Catacombs, Geonosis
Having spent the day on the surface, suffering under the smoldering heat of the planet's sun, Vin had thought she would be glad to be out of the heat. But now that she was in the catacombs she almost wished she was back up top. The air felt stuffy, the lamps she and her guide carried illuminated lit up little more than a couple of meters around them, and there was a weight to the Force that seemed eager to twist her gut into knots.
Whispers had reached her ears of some sort of disease spreading on the planet of Geonosis, and with much of the Jedi Order caught up with the recent wave of news regarding the Red Sabers, she had taken it upon herself to fly out and investigate. Operating alone, on her own whims, was not something new to her. She had spent most of her life working outside the purview of the Council, and she wasn't about to let that change. After all, nothing she had seen from the Council during her brief stay on Ajan Kloss had convinced her that she needed to.
"Are you sure we aren't lost?" She asked her Geonosian guide. They had been walking for close to an hour now, and she was begining to wonder if her guide was every bit as lost as she felt. The catacombs were a maze that made absolutely no sense to her. The Geonosian, having reassured her a few times already, snapped back a reply, indignation and irritation plain in his voice. She wasn't particularly fluent in Geonosian, but she had enough of a grasp to get the gist of what he said. They were almost there, and would already have been there if not for her constant interruptions. "Alright," she said, raising the lamp she carried above her head to try and get a better look ahead, "no need to get snippy about it."
The Geonosian ignored her, continued ahead till he came to a stop a few minutes later. She walked up to him, and was about to ask him if they were there, but stopping herself to avoid irritating her guide any further. But he spoke up on his own soon after, slowly begining to move forward. They were there, but the guards who should have greeted them at the entrance were nowhere to be seen. Something, something was wrong.
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