Ask Coruscant Ripples of a Supernova

[Kyosuke Yamato]

The tingling sensation in Kyo's heart fluttered more and more. He tried to ignore Seela's completely bare chest as best he could, but then she continued to reveal more of herself.

'At least she's doing it willingly, but if she wasn't wearing a bra, is she even wearing a---' Kyo's curious gaze lingered downward as he blushed more and more at the fine curves of her body that were gradually being exposed to him. 'Huuhh.... This is not at all what I expected...' He thought he was just going to march right up here and have no problem getting his slave washed up, but this...

Kyo gulped, took a breath, and shyly looked toward the bath to distract his curiosity. He cleared his breath as best he could, then would reach over to shut off the water to the bath, which had filled rather quickly. "Ahmhm--" He'd dip his fingertips into the water to make sure it was a good soothing hot temperature before he'd then barely peak back.

He'd then turn back once she was ready to take off her shoes, and would keep his gaze on her feet while he'd help her sit on the edge of the tub next to them. Then he'd begin to remove her shoes as generously as he could given the presence of the alluring bare body next to him. "So uhh... How did your old Masters usually clean you?"


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[Seela]

Seela had just undone the closure and thrown the rest of the ruined outfit out, now eager to get warmed up and clean in the bath. The last time she had a real bath was back at the brothel on nal hutta... she liked baths. Kyosuke's next question confused her. Yes, she had clients who liked to play in a bath, but her masters usually just gave her a time by which she was supposed to be ready, and that was all... hm... Did he plan on...?

"Hum... My masters usually just... order me to get clean... I can perfectly do it by myself..."

Taking her bath in peace would be great... but Seela got the feeling it wouldn't happen...
Seela let her shoes fall to the ground with loud thunks satisfied by the amount of credits stashed in the soles.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

Kyosuke was focusing on calming his nerves, and dipped for a moment before he steadied himself. 'Gonna need some food soon, but I'm not going to leave her without knowing I can activate the collar she can't take off.'

"Just take it easy, don't rush it. Last thing I need right now is to have to race you to a clinic." He'd then offer his hand out to her to help her lower herself safely into the tub of water, doing his best to keep his blush back and his eyes off her. In between the two on the rim of the fine tub was a control pad that would activate various features such as water jets, bubbles, and a massager that was built into the head and back rests of the ergonomic bath.

Kyo would then nod at one of the three loofas secured to the wall, and a set of dispensers with hygienic products in them for cleaning the hair and body. "You can use those to get yourself clean. I'll be right here until you're finished." He'd give a gentle pat on the edge of the tub, and then would blush a little more as he gradually began to unzip his hoodie. If he was going to be sitting next to all this water he might as well wash himself up a little too.

It was just his slave afterall, there was nothing he needed to be shy about. That's what he kept trying to make himself believe anyway as he'd reveal more and more of his torso, which had been cut up and bruised a little bit during his reckless entry to save Seela.


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[Seela]

Seela obediently nodded, kneeling in the water carefully. Once settled, she then took a loofa and soap, and started efficiently washing herself, glad for the reprieve from having his hands on her. Taking special care while cleaning her ankles and wrists, then her lekkus, and wished she could have cleaned the electrical burn marks, but she felt that having her hand near the collar would get her shocked, so she refrained.
While doing so, Seela would slip into a meditative state, enjoying the near silence, and spreading her awareness around her, hoping to feel Gremlin in the hangar bay.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

The sight of Seela's bare body became nearly unbearable for the uninitiated and inexperienced young man. Then there was a brief random moment when he couldn't keep himself from staring - not at Seela - but just straight ahead. An image of himself being stripped down before her and a dozen other people suddenly flashed through his mind, overtaking his senses.

Kyo paused. Chills ran up the boy's spine and trickled down his chest. He still had a hand on the bottom of his hoodie and one on his zipper, which both froze after he'd barely unzipped it about halfway. The image twisted and distorted, until hundreds of fingers started closing in all around him and dragged across his skin, each one digging in and breaking it. His heart skipped then beat harder. The anxious tingles in his chest stabbed at him wildly.

The image then flashed again to Seela's frame silhouetted by hyperspace for a split second, and then it was all gone. The young man found himself kneeling just outside the bath, gaze unintentionally right on the lavender Twi'lek once again. 'The kriff was all that? Memories? A vision? Or something else?'

He blushed and cleared his throat, then quickly poked the button on the tub to emit bubbles in it. A thick layer of foam would begin to flow out of various spots in the edges of the tub, covering the girl's bits for as long as she'd keep them under the water level. With his broken memories and primal urges somewhat hindered by the censorship, the young Knight would then release a heavy sigh of relief. 'Whew... That's better.'

Kyo would then respectfully turn his head away from her just enough so that she'd stay just within the corner of his eye while he went back to slowly removing his dark hoodie. Once he unzipped it he'd then pull the sides away, slide them down his arms, and then folded it and set it on the counter by the sink. He'd then remove his gloves and boots, set them aside, and then he'd empty his pants pockets, placing all of the tools and items neatly on his folded hoodie.

The damage to his torso wasn't quite as bad as when he and Seela first met. The large gash was now only a thin scar, and most of the other cuts he'd had back then were mere tiny marks that would disappear with a few more days of healing. The light in the refresher would catch the bits of glass that peppered his upper chest and all across his mid-section. The stim had done a decent job of restoring the small blaster crater in his back, and the singed mark across his cheekbone, but the traces of both painful scars could still be seen.

"Be a good girl -" Kyosuke began to command his servant while he pointed to one of the black loofahs. He kept his side turned to Seela while he barely looked her direction to make sure she didn't try anything sneaky on him. "- and hand Master one of those."


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[Seela]

Seela was struggling to have her awareness reach Gremlin, when she was brought back to herself by Kyosuke talking. Shaking her head slightly, she reached to the loofahs on the wall, and handed one to the man. Catching the glittering pieces of glass embedded in his skin, she winced.

"You should really remove the glass first... And maybe put something on the floor under you so you don't sprinkle glass everywhere..."

Knowing that the man was uncomfortable with exposure, she quickly redirected her eyes on the bubbles. Bubbles were pretty. They were also soft. The rainbowy shine drew Seela in, with it's soft roundness, and she suddenly felt... oddly at peace. She really liked the bubbles!
Playing around softly with the bubbles, Seela realised she only ever saw them from outside of the water. Never from under, in the water. And now she absolutely needed to know!
And so, taking a deep breath, Seela went to slip under.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

"Well actually I was hoping you could help -" Kyo turned toward Seela as the top of her head would slip under the water. He scrunched his face, realizing he was going to have to try pulling glass he couldn't see out of his own back. The young man released a heavy sigh, hoping he didn't have any large pieces that couldn't be washed off using the water. Plus now he had to watch her through the bubbles to make sure she didn't try to remove the collar. He wondered briefly how bad it would be if he activated the collar underwater. Not something he wanted to do to Seela.

The Knight who shimmered without armor would then dip the loofah into the tub water a couple times, fully submersing it to get it all wet. Then he'd raise it out of the water, squeeze some of the excess drip off of it, and then took a deep breath as he leaned forward so that the falling water wouldn't get all over his pants while he brought the loofah to his left shoulder. Kyo would continue trying to make sure the girl wasn't doing anything suspicious while he'd slowly squeeze the loofah against his skin, causing the soapy water to foam at his edge and drip down the left side of his body.

"Hnn.." The young man let out a faint groan as the water would travel down his skin, grabbing bits of glass and dragging it down in the trail with tiny scrapes of pain like a thousand little paper cuts. Tiny lines of crimson would mix into the water, dripping from the Knight's slightly shaky body and clattering to the floor with countless tiny shards of glass. The small thin lines of crimson would stream down along with the water into the nearby drain on the slightly slanted refresher floor. His vision would blur and double for a second, and he'd lose balance for the moment before he barely caught himself dipping toward the edge of the tub.

Kyo would give an exhausted shake of the head as he tried to overcome the effects of the adrenaline crash, then he would continue pressing the loofah against his upper torso in order to send more streams of soapy water, crimson, and tiny bits of glass onto the ground. There did seem to be a sightly larger piece or two in his back that the water didn't seem to be dislodging, but he'd ignore them for now.


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[Seela]

Seela was slightly disappointed, seeing as the bubbles pretty much looked the same when viewed from underwater, and so she decided to come up for air, a slight pout on her face.
What she saw greatly confused her. It would seem Kyosuke was trying to remove all the glass shards with only water and gravity? And frankly making a mess, with blood rivulets going everywhere. Shaking her head, Seela tought about just reaching over and plucking the few pieces embedded in his back, but then she remembered that he was holding the remote, and she was in a bath full of water. That would definitely be a painful idea! Hm... Now she was scared again!
Not wanting to let the fear overcome her again, Seela focused on the bubbles in front of her, biting her lip, then winced when the cut stung. Bracing herself, still looking down at the bubbles to gain courage, she addressed Kyosuke.

"U-uh... sorry to disturb you, b-but I could get the glass shards in your back... I-if you want..."

Her heart was nearly beating out of Seela's chest, and she braced for the incoming pain of being shocked.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

"Hm?" The young Knight paused as he looked back at Seela, who appeared to be a little trepid for some reason. 'How did I treat her anyway? Surely I couldn't have been this bad to her. This must be from how she was treated before I got her.' Kyo's bright blues would flick back and forth between Seela's pearls as he studied her expression and tried to gauge her intentions.

"Yes. That'd be nice. Thank you." Kyo would then wave at a small encased shelf near the counter. He reached through the ebb and flow to open one of its compartments, then held his fingers and palm up toward a tool in the case. A fine pair of silver tweezers would gradually float through the air, gently landing in the Shadow's grasp.

"Use this, if it helps." Then he'd hand the tweezers over his shoulder toward her as he stretched up his back, set the loofah aside on a low ledge. He'd then clench his fingers against his lower thighs as he braced himself for any pain he was possibly about to experience. "So... How would you say I've been compared to your old Masters, since you've been mine?"


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[Seela]

When no pain came, Seela slightly relaxed, but then Kyosuke thanked her again. It still felt weird, and she didn't know how to react, so she ignored it.
Instead, Seela propped herself on her knees slowly, then got closer to the side he was standing near, and took the tweezers. Focusing on her task, she started deftly plucking the shards from the skin, dropping them on the ledge of the bath.

"Well, you personally haven't hurt me near as much as my masters, but I've only been with you for... forty-eight hours? And a lot of that time you weren't conscious so... But I think you might be confused, you don't actually own me! You don't remember it, do you? Hm, probably an effect of one of the poisons you got dosed with... "

Things started to make sense, now that the fog of the slave mindset was starting to lift from her mind! But Seela knew she still needed to be very careful, since he still had the stupid remote!

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

It would be nice to believe her, just have everything set straight there, but what if it was a ploy? Every bit of it could be deceit, though he wanted to believe her, felt something in his chest telling him he should. It all actually made the entire situation make so much more sense. But he didn't want to jump to conclusions again. He'd have to investigate further or wait until his memory returned.

"So then -" Kyo grunted slightly at as the bits of glass were plucked out of his lower back. He'd continue to brace himself, feeling a a few more pieces still remaining, which probably meant there was a bit more than that. "Let me hear your side of the story."


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[Seela]

Seela wasn't sure she wanted to tell the story. What if he didn't believe her? What if it wasn't what he wanted to hear, and he got angry? She would definitely end up hurt... Making choices was not fun! It made her feel all scared and anxious!
Deciding that she didn't want to think more, Seela just dove in and told the truth, while distracting herself with removing the last glass shards.

"Well... We met on Nar Shaddaa. Two other people came in my Master's club, and wanted to release all the slaves. I needed to gather us all in one room, and you had just stumbled in, quite heavily injured. So I pretexted an "orgy special" and took you to the room with us. We patched you up best we could, and we intended on just leaving you passed out on the bed, but then I felt like Master might think you were an accomplice, nd I felt guilty for roping you into this mess, so I decided to make sure you made it off planet safely..."

Seela was finished taking care of the glass, so she put the tweezers down on the ledge, and distanced herself from Kyosuke, watching him warily, while recounting their tale. She tried to discreetly get her feet under her, so she would be able to jump out of the bath to get away if needed.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

"I see..." Kyo gradually closed his eyes, and calmed his breathes as he tried to ignore the pangs of pain so he could envision the girl's story.

His mind's eye rippled with images of the Smuggler's Moon. A dark club. Loud music. But he wasn't able to pick up much. With the distracting bits of pain he felt between each shard being pulled out of his back he could hardly focus on recalling any of the details. There was a slight flash of the lavender Twi'lek, and a blinding light... Then a dozen hands reached out of the darkness of his mind's eye and jolted him back into reality.

He let his muscles relax once the tweezers finally clattered down onto the tub's thick edge. His lungs filled and released with big slow breaths as he tried to calm his nerves from the sudden shock of the vision. 'It must be connected... Maybe the - orgy thing?' He didn't really know what it was that Seela was talking about, so it's possible it was the source triggering his little panic attacks.

Tiny crimson streaks would continue to run down his body as he slowly opened his bright blues and slightly turned his face toward Seela. A couple little spots on his forehead, cheeks, nose and chin all also shimmered slightly as the dim light caught the matrix of reflective surfaces. "And then?"


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[Seela]

Seela fought and lost her fight to contain a yawn, her eyelids feeling heavy. Sleep sounded really good at the moment...
Shaking herself to get back on track, she decided to just give Kyo the abbridged version.

"So, I helped you to your ship, patched you up as much as I could, cauterized the gash on your side... We went to the place you call the hollow... you removed my collar, then cut out the slave implant in my neck, and healed me, then passed out again. We destroyed the chip, then you went to bed..."

Another yawn found its way out, Seela's speech slurring slightly.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

"Mhm..." Kyo listened intently, trying to follow along with the small gaps in time and action. 'Well if she knows about the Hollow then she's probably not making all this up... Still, it's always possible to change just a few details...' He'd give her the benefit of the doubt. She seemed like she was being honest, but she had her freedom to gain if she spun the events in her favor.

Noticing that the girl was starting to get tired, Kyo gave a couple more nods, then plucked the shower head into his hand. He'd continue to listen to her while he set the nozzle to a light drip and went to extend it down to his back so he could begin slowly moving it from side to side and washing the rest of the crimson streaks away. "What do you mean I healed you? Like with a first-aid kit?"


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[Seela]

Rubbing her tired eyes, Seela started to play with the bubbles again, hoping it would help keep her awake.

"No. You uh... used what you call the force... oh, right! You said I was... Force-sensitive! Anyway... when you woke up, you were doing quite a bit better actually! And yeah, so we talked, you explained me a bunch of things about the force, taught me a trick or two, made very clear that Dark Side Bad, yada yada yada... oh, this one shines purple!"

Seela got totally distracted by the prettiest bubble of the bunch, scooping it in her hand and looking at it, playing with the lighting of the refresher.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

Kyo arched a brow over at the easily distracted Twi'lek. "Well I must've been in pretty bad shape if I passed out from healing a little cut." At least, he assumed the implant would've been a little cut and all he would've been able to heal on her given how she made him sound like he'd been at the time.

Once he was done with the shower head Kyosuke reached back up and slotted it into its fixture before he loosely knelt back down and tapped a small button on the top edge of the sealed garbage bin to open it. He brushed and patted as much of the glass off his pants as he could before he'd relax his little bottom down upon the backs of his calves and ankles. Then he'd take a deep breath, close his eyes, and pull his concentration across the room.

The Knight would feel out with Force, identifying as many bits of glass he could. Then after a moment he'd slowly begin to raise his left hand, palm and fingers pointed up towards the ceiling. The countless shards would begin to lift off the floor, tub, and even from the folded hoodie on the counter. They'd hover in mid air while they reflected the small room's dim blue light like a thousand shimmering stars in the night sky as more and more bits gradually began to rise and hover with the rest.


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[Seela]

Seela was entranced by her precious purply bubble, when it was suddenly murdered by a flying shiny. Coming back to alertness intent on avenging her bubble friend, she was stopped in her tracks when her pearlescent gaze fell on the numerous glittering glass shards slowly moving in the air. Her pupils expanded to take as much of it in as she could, her tought process coming to a halt, time slowing down. They might have murdered her purple bubble, but now Seela wanted the numerous shinies!
Her lekkus softly twitched, belying her excitment, as she tried to focus on a few of the shinies, her right arm coiled to strike and grab the shards mid-air.

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[Kyosuke Yamato]

The countless stars of shattered glass whirled in towards a point above his left hand where Kyo funneled the Force from all directions. The bits would flow in long swooping arcs until they coalesced around a single point inches above his hand. The collection of glass would then swirl and twist around itself like a singularity before the Shadow would then turn his wrist, palm, and fingers upward to aim the ball at the metal bin.

Kyo would maintain his concentration for a moment longer, then went to push the swarm of shards into the garbage through the ethereal essence as long as Seela didn't get in the way.


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[Seela]

Noticing a clear pattern in the shards' trajectory, and knowing she didn't have much time, Seela zeroed in on the ball of shinies in the middle, aaaaand...
SPRUNG!
However, Seela hadn't accounted for the fact that she was in a slippy bathtub. She slipped, which threw her off her path.
Fortunately, Seela managed to regain her balance and ended up catching a handful of shards. Then promptly gravity happened, and her stomach collided with the side of the bath. Seela yelped, at the sudden pressure on the bruised area, but didn't loose her grip on the shards.
And so, as if nothing happened, Seela knelt back down in the tub, marveling at the shinies in her right palm.

"Pretty shinies... mine..."

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