#so brace for that

[varpusvaras]

They don't sleep during the first night.

They have turns resting. General Kenobi stays up first, after Fox has managed to get Leia to sleep. Fox lays down next to Leia on the one bed in the small house and he closes his eyes.

He doses off, free of nightmares for the first time since leaving. Maybe it's because of the presence of a Jedi, Fox doesn't know. He's thankful for it anyway.

Then it's his turn, and General Kenobi sits on the floor next to the bed and closes his eyes, and he stays very still until the suns start to rise.

Then Leia wakes up, and Fox feeds her after General Kenobi has made them breakfast, and then they wait.

No one comes.

Fox plays with Leia. Feeds her again. Puts her down for a nap. He checks his communicator. It's silent.

Leia wakes up. Fox plays with her while General Kenobi makes then dinner. Fox feeds her and forces his own meal down. He cannot afford not to eat, no matter how tight his insides feel and how little appetite he has.

Fox puts Leia to bed. She is also calmer here than she had been in the ship. That makes Fox suspect even more that General Kenobi has something to do with it.

Fox doesn't ask.

Leia falls asleep, and Fox sits there, at the edge of the bed, and stares at the window.

The desert has cooled down by now, but it still feels like the heat is lingering inside. An invisible, uncomfortable force, pressing down on Fox's skin, and he cannot escape it anywhere.

The desert around them is quiet. Leia sleeps peacefully next to him.

Fox is just waiting for the door to be shot down and for the Empire to come flooding in like a rush of red, hot blood.

General Kenobi breaks the silence first.

"I noticed the glow last night", he says, and points at his neck when Fox turns to look at him.

"Yes", Fox says. "It's difficult to conceal, even with extensive bacta treatments, since it is so close to skin and bone."

General Kenobi hums quietly.

"Is that how you survived?" He asks then.

Fox thinks briefly of the pain and the numbness, of his body being kept alive for him, of the crunch of his bones as they had been broken and then set again, and of the weightless hours spend submerged.

"Yes", he answers.

General Kenobi nods. They don't talk more of it.

"You didn't say how they found out", he says.

"I am not sure", Fox tells him. "But they knew where to come to look for her, so they must've found out that Bail was there when she died."

General Kenobi leans his jaw against his hand as he thinks.

"We don't know if they know about both of them, then", he says. "Or just about her."

"If they know about them both", Fox says, "and located only one child on Alderaan, they most likely think that the boy is with you."

General Kenobi nods again.

"So they would have to find me first", he murmurs. He looks out of the window, towards the silent dunes.

Fox looks at Leia.

"Do they live close by?" He asks.

"Relatively", General Kenobi answers. "Distances on Tatooine are long, even the shorter ones. But they could very quickly trace my location to theirs."

"It's too risky for us to be here, then", Fox says.

Leia is his priority. Fox would do anything for her. But he cannot put her brother in danger, either, to keep her safe. It's not fair.

Has anything ever been, though?

General Kenobi turns to look at him.

"Do you have anywhere else to go?" He asks. He sounds like he already knows the answer.

Fox shakes his head.

"Then, for the time being", General Kenobi says, "this is the safest place for us all."

He sounds gently confident, like he is trying to reassure Fox of the truth of his words.

Fox has no other options than to believe him right now.

Leia sniffles, and her face scrunches up slightly. Fox runs his finger over the bridge of her nose, until she calms back down.

General Kenobi is watching them when Fox turns back towards him.

"Go to sleep, Commander", he says. "I'll take the first watch."

"Just Fox, please", Fox says. He is not a Commander anymore, after all. Just Fox.

"Alright", General Kenobi says. "I'm just Ben, now."

Fox doesn't think the name really suits the General.

Perhaps he can sense Fox's thoughts, because he smiles slightly.

"Things change, don't they?" He says. "Now, please. Go to sleep, Fox."

Fox doesn't argue with him. He lays down next to Leia, and when she wriggles a bit, he strokes her short, soft hair gently, until she settles once again.

Then Fox closes his eyes and falls into a dreamless sleep.

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[kewpiekills]

some fish women i drew during college orientation

[bluegiragi]

limitations (part 2)

early access + nsfw on patreon

[verflares]

who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

[thereallycoolmonsterithoughtup]

why haven't i posted this yet

[yes-asil]

Rewatched the movie, heard the line and my brain immediately went "Chronic knee pain, alright."

[kiksniko]

i am once again sick. have more sketches

[wiltkingart]

mind lending a femur?

[dinoserious]

few yrs old sketches i went n spruced up, was thinking of them. tynamo line variant based around the possible influence of haikouichthys on tynamos design, with the other two evolutions based around other fossil fish (eelektrik -> sacabambaspis, eelektross -> dunkleosteus), with tynamo staying the same

[herewithinthevoid]

[kelocitta]

Anthro Spearmaster.... Slugscav? Scavlizard? All of the above? Something else? No ones quite sure.

Spearmaster presented another interesting conflict similar to Artificer, where if you make them one-to-one you end up making someone (Suns) look a lot more fucked up than they really are. Since while, regardless of how you feel about animal experimentation, you can probably agree its less fucked up than human experimentation. But get rid of too much and you lose what makes Spearmaster Spearmaster- So they certainly aren't an ethical creation, but a little less unethical than literally removing a creatures mouth and making it feed via bone needles. Still not a normal slugcat by any means, and one that uses that to their advantage. Local towns see them as everything from a normal individual, to a weird hybrid, to something entirely supernatural. They keep the details to themselves and their iterator and are happy that way.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

"lucanis likes coffee"

aww :)

"he has to because when he goes to sleep the demon that was put inside him during his imprisonment as part of an experimentation/torture regime will hurt him from the inside so he tries not to sleep"

[hypogryffin]

[linoyes]

[urfavcrime]

fanart of pogtopia era ctommy with braces and him having it off nov 16 going forward is so funny to me. like where and what is ctommy orthodontist doing. funnier option is that tommys orthodontist lives in manberg and despite being banished for dental appointments tommy gets a free pass. cschlatt just being i can excuse banishing a child from their homeland that they died for but i draw the line at not allowing them access to dental care and honestly word!