Soooooo someone asked for a bit more of the Tatooine!Obi, inspired by this awesome sketch from @teapirate, and, er, this happened:
First Impressions
The first time Qui-Gon woke up, he was standing in a
dreamscape. Looking around, he saw a
small child; human, male, maybe eleven years old. The boy was curled up, deeply asleep. The air around him still and calm, not
jittering to show impending REM sleep.Lifting himself up out of the dream plane, Qui-Gon found
himself in the cave where he’d died, all that time ago. There was nobody there
except the boy and Qui-Gon’s own skeleton.
The boy had pried the holocron acting as Qui-Gon’s anchor from the skeletal
fingers, and was curled up with it.
Odd. Qui-Gon kneeled next to the
boy, who had folded himself into a shallow depression in the sand. Hmm. It was a good
way to conserve some heat. There didn’t
seem to be anyone else around, not within the distance that Qui-Gon could
sense, anyway. Not a plan to steal the
holocron, then. The boy must have gotten lost, and stumbled over the cave by
accident.Qui-Gon considered killing the child, to preserve….what? His
solitude? Qui-Gon frowned. It had been
decades upon decades since Xanatos had killed him, even before he’d gone dormant.
He had no way to know if he’d slept through one year or a thousand, and really,
what did it matter, if a scruffy child wanted to curl up with the
holocron? He could always kill the child
later, if things became inconvenient. Hopefully, the boy would move on the next
day.
First Impressions
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