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Corran Horn (thehornscall) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-11-09 03:21:00

Entry tags:

complete, corran horn, day 22, yvaine

Who: Corran and Yvaine
What: Corran takes Valin outside to see snow for the first time!
When: Midday, Day 22
Where: Outside
Rating: PG
Status: Complete - dropped

Corran had to hand it to whoever ran the resort, they took very good care of the guests. His wardrobe was full of clothes for him and also Valin, and he never ran out of any food or other necessities for the baby. There was also a sort of backpack that Corran could carrying Valin around in. Also, to his glee, he found out that his X-Wing never ran out of fuel and was always in tip top condition. At first, he'd been wary that someone had been messing with it so he'd left Whistler to guard it. Whistler had reported, however, that no one had been near it. It mystified him but now he could go out for a spin whenever he wanted to.

The first day he'd been there, he'd tried to leave the planet on his starfighter. However, as he was flying towards space, warning bells went off in his head and he veered sharply away. Testing, he'd fired at nothing but air, only to have the shots bounce off some barrier. Try as he might, he wasn't able to get off the planet. He was glad he had his X-wing... but to be honest, he missed the excitement of missions. He missed his friends. He missed his wife. Corran wished there was some way to get in touch with Mirax, to let her know he was alright and Valin was with him.

One day, Corran woke up to discover the resort had changed into a snowy land. Since Valin had never seen know before, he decided, what the hell, he'd take advantaged of the situation. Bundling his son up warmly and dressing likewise, he left Whistler inside (didn't want the droid to get stuck in the snow) and went out.

He didn't go too far before he plopped down in the snow, scooping up some of the white and putting a bit on Valin's nose. The baby just looked up at his father like "What the heck did you just do, Dad?"

Corran laughed. "Now if I was like Luke, I could make a whole bunch of snowballs and make them float around for you. Best your old man can do, though, is make you think that snowballs are dancing around you, but you're too smart for that, aren't you, kid? You'd see right through your old dad," he said, adding a little bit of a coo at the end. If any of his fellow Rogue Squadron members saw him now, they'd probably tease him but at the moment, his son was one of the few things he cared deeply about that was still with him, so he didn't care if strangers saw him in a moment of silliness.

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fallen_star
2008-11-09 04:28 pm UTC (link)

Yvaine was growing quite used to waking during the daylight hours and sleeping at night. She still wasn’t comfortable with it, but she was trying her best. What else could she do? No one could protect her from Lestat. He was just too powerful. The only reason she’d been victorious over him was because neither of them had realized what he drank was the blood of a sun. She was far weaker than the sun, but the vampire had drunken so much that it hardly mattered. Had she been mortal, he would have killed her.

The evening star woke about midday, but when she stepped outside, she found the world before her was white, and it was horribly cold. She would need new clothing to face this day. When she made her way back to her room, she found a bundle of thick, warm, soft clothing waiting for her. These were clothing such as she had never before seen, but they were far warmer than the clothing she had seen so many others don in her days. If she hadn’t been taken from so far into the past, she would have thought nothing of this modern apparel, but to her, it was futuristic and strange. What care had she when they did what they were meant to do?

She pulled the deep blue sweater over her head, pulling on the warm pants after that. She then proceeded to put on the thick socks, the warm, fur lined boots, and the gloves and jacket. Last she placed the had over her head to cover her ears. Despite the layers of clothing, she found she could move quite freely, and she thanks the Planet for the clothing that not only warmed her but also allowed for her natural grace.

Her boots dug deeply into the snow, but she didn’t mind, for she was warm and cozy in this apparel. Not too far from her, she heard the sound of laughter and a masculine voice cooing. It didn’t take long for her eyes to sweep over a man with his son. The sight made her heart swell. She loved to watch humans when their eyes spoke of love to another, whether they be through ties of family, of friendship, or of romantics. The child was beautiful, though he resembled a colourful marshmallow, so bundled was he against the weather.

Yvaine watched for a moment longer before decided she would like to meet these two. Her glow was much less, so bundled was she. Only her face and her long pale hair could be seen, but these glowed merrily. Against the vast whiteness and the sun, her glow was scarcely detectable. One could only think they imagined it in light of the pure snow about them.

“Hello.” The evening star greeted the man with a lovely smile.

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thehornscall
2008-11-09 04:47 pm UTC (link)

Both Corran and Valin looked up at the woman as she approached. Valin stared at her for a second, then let out a loud happy squeal, wiggling as he flailed an arm at her.

"I guess he likes you," Corran said with a smile as he got to his feet, shifting Valin into a comfortable position in his left arm. He held out his right hand. "Corran Horn, and this is Valin."

He studied her for a moment, feeling there was something different, something he should be noticing about her... As he watched her face, he saw it. Her skin, and hair when he took a closer look, was glowing. Interesting, he thought silently, having never seen anything like that before.

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fallen_star
2008-11-09 07:47 pm UTC (link)

Yvaine’s smile broadened as the child squealed gleefully at her, reaching out to her. The evening star who was very much up and about during the day reached out to touch the little bundles gloved hand. Her eyes moved toward the obvious father of the boy when he smoke. “I’m glad.” She said honestly.

“I am called Yvaine.” The star responded, allowing her other hand to move to Corran’s. “It is a pleasure to meet you both.” She could feel his eyes on her, studying her, but she had grown so used to these looks that she paid it no mind. Instead, she moved her attentions to Valin, tickling the boy under his chin with a gloved finger. “He is beautiful. Was he brought here with you?”

Yvaine loved children. They had always shown so much joy and interest in the world around them. They had the ability to use their imaginations to create any sort of world they desired. They were beautiful, mirth filled, and energetic. It always made her a little sad that she would never have any of her own. All stars were females, and they could not bear children even if they could commit to the act that conceived them.

“From what sort of world to you hail?” Yvaine found herself asking. She had met many people from many different worlds, and she wondered if he came from one that was different still from theirs. If curiosity killed the cat, it only strengthened the star.

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thehornscall
2008-11-10 08:06 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, he's stuck with me," Corran said jokingly. The woman, Yvaine, spoke similar to the young woman he had met before, Susan. Perhaps they were from the same world? "Well, I come from a place where space travel is common. I actually have my starfighter, my ship with me. I was born and raised on a planet called Corellia but now I live on a planet called Coruscant with my wife and this little guy. It's a planet completely covered by one big gigantic city. I'm with Rogue Squadron. We're... sort of like security officers for the Republic, a part of the military."

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fallen_star
2008-11-10 11:21 pm UTC (link)

Yvaine listened to Corran speak with genuine interest. He was lucky that his son was able to be here with him. It was interesting that he was one who traveled in the vastness of space. She had met another like him not too long ago, though they seemed very different.

Her brows cinched together at the name of his ship. “Starfighter? You did not use it to actually fight the stars, I hope?” The comment itself might seem teasing, but she was serious. Who would want to fight the stars anyway? They were a peaceful people, shining for the humans below them when their mother Moon was too weary from how brightly she always shone.

“Oh. I have only ever heard of the Planets in the solar system in which Earth moves. Corellia is a beautiful name, though. Is it as beautiful as it sounds?” When he told of his home in Coruscant, Yvaine wasn’t sure what to make of it. She very much enjoyed the nature she viewed on Earth, and it was difficult to imagine an entire planet covered by one large mass of city. “How do you live easily without trees and lakes and soil around you?” The star wondered if his wife enjoyed it there. She couldn’t imagine raising a child in a place like that. Then again, it didn’t matter because she would never get the chance to raise a child. A small frown tugged at her lips at the thought, but she suppressed it and resumed her smiling at the small child before her.

“Is the entire city one large republic? I know there are various republics on Earth, but they are all separated by borders and land masses and oceans. They are not one large city.”

As much as Yvaine disliked the idea of a planet comprised of one large city, she disliked the idea of militaries. The worst parts about the Earth she observed had been the wars and violence caused mostly by power struggles. It saddened her, and made her wish to look away, but there were too many good things about the Earth to be observed for her to never again peer and the goings-on below her.

“Were you involved in the military during peacetime?” Her voice held a bit of hope for that. Despite her disgust with militaries in general, she knew she could not judge the individual soldiers whose paths had taken them down that route.

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thehornscall
2008-11-16 12:26 am UTC (link)

Corran laughed. "Fight stars? No, that would be... difficult, I imagine," he said, not knowing that Yvaine herself was a star. "Never heard of a planet called Earth. It is a beautiful place. Corellia isn't just one big city like Coruscant.

When asked how he survived without nature, he shrugged. "I feel most at home in the sky and space anyway. I love to fly. I'm told I'm not fun to deal with when I've been grounded for a while," Corran admitted. "It's not so bad living in the city. There was a war that only ended a few years ago and the New Republic was very recently formed."

Corran was a little confused by her words. "Uhm... I think that's sort of like this New Republic, only split up between planets. Traveling to other places in the galaxy is easy. Not everyone in the galaxy is apart of the Republic. There's still some people around who support the Empire, the old government that was overthrown. I was a Corellian Security Officer before I joined the Rebels. Corellia likes to keep to itself a lot so I wasn't much involved with the war until I had to leave the planet for my own safety."

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fallen_star
2008-11-16 09:21 pm UTC (link)

Yvaine laughed. It was a musical sort of sound that may have hinted at her skill as a singer. Her mirth faded slightly at the memory of how hard she had fought to rid herself of Lestat’s grasp and failed until he had tasted much of her blood. “Perhaps not. Stars are not so much stronger than humans. I know only that vampires must worry, lest we shed blood upon them.”

Her brows cinched. How could one have never heard of Earth? It seemed everyone who had been kidnapped was from Earth, yet this man was not. He was from Corellia and Coruscant. “Earth is lovely, though not all who inhabit it reflect this. There are small specklings of villages and towns and cities, but there is much left unexplored by humans. Perhaps that is why there is still much of nature left untouched by human hands. They do have a tendency to clear out the nature in favor of building houses and roads and the like.

“Yes, I suppose you are correct. I remember feeling quite devastated when I fell from the sky. It is my home as well. Trees do not grow among the stars. That is perhaps one thing I enjoy about this place. Nature is so beautiful up close. It is difficult to establish a proper view of it from the sky.”

Yvaine was positively fascinated with what he told her of his life. “Why did you have to leave?” Her curiosity could be perceived as being nosey. Stars led such boring lives at times that it was difficult not to be nosey, to become lost in the lives of others. Perhaps that was why plays and songs and folklore was so popular among the humans. They too felt they led boring lives, though the star could beg to differ.

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thehornscall
2008-11-17 09:25 pm UTC (link)

"What's a vampire?" Corran had never heard of that kind of being before. "Earth, huh. Makes me wonder what Coruscant looked liked way before it became on big city."

As he listened to Yvaine, he started to think she was a little on the crazy side. She seemed to think that she was a star. So as not to offend her, Corran decided to just go with it. "Uh, right."

When asked why he had to leave, Corran frowned at the memory. "It's a long story. My father was also a security officer and he was killed by a bounty hunter. My boss let him go, then wanted us to go after Rebel shipping instead of focusing on taking down people who were hurting us. A lot of people didn't like this, including me. The government wasn't what it used to be anymore. A few friends and I made plans to leave but I was set up in an ambush and had to leave early." Corran looked down at his son and frowned slightly, remembering all the people he had had to leave behind. Some he had never seen again.

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fallen_star
2008-11-18 04:42 pm UTC (link)

“I suppose you would not know. I do not know that vampires would be prone to traveling among the stars. They are nocturnal creatures who drink the blood from the living so they might survive themselves. They are said to be of the undead. The Sun destroys them. I recently discovered that vampires are wounded by the blood of stars, for we were fathered by the Sun, though the degree of the wounding is much less than from the Sun. Stars mostly take after their mother- the Moon.” Yvaine explained matter-of-factly, as if everyone should know such information.

“The Planet has a knowledgeable library. Perhaps you might be able to find information on Coruscant before it became a massive cityscape.” The evening star suggested. After all, she could be right. She had only visited the library once, but it had been large and filled with much information. However, she found no advise on the way home. The Planet’s message rang clearly in her mind.

A blond brow rose as she heard the tone his voice took. She had observed life among humans well enough to know a skeptic when she heard one. The other man she had met who had traveled among the stars had taken the same tone of disbelief. He did not have to believe her if he did not wish it, but it was still annoying, and she couldn’t help trying to persuade him. “Well, have you ever met a star?” If he hadn’t, he would have no solid proof that she could not be one.

Yvaine listened with interest as he told his less than joyful story. “That is sad. I am sorry for your loss.” She caught the look on his face as he gazed at his son. “At least you have one of your own with you here.” The evening star said gently. She had no one. He was lucky to have a son to raise. Family was important.

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