This is not the smut you're looking for. Move along.

[neverwantedtobesith]

It's been two or three months since the planet with the blizzard from out of nowhere--Garth'zel isn't quite sure how long it's been as such a long stay in carbonite has done interesting things to his ability to tell how much time has gone by--and he's spent all that time traveling with the Jedi who kept him from freezing. The time's been spent drifting from planet to planet, never staying at any too long, the longest stay being almost a week once. Over that time, he slowly opened up about his past, gliding past most of the things that were still too painful for him to be willing to talk about. Those will come in time.

The first few times Arha invited herself into his bed to finish out the rest of the night sleeping when he's had a particularly bad night, he was rather sleepily startled. After awhile though, he started getting used to it and rarely stirred when she joined him. In fact, he usually went still, her presence helping to calm whatever was disturbing his sleep.

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"I am attached to all things," Arha says quietly. "The Force flows through me as the Force flows through you, as it does all things. Everything has its time. Some cannot handle endings but they do come, eventually, and then they become beginnings, new journeys, even final ones."

Her fingertips touch his jaw and cheek.

"This is our time and what we make of it is ours as well, wherever and whenever it goes. All things end but if you are careful the memories will sustain you when you need them most."

[neverwantedtobesith]

He closes his eyes at her touch to his face with a quiet sigh, letting her words settle before opening them and giving her a weak smile. "How do we turn almost everything into either politics or philosophy?"

He distinctly recalls intentions to do more than just talk before they got side-tracked.

[lightsider]

"We may be too intelligent for our own good," she says with a laugh. "I suppose that these things are in our nature as we are two shades of the same Force. For myself, I was the student who said but why in every lecture until I was on library duty and could ask all the questions and snoop around until I found my answers."

She gently booped him on the nose and then kissed him gently.

"We are all that we are," Arha says against his lips, her bright laughter more in the wash of the Force around her than aloud.

[neverwantedtobesith]

"'But why' wasn't exactly encouraged on Korriban, and I knew better than to ask," Garth'zel says wryly. "I saved that for Lord Zash, after she picked me as an apprentice."

At least she was actually helpful, mostly. When she wasn't manipulating him.

Although really, that was quite enough of that and they risked getting side-tracked yet again. He starts focusing on tugging up her tunic to get it off her. While their conversations are fun, he's looking for a different kind right now.