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Summary
Darkness rises, and Light does not. Can a DarkSide Rey really be Light?
1. Deserted
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> Introductions
On a forested moon, two lovers explore each other’s bodies amid riotous revelry.
Those tendrils of the universe reach out, coiling around them. If the couple feels them, they attribute it to each other’s bodies, to the lust and the love between them.
Deep in the woman’s body, two cells collide and begin to divide.
Across the galaxy, a dark mind reaches out and caresses the cells, whispering to them.
***
The recruiter tried to walk carefully, but the sands shifted and rolled under her feet, even here in the outpost where many feet packed down the dusty ground.
She narrowed her focus on the small girl dressed in dingy rags, carefully scrubbing some metal bit. That one looked promising, if a little old to begin training . The recruiter made her way to the pitted table where the girl was hard at work.
“Hi,” she said.
The girl looked up uncertainly, face scrunched, but said nothing.
“Where are your parents?”
The girl shrugged and looked back at her work, but muttered, “They flew away. Said they’d be back for me. That was a long time ago.”
The recruiter smirked. The child was not old enough to lose her milk teeth, so her idea of a long time was questionable.
An elderly-looking man with striped skin sitting nearby wheezed. “They sold her to Plutt,” he rasped, his chin tilting toward the blubbery man who was bellowing at a pair of women in the nearby shade. “They aren’t coming back,” he whispered to the recruiter. “She doesn’t know.”
The recruiter pulled a blue-foiled sweet from her pocket and offered it to the girl. “Would you like to find them!”
The girl glanced up, suddenly interested but then her face fell and she looked resigned. “I have to wait.” She took the sweet though, unwrapped it, and placed it thoughtfully in her mouth. She never passed up food, even though she knew it was never free.
“I’m a member of an ancient order,” said the recruiter. “We can find anyone. Let us help you. You want to come with me.”
The galaxy itself seemed to tense, but few had the knowledge or the skill to feel it. Tendrils of destiny and power curled around the two as they faced each other on the desert.
The girl smiled and stood up.
The recruiter took her compliant little hand and led her to the ship.
Unkar Plutt was furious when his little scavenger couldn’t be found. He’d had such plans for her.
2. The Trooper
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