***19 March 2005 – Escort to Dathomir

 

Oh my god what have I done in my life..

Aaricia sat on the bed, feeling very depressed and bad about herself, her hands in front of her face. How had she become so misled, already from the beginning? She was so angry at her family, but yet.. why hadn’t she be stronger? She had wasted her life.. anger, fear and bitterness had made her join the rebel terrorists. Her family had made her bitter, they had abused her, although her memories about this were very vague. She remembered how people had tortured her, she shuddered. They had cut off her pink, left ear and more.. she gasped at the thought. Those people had definitely been the rebels who else could it have been.. she guessed that it had been a method to frighten her off.. if she would ever leave the Rebellion they would probably cut off more of her. Vernant had put the limbs back on, but immediately after this she had rejoined the rebels, probably out of fear. Her memories were very vague but a lot of them felt very painful for her. A lot of faces she apparently forgot, also names and other details.. she hoped she would get them back.

She looked at the interior of her cell. She remembered what Vernant had told her. Technically you are still a prisoner. But soon you will be released I’m sure about that. You will be happy Aaricia, your life just started.

The Empire keeps you safe the Empire keeps you safe the Empire keeps you safe.. a voice in her head repeated. Her head hurt like hell as the voice started saying other things, she started feeling nauseous and limped towards the toilet to puke into it. Where did this voice come from? It sounded pretty familiar.. wildly she looked around herself, turning around, looking totally disoriented. She grabbed her head and hugged herself, sitting back on the bed. She hoped those voices, the nausea, dizziness and headache would stop soon.

I’m not insane, I’m cured. These are just the after effects.. I’m healthy now. They cured me, before this I was sick but not anymore.

 

After a while she started feeling a bit better. She heard footsteps and walked towards the forcefield that kept her in this room. What would happen? When would she be released?

She fumbled a bit with the prison suit that she had had to put on again, sat on the couch and twiddled her thumbs. Then they came to take her away from here.

They were with many, they put her in a blinded transport and brought her to some starport. It looked pretty familiar but she couldn’t recognize it. Above the entrance there was written ‘Mos Entha Starport’ then she remembered.

They put her in some big spaceship, tied her onto a chair in some sort of cage, while guarding her all the time. All the time she had been quiet but now she really wanted to know what would happen. Not that she didn’t trust the Imperials..

But she didn’t get any answer, she wasn’t even allowed to ask the question. Although she had already asked it.. she felt confused. Maybe she shouldn’t have asked the question, she didn’t want them to be mad at her. They would probably already be pretty mad at her, even after she got brainwashed. She had been a rebel terrorist.. After a trip that felt like ages, from which a jump to lightspeed was a part, she noticed that the ship was landing. They removed her from the chair and escorted her back down the ramp.

It was cold and dark outside. There was a lot of vegetation.

“Where are we? What is going to happen?”, she tried asking again.

They didn’t answer the question.

They made a long journey on foot through the dark woods. The landscape changed once in a while, there were a lot of wild, creepy animals. They were constantly attacking the escort but the stormtroopers beat them, keeping Aaricia in the middle so that they wouldn’t attack her. There were also some kind of savage people.. and creatures that looked a bit like spiders. These were the most horrible to Aaricia’s opinion, as she suffered from arachnophobia. Aaricia really wouldn’t want to be on her own here..

After hours of walking she started to feel tired, but the troopers didn’t seem to be tired at all. Where were they going.. to Dathomir prison? Now she remembered.. the stories.. her family. Her family had been on Dathomir prison. Where else could they be going now? She shuddered. Why would they put Aaricia in there.. Vernant had promised her that they would give her a new life. Maybe she still had a sentence to do? Aaricia sighed and stared at the flora, sometimes it really looked interesting. There were even places where there were actually flowers.

Why were they making this whole trip on foot? They would probably answer none of these questions, so why would she bother asking them. She decided to just wait and see, but after a while one of the troopers finally answered one of her questions: yes we are going to Dathomir prison.

Dathomir prison.. surrounded by huge forests full of dangerous creatures and savages. They probably put the prison here on purpose: who would dare to escape, who would dare to go into these forests on their own. Maybe they did this walk on purpose, to show Aaricia that if she managed to escape, she would definitely get brutally slaughtered by creepy creatures or savages. Yeah especially with these spiders..

 

After what felt like ages they arrived at the prison, which looked like a city, a black city.

They entered a huge gate, it was cold and Aaricia was hungry and thirsty.

“Why am I here, do I still have a sentence to do?”, Aaricia asked, scared.

“Yes.”, one of the troopers answered briefly.

“How long?”

No reply.

After a walk they arrived at a big yard with barracks. It was separated from the rest of the prison with fences and a closed gate. She saw people in orange suits, the same orange as hers. The other prisoners.. Aaricia felt scared, what kind of people were these? She had to go into one of the barracks, in the barrack there were two cells.

“Sit on the chair. The ward will come soon.”, one of the troopers ordered, and she put herself down on a white metal chair. Then they left..

 

After what felt like almost another hour some man dressed in an Imperial officer uniform entered the barrack accompanied by a stormtrooper guard.

“Hmmm Aaricia Silverstar or better known now as prisoner 332.”, he said while looking at her briefly, then he nodded while looking at a datapad that he was holding in his right hand.

“Can I get some food and water please?”, Aaricia asked.

“Yes yes you can, and a new outfit. This is not the right one. Now move into the left cell please.”, he answered looking uninterested.

Nervously Aaricia went into the little room and the forcefield got activated.

She sighed and sat down on one of the hard mattresses. So these were the beds.. the officer and guard left, Aaricia listened to the rumbling footsteps that were moving away. Then she heard a big growl. Terrified she stared into the cell that was opposite of hers..