lavi [★] save your life, set you free

[Tena M.]

✯ — I TELL YOU THIS STORY, SAVE YOUR LIFE, SET YOU FREE

Tena was the urge of collapse.  Her entire body ached with exhaustion.  The cuts and gashes across her small form were nothing to the pure fatigue.  Every step grew more forced.  Her sky blue eyes were on the precipice of dropping.  Still, she seemed determined to keep moving no matter what, to put more and more distance between them and her old home as she could.

It was still too hot to travel during day.  The summer sun beat down mercilessly on the desert sands, and Tena knew her companion was not built for these conditions.  Night was only so much better, as the chill descended onto the land.  They had to pick and choose their battles; Tena had opted for the cold, something much easier to handle than dehydration and heat exhaustion in her opinion.

She was made for this environment; it did not bother her.  Her friend, made for the mountains, could no doubt better withstand the cold of the desert than the blistering heat.  Neither was truly ideal for him she imagined.

For most of the night's journey, she had remained silent.  Lavi's presence still bothered her.  She had not asked for someone to come with her on this impromptu trip-home-gone-wrong.  She had to wonder if him running into her was truly pure luck or destiny.  Knowing Lavi as a Jedi, he'd probably opt to say the Force might've pushed them together; he had saved her life after all.  Tena had to worry that if he had not just happened to insist on coming along, that she might be dead.  Or back in chains.

The former was more likely.  Disobedient slaves were more trouble than they were worth and Tena had caused her fair share of trouble before and after escaping all those moons ago.  She did not regret running when the opportunity had presented itself but... She had still left so many behind.  It was not fair.

Her intention had been to scout the situation out.  To plan.  To act.  To free her family and childhood friends.  Lavi had gone along with it, though she wondered if he had had a bad feeling about it all from the start.  Indeed things had gone downhill rather quickly.  No family, but before she could spot her friends, she'd been spotted by the enemy.  It all spiraled from there, starting with getting separated from her uninvited companion.

He'd found her in the end, just in the nick of time to help her escape.  Neither got out of it unscarred.

Tena grit her teeth, tail-tip twitching.  He should not have gotten involved.  She probably should not have left the safety of Snowbound, from which they were so far away from.  It would take quite some time she knew, to get back to the tundra.  Until then, the weary sand cat kept pushing herself, determined, though her confidence was waning.  She'd gotten them into this mess, she was getting them out and that meant making sure they got out of the desert fast as possible even if they were still quite a ways away.

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[div style="text-align: right; text-transform: lowercase; text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px steelblue; font-size: 12px;"]— tena moonspinner ✯

#psychosocial.