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last_kallig) wrote2020-06-20 08:17 am
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AU: Not Milliways continuity -Obi-Wan Kenobi -aiming for angst free for once, damn it!?
Ibani has a mounting headache. Stupid Sith scholars of the past and their need to be damnably clever.
Oh, the LITERAL translation is clear enough, the word is blood, but given the time and cultural context, that has AT LEAST 12 different possible meanings.
"If you weren't already several centuries dead, I'd smack you for being insufferably vague," she mutters at the book as she closes it.
"I need a drink."
Oh, the LITERAL translation is clear enough, the word is blood, but given the time and cultural context, that has AT LEAST 12 different possible meanings.
"If you weren't already several centuries dead, I'd smack you for being insufferably vague," she mutters at the book as she closes it.
"I need a drink."
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He grins brightly and swings his saber low, on the off chance she's sent herselgff off balance with that move.
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Ibani's grin brightens, despite the sting of the blow, and she decides to try the less physical side.
She swings both sabers at him, but the real attack is a delicate reach with the Force, just enough pressure to flip the power switch on his lightsaber.
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He inhales quickly, impressed, and has his lightsaber on in an instant.
He races at her, assuming that with enouigh speed he can keep her distracted enough to prevent any more tricks like that.
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She meets his speed with her own, and there is a fierce joy in the Force as they spar.
This time she turns her own saber off as Obi-Wan blocks, hoping to get the lightsaber past his guard.
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He has to roll, again, and spin around to resume the attack
"So full of tricks," he observes.
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Ibani blocks his next set of attacks, then switches to wielding her lightsabers with the Force.
The advantage with wielding them this way is that she's not limited to the angles that her body could handle, she can even attack him from the front and from behind at the same time. Plus, of course, her body is free to deal with any openings Obi-Wan might leave in his defenses.
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Obi-Wan is only able to express his surprise with a sharp look at her, before he's a bit preoccupied countering both lightsabers. Although as he does so he reaches into the Force and...
...one of the lightsabers starts slowing down considerably.
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She's stronger and denser than she looks, having spent the entirety of her adolescence on Korriban, which has a gravity of 1.4 instead of 1.
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Hands out uselessly to his side, he rocks onto his shoulders to tuck his legs up under her, and kick upwards as hard as he can, just to get her free of him.
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She hasn't entirely let go of his torso yet when she calls another whirlwind of power, this one big enough for both of them!
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And switches off the lightsabers in his hand, wraps his hands around her back, and pulls her in.
If he's getting dizzy, she can too!
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Ibani's purple lightsaber spirals up the vortex to hover over their heads while they spin.
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"I believe you were the one throwing herself at me?"
His hands move up her back, his arms tucked against her side, his face inclined to hers.
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Her hands move up his back, an embrace as opposed to a grapple. She moves her face close to his, close enough to kiss, and her Force presence warms, curls around him like a purring cat.
"Would you like me to make your head spin for a different reason?" she offers, voice low.
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"Anything that doesn't involve you dropping that lightsaber on my head."
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Then she leans in to kiss him, warm and gentle. The whirlwind dies, but her reach with the Force holds them both suspended in the air for the moment, lowers them oh so gently to the ground.
If he decides to take that opportunity to say, stab her, well there's always a risk when you're pursuing any reward, isn't there?
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Obi-Wan moves both lightsabers to one hand, which he drops to put in his own belt. The other hand cups the back of her head gently, fingers tucking into her hair, as he returns the kiss, sweet and lightly.
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She reaches out to his mind, offers an invitation to her own.
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Just a little, though, and then he returns it, reaches back to her. He's warm and tender and joyous, and only sharing exactly what he chooses to.
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She sends a mental image of a location by the lake that she likes, cool, sheltered, the ground covered in moss, with a sense of questioning. Would he like to move over there?
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But also, he needs to be clear on something.
Jedi can have no attachments. He will always be a Jedi.
He searches her face for an answer, this is only what it is, and he needs too check that she knows that.
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"I am your friend, and I would not ask that you break a rule you hold in such esteem."
This being just what it is is fine so long as he will still be her friend.
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This cannot break friendships, he knows. It's also not about what's forbidden - Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan has a healthy disrespect for the rules. But Obi-Wan is already experienced in what happens when you let yourself get too involved. He already knows the pull of the Dark Side that comes from putting one person above all others, even in the face of what is right for everyone.
But let her think it's about rules, rather than tell her why it is there's that little bit less of him to give.
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Ibani knows about the Dark side, oh yes. She's fiercely protective of 'Her' people, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is one of those. There will be no hesitation and no mercy for anything or anyone that threatens him.
She chuckles in his mind. 'Time for you to teach me, perhaps. I've never been here before.'
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Obi-Wan's thoughts don't actually make words, because that's just not how his mind operates. It's more a questioning, understanding of his meaning that settles lightly in her mind. One of the reasons he's so good with non-verbal animals.
They reach the spot they were aiming for and settle down, first on their feet and then he bends his knees so they're sitting instead.
Or more metaphorically?
If so, he's surprised, but willing to be the teacher, in everything. He keeps that one hand on the nape of her neck, and rests his other on the back of her shoulders, and just reminds her that there's no need for anything except this, but at the same time, opens himself up, asking what she wants right at his moment.
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