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Tahiri Veila (brokenjeedai) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2010-01-15 00:22:00

Entry tags:

buffy summers, tahiri veila

Who: Tahiri Veila & Buffy Summers
What: Former Jedi arrives in Kansas
Where: A Lawrence Street. Midday.
When: 15th August
Rating: TBD
Status: In Progress

She'd killed an old man and now she was paying the price for it. She wasn't proud of it she wasn't a great and glorious Jeedai anymore. She was the broken one, the one that was shaped, the one that had given her loyalty to Jacen Solo in his madness and she had killed the old and well loved Imperial Giliad Pelleon on his order. Or...mostly on his order.

Tahiri knew she'd make mistakes. Hurt everyone that cared about her, sometimes she wished Tionne had never found her and she was still back on Tatooine, barefoot, riding banthas and stealing scraps with the Sand People that had raised her. Not in a cold clinical cell on Courscant. She shiverred. Cold now. Always cold in places like this but unlike back home, or the acadamy, no one cared. Oh sometimes Ben came to see her. Ben Skywalker. The Hero. The son of Luke and Mara that Jacen had slaughtered for his saccrifice. Had her life been hers. Her friends, Telki, and Jaina and Tenel Ka and Lowie and everyone. Tahiri Veila closed her eyes and opened them in shock.

"...the kriff" she muttered, her mind running in Basic and Vong conbined as she worked out what had happened. Because she was no longer on Courscant. She was on a street, carrying a lightsaber she shouldn't be. Anakins Lightsaber. At the sight of it a crackle of lightning appeared in Tahiri's hand which she managed to push back. She had to push it back. Terrified of what it meant. Of what it always meant.

Ugh she hoped he rotted.

How? How was this possible. Where was she and what was going on. Because this, this was like nowhere she knew? No where. She had to work this out. Because she'd finally decided to make amends for her awful life and now even that was being taken away from her.

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brokenjeedai
2010-01-15 02:11 am UTC (link)

Maybe she needed it. The reminder of the one time in her life when she had been good and right and what she should be. Not this broken thing she was now. So maybe the Gods or whatever it was. Maybe they gave her back Anakin's lightsaber for that. It wouldn't entirely surprise Tahiri, higher beings tended to have life lessons. Even Jedi Masters tended to have life lessons. Even if they weren't listened to. But she didn't understand all the same, all that Buffy said was confusing to her

"Lilith. Its not a name I know, and demons, those are only legends of the worlds, rumours and tricks. nothing of seals and world endings. I've seen worlds end. I've been there, I helped him de..."

Why her? Why was she chosen. She did not deserve to be chosen and now she could not return to face justice for Pelleon. For what she had done in the name of a Sith Lord who had promised her so much and given her nothing in return but lies.

"Then if I can't get home what am I supposed to do now. If I was chosen, then what was I chosen for?"

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goingtowin
2010-01-15 02:29 am UTC (link)

"Yeah this isn't my first end of the world situation either." she said with a shrug. It wasn't, it probably wouldn't be her last either, even if they did stop Lucifer, chances were someone else was going to try to end everything. Someone always tried that. "Demons are real. They're real here, they were real at my home, and trust me, they're nasty."

Buffy, reached for wrist, pulling back her sleeve to untie one of the extra charms she had around her wrist. "You're going to want this." she said, holding it out to the woman once it was undone. "This will keep you from being possessed. These demons? They possess people's bodies, making them hard to defeat. If you just kill the body, the person dies, but the demon doesn't actually die." unless you had Ruby's shiny knife, which she was really jealous of.

She didn't miss the sentence that the woman started, and finished, but she wasn't going to bring it up. Not really a conversation for first arrival moments. "Well...you live, I guess? You can chose to ignore the war, try to settle down, keep a low profile, because these demons really want to get their hands on people who are showing up here. Or you can chose to help fight. You choice. Either way there are places here to help you until you figure it out."

My god, she felt like some sort of support group. Here to help you get back on your feet. They really needed a logo, and a slogan.

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brokenjeedai
2010-01-15 03:54 am UTC (link)

Tahiri nodded, she wasn't doubting the womans integrity, besides she could have told if she was lying. "I know they're real here. Its still just a little bit of a, I suppose culture shock is the appropriate term. I'll adjust though. Usually do." That said, she took the charm from the woman looking at it bemusedly, symbols on it that she didn't know, and these symbols were protection?. Ugh possession. She didn't like possession. She'd had a sort of it before with the Vong.

"They're welcome to try and make sense of my mind" she muttered aloud and instead focused on the rest, the arrival, the places to settle, her choices.

"I have Anakin's lightsaber back. I expect that means they want me to stand and fight. That's if you'll have me. There is a lot of reasons why you might not. But if you'll research me and listen to me and then want me with you then I'll fight. Otherwise. I've done pretty well on my own since the War ended back home. Where are these places to help me and we can make a start on your decision"

Tahiri was fairly to the point, but about this, she felt maybe she had to be.

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goingtowin
2010-01-16 03:03 am UTC (link)

They didn't really need to make sense of her mind, she pointed out as such. "I don't think they care about your mind. It's your body. Anything you're capable of. They're after that. The power? The people here? Some of them...are beyond powerful. If the demons ever got their hands on them." Buffy shook her head at the very thought. "Well, we'd all be in trouble."

Anakin, she knew that name. Main guy in the movies. Buffy so was not bringing up the movies just yet. Let Andrew deal with that, because she couldn't really explain in past the whole 'big popular movies, I fell asleep in them.'

"Well, it's whatever you want, really." she said with a shrug. "I don't think they can make you fight unless the demons find you." she had to fight for her life then. "The building is actually this way." she said, pointing in the direction she had been heading. "I'm actually the head of the building. Co-head, actually. Myself and a guy named Andrew. Followed by our second and third." she stated walking, motioning for the woman to follow.

"My names Buffy. I run the building pretty simply. It's secure, it's safe. We have food to give you until you find a job, if you can. Violence toward others in the building isn't accepted. We're a team. If one of us goes missing, we get them back. We have each others back. Also, just recently, I'm making people take self-defense classes." she said, looking over to the other woman. "If you can fight then I won't make you take them. But I would want to learn how to defend yourselves from the demons. We frown on killing them. Because they've got humans in there to." other than that, she really didn't care where the woman came from, as long as she followed the rules.

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brokenjeedai
2010-01-16 03:17 am UTC (link)

Tahiri nodded, she had power. She had the Force even if she was scared of it sometimes. If these demons wanted power, they'd want her. "I'd be in that catagory. I'm not bragging its just true. I'm a ...I can use the Force. Do you know what that is?"

She still believed she should fight. Still believed she should stand and fight because having Anakin's lightsaber thats what she believed she was supposed to do. She fell into line with Buffy walking at what could be termed a military pace except she kept catching herself, walking normally again. And still decidedly barefoot.

"I'm Tahiri" she told the other woman, "And yes I can fight. I'll show you if you'd like and if you'll show me how to defend myself from these things bar the charm you've given me. And I will use appropriate force on these demons. If they are merely possessed humans then I won't kill them. I have ways of putting them down I hope. if they still work here. I suppose its trial and error."

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goingtowin
2010-01-16 03:33 am UTC (link)

"You're not the only one." she said with a sigh. "You might want to consider a permanent way of keeping them away. It's a tattoo. Some of our more powerful people have it...at least those who's skin will take to it." she didn't think either of Kents had it, which was a bit scary. She didn't think their skin would take it.

Buffy smiled, crossing her arms over her stomach. "Yeah, I feel better when people prove they can. Not that I don't believe you. I know what the Force is...sort of. There was a girl here before- she's gone now, a guess whatever brought her here sent her back- she could use it. But be careful. The demons have something called telekensis. It's a lot like the Force. They might be able to counter you."

To make things less confusing she just considered all powers like that to be telekenesis, and also very, very dangerous.

Either way, if the amount of people staying in the apartments continued to increase, they might have to open up more floors. More work. Oy.

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brokenjeedai
2010-01-16 06:15 am UTC (link)

Tattoos. The Riina part of her mind accepted this as a blessed thing, tattoos were one way of showing favour to the gods. She'd do it no problems however it worked. "I'll get the tattoo. Thats no problem". She looked forward to it actually. Pain could cleanse.

A girl. Another Force User? "A Jedi?" she asked, "Or something else. I'll be careful don't worry. I don't go into things unprepared. Thats an easy way to die. I'll take heed of those who know better but I'll be asking questions. I don't follow blindly. I can't"

She didn't elaborate. There was no point. Buffy didn't need to know the whole story just yet, that would come in time. For now she walked alongside her still facinated by having Anakins lightsaber back in her hands. It felt...right. Felt good.

Oh how she missed him. Just now, here in this strange place. Her life might have been so different if he'd surrvived Myrkr. Tahiri Solo.

Still no sense dwelling. There would be no way to change things. She'd believed there was and Jacen...He had used her.

"Is there much further to go"

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goingtowin
2010-01-17 01:37 am UTC (link)

Buffy nodded, tattoo, good. Sounded like a good plan to her. As for Jaina, Buffy assumed she was a Jedi. "I think so. Her name was Jaina. She was here for a while, but she was sent back a while ago." she had been pretty damn powerful, but the whole demon telekensis thing, well, that was always stronger, it seemed. "Ask as many questions if you want, I'll answer them if I can." she said honestly.

"Other than that, any answers you might want will have to be asked to these two men that are from here. They were helping us out, anything I don't know, they might." if they chose to share or not was another thing altogether.

Shaking her head, Buffy pointed ahead of them to an apartment building only a half a block away. "No, it's that building right there." it didn't look like anything special from the outside. Just an apartment building, with some signs of life on the small decks of the apartments. Plants, chairs, whatever people had brought to the first four floors. "The first four floors are open for now. You can have any room there that's free."

She looked to the woman, not having forgotten that she could easily being tricked here. "All you have to do it get in is walk through the door." which was harder to do if you were possessed. When they reached the building, Buffy opened the door and stepped in first, right over the salt lines and past the demon trap on the floor.

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brokenjeedai
2010-01-17 03:38 pm UTC (link)

Jaina.

Tahiri's smile faltered just for a moment at the mention of the woman. Her friend and her...what was Jaina anymore. "Jaina is powerful, so I suppose if these things could fight her telekinisis they could fight mine. My powers, aren't the same as hers entirely. I learned from...". She trailed off again not wanting to go into it just yet.

She instead stayed quiet as she followed Buffy to the building thinking of choosing a room in a less populated part of the place. It would get her the peace she felt maybe she needed. She stepped across the salt lines and traps as if there was nothing to it. Mostly because there wasn't. But she looked up back to Buffy all the same.

"I think I just passed a test didn't I?" asked Tahiri letting herself smile just a little. "So I get the room and things now. I'll need to find work won't I. I'm a Bounty Hunter back home"

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goingtowin
2010-01-17 06:38 pm UTC (link)

Glancing to the side when she once again trailed off from a sentence, Buffy arched an eyebrow, but said nothing. Tahiri's life, her story, if she wanted to share eventually, she could. As long as she didn't go psycho on the building, Buffy wasn't concerned.

She watched as Tahiri pass over the salt lines and demon traps, and hid the smile that wanted to come forth. So she wasn't a demon, that was good. She was probably just another...Jedi whatever. She'd ask Andrew. Lightsabers and crazy mind powers. Not a bad person to have on your team, assuming she staid.

"Yeah, you passed." Buffy mused, before motioning for her to follow. "This is the lobby, not a whole lot going on here." she said simply, before leading her through a door into the the other half of the building, where things changed. "These three doors are offices, some of the heads of the building use it to work, one is being converted into a classroom. The other side side is the security room. All the equipment and monitors are in there, as well as the weapons. Then there's the laundry room, the showers and the gym." she pointed to teach door in turn. "Then the communical kitchen for parties or anything that might involve more people than the apartment kichens can hold. Apartments are upstairs."

Taking a key out of her pocket, she went to the security room and unlocked it stepping inside and motioning for Tahiri to follow, before pointing to a section on the wall that had a layout of apartments on it. "You can see a list of all the rooms there, and if anyone is in them, their names are on it. Pick a room and I'll get you the key."

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brokenjeedai
2010-01-18 03:58 am UTC (link)

"Good to hear." said Tahiri simply and stayed silent as she followed Buffy through the tour of the downstairs, the various rooms, how the place worked. Reminded her of the acadamy, she thought with a pang at the long forgotton memory. Her time at the acadamy had been happy. She'd had Anakin then. She followed the woman into the security rooom and took the instruction. Looking at the various available rooms before deciding most looked the same to her.

"106 is free. I'll have that one if it works" she asked and stepped back a little more to let her get the key.

"So what are we expected to do as part of this complex. I know you'll need to see me fight. I'm not as technicly good a fighter as Jaina is but I do well enough. She just learned from people I never will"

She'd worked for Jacen. Willingly. It made it very certain the Mandalorians would never give her time of day. Not ever. They'd kill her if they could. But she supposed not here.

"You'll need to know my story too. You don't recognise me which is surprising since most do. By reputation anyway. I was always kind of at his side or around him when he was being all officious." she slumped in posture slightly, her toes curling at the cold floor.

"Did Jaina ever mention her brother?"

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