Daily Writing Update: 05-01-21
Saturday, May 1st, 2021 08:04 pmToday I wrote: 273 words
I worked on: Mace Windu Appreciation Week
No excerpt since I posted the fic.
The Padawan looked at his Master in confusion. “But I am right here,” he said. “I will always be wherever I am. How am I supposed to find myself any better somewhere else?”
The Master chuckled in fond amusement at the question. “Go, and you will find out, Padawan,” he said. “If you had been able to find yourself here, you would have already done so. A change of scenery will do you some good.”
Her Master understood well enough. “Yes,” she said, her eyes softening even as her voice remained firm. “It is easy to show compassion to an injured animal, or a child, or to those who have shown you friendship. But to one who has attempted to do you harm? That is much more difficult. Yet, as Jedi, we must also offer those people our compassion, however difficult it may be.”
Mace’s hands swept over his comm. “I need a medical team to report on my position.”
The unknown clone’s eyes fluttered open, and he gazed across the room, coming to a rest on Mace – his eyes glazed with pain, but lucid.
“No need for that, General,” he said weakly, “I’m done for regardless.”
“I’ll let the medics be the judge of that,” Mace said, moving carefully to the trooper’s side. “What’s your name, trooper?”