October Catchall

[faithfulson]

Who: Luke Skywalker, Jaina Solo, Rey, Maul (and probably Reaper)
What: Catchall for October (including events), as well as some backdated stuff. If you would like a prompt, feel free to message me, or start your own thread.
When: Through the month
Where: All through Trench
Content Warnings: Mild body horror in unmasked prompt. Others TBD.

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Rey

[faithfulson]

When Luke wasn't training with Maul, he was training by himself whenever he could find a place without too many eyes watching -- either sentient native or otherwise. It gave him a chance to just listen as he put himself through the motions; let the Force hum through him, connecting him with his lightsaber, with the ground at his feet, and...

...with the surprise audience.

He couldn't find it in him to be annoyed with this audience though, even if he wanted to be. Rey was really, really easy to sense: a bright spot in the Force with a floating connection to him that wasn't quite there, largely due to the fact that he wasn't the person she knew, at least not yet. A faint smile came to his face as he felt her lingering, and he allowed the kata he was currently working on to swing him around, angling the lightsaber just away from her so she wouldn't think he was about to attack, before closing the blade down.

"It's been awhile."

[provenforce]

She hadn't meant to stop and stare. She hadn't even really realized she was sensing Luke at first. He was such a different presence now to what he would be. But watching him go through the motions with his lightsaber was so oddly uplifting to her. She'd never so much as seen him hold his own saber when she had trained with him. Supposedly he'd had it at the end, but she only had the accounts of her friends from that day.

When he speaks she smiles awkwardly, tensing her shoulders into a shrug.

"I was a little embarrassed after our first meeting."

[faithfulson]

"Don't feel embarrassed," he said gently, a warm smile on his face. "All things considered, you had every way to react the way you did."

He considered closing down his lightsaber for a moment, before he tilted his head at her curiously.

"...did you come here with your lightsaber?" he asked curiously.

[provenforce]

"I still feel like I could have handled it better," she had been in Trench long enough to be comfortable with how strange it is people come from different timelines. But it had definitely thrown her to encounter someone like him the first time.

At his question she nods her head, touching the hilt of the blade on her hip.

"I wouldn't go anywhere here without it."

[faithfulson]

"We're all presented challenges that we realize we could have handled better in hindsight," Luke replied, probably sounding more like a teacher than he intended. "It's how we learn, to know how to respond the next time."

He still didn't close down his lightsaber, instead eyeing the lightsaber at her side. It was an interesting hilt, looking like it was made out of something else, though he didn't know her well enough to know if that was the case or not.

"That said," he began again, "would you like to show me what you've learned?"

[provenforce]

Rey can't help the half smile that touches her lips as he seems to effortlessly become a teacher. She had always known this Luke existed, it's just nice to see it.

She is somehow surprised by the offer, to show him what she's learned. She's trained with a saber for a year now, and the months she's been in Trench, but she's never sparred with someone, Leia being far too delicate after her brush with death to be wielding a saber to test her student's mettle.

"Okay, yes." she finally responds, stepping towards Luke and unclipping her saber from her belt.

[faithfulson]

He offered her a grin at her response, absently twirling his lightsaber around in an exaggerated flourish, before holding it up at the ready, waiting for her to make the first move.