breakeggs_savelives: (oh shit)
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It's dark. Pitch black. A quiet, insistent hum churns away in the background, like waves, or insects in a dead body. The sound rolls like the sea, but inside his head, like chanting in yoga class.

Zen...

He's never had much luck achieving zen, except in the field. On the battlefield he's surrounded by an invisible aura of the three big c's - Cool, Calm, Collected. Nothing can touch him there. He gets the job done, and he gets it done good. Nothing stands in his way that he can't work around or monster truck through.

It's dark. Pitch black. And then it isn't anymore. )
personaldemon: (harry)
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[Voice post]

--Oh fuuuu... um, okay-- can anyone hear me? Is there a, you know, a doctor in the house? How do I call 9-1-1 on this? I kind of have a situation with some-- bleeding happening here...
chainsarebroken: (troubled)
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“Welcome, traveler.”

Waking up in a strange place always begins with an inventory: functioning toes, arms, spine, check. Lightsaber, check. Wits, probably. That’s almost everything. Anakin Skywalker sits up and touches his flesh-and-blood hand to his temple with a grimace and looks around himself, first for dangers, then for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Neither immediately present themselves. It’s just as well, if he’s been captured--again--that his master hasn’t been captured alongside him. Of course, after a fashion, it would also be convenient if he were. But that’s no reason to wish it upon the man.

The tinny droid-sounding voice is still saying something. Anakin’s not really listening; he’s getting to his feet, testing his balance, cracking the knuckles of his left hand. The room has the inoffensive dimensions of a hotel room, not a prison cell, but Anakin’s come to distrust what prison cells do and don’t look like. There are no immediate exits: not even barred ones, just no immediate exits, smooth wall all around. That’s unusual. He powers on his lightsaber--without immediate intent to use it, even, just to see if it works--takes mild, somewhat warlike comfort in its usual hum. Then it occurs to him that someone has knocked him out cold and abducted him (again!) and, again, not bothered to deprive him of his lightsaber.

That’s not comforting, for all the usual reasons. )

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