Prompt 27a - Freedom

[peppermint_shamrock]

Title: A Sith's Promises (Lead Down a Dark Path)
Prompt: Freedom
Author: peppermint_shamrock
Rating: G
Characters: Daal, Sith Mother
Pairing: None
Star Wars Media Property: Visions (Screecher's Reach)
Word count: 300
Warnings/Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Daal is sick of being afraid, and the medallion offers her a way out.
Author Notes: N/A
Beta: None, it's just me

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Daal has known fear all her life. It rules the workhouse, a looming threat of punishment if they do not work, if they don’t work enough, if the work is unsatisfactory, if anything goes wrong. The worst is when illness tears through the crowded bunkers they sleep in, leaving too many unable to work, and the rest, coughing, sneezing, trembling, and dizzy to scramble to pick up the slack.

No one can afford to show any weakness, but Daal feels helpless, sometimes, and she’s sick of it.

There’s freedom out there, she just needs an opportunity to take it.

She finds that opportunity in the medallion.

Of course, she knows it’s not the medallion itself that speaks to her, guides her, promises her freedom if only she is strong enough to take it. There’s a person behind those words, a person who tells Daal of carving her own path to freedom. Trust is not something she can easily give, especially to one unseen, but…Daal wants. She wants for it all to be true, to earn her right to a better life. The things the voice speaks of, not just material things, but respect, and power, luxuries Daal can scarcely imagine, spark in her mind and call to her deepest desires.

A life, without fear. That’s all that Daal wants. That’s what the voice promises her.

But Daal must prove herself, first. She must face tests if she is truly to follow the path to freedom. She must become strong.

Strength, and courage, the voice tells her. These are the only things that matter. When you face your own mind, what else will you have? And if you lack strength, if you lack courage, then you have nothing but the weakness of your own mind.

And Daal must be strong.

 

 

Comments

[mergatrude]

I need to watch Visions - but I hope Daal manages to find a way to overcome her fear without falling into hate, but it's so understandable isn't it? Good drabble!

[peppermint_shamrock]

Visions is very good, you should definitely watch it when you get the chance!

Thank you!