Consolidation Litanies of the Dark Side: Defiance

[Valia Muqai]

Valia held onto the bed for support as her head spun and spots appeared in her vision. Her breaths coming in quick pants, mild pain radiating from where her torso was stitched together both inside and out, barely healed wounds straining from her movements. The alien's assistance felt almost foreign when she had spent the last few years being pushed to her limits and not given any chance for rest.

She turned to look towards the Jedi woman who had just spoke. The presence of a Jedi should have been of great comfort to her, instead she felt uneasy and uncomfortable. As if expecting some sort of grave punishment from them for a fault she had committed.

"I feel as well as someone who needed to have a large part of their torso cut away..." A brief pause after she answered. "Not at all. I feel like I'm am dying."

 

[Aola Cliyerslan Vilbolra]

"It will fade." The Jedi nodded in a strangely comforting tone. "We have ran out of painkillers. It is only through the concoctions of Dr Fana that we keep the medbay running. Bit unconventional... But they do work."

The alien shook his head in a spasmic manner, causing the tinny tentacles on his jaws to jiggle. His mannerism questionable, or disturbed by culture foreign and unknown. He slowly pulled away from Valia, as if testing her ability to stand on her own, though not making distance, so as to have reach in case she collapsed, or extended her hand for aid.

"Itth jutht the thideffectth of the Thky. You will feel better ath thoon ath your blader activateth." the alien explained. Though his words a cause of stress, he laid down the situation as if it was nothing of importance. Eventually, concluding with the weirdest part of all. "Do not panic if you urine come out blue and burn, thlightly... Thith ith exthpected."

The Jedi shook her head. Something in the alien's words appeared funny to her.

"Take your time. Rest." she said. "When you feel ready, I will be here. It has been long since the Sith have tested the defences of this planet. You are safe. As soon as a supply fleet breaks through the blockade, I will make sure you get on it. That, unless you wish to stay."

 

[Valia Muqai]

Somehow, through sheer force of will and focus, Valia kept herself standing. Hands gripping the medical bed for support as her head still spun, feeling her heart pounding as if she had exerted some sort of immense physical effort causing it to work even harder to sustain her already battered body. "Being pumped all manner of chemicals and pissing it out in odd colors and sensations is hardly new anymore." as much as her words sounded like a jest, Valia's tone was more a statement of fact rather than a lighthearted quip. "And I honestly do not know where to go or to stay here..."

"What happened to the Sith woman? She was the one that got me in this situation in the first place." Valia found herself feeling more concerned for Kirki than she should be in that moment. Freedom was finally within her grasps and yet that red skinned woman still wormed into her mind like some parasite.