| Star Wars: Mara Jade Author: Elizabeth Morrison The planet Agomar was so mountainous that it’s highest peak of Targrus poked out through the atmosphere and into space. If you lived on the east continent and had a window facing west, you couldn’t miss it. I remember sitting in the small hours of morning waiting for the sun to rise atop this huge rock. It wold take the sun another four hours to rise on my continent, so it was almost like looking into the future. The future. It always scared me back then. It scares me now how much I can remember from such a young age. I always had these dreams where I would fall and scrape my knees and sometimes I would dream of rain, and the next day as I was playing out in the hills it would start to pour big, fat drops and my foot would slip and down I’d go. I got so good at seeing the future that I prevented some later accidents from happening. I never told anyone about my dreams, especially since most of them occurred while I was wide awake. Mother would come in and shake me, telling me how I’d been staring out the window the whole day. I can still remember mother’s smell. It came from her hair, mother’s bright, blonde hair. The perfume was so sweet, sometimes it made me dizzy, immobile, and I would lie in her arms for hours getting lost in her straight, long, locks. My four older brothers had the same hair, but not the smell. I, on the other hand was cursed with father’s red hair. It was wonderful on him and lit up his green eyes, that I shared with him also, but on me it looked like a great mop because I would never bother to brush it and when I would wake up in the morning it gathered around my head like a rich, auburn flame. I was so young and life was too important to worry about things like stupid grooming rituals, but our lives were about to change forever. I did other strange things too. I felt as though voices were traliling through my head all at once, non-stop. I repeated aloud one of the voices once and mother asked me where I’d heard such language and told me to go to my quarters. There I would sit in my window and listen to the lives swirlling in my head. I was the cosmic eavesdropper. Once I heard my oldest brother Tristam thinking, just next door, about how good he looked in his court robes and how many girls must have noticed him, and another time I heard a boy far, far away wishing he could fly. These quiet voices would whisper me into a sleep where I would dream about the future. I will never forget the night he first came to me. I had been sent to bed early for using rude language towards a senator, which was unfair because I knew in my heart he was lying to my father. I left the dining area, pleased with myself, turned the corridor left and walked down the hall to my room where I slammed my door. No one could have heard it, seeing as how the reverberation got lost in the length of the hallway. I ran to the window to look at Targrus. How long had I been staring? Hours, minutes...who knows, but the clouds that had blocked my view before now gave way to the shining silver of the moon I had to squint my eyes for a moment. Yawning I pulled myself away from the window and curled into bed. Why hadn’t mother come in to see if I was alright, to scold me for my behavior at dinner? “ It must be a late dinner,” I thought to myself. Maybe mother would be in soon. For once I was going to be a good girl and get ready for bed so when mother and father came they would praise me and perhaps forget about the dinner table scene. I got out of my jumper and into my pajamas in about ten seconds flat, told the lights to dim, and tucked my small body into the oversized bed. I waited, peering up over the bluff of blankets to the door. All I saw was the pale light of the moon dancing on my door. I finally drifted off. Someone was saying my name. The unfamiliar voice pulled me out of the swamp of sleep and back into by dark quarters. “Mother, is that you?” I commanded the lighting to full brightness but they would not comply. I tries again but they answered with more darkness. The voice was growing more insistent, so I decided to do something I had never done since I had discovered this little quirk about myself. I would talk to the voice. More coming soon... |
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