『Morning Scent』

With a deep breath, Vaylin was the first to open her eyes, finding the side of her face planted into his chest. A small smile formed over her lips as he was now laying flat on his back.

Playfully moving, her blonde hair bounced along her jawline and her shoulders. Her gaze narrowed on his sleeping face as she maneuvered over him. "Ento...?" Her blue eyes flickered towards her closed door, her gaze dropping towards her stuffed animals, before returning her attention to the sleeping boy. "Ento~?"

He didn't wake up to his name, but he was clearly sleeping.

Curling her lips inward as she smiled, she then proceeded to straddle over his abdomen and lean down, pushing her hair behind her ear. "Wake up," she whispered before blowing into his ear.

Ento rapidly shook his head and his eyes shot open, his gaze shooting right through her. "Wha?!"

"Finally," resting her hands on top of one another upon his chest, she grinned down at the fellow teen. "It's morning," she pointed towards the rising sun which was coming over the horizon.

"Ah..." Arching his head back to look towards the massive windows of the bedroom, he smiled lightly. Though a thought crossed his mind.

They hadn't gone back to Naboo when they were sleeping, so he was pretty sure that wasn't the cause of their transportation to her past. Just what had happened to trigger this trip?

Had the force brought them here for some reason?

When he found himself in that strange dark place that was identified as the World between Worlds by Master Dooku, he had been brought there by the force to avoid death by explosion. The question was, what caused them to come here? With a good night's rest, he could think easily about this. If only he knew the trigger.

Vaylin though seemed to be just smiling down at him, tilting her head to the side as he returned his gaze to her. "Want to go out today?"

Sitting up, causing her to slide right into his lap, he raised a brow at her. "Go out?" Looking past her head, he used the force and called her asymmetrical double breasted tunic to come floating on over to them. Taking it into his hand, he gave it to her.

Vaylin's gaze moved from his face to the tunic. Slowly she grasped it into her hand and undid the buttons on the breast and slid it around torso and slipped her hands in through the sleeves. It didn't take long before she tucked it into her skirting and buttoned it up.

"Better?" She flexed her eyelids at him.

Ento nodded just as the bedroom door wooshed open.

"Vaylin?" Thexan was standing there, gawking at the position the two were in. "What in Izax are you doing!?"

She looked to her brother, blankly staring back at him. "What do you mean? I'm just sitting."

Arcann walked in behind his brother, wearing a black double breasted tunic with gold trim, and narrowed his gaze on the two. "Definitely more than friends," he turned on his boot heels and walked right back out of the room.

Ento's eyes followed the boy out of the room, before shifting to Thexan as he shouted.

"Arcann!?" Thexan turned and watched his twin walk off down the hall towards the kitchen and common room. Placing a hand on his faded hair, he turned his attention back to his sister.

Vaylin rested her forearms on Ento's shoulders, her fingers curling into her palms as she did so, as if she was actually afraid of touching him with them. "Thexan, is something wrong?"

"You're sitting on him," Thexan narrowed his gaze.

"That's wrong how...?" Both of them asked looking at him curiously.

Ento lived on Tatooine in a subterranean structure. While he was sometimes brought out by his father and mother to the nearby starports, it wasn't as if he brought any girls home before. As far as 'the talk,' he wasn't really given a code to go by.

Vaylin on the other hand? She had been deprived of human contact other than from her brother who regularly visited her. Otherwise, she was subjected to horrors no developing young teen should have ever see under normal circumstances.

"Anyways, why didn't you knock first?" Vaylin glared at her brother.

Thexan slowly walked backward and out of the room, letting the door slide shut.

"So!" She turned her attention back towards Ento, a small grin across her lips. "Let's go out today, there are a lot of places here I want to visit, or see."

"Couldn't I have slept a bit longer?" Ento pursed his lips as she shifted in his lap, he wasn't all that eager to leave the place until he learned more about the society they were walking into.

Relaxing her eyelids, they drooped down partially over her eyes. "Lets go," she slipped off of him and the bed, taking hold of his hand on her way down. "Come on," she tugged on his arm.

The boy just looked at her as she was pulling on his arm, trying to tug him off the bed so he would follow her. His stomach began to grumble.

"There's plenty to eat at the market! Come on!"

Rolling his eyes at her persistence, Ento let her pull him off the bed and onto his feet. "Where is this market you speak of anyways?" He asked curiously as he looked her over for a moment.

"Hm... Downard."

As the two of them left the room, the door swished closed behind them. It didn't take long for them to enter the common room from the hall, before being on their way towards the blast door leading to the dock.

"Where do you think you two are going?" Senya spoke up, standing behind the kitchen's island, no longer wearing her armor and seemed to be wearing a vanilla colored dress with blue and gold stripes.

The two teens feigned an daunted halt as they glanced over their shoulders.

Vaylin slackened her jaw, "Out?"

"Are you going to jump off the dock to your death, or take a turbolift like normal people?" Senya raised a brow, making one eye appear bigger than the other as she looked down at the two.

"Jumping sounds like fun," Vaylin went to turn her head towards the blast door entrance again.

Ento looked over to the dark blue eyed dirty blonde haired girl, with an inquisitive expression. "What? How does jumping to your death sound like fun?"

"Where are you planning on going anyway? You don't have any credits." Senya raised a brow slightly at the duo, pretty sure they weren't going to get anywhere.

The two looked to one another, not having thought of that, Vaylin swallowing her saliva shallowly. Even if Ento had his bag, which he didn't, the credits from the future weren't usable here... Right?

"H-hey mom..." Vaylin turned back towards Senya, trying to smile widely, her dimples blinking in and out as her lips twitched. "Can I get some credits please?"

"You just returned from Nathema... You could give it a few days..." Senya smiled fairly.

"I don't like being inside, it's too... Confined..." She really didn't want to stay inside. Even though she did like being home now, it didn't feel right anymore.

Letting out a sigh, Senya nodded to herself, being locked away had a power over the psyche. There had been plenty of people who had been punished with solitary confinement in a small tight space and suffered because of it for a lifetime. She only opened that her daughter didn't suffer from that for too long.

"I'll call for some of my Knights to guide you. Go take a bath first in the refresher, they should be here by the time the both of you finish taking turns." She offered, not exactly wanting them to go jumping off the dock, even if they could probably survive the fall through the use of the force.

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It took about thirty minutes, they took showers in the refresher of the home and got dressed. Senya did Vaylin's hair into a braid in the common room and straightened out her tunic.

Ento didn't really do much except for wear his clothes, other than combing out his hair, he came waltzing out into the common room. A small smile formed over his lips as he saw the two together. Had Vaylin finally accepted her mother? Or was she just tolerating her attentions?

Looking around, he didn't see the other boys anywhere. It seemed they had gone out while they were taking turns using the refresher. It was likely where ever they had gone was in order to train.

A hover car would come landing on the private dock, two Zakuul Knights wearing white armor came walking up to the blast door entrance.

One of them walked over to the door and removed her helmet, revealing the face of a girl with a well-rounded face, flat nose and shap dark black eyes, and peach colored skin. Her ash black colored hair was cut into a pixie.

This Knight in particular pressed the button on the control panel beside the door.

"It seems like your escorts are here," Senya said as the door would then open on its own.

The two Knights stepped inside.

"Knight-Captain," Eseth spoke with a light smile across her lips, "We are here to escort the Princess and her friend to the marketplace as requested."

Senya stood before her subordinates and nodded, "Thank you for coming." She gestured for her daughter and Ento to come on over.

Vaylin quickly strode over to Ento and took hold of his hand, pulling him along like she had done earlier. Once they were in front of her mother, she shed a warm smile towards the Knights.

Senya took out two prepaid credit chips, which looked to be two blue colored translucent cards. They had a set amount of them, and were disposable, making them not worth all that much.

The duo each took a card and looked it over before vaguely smiling at one another.

"Lets go to the Old World Tram Market," Vaylin grinned.

"There's an Old World?" Ento chuckled at the funny grin she had on her face.

Vaylin went to speak, to tell him about it, but didn't letting her mouth close solemnly.

Senya shook her head again, "The Old World was created by Valkorion, his first attempt to make a Grand Society... It just didn't seem to be grand enough for him."

Ento looked to her as she said this and nodded slowly, if Vaylin had talked about it with a smile on her face, it would've been as if she was betraying herself. "Time to go then," his gaze turned towards Vaylin with a light smile across his lips.

Senya then went on watching as the two were lead out of the apartment by the pair of Zakuul Knights under her command.

Eseth pulled her helmet back onto her head, securing it as they walked out the blast door, and over to their vehicle. Once they were inside, the four of them went off towards the Old World which was similar to the Coruscant Underground in reputation.