Two years prior, she, Vahliri, and Sol had struggled through the icy storms to find and secure an old outpost in the Wampian mountains. It was hidden almost perfectly by the rocky structures surrounding it, keeping it safe from the raging blizzards and scanners in the atmosphere. Due to Hoth's...
// Serenno - Castle Wessex
"Artorgias." Her master had been dead for half a year now. It'd been difficult at first, but the more months that went by, the easier it was. She'd kept herself busy - albeit out of the spotlight - after a short period of mourning; actions which were, in part, due to...
One step at a time. That's what she'd told herself. The first step was getting herself off of Serenno, and now the next was actually doing something. That something was far from the North, far from Avillion, far from Exegol, and far from anything that had anything to do with her late master. She...
Ithor. It was a beautiful planet with its massive jungles and modern floating cities, but today its skies would be painted with ash and fire.
Draugr was leading the main assault elsewhere in the capital, but Malou would not be joining him there. She had been given the task of sneaking around...
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
“Lord Caelestis is dead.”
Malou had never screamed so hard—so loud—that no sound escaped her throat.
Alone in her chambers on Exegol, violence tore at her lungs like vultures to a corpse. Bit by bit, they ripped her vocal cords to shreds.
Her...
Tentatively, Malou had chosen to reach out to Asminys. The last time she had seen the Sith lord was at a party on Serenno, and he didn't stick around for long after a brief interaction with Raze. He was someone she didn't know well, but he had once been a fearsome force in the part of the galaxy...
Ploo II, Ploo Sector, N-7
Capital city
When Draugr requested her to come with him on this mission, Malou wasn't quite sure what to make of it. In fact, she was half tempted to ignore it, but she was damn curious about what his intentions were. Maybe Senin said something? If the Zabrak was...
Hoth, Anoat Sector, K-18
Somewhere in the Wampian mountains
'Fuck, it's cold.'
Serenno got quite cold in the winters with temperatures reaching as low as -18°F in some places. That was a rare occurrence though. Here? She was pretty sure the cold hadn't lessened to anything above -30°F, and her...
Vaynai, Chorlian sector, S-4
Mid-morning at the Vaynai spaceport
This was the second—no, third—time Malou had been assigned onto one of these intelligence missions with an acolyte. First on Denon, then on Bastion, and now she was here on Vaynai. The difference between those missions and this...
Location: Outdoor market, Bastion
Time: Solar noon
"Fresh fish!" "Fresh fruit!" "Fresh vegetables!"
It was all but aflame outside in Bastion's capital, but that deterred none of the midday markets from setting up their stalls and advertising their wares to the public. The streets were covered...
It had a while since Malou had last spoken with the Jedi she'd met on Kesh. They'd exchanged contact details over a year ago, and she hadn't attempted to message him much since. Her life had gotten exponentially busy immediately afterward. Missions, conquests, acolyte-trials... just the usual...
Malou had certainly not been expecting Ashla's transmission, but she wasn't unhappy about it. Negotiations ruined by none other than the idiot Zabrak himself, Darth Dragur? It was too good to be true. Since they were both already in the area, Malou had asked Ashla to meet her on Corsin so they...
Malou had never been to Morellia. Not only had she never had a reason to come here until today, but it was completely out of the way of anyplace she would generally be on her way to. While it wasn’t too far from Sith space, the miralukan generally didn’t spend a ton of time in the eastern parts...
While the people of Aeten II had agreed to meet, the leaders of Rago refused even simple communications with Avillion when an invitation to talk was extended. They slapped the hand of the Sith Kingdom with the disrespect of radio silence, and it was disrespect like that which had prompted this...
Betrayal.
The numbing effect of the champagne she consumed had worn off in her sleep, and the emotions she had ignored that night bubbled to the surface and whined like a boiling tea kettle. The image of Senin slipping that lightsaber back into his sleeve and the words he spat as he left...
“We’re about to drop out of hyperspace.”
The blue streaks outside the ship’s windows calmed to the black void of space as it dropped, and the fiery red and brown surface of Aeten II appeared before their eyes. If the others had been nervous about a blind girl flying the ship, hopefully they...
It was a relatively cool day on Namadii. The temperature hovered around 22°C, and the cloudless sky was marked by endless blues. Malou had agreed to meet Senin in Namadii’s capital around the planet’s solar noon, and when the time came, she arrived. They hadn’t really made any concrete plans...
Not even three hours later, Malou woke up to the sound of rustling in her room. Shapes began to form the moment her brain was raised from sleep, and she saw the familiar figure of her father. He held what seemed to be a pile of fabrics in his hand, and was headed for the door of her room...
“Something loved is never lost.”
Her father said these words to her in the days after her mother’s death. Malou remembered them clearly, from the shaky vowels in the way her father said those words, to the raised veins in his hands as he gripped the back of her chair as tight as he could. When...
The Library of Iziz was the next on Malou's list of libraries to visit. After her expedition to Exegol, what she wanted was a quiet, peaceful environment where she could spend the next week or so doing nothing but plucking holobooks from the shelves and scouring their digital pages. While both...