Candles In The Dark ; A Discovery

[Veritas et Lux]

There she was, flying across the stars within the exhaust port of a hyperdrive core. The flames lent her sanctum from the vacuum of space as this ship hurdled towards its destination. Unknown to her, the ship was en route to none other than Taris, an imperial backwater world with cityscapes that buried the surface beneath.

As the small freighter exited hyperspace, our heroine was awaken by the decrease in heat. Luckily, a small flame still persisted as the pilot brought her down into the surface of the planet. Looking out, she witnessed the sky rise away from her as the ship landed and the turbines came to a still. The smoldering metal was of no bother to her, but she knew that staying here would be fatal.

Crawling down, she attempted to remain hidden as a small ember slithering along the landing pad. However, as she made her way, she suddenly found herself growing larger uncontrollably. A smidgen, and just a smidgen, of fuel lay on the ground. Most likely from the careless spills of the fuel attendant droids, but nonetheless a disastrous turn of luck for this poor creature.

Her fire raged and she could feel this growth spurt take place. Where the fire grew, she could feel her conscious self reach out. She relinquished a gasp as she slithered off, over the edge of the landing pad and attempted to separate herself from the inferno tht had been inflicted upon the sith military landing pad. As she struggled to lose herself, she could feel the pain of fire extinguishers above. Agonizing extinguishers smothered her flame as she attempted to loose herself ; attempted to cut herself in half as chaos began to stir topside.

 

[Orphen]

Snikch ran onto the Landing pad when he heard the disturbance, Knewly made a Sith master, he looked at the flames, and with his own pyromancy, and increadible focus began to still them into inactivity and smothering. But he could feel a presence, and a strange one at that. he moved around the place until his eyes settled on a subtle plume on conscious flame, nestled off to a side. Snikch approached with caution, hiding his presence in the force he held out a hand for it. He could not descern a Gender, though he wanted to be cautios, but inviting.

Why hello there... And what have we? It seems you're a little lost in this chaos, is there something i can do to help you?

A creature made of fire amongst the Sith was not an unheard of thing in the universe, though one setting alight a landing pad on its own was something to be interested in most definatly. It seemed to grow with Fire, though it had a mind of its own. Using empathy he allowed a presence of calm to wash away from himself, giving out the feeling of safety. As if he were approaching a freightened bird, or trapped child.

This may have been the wrong approach, but he would soon see.

 

[Crim]

As Kaiburr was patrolling the area for a known criminal, he noticed a bright flash when someone stepped out of a transport. He quickly walked over to investigate before seeing what appeared to be someone engulfed in flames. Upon closer examination, he noticed it was someone MADE of fire. It was fascinating to Kaiburr. He had belonged to many Sith Lords as a prone Shard, but he was still surprised regularly by the Force.

He continued to approach the landing pad in anticipation.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

She could form no words, for she knew not of the languages of man. However, hiding among the flames in the form of fire proved to betray her sense of invisibility. For even yet, a being of flesh and bone approached her. Both the shortest man that she'd seen yet, and also the most peaceful. She could feel a sense of calm as he approached her slowly.

He knew of her. He could see her hiding in the form of wildfire, and slowly everything began to calm down with her. The flames atop the landing pad quelled to hushed embers as she began to take her shape, conforming to a woman sitting upon the ground.

 

[Orphen]

Snikch spoke softly, channeling his own emotions into calm words, but she did not understand. So pulling his focus on the force and his own skill with empathy he attempted to usher a serene feeling from himself as a center. As well as curiosity and worry, in a dirt of emotional cocktail to form a more wordless description of his intentions.

He held out a hand to the creature of flame knowing full well he may well sizzle to the touch. But he had been burned many times by his own lightsabers liquid energy. So to him it would be but another burn. His eyes though they could not be seen were soft and kind. To many, they would ask themselves if he were really a sith. But deep within this thick shell, he did not see her as a mere creature of flame.

He saw the potential of a hindered year darkness. A possible creature from the ancient time of darth nihil. An age which culled the weak and the strong prospered. A world of creatures and the brotherhood of darkness. Such morals and ideals the jawa prized higher than anything. The superstitious jawa took her appearance as a sign. Of things yet to come.

Perhaps he was wrong. Though he wasn't about to let that slip through his grasp. To that end... He could not let the sith have her. He concocted two plans in his head. One: open kindness to her and coax her to believe she's in trouble so that she could only trust him. Two: drive her away so that she would not trust. That way no one could have her, and hopefully, vei could pick her up on the other side.

So he hoped

 

[Crim]

Stepping onto the landing pad, Kaiburr focused on the flaming figure near the ship. He walked closer, curious as to what this thing was or how it came to be. He noticed a familiar presence on the pad too; Snikch Hettoran was here. Once he was closer to the flame, Kaiburr said in Jawaese, "Master Snikch. How are you doing?" still looking at the flaming figure.

He sensed the being didn't know basic. Rather than speaking aloud, he spoke to the being through the Force. It was how Shards communicated on their home planet. It was how they could speak to, and understand, anything. Granted, most Shards don't get installed in droid bodies allowing them to audibly speak. Speaking to the flame being through the Force, Kaiburr said, "I am Kaiburr. What is your name?"

 

[Veritas et Lux]

The elemental was filled with fear and overcome with a calming aura. Now, two humans were near her and they were both beings of the force as was she. She understood the most basic of instinctual emotions projected to her, and yet she was put at bay.

She was as a caveman attempting to speak to a modern day man. She had no name, no language, and no knowledge of what was around her. For the most part, she was nothing but a scared child without guidance inside of the galaxy... and for the most part, there were non-threatening individuals that seemed to greet her with kindness.

The flame elemental all at once was invited with these gentle auras, but both put at bay by the amount of encroachment that there was.

She backed up a bit before coming to a stand, her flames roaring off of her, causing her to appear ghostly at the feet with a campfire flame veering off to her right. She floated there as herself, glowing softly. Not knowing whether to flee or to accept the aid of the two men.

 

[Orphen]

Snikch looked at the second person who had come on the scene, two people was too many, which had completely scrapped the entire idea of option one, he was at first trying to calm her, but this was something that would need time, effort, and learning. She needed to learn an entire language, but he was almost more intruiged for a moment by the person speaking to him in Jawanesse. Snikch's implants allowed him to speak galactic basic, so he was well and truly distracted for a moment in time. Looking at the man as if to say:... "wait, were you talking to me?"

The Jawa looked back at the girl as his eyes would flare up. Pyrokinesis was the ability to control flame, she was made of flame, so perhaps this would speak to her louder. He would try to kindle her fire and cause it to spread offensively. In an outward flux. If not her fire, then an explosion of fire from around her should he be completely unable to control it.

His aim was to scare her, but for her to also know he would be the one who did it, he could always try to recover her trust at another time, and another place. For now, she needed to run. But snikch would have to chase her. Lead her in such a direction that she did not find herself in even more trouble and more danger. She needed to get away from here as fast as possible.

The Jawa once spoke of beings made of pure water who were conjured byt the most ancient of Jawa Shaman to talk to them about important matters of magic and ceremony. Rumored to have only lived in pure crystal oasis water. Or conjure the water themselves. But Snikch had thought these merely fairytales, fishermans stories used to uphold a level of mysticism... perhaps they were more true than he origionally thought.

His stance was no longer passive, and friendly, but cold and aggressive at this point. He looked to the man over his shoulder and muttered in almost a low gutteral growl

She's going to run...

 

[Crim]

A light in Kaiburr's torso glowed an emerald green, signifying curiosity. He continued to try to communicate with the flame being through the Force, while at the same time, trying to let off a calming presence. Responding to the Jawa's question, Kaiburr said, "Yes," still looking at the flame being. After a few seconds, the Jawa began trying to scare the flame being.

It was a good tactic, but the Jawa was using fire. Kaiburr doubted it would scare a being made of fire, but it was possible. He just hoped the being would find a better place; Taris was a chaotic world...

 

[Veritas et Lux]

The flame elemental before them was suddenly overcome with a feeling of hostilities. She didn't know much, but she could feel within the force the small man's intentions. As her flames began to branch out, she gathered her self again frantically. At almost a panic, she would have fled if it weren't for the creation of fire around her that she believed she understood.

This man was a fire elemental as well, or at least to her it seemed so.

Was this a way of communication? If so then she would try and communicate back, now calmed once more she loosened herself and allowed herself to join the flames around her before creating flames around the smaller man.

And as well, the earthly being beside her attempted to communicate as well using the force. The emotions that he meant to project were unsettling but as well she understood- not hostile. She began to spread her fire once more, but not menacingly.

 

[Orphen]

Snikch didn't understand the idea of why the creature did not leave. The use of the fire it seemes did not phase either of them, so he was going to have to just go along with it, he had his chance of letting the creature escape. She was making the fire move calmly, snikch created a fireball in his own hand and mimiced the sways and the motions of her own fire. As he thought to himself "what does a peaceful fire look like?"

Bending light around the flame, trapping certain colours and reflecting others he forced his fire to turn blue. Swaying slowly from side to side like a tree in the wind. Dim, and unable to hurt. It was not a burning consuming fire, it was one that looked like it couldn't catch a match alight even if it wanted to.

I think she talks through fire, she seemed interested when i manipulated it. Perhaps we can coax her into safety through this means, if we can just... crack the code.

 

[Crim]

Looking at Snikch and the fire elemental, Kaiburr summoned a small ball of fire from his torso, where part of his 'true self' was stored. The fire slowly approached the fire elemental before speading into a controlled ring of fire around the elemental just as it had created a ring around Snikch. The fire went out after a few seconds.

This was quite a fascinating ordeal. With luck, audible communication would be possible at some point. He conjured another small flame, hovering it over his head. He pointed to himself, saying, "Kaiburr," before hovering the flame over the fire being's head, motioning for it to speak its name.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

She witnessed the small jawa create the blue flame and instantly understood.
What was known to the elemental by instinct, by existence, was that a blue flame was a fire that underwent complete combustion. It was a fire that burned great with premised oxygen and no byproduct. A blue flame, it was as if taking a deep breath to calm oneself.

The fire woman took a deep breath herself and became very much calm. She witnessed thermal communication, and although it was not a language it was something that the elemental understood. Understanding more and more little by little, she was calmed.

Now though, the earthly elemental displayed his fiery powers as well. For a moment, she had wondered if she should attempt to bend metals around him. But before she could put her thoughts straight, he began to speak audibly again.
All of the audible noise between the three was confusing, and threw her off. She didn't quite understand what the metal man meant to associate with the flame and voice. He was the more confusing of the two, feeling as if the smaller man of flesh had understood better. But she did feel as through communication was crucial anyways.

Mimicking the metal man, she formed flames that burned brightly, holding the ball in front of herself before forming the words.

"Kaiiiiii-bur", she relinquished, holding a long drag i the middle before quickly ending at the end.

She then continued to allow her flames to extend to the man's chest.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

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[Orphen]

Snikch smiled as he was now simply entranced by this method of communication, if he learned it, he could have a form of communication nobody else knew, he could feel her calm and this made him happy, it seemed to him the intention of the flame was easily perceived by the flaming woman. Growing in confidence the blue flame became a marmalade orange, exuding a warm glow like that of a calm campfire, warm and inviting as he beckoned her to follow. Away from here. Away from prying eyes.

Snikch looked at the other sith as he attempted to bridge the mangy age gap, "so she can speak. " he said softly. "tell no one of this discovery okay? There is power in this creature. Power we can use for ourselves. That our superiors would gladly usurp... I hope we're on the same page..."

This was no warning, it was a hidden threat from the master assassin. Who was particularly known for his attitude. Not that anyone knew he was more than a crusader.

 

[Crim]

"I was about to suggest the same thing," Kaiburr replied. There really was no reason for the others to know of this. He wanted to help train the fire elemental. It could not only be an interesting experience, but it could work to his advantage. He noticed Sniktch leading the fire elemental to a better place. "Lead on," he casually said to the Jawa.

 

[Veritas et Lux]

The Elemental was able to get the gist of their attempts at communication. She followed unknowingly trusting these men of the force.
Her flame was calm, not catching onto anything that she passed as she made her way back across the scorched permacrete landing pads which were now tended to. The black scorches across the ground left a stain of her earlier presence. Now though, her whisp-like tail trailing behind her left no indication of her ever traveling across the place now as she entered the sith base.

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