Ask [Endor] A Nest in the Forest

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It wouldn't take long for Kyo to finish climbing the makeshift ladder before he'd be up onto the next platform. A wooden bridge extended from it, and wrapped around through the trees until it looped around to the next obstacle.

While he continued to run across the suspended bridge Kyosuke's azure eyes would flick over to the lavender Twi'lek to see that she'd taken another path through the branches. Then he'd quickly redirect his focus back to the bridge as the design of its structure made it tilt and curve like a swelling tide.

Kyo would then sprint as hard as he could with a quick short burst of naturally honed speed before he'd break into a controlled slide. The layer of rain water made it barely possible enough for the young man to sweep up and around in the slick wooden curve, then back around to the next path and platform.

With another quick glance he'd see Seela nearly at the same obstacle thanks to her shortcut. Without hesitation Kyo would then kick up off the edge of the platform out of his sprint, and would fly up through the air. A moment later his hands would slap down on the thin wet bar, his feet would kick together down and forward, and his whole body would swing forward like a pendulum.

Not wanting to slow Seela down he'd quickly release at the apex of the swing's arc, and fly up toward the higher path of a few that could be reached from the obstacle. Unfortunately, with the current weather conditions the way they were, and due to his haste to launch, Kyo barely missed the top path. His hand slapped down on edge, and he was unable to find purchase. Unable to get a grip he'd slip, and fall a few meters to the next path below. "Tch!!"


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Seela was happily swinging away, forgoing the platforms and bridges, giggling as she saw she was gaining on Kyosuke.

"Hello, there! Seems you're slowing down!"

Coming up to the trapeze from a few meters above, she let herself fall, flipping mid-air to catch the bar with her legs, and made a shockingly vulgar gesture to the man, just to fluster him more.

Letting go at the peak of the swing, Seela flipped again, and landed in a handstand on the path Kyosuke just missed.

"It's over, man, I got the high ground!"

Then rolled with her momentum, to get back upright, and come up in a run, before taking back to the branches.

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"You underestimate my -!!" Kyo had jokingly begun to yell up to her, when he suddenly turned a corner on the platform and noticed that the end of his path had been decimated by the storm. The pair of thick rolling log obstacles that he and Seela had been heading towards were snapped, and each one had swung into the nearby paths.

The cautious Knight hesitated for a moment as he took in the scene, barely noticing the brief arcs of electrokinetic energy that sparked up his back and down his shoulders. The storm intensified more than he'd anticipated, and now it seemed that their best bet was to finish the course and take shelter in one of the caves near the end of trail B. "Push through!!" He'd yell up to Seela and over the storm as he ran toward the gnarled end of the broken path he was on.

"I'll get the first one!!" Then the Shadow would reach a hand to the closer of the hanging swinging obstacles while he'd focus his concentration on the ebb and flow around the log and rope. With his resolve steeled he'd take deep breath, clench his extended hand into a fist, and controlled the ethereal essence to temporarily lock the object's motion and freeze the first broken log in place with Stasis.

Without stopping for a second he'd then kick off from the end of the raised platform, and soar into the air toward the top of the momentarily frozen log.

He hoped he'd taught Seela well enough that she'd be able to hold the second log still for them too, or else it would make getting to the long platform and bridge behind it far more challenging.


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Seela was starting to worry about the storm, since it looked like it was getting worse. Thet would need to take shelter soon...
Still, the girl flipped, then catched the vines holding the first log, to help stabilize her as she landed, wincing when she put too much weight on her bad ankle, in front of Kyosuke.
Shaking off her nerves, she would then reach towards the second hanging swinging log with the Force, breathing deep, eyes still closed, focusing her mind on slowing the log, then bringing it close enough that she could grab hold of its vines, and limp to it, annoyed by the twinges of pain up her leg, and at having to use it to walk across the log, slightly limping and grumbling colorful curses under her breath.
Not waiting for the man to get on, she would quickly swing the log to the other platform, then step off cautiously, before letting go of her Telekinesis, sending the log swinging back towards Kyosuke.

"Take that!"

Then she would start making her way in the swaying canopy, being more careful than before, but still at a good pace. The next obstacle could definitely get tricky in the current conditions, and she hoped they would not get too hurt traversing it!

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Kyo landed solid onto the suspended log that he'd frozen, and then his attention would shift to Seela as she limped in front of him. Clearly she'd taken some damage, which must've been earlier considering she handled that landing pretty well. Not wanting to slow her down he figured he could ask her about it later and check on it once they were back to the cave.

"Tch!! This is how you repay me?!" Kyo yelled back with a lightly sarcastic and comedic tone to let her know he was joking around when she sent the log back, taking it easy on her since he was aware she was probably hurt more than she let on. Feeling his concentration on the frozen obstacle slipping, Kyo would quickly run forward, leap off the end of the log just in time for the Stasis to break, and then he'd bounce off of the second log with a quick pull of the Force into his legs for an enhanced Jump.

The Shadow would soar through the rain, wind beating him furiously as he'd glide across the large gap. A moment later he'd drop down on the platform next to and below Seela with his legs bent in a low crouch, his form arched forward, and his head hanging down. His face would be blocked by his soaking bangs, until he'd flick his gaze up to the next obstacle and dash forward.

With his priority focused on getting out of the raging storm he quickly dashed forward with a short burst of enhanced Speed. He'd then slide across the wooden platform for a second before he'd leap again, catching the rope and landing on one of the last few swings in the final obstacle. Kyo would then wait a moment, and adjust his posture as the momentum from his landing would cause the object to whip around wildly in combination with the brutal wind. "This storm really picked up!!"


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"You didn't have to help me! It's your fault!"

Seela then pouted at his use of the Force to take the lead, and her own ineptitude to do so. Shaking off her distraction, Seela would then swing towards the ropes and vines holding up the wooden disks.

A few seconds later, Seela somehow found herself... entengled in the ropes, without having a clue how it happened. One second, she was catching a rope mid-swing, and the next thing she knew, Seela was suspended mid air, with ropes and vines tangled everywhere, and she couldn't move.

Her body was perpendicular to the ground below, with her left arm extended above her head, her right arm pulled in front of her, her right leg bent towards her back at the hip and knee, her toes nearly touching her head, her back arching round, her left leg extended downwards, and worst of all : her right lekku was pinned painfully to her neck, while the left somehow was pulled in her back, seemingly entagled with the same rope as her foot.

The girl was slightly swaying with the wind and momentum of the ropes, wincing at the constrictions and awkward pose. She tried pulling, twisting, pushing... nothing worked. She also didn't have an understanding of how she was held, which would have helped her potentially untangling herself using the Force.

Normally, Seela would have stayed calm, and meditated until she could feel the vines, and how they held her, taking the time to Sense where they crossed, and got stuck, and how to untangle them slowly.
Not that it ever happened to her on Endor, but it might have happened in the past, at the club or the pleasure house, when a client might have had their fun tying her up, and just... left her stuck when they were done...
However, right now, with the rain getting colder, and the wind strenghtening, the storm raging more and more, Seela knew she couldn't afford to take that much time.
Still with her eyes closed against the rain, Seela extended her awareness on the trail ahead, Sensing for Kyosuke, hoping he would still be in hearing distance. Finding his familiar signature was easy, feeling it just ahead, still moving. Taking a deep breath, she hoped her voice would reach him amidst the storm.

"Kyosuke!!! Please get your little butt back here!"

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Kyosuke froze as he heard Seela call out to him. 'Oh no... now's not the time for any more trouble.' His attention immediately snapped back to where he Sensed her, and his bright blues went wide as he saw the conundrum she'd somehow gotten tied up in. Literally.

"HOW?!" He cried out incredulously as he held on to the rope of the suspended disk he was on so he could lift his right leg up, and pull his fine songsteel vibrodagger out of the shadowsheath in his boot. The dumbfound Knight shook his head as he planted his foot back onto the wooden disk, then steeled his form and readied himself to sling the dagger toward her.

"STAY STILL!!" He yelled louder over the rising storm. He felt a couple more zaps across his frame, then a powerful blast as a streak of lightning shot into a nearby tree a couple dozen meters and split it down the center. Trying to remain focused, Kyo reached back with his arm that held the vibrodagger, zeroed his aim in on the parts of vine and rope that held her aloft, and then he'd throw it like a miniature lightsaber.

The determined Shadow would guide his vibrodagger's trajectory with the Force, cutting the top of the rope before he'd pull on the weapon through the ebb and flow to bring it back through one of the vines and sever it. Then he'd catch the blade near its tip between his thumb and index, and would immediately chuck it right back toward Seela who was still suspended by another vine.

The dagger would swiftly slice through the vine, and then moments later stick into a tree behind the girl. As soon as the final vine holding Seela up was cut Kyo would then reach his grasp toward her, clutch her with the ethereal essence, and then he'd jerk his arm back and yank her through the air toward him using the Force.

As soon as she'd start to fly toward him, still heavily wrapped in vines and rope, the disk still dangling below her, Kyosuke would brace himself against the rope to the swing he was on, and prepared himself to catch her rapidly approaching body. 'You got this you got this you got this!'


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"I don't know!..."

Now annoyed, in slight pain, and seriously ashamed at her predicament, Seela would have swatted at Kyosuke if she had the ability. Since that wasn't the case, all she could do was grit her teeth and hope for the best!

"I LITERALLY CAN'T MOVE, DUMBASS!!!"

Seela tensed and shrieked when she felt the blade coming towards her the first time, then sighed in relief when she realised it didn't stab her. However, her heart started to pound, as she felt the vines holding her up be cut, making her dangle dangerously.

"What do you think you're--"

Seela's breathing was shallow and rapid, her whole body shaking, and then she was just... falling! Then she was hurtling through the air...

"THIS CAN'T BE HOW I DIIIIIE!!!"

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It was difficult for Kyosuke to resist the urge to chuckle at Seela's reactions. Thankfully there was just enough danger and purpose at the moment for him to steel his nerves and steady his focus.

Another spark of electricity from the storm harmlessly bounced across the unarmored Knight's shoulder and chest before it disappeared in time for Seela's body to slam into his. "HHF!!" Kyo clasped his arms around her and held her tight as he tried to keep his balance. He could barely keep himself from falling over while his back pushed hard against the rope and caused the wet disk under them to swing forward.

Without waiting for the disk to swing back the Shadow would twist his upper body along with Seela toward the platform, and would then push off of the fully extended swing. The two would essentially fall with the momentum more than it was a jump, but the distance was thankfully just close enough to get the bulk of their bodies onto the splintered platform. "Ghh--!!"

Kyo felt the wind nearly leave him as his vision blurred and faded for a moment. Then he felt another zap. And another. His eyes focused up to the canopy and the dark rolling clouds that churned and flashed above. He could feel electrokinetic energy as the air prickled his senses and intensified around them.

"Oh kriff..." He'd say under his breath as he felt a gathering charge of particles. Then he'd bounce off his back with a kick up and down from his legs as he'd crunch his abs to quickly get to his feet.

Without wasting a second he'd then start to grab at Seela so he could throw her upper body back over his left shoulder, clamp his left hand between her thigh and bottom, and then tried to concentrate the Force into his legs as he'd start to run down the end of the long wooden platform. "HOLD ON!!"


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Well... Seela was alive? Which was good! But Kyosuke seemed to have forgotten to untie her, choosing to carry her instead...
Seela didn't really like the weird tingles all over either... it brought back bad memories!

"Wha--wait! U-untie me!!! Dank farrik, put me down, please!!! I can follow you just fine if you untie the stupid kriffing ropes!"

Well, this was so humiliating!
All Seela could do was ramble on, trying to convince the man to unhand her! This position was definitely uncomfortable, and put the girl in a state she despised : vulnerable, and totally dependent on someone else!

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The sky shook and trembled violently. A metallic taste and crackling buzz filled the air. Then a sudden bright flash of energy would strike hard and fast against a tree near the part of the path Kyo and Seela had been on a second earlier.

A deafening burst of thunder would ring through their ears, followed by the continuous cracks of the tree as it groaned and split along the point of the strike. Kyosuke ran harder and faster, barely hearing the muffled sounds not far behind them as the tree buckled and began to fall toward them.

Determination and purpose swelled within the hastened Knight, who pumped his legs harder, faster, and further to escape their impending demise as swift as he could.

"DON'T SUPPOSE YOU COULD CATCH THAT?!" Kyo would yell at Seela's hips next to his head while he remained focused on sprinting down the end of the long wooden path.


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Seela shrieked as the lightning struck, her sensitive hearing not liking loud noises. Then, seeing the tree fall towards them, she hurriedly pushed all she had in deviating its fall, keeping it from crushing them.
Kyosuke might have screamed something, but her poor battered earcones were still ringing loud, so she wouldn't know.
Once sure the tree wouldn't bash their heads in, Seela let herself go limp, panting, exhausted, and still frikking tingles all over!!!!

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Noticing the tree deviate from its original trajectory from the corner of his eye, Kyo assumed Seela must've succeeded at his request. He hadn't actually expected her to be able to do it in her current condition. A smirk tipped up on the corner of his lips as he felt a sense of pride in her accomplishment.

He'd let the ring in his ear die down after a couple more seconds of running before he'd finally praise her and give her a pat against the back of her thighs with the hand that held her there. "Good girl!!" He'd yell to compensate for the storm and ring of the lightning strike.

Kyo wouldn't slow down as they reached the end of the course, completely aware that another bolt could hit at any moment. He'd continue sprinting and jumping off fallen logs until they'd reach the cozy cave several dozen meters later...


The younthful Knight panted as he gradually slowed to a walk and tried to catch his breath while they entered the cavity. "Wow... You alright?" He'd softly ask Seela with a caring tone as he'd slowly kneal down near the wall at the back of the den, and then he'd carefully begin to set her tangled body in against the far bottom corner of the rocky nest. "You... really got yourself all tied up this time... huh?"


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Seela's ears were ringing a little less, when she felt a... pat? On her tigh, and heard Kyosuke praise her. Immediately, she burrowed her face in his back, hiding the telling blush that darkened her cheeks. She still didn't understand why, but the man's approbation always made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and she didn't know how to react.
Seela sighed when the rain finally stopped pelting the duo, wiggling on Kyosuke's shoulder until she was let down.

The girl gave Kyosuke a glare very much like to that of an unhappy wet cat, waiting for him to start laughing at her predicament.

Wiggling around, she tried once again to free herself, without much success. Pouting and grumbling, only getting more annoyed at the ropes, as they tightened around her. She would NOT ask for help!

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The course might've been difficult with the extreme weather conditions, but it wasn't nearly as difficult as holding back a light laugh at Seela's predicament. "That's cute." He'd say as he grunted while pushing himself to his feet. Then he'd turn around and take a few steps toward the center of the small den, which was basically a quarter the size of the Shinigami's lounge section.

"Now..." Kyo would feign as though he were searching the area for something. "Where did we stash that kit?" The young man would say in a slightly sarcastic and rhetorical tone. He knew it was hidden in a little nook that he hollowed out and secured with a sturdy set of stones.


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Now at the end of her rope, Seela gave in to her annoyance, called up her Cloak ability, and rolled after the man, intent on kicking, hitting, biting or whatever, until he freed her.

"You little shit, come back here!"

Now, obviously, yelling at the man very much defeated the purpose of using Cloak, but who cared! Certainly not Seela!

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"Hm?" Kyosuke arched his brows and twisted his expression to a sort of innocent confusion as he looked back and down over his shoulder to the approaching form of Seela. She seemed to be shimmering in different spots of her Cloak from her little tantrum, unfocused and unable to properly maintain her concentration. "Okay, okay." He smirked and responded to her playfully as he stepped his ankle away in time to narrowly avoid a chomp.

The young man would then crouch down, gently patting and keeping her head at bay as best he could without getting bitten or headbutted. "If you want me to untie you then you're gonna have to be good, alright?" His tone was slightly sympathetic as he looked down into her eyes, and formed a faintly devious grin.


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Seela calmed down a little once the man gave her attention, then pouted at his teasing. Letting her Cloak down, she nodded best she could.

"I will. Please, would you mind freeing my lekku first? They're actually a bit painful..."

Seela had a weird feeling about Kyosuke's grin, but she was too preoccupied to really pay attention.

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"Mhm." Kyosuke would hum as he'd gently brush his fingertips across the vines that somehow constricted Seela across various parts of her body. "It looks pretty bad. I'm not going to be able to get all of this at once..."

The calm Knight softly poked and prodded a few spots across her body as he found the vines responsible for holding her lekku place. "...Should be this one." Then he'd carefully begin to unwind and pull parts of the vine through the others that entangled it, somewhat loosening a couple of them as he released Seela's head-tail after a few moments.

"There we go. How's that?" He'd let out a soft grunt as he pulled the final part of the vine away from the girl, who was still pretty tangled, but at least would have a little more leeway to stretch her limbs a tad. "Might take me a couple minutes to get the rest, so let me know what the worse parts are and I'll start with those."


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"I know, right? I just can't understand how it happened! So fast, too!"

Seela closed her eyes, sighing in relief. Her lekku slowly curled and twisted, getting the blood flow back, and the constriction gone.

"Thank you, feels great."

Rolling her neck slowly, a few audible cracks happened, and the twi smiled in satisfaction. Then, finally being able to really take a good look at her situation, Seela realised just how crazy the entanglement was.

"Stars, I just can't wrap my mind around it, how the frak did it happen? Maybe if you get one of my arms out I can help you get the rest. Honestly, now that my lekku are free, it isn't really painful anymore, so there's no rush..."

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