Sunset.

[motherscrown]

Tenel Ka Djo was staring out of one of the picture windows overlooking the city. Something had been going on around the Temple but she wasn't sure what yet. Tahiri had been acting odd, there were rumblings going around of someone dressed like Darth Vader roaming the halls and she swore she had heard people yelling about being chased by the dead

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[carrymefar]

Jacen couldn't shake the feeling that he was dreaming. He'd been asleep - in a trance, really - drifting, and he knew he wasn't dreaming now, but he couldn't remember waking, and that was troubling to him. What was more, he'd had dreams that started like this, and that made the scenario just that much more strange.

She had her back to him, and in the silence of the hallway he could hear his own heartbeat, slow and steady but picking up.

"Tenel Ka," he called, waiting to see if she turned around - or if he woke up.

[motherscrown]

The voice didn't startle her, but she questioned whether she actually had heard it or not. She almost didn't turn around to look, telling herself that she was hearing things and the familiar presence she felt was just residual -- it was always there. He was always there.

Taking her right hand from where it had been pressed lazily against the transparisteel, the thin bracelets on her wrist jingled together and echoed in the long corridor. She turned, expecting nothing, and felt her fingers clench reflexively around a handful of the green fabric that made up her gown.

They hadn't been alone together in... she couldn't even remember the last time. There had always been people around on Myrkr and at the knighting ceremony. Then of course in the recent briefings.

"Good evening, Jacen."

[carrymefar]

"It's a little better now," he admitted, coming to stand before her. Over her shoulder, the view out the window of the skyline at sunset was comforting in its familiarity, and a good distraction besides. Staring was rude, after all.

"I wasn't aware the Queen Mother was visiting the Temple," he continued, glancing down at her. Allowing the smile he could feel forming to creep into the corners of his mouth, he asked, "How have you been?"

[motherscrown]

"The Queen Mother was visiting because she was invited to attend the post-War briefings." She looked from the cityscape outside back over her shoulder to where Jacen stood behind her. "And she was invited both as the Queen Mother and a Jedi."

She thought she saw him in the briefings, across the room. He had met his gaze with hers, hadn't he?

Tenel Ka recalled the shiver she felt when their eyes had locked in the briefing. It was him, it had to be. But here he was now, claiming he hadn't know she was there.

Breaking herself from the train of thought she had fallen into, she tilted her head and brought herself back to the discussion at hand. "Alright, I guess. I mean, as well as I can manage. You know how much I always looked forward to becoming the Queen Mother of the Hapes Consortium..."

She trailed off and turned to look outside once more.