Chapter 4 Zoå
Anakin's POV
R2 was fearless. Anakin supposed that was what came from being non organic.
The city was one of the worst places Anakin had ever seen; and he'd grown up on Tatooine.
Thick, black smog coated the sky, and strange green smoke blew in with the gentle breeze. Vendors (obviously selling stolen goods) lined the thin street. All around the Jedi were the sounds of unlawful business. Fighting, arguing and blackmail surrounded them.
Anakin sighed in disgust. He turned to r2. "How on earth are we supposed to find one girl in this hive of scum and villainy? We might as well look for a Loth cat in a Gundarks nest!" He threw up hands and sighed again.
Suddenly a hand tapped his shoulder. "Care to buy some death sticks traveler?" The hand belonged to a beady-eyed Rodian with a nasty scar on his forehead. Anakin shrugged him off and continued on. He followed. "No? Well then maybe there is something else you require?"
All at once Anakin saw him in a new light. "Yes..... there is. I'm looking for some one. A Hydrkenetic girl. The Rodian stared. "This girl have a name?" "None that I know." "I can't find someone with nutin' to go on." He had gleam in his eyes. "Except, maybe for the right price?" Anakin rolled eyes up into his head. "Fine" he handed the lowlife a handful of credits. "Ahh! I believe I may have just remembered something. She lives in the lost city of Æseti. I've heard rumors, that she brought water to a dead land. She comes into town for supplies. I never saw her of course, but that's the rumor." What is the lost city of Æseti?" Anakin asked curiously.
"The lost city is legend on Savosa! Stories say that a man came once, with black and red skin, horns to as they say it. Æseti was never more than a village, few people lived there there when the man came. But killed em all! Every last one. Except her. They say she brought a flood down on him. The water destroyed the city, and got rid of him. But the water was brought from the polluted lake. Full of radiation from an old experiment. No else dares to go back there. They say she cleansed the land her power, but what damn fool is willing to risk ove' some girl? Eh? That's the story.
" Is is true?" Anakin asked. "True or untrue that's not my department." The Rodian shuffled way leaving Anakin a bit startled.
He turned to r2 with a wan smiled. "Well buddy, it looks like we are going to a possibly radioactive ghost town in habited by a girl who can control water. This were the fun begins."
Only then did Anakin realized he had neglected to ask where the city was.
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