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plainshobbit · 1 year ago

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Day 2: Solace

(Yes, this is a few days late. Oops!)

I humbly present a little Post-Rebelion AU drabble:

Fox stood on a wooden deck overlooking the Pantoran marsh and let the nocturnal serenade of marsh creatures wash over him. This was his home now. Their home.

After the Empire had finally been defeated, Riyo elected to leave the nurturing of the fledgling New Republic to other hands.

His wife had subsequently relocated them to this secluded spot in the marshlands of her home world.

Surrounded by nature -- wild and free living things -- it had quickly became a place of healing.

On nights like these, when specters of Fox' past haunted his sleeping hours, he slipped outside and let the landscape anchor him back to the present.

Light steps approached and slender arms wrapped around Fox' bare torso. He felt a gentle kiss between his shoulder blades and then the softness of Riyo's hair as she laid her head against his back.

No words needed to be spoken in this moment. All was understood. Riyo had her own ghosts to contend with after all.

Fox covered her slender arms with his broad ones, tenderly caressing the limbs that embraced him. They stood together like this for quite some time -- each gathering strength from the other.

Turning in her arms to face Riyo, Fox looked into the bright golden eyes shining in the moonlight.

Eyes that knew him better than anyone else. Sometimes better than he knew himself.

Years ago, in the beginning, that had terrified him. It felt dangerous to be seen so clearly by a nat-born.

Later, after he had learned to trust and respect – and in time love Riyo, her ability to know him so well frightened him for another reason. Fox was beginning to fear what the war and the influence of Palpatine were doing to him. Who they were turning him into.

Would those eyes look at him differently if they saw. Would they turn away in disgust?

They never did.

Riyo continued to see the man beneath the mask. And her eyes with their steady gaze were a beacon guiding him back home if he began to lose himself.

Now the wars were only memory and Fox could spend his days losing himself to the comfort and love that shined in those same golden eyes.

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