 

No one has come to her aid, not even anyone though, for the crying baby in her arms has just fallen asleep on her lap due to the extreme heat of the sun from outside worries and decides to rock the little one with a lullaby:

" 'Gales of song, guide me through the storm

On the wings of a small, simple melody

Words take flight & soar, they carry me~~

A world we'll see.

Looking for a farewell, I pull the threads

A life without you I cannot accept

I can't tell that lie, I can't let go...

There was a sudden movement from outside, with loud booms and blasters shooting, echoing through the halls. The female prisoner flinched and shook in fear, like a coward. This caught the Hutt baby's attention, as he touched her sleeve for comfort. 

It helped her relax a little after she'd been so tense from the sounds coming from outside. The female prisoner widened her blue eyes, as tears formed. Of course, the sounds frightened her to death, giving her a fear of the unknown attack. 

She hugged the baby closely in her arms and chest by continuing singing quietly for the little Hutt baby again, with her voice soothing him back to sleep:

"But, now that you're gone, seems like everyone

just smiles at the sun but, what about me?

Tell me how I would know, where I should go~~~?

Oh, Gales, you sing & guide me...

"I walk alone. There's more to life I have to know

It's just me, lost so far away from home, alone I

Shut myself in. Still, the wind howl; they call

And their voices lead me, gales of song, guide me through the storm

Let the melody lift me high, I'll be me~~~

Her voice trembled in fear, yet she held strength from within her weak, frail body when she sang, but she did not know that someone or both people had opened the sliding doors as the prisoner woman kept on singing. 

Felt the child moving in her arms and placed him down, so he could crawl around in hopes he didn't see her crying as she was right now and continued:

"...Gales of Song, please stay by my side~

Winds of love, breathe into my life..."

Once the two come in, the baby Hutt gets carried into the backpack as a man in black robes walks slowly towards the prisoner woman.

[??????'s POV]: earlier, before killing the drones and finding the cell...

"Master, y'know we're walking into a trap, right?" 

My padawan commented, walking beside each other while I smirked and answered, "I know." Another minute passed, and Ashoka spoke again: "We just passed two more drones." 

"I know." I spoke in a monotone voice.

"Well, I don't like this." She asks, "Can't I just care for them?" 

Then later, After a few seconds of fighting off the drones, Ashoka and I heard a lullaby saying this:

 " 'But, now that you're gone, seems like everyone...' "  

"Sssh! Listen." 

We both close our eyes and continue hearing it; the more we walk, the closer we get to one of the cells: " 'just smiles at the sun, but what about me?

" 'Tell me how I would know where I should go~~~?' " 

"I'm not gonna lie, master, but the song is beautiful." Ashoka was right about that. It did sound nice, but there was more to it, like something... trapped. I was flooded with memories of how I felt when I heard of my mother's death. 

My emotions got even more intense when I saw my mother in front of me with a basket of fruit when I was a kid. We both stopped suddenly and opened the doors to see her.

Oh, Gales, you sing & guide me...

"I walk alone. There's more to life I have to know

It's just me, lost so far away from home, alone I

Shut myself in. Still, the wind howl; they call

And their voices lead me, gales of song, guide me through the storm

Let the melody lift me high, I'll be me~~~

Opening the cell, we are welcomed with an empty room, and what or who we saw made us freeze, "A baby?" Just as I was about to get annoyed, a gasp was heard. Before I could say anything to my padawan, the sound of something or someone kept moving the shackles chained to the floor. As I got closer, Ashoka noticed my action once she picked up Jabba's son, Rotta, in her backpack for safety. 

She followed, "Did you see that?" 

"See what-?" There was another shadow, but it was... human, a female human.

NOW!

Without a second, I rushed in front of the woman, who crawled away from me, which got me to see her as my mother... The day I lost her is still fresh in my memory of the time I never got the time to save or find her, but with this woman before me, she seems to show how much the force had broken me. 

However, I felt as if I was now relieved from the blame and fault of not saving my mother like someone had given me a chance to save someone. 

Saving someone from having the same fate as my mother was something I never thought I would ever experience again. With a soft smile, I kneel on the floor to let her woman look into my eyes to show kindness: 

"Hey, what's your name?" I gently asked her. The moment the prisoner came closer, my breath and padawan stopped breathing as we watched and eyed her description form. 

Her eyes were giant pools of blue bell color, her pink hair was longer to reach the floor, her face was almost cut and bruised, and her right cheek was scarred some on both her cheeks. Judging by the looks of her body & grey rag clothes... 

Indicating that she was tortured.

And that thought made my blood boil, but I sighed to calm down my anger from clouding my mind for the woman's sake. After all, I can't scare her right now: "She's malnourished. Hand me a sandwich, Ashoka." I told her.

Ashoka handed me the sandwich, watching me in confusion about what I was about to do, "Here." 

The woman was hesitant and confused but then realized that she was chained. I almost didn't see it before; I motioned her to open her mouth. 

She trembled, but then I told her something: "You know... your song is actually nice." I started complimenting her to see if she would relax, which it did, so I continued with a kind smile, "It's what led me and my padawan here to find you." 

"..." 

"I know you're scared, but I promise that it's not poison. Look, I'll show you." I took a piece of the sandwich and handed it to Ashoka to eat. She complied, and we both swallowed it to see if we had gained the prisoner's trust. 

Without a second thought, I smiled instantly when she took a bite of it, and her eyes sparkled with light. She started to eat it rapidly. 

"t..t...thank...y..y..you." She coughed; I instantly sat at her side before I patted her back gently, which made her flinch in pain. Narrowing my eyes at this, I motioned Ashoka to take Rotta out to our troops and leave me to talk to the woman privately. 

Once alone with her, I asked if she didn't mind if I soothed her. It confused her at every word I said, and I could tell by staring at her expression: 'She must be scared. Good thing I asked Snips to leave me here to talk with the prisoner.' 

 "Look, I'm going to get you out of here right away, so I want you to promise me that you close your eyes and never open them until I say so, got it?" 

"..mhm." She hummed in response, to which I smiled and got up. Seeing her close her eyes slowly, I took out my lightsaber and destroyed the chains before I helped her off the floor and noticed that she was struggling to say something as she wanted to talk, only to end up coughing. She was about to fall, but I caught her in time before she could hit her face. 

Swiftly, carrying her bridal style, I explained how special she was and that she was now safe. She opened her eyes and gave me a small smile before she passed out in my arms.

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