{{ absolved - prologue
++ OLD GEDJA HOMESTEAD / DANTOOINE
Dantooine. A remote planet, covered mostly in wavy plains and spritzings of bushy forests here and there. It was a placid planet, a peaceful sea of muted greens and blues, and the sky usually clear and calm. It was taken back by the Galactic Alliance once the war with the Yuuzhan Vong was over. Farms and estates were quickly rebuilt, very far from one another and bigger than before. It had been years since the war.
On the edge of the Darjani Plains, inside a thick and sprawling mass of tall blba trees, sat a humble house. It was trivial compared to the size of the other estates on Dantooine. But the occupants needed nothing more than what they had. It was close to where they needed to be and it was shelter. Those were the two most important things.
The kitchen was a quaint room; small and quiet. It was dim at this time early in the morning, when the two moons were vanishing and before the sun rose. The curtains were closed over the tiny windows and it left the area bathed in a pale purple, leaving the features of the two humans seated across from each other muted and unreadable.
"What does he want us to do, Dornan?"
"I'm not sure yet," the man replied, his eyes shooting up to the woman seated across from him. Her hair was in a messy pile on her head and her eyes were locked on her fingers, which were picking at the nicked wood of the tabletop in front of her. Two lightsabers sat between them. She looked slightly nervous and uneasy, a rich violet robe wrapped tightly around her form. He had a feeling it wasn't from whatever their Master was coming to tell them; it was most likely from the fact that he barged into her room and shook her awake, catching her off-guard.
They had been uncomfortable around each other lately.
Their Master never contacted them this early in the morning before. Dornan had been jolted awake by his comlink and spoke to the man, throwing on a quick mesh of clothes before rushing into her room and waking her up, telling her they were supposed to meet him outside. Now they were just seated at the kitchen table, waiting.
Once the lights from an approaching speeder hit the windows, they both stood from the table at the same time and shuffled to the door, exiting out onto stone walkways behind the house. They trampled past the walks and emerged from a thick line of trees onto the plains, the long green grass swaying lightly in the chilly morning air. Stopping a good distance away from the still whirring speeder, they squinted against the rising sun and waited.
The dark-cloaked figure exited the covered speeder, taking long confident strides towards them, his two apprentices. He stopped just short of them, the shady opening of the hood shifting between the two. "I have a mission for you both."
They nodded solemnly.
"I know you have probably been expecting this for a long time now, but the plan finally has the ability to be put into action," the smooth voice crept out from the hood, sending chills down Dornan's spine. Their Master never failed to garner that sort of reaction from them.
"It's time to take down the Jedi Order."
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