VANISH LIKE THE WARM STOVE Luke is not one to hesitate when faced with a mystery. Or mysterious box. Especially when the memory of Hoth looms so recent in his mind, the bone-deep cold causing healed scars to ache, thoughts of wandering forever surfacing though he can see very well he's still here.
Whatever that even means, under the circumstances. He's still not resigned to his existence here, but he's accepted it as real, as happening, even if he cannot explain it.
So he's discovered the matches, even used one, but he's been stranded before. He makes the connection between the warmth and the vision pretty quickly, aware that this is no ordinary heat. (The vision of his lost lightsaber chills him in a different way, but he shakes if off as best he can.) And it doesn't keep him from lighting the second one, exactly, but it does make him more aware of the need to conserve. If only he could confirm anything about this; has it happened before, is it connected to his arrival here, does anyone else know what's going on?
He approaches someone on the street, for his assigned quarters offer no relief from the cold, and he prefers to be moving, doing, to stationary. If the person he approaches has no match burning, he will offer to light one of his. If they do have a match, he'll notice its effect on him right away and approach to ask if they understand it.
BETTER WATCH OUT-adjacent deerFeed post [There isn't much that he's done that Luke feels guilty about. It's more what he's failed to do, the death's he hasn't prevented. He's not a paranoid person, but the nightmares of his aunt and uncle's bodies, of watching as Ben is cut down, are starting to intrude on his waking life.
There's an argument to be made that he should feel guilty about the thousands who died on the Death Star, but as yet, no one has. As yet, the pervasive feeling of being watched seems somehow connected to watching his family die.]
Hey. Um. I know I haven't been here very long, so you don't know for sure I'm not just being paranoid, but... does anyone else have a weird feeling like... I dunno. Like we're being watched?
It's not like it's the first time I've had that feeling, but it usually means, you know. I am being watched. And while I already feel half crazy ever since I got here, this feels different.
Luke Skywalker | Star Wars
Luke is not one to hesitate when faced with a mystery. Or mysterious box. Especially when the memory of Hoth looms so recent in his mind, the bone-deep cold causing healed scars to ache, thoughts of wandering forever surfacing though he can see very well he's still here.
Whatever that even means, under the circumstances. He's still not resigned to his existence here, but he's accepted it as real, as happening, even if he cannot explain it.
So he's discovered the matches, even used one, but he's been stranded before. He makes the connection between the warmth and the vision pretty quickly, aware that this is no ordinary heat. (The vision of his lost lightsaber chills him in a different way, but he shakes if off as best he can.) And it doesn't keep him from lighting the second one, exactly, but it does make him more aware of the need to conserve. If only he could confirm anything about this; has it happened before, is it connected to his arrival here, does anyone else know what's going on?
He approaches someone on the street, for his assigned quarters offer no relief from the cold, and he prefers to be moving, doing, to stationary. If the person he approaches has no match burning, he will offer to light one of his. If they do have a match, he'll notice its effect on him right away and approach to ask if they understand it.
BETTER WATCH OUT-adjacent deerFeed post
[There isn't much that he's done that Luke feels guilty about. It's more what he's failed to do, the death's he hasn't prevented. He's not a paranoid person, but the nightmares of his aunt and uncle's bodies, of watching as Ben is cut down, are starting to intrude on his waking life.
There's an argument to be made that he should feel guilty about the thousands who died on the Death Star, but as yet, no one has. As yet, the pervasive feeling of being watched seems somehow connected to watching his family die.]
Hey. Um. I know I haven't been here very long, so you don't know for sure I'm not just being paranoid, but... does anyone else have a weird feeling like... I dunno. Like we're being watched?
It's not like it's the first time I've had that feeling, but it usually means, you know. I am being watched. And while I already feel half crazy ever since I got here, this feels different.