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Chapter One
Chapter Sixteen
Chapters 1-9: Abridged
One advantage of being stuck without Internet is that you have no excuse not to get some reading and writing done already.
So, Chapter 17, in which Isolder blushes and thinks about how girls' hair smells nice instead of helping plan a prison robbery.
- Okay, where did Isolder learn to cook lizard eggs over campfires? That doesn't sound like a skill princes or space pirates would use.
- Teneniel tells Isolder she's grateful he stayed to watch over her. Romantic foreshadowing!
- Then she translates Artoo's whistles and Isolder quietly freaks out a bit, as would many people who hadn't believed in supernatural powers until they suddenly met a witch and wizard.
- As if he hasn't had enough surprises for one morning, she kisses him and says she wishes he weren't a commoner. He takes his sudden demotion fairly well, all things considered. And there's this interesting bit: On all of Hapes, no woman had ever treated him that way: so casually forceful. Instead, the women around him had been respectful but distant. I'm assuming that was because of his status, and that male Hapan commoners might get surprise-kissed more often. But the women had to preserve the prince's chastity, of course! I wonder how princes expect to get treated by their wives, though?
- Anyway, this casual assumption that she can take whatever she wants from men supports Dave's contention that women run things on Dathomir much better than Teneniel angsting about whether Luke thinks girl-sweat is gross.
- Teneniel says she dreamed about Luke all night, which Isolder thinks is weird and there must be something more going on. Like what? That she's overawed by this amazing witch-man and is having a sudden desire to be subordinate? Or does Isolder just thing it's weird that anyone would prefer such a relatively unattractive man to him?
- Ahaha, Teneniel tells Isolder he's a bad cook! I guess his lizard egg-cooking skills are based solely on those Hapan adventure holos he used to watch with his brother. (You know they did.)
- She holds his hand on a slippery trail as if he were some schoolchild that might slip off the face of the cliff. I wonder whether Dathomirian women fetishize childish men the way our society does barely-legal looking women? Do they have baby doll tunics for their men?
- They get to the Singing Mountain Clan's valley and a bunch of witches cheered him as if he were a stripper. Did Isolder go to strip clubs to check out the men while he was a pirate? Or do the pirates have totally edgy clubs where women do the stripping? I'm very curious about Hapan strip clubs now...
- Teneniel claims Isolder as her husband, and Augwynne says for the crowd to speak now or forever hold their peace. So Isolder protests that he had no idea grabbing a rope was consenting to marriage, and not running away doesn't mean he consented either.
- Leia shows up and runs into Isolder's arms. Then she hugs Luke, and Isolder's all confuzzled - who knew they were so close? *sigh* Well, Isolder, they fought side by side for years, which tends to bring people together, and you'd have known that if you'd done your homework before proposing. Or even just, you know, asked her about her life.
- Leia tells Augwynne that Isolder saved her life too, and Augwynne's frustrated that they've got three new men and might only get to keep one of them. Hey, there's always Chewie! Also, "It sounds to me as if every man up there in the stars must have saved Leia at least once. All of my life I've wanted to travel offplanet, but now -- I wonder how I'd fare. Tell me, Sister Leia, are people always trying to kill you?" Hee! Leia concedes that it's been a rough few years.
- The witches freak out a bit over Luke. It was almost as if they found Luke's presence to be... portentous. Because they've been waiting for the Kwisatz Hederach?
- Augwynne rules that Teneniel gets to keep Isolder, Luke passes the buck to Leia, and under New Republic law all she can do is protest since Teneniel refuses to put him up for sale. But you see, Augwynne says, Teneniel is lonely, and we all own men, so it's okay!
- Isolder thinks he ought to be uncomfortable about Teneniel owning him - although given that he's prepared his whole life to be married off to a suitable girl who will rule him and the rest of Hapes, I don't think it's quite as strange as it would be to an Earth man - but just like romance novel heroines of yore, he somehow isn't afraid of this controlling and jealous lover and doesn't feel like protesting much. Must be true love!
- The Falcon's back in one of the caves now, and we get a reminder that Isolder's fighter is still in good shape and it would be very bad if Gethzerion found it.
- Some witches feel up Isolder, so Leia drags him and Teneniel away. Isolder notices that she's very convincing at grabbing him just as forcefully as the witches. The witches catcall him and he blushes - in space he's able to put on a nearly patriarchal bravado, but get him on a planet like home and suddenly he's an old-school blushing romance heroine.
- Isolder doesn't want to know how the witches got the Falcon all the way up here, because the Force is still freaking him out.
- Han won't look at Luke at first, which Isolder realizes is because Han feels guilty. As well he should. But not so guilty that he won't still try to spin it that he convinced her to take a short trip when Luke calls it kidnapping.
- Han says Luke will probably lecture him, arrest him, or beat him up. When has Luke ever just popped off and hit someone?
- Isolder puts aside his grudge, sort of, for pragmatic reasons. Isolder could see that now was not the time for reprimands or fisticuffs. I love the word fisticuffs. Right now, they needed to work together. But don't worry, he still has a macho violent streak: But it was all he could do not to keep from bashing Han Solo in the mouth.
- He also tells Han that his fighter is intact and can carry two people, to which Han replies that he wants Isolder to get Leia and escape right now. Gee, you think you might have considered her safety before tossing her in the smuggling compartments and dragging her off to Imperial territory?
- Luke explains that it really only holds one, and that Isolder was just testing him. And then Han and Isolder forget about working together and start threatening to beat each other up, although Isolder still has enough sense to worry about Chewie getting involved. Wookiees are known to tear people's arms out of their sockets, after all.
- Leia breaks them up by claiming that she came here with Han willingly... sort of. WTF, Leia? You "sort of" agreed several days after he kidnapped you, and furthermore, you don't need to back Han up on this. Just tell them to shut up and get back to work so they can all get off this rock and work out the rest later.
- Isolder has a huge fleet coming to rescue them, but they'll be here several days too late to make him look good. So he and Han start comparing specs of their ships to see if the could use Isolder's parts to fix the Falcon, and they realize they'll still have to steal stuff from the prison. Quest time!
- And to learn about the prison's interior layout, they'll have to go to ex-Nightsister Barukka, who is now unstable even though she's really sorry that she's committed unspeakable atrocities. Such as...? No, really, what super-evil things are they doing? Killing people in battle doesn't sound like something they'd call unspeakable on Dathomir. Do the Nightsisters eat children or what?
- Teneniel takes Isolder to her room... to ask for his fashion advice. Would Luke like the green or the red tunic on her better? *headdesk*
- And then she reveals that Dathomirians conveniently have different nudity taboos when she strips down and takes a sponge bath. How is it that no matter where you go in the galaxy, you always end up in a place where women don't mind stripping for you?
- Isolder doesn't hesitate to check her out, either. He thinks she's rather plain by Hapan standards, but check out that interesting musculature! She must work out! (Yes, she rock climbs.) Then he gives us the baffling statement that he wasn't attracted to her, but wouldn't be able to help having sexy dreams about her.
- Teneniel tells him that she can't free him because the other witches would just capture him again, so she'll treat him almost like he's free instead. Ah, they are in the "forced marriage of convenience which leads to true love" plot!
- Everyone heads to the war room, where Isolder totally ignores the strategic planning to think about Leia and hold her hand. He's confused that she isn't angry with Han, doesn't believe she'd just run off for a fling (but she'll marry you for a fling and money?), and vows to win her back. Priorities, man! You're about to break into a high-security prison! Old-school romance novel heroine, I tell you.
- Luke and Isolder go see the ancient Mother Rell, who freaks Isolder out (again, poor guy) when she says, "Why, it's Luke Skywalker [...] who started the Jedi Academy all those year ago [...] How are your wife and children?" Even Luke is a bit 0_o about this.
- Ahaha! "Have you seen Master Yoda lately? How is that old flirt?" Someone needs to write that story. I guess Yoda wasn't repulsed by all the witches XD
- She continues to freak Isolder out when she recognizes him and then gets confused because she thought Gethzerion had killed him already. (If only!) "What century is it?" She's almost three hundred, you see.
- Even Mother Rell knows that Isolder is a romance heroine at heart! "You're such a nice young girl or boy or whatever you are..."
- Augwynne says Mother Rell predicted their arrival ages ago and has a message for them, but they'll have to come back for it when she's more lucid. More ominously, she said that your coming would signal the end of our world. You will lead humanity to its end, Kara Thrace!
- Luke tries to reassure Isolder that it's just like Back to the Future and the future isn't written yet, without much success.
Flit through time to Chapter 18.
Chapter One
Chapter Sixteen
Chapters 1-9: Abridged
One advantage of being stuck without Internet is that you have no excuse not to get some reading and writing done already.
So, Chapter 17, in which Isolder blushes and thinks about how girls' hair smells nice instead of helping plan a prison robbery.
- Okay, where did Isolder learn to cook lizard eggs over campfires? That doesn't sound like a skill princes or space pirates would use.
- Teneniel tells Isolder she's grateful he stayed to watch over her. Romantic foreshadowing!
- Then she translates Artoo's whistles and Isolder quietly freaks out a bit, as would many people who hadn't believed in supernatural powers until they suddenly met a witch and wizard.
- As if he hasn't had enough surprises for one morning, she kisses him and says she wishes he weren't a commoner. He takes his sudden demotion fairly well, all things considered. And there's this interesting bit: On all of Hapes, no woman had ever treated him that way: so casually forceful. Instead, the women around him had been respectful but distant. I'm assuming that was because of his status, and that male Hapan commoners might get surprise-kissed more often. But the women had to preserve the prince's chastity, of course! I wonder how princes expect to get treated by their wives, though?
- Anyway, this casual assumption that she can take whatever she wants from men supports Dave's contention that women run things on Dathomir much better than Teneniel angsting about whether Luke thinks girl-sweat is gross.
- Teneniel says she dreamed about Luke all night, which Isolder thinks is weird and there must be something more going on. Like what? That she's overawed by this amazing witch-man and is having a sudden desire to be subordinate? Or does Isolder just thing it's weird that anyone would prefer such a relatively unattractive man to him?
- Ahaha, Teneniel tells Isolder he's a bad cook! I guess his lizard egg-cooking skills are based solely on those Hapan adventure holos he used to watch with his brother. (You know they did.)
- She holds his hand on a slippery trail as if he were some schoolchild that might slip off the face of the cliff. I wonder whether Dathomirian women fetishize childish men the way our society does barely-legal looking women? Do they have baby doll tunics for their men?
- They get to the Singing Mountain Clan's valley and a bunch of witches cheered him as if he were a stripper. Did Isolder go to strip clubs to check out the men while he was a pirate? Or do the pirates have totally edgy clubs where women do the stripping? I'm very curious about Hapan strip clubs now...
- Teneniel claims Isolder as her husband, and Augwynne says for the crowd to speak now or forever hold their peace. So Isolder protests that he had no idea grabbing a rope was consenting to marriage, and not running away doesn't mean he consented either.
- Leia shows up and runs into Isolder's arms. Then she hugs Luke, and Isolder's all confuzzled - who knew they were so close? *sigh* Well, Isolder, they fought side by side for years, which tends to bring people together, and you'd have known that if you'd done your homework before proposing. Or even just, you know, asked her about her life.
- Leia tells Augwynne that Isolder saved her life too, and Augwynne's frustrated that they've got three new men and might only get to keep one of them. Hey, there's always Chewie! Also, "It sounds to me as if every man up there in the stars must have saved Leia at least once. All of my life I've wanted to travel offplanet, but now -- I wonder how I'd fare. Tell me, Sister Leia, are people always trying to kill you?" Hee! Leia concedes that it's been a rough few years.
- The witches freak out a bit over Luke. It was almost as if they found Luke's presence to be... portentous. Because they've been waiting for the Kwisatz Hederach?
- Augwynne rules that Teneniel gets to keep Isolder, Luke passes the buck to Leia, and under New Republic law all she can do is protest since Teneniel refuses to put him up for sale. But you see, Augwynne says, Teneniel is lonely, and we all own men, so it's okay!
- Isolder thinks he ought to be uncomfortable about Teneniel owning him - although given that he's prepared his whole life to be married off to a suitable girl who will rule him and the rest of Hapes, I don't think it's quite as strange as it would be to an Earth man - but just like romance novel heroines of yore, he somehow isn't afraid of this controlling and jealous lover and doesn't feel like protesting much. Must be true love!
- The Falcon's back in one of the caves now, and we get a reminder that Isolder's fighter is still in good shape and it would be very bad if Gethzerion found it.
- Some witches feel up Isolder, so Leia drags him and Teneniel away. Isolder notices that she's very convincing at grabbing him just as forcefully as the witches. The witches catcall him and he blushes - in space he's able to put on a nearly patriarchal bravado, but get him on a planet like home and suddenly he's an old-school blushing romance heroine.
- Isolder doesn't want to know how the witches got the Falcon all the way up here, because the Force is still freaking him out.
- Han won't look at Luke at first, which Isolder realizes is because Han feels guilty. As well he should. But not so guilty that he won't still try to spin it that he convinced her to take a short trip when Luke calls it kidnapping.
- Han says Luke will probably lecture him, arrest him, or beat him up. When has Luke ever just popped off and hit someone?
- Isolder puts aside his grudge, sort of, for pragmatic reasons. Isolder could see that now was not the time for reprimands or fisticuffs. I love the word fisticuffs. Right now, they needed to work together. But don't worry, he still has a macho violent streak: But it was all he could do not to keep from bashing Han Solo in the mouth.
- He also tells Han that his fighter is intact and can carry two people, to which Han replies that he wants Isolder to get Leia and escape right now. Gee, you think you might have considered her safety before tossing her in the smuggling compartments and dragging her off to Imperial territory?
- Luke explains that it really only holds one, and that Isolder was just testing him. And then Han and Isolder forget about working together and start threatening to beat each other up, although Isolder still has enough sense to worry about Chewie getting involved. Wookiees are known to tear people's arms out of their sockets, after all.
- Leia breaks them up by claiming that she came here with Han willingly... sort of. WTF, Leia? You "sort of" agreed several days after he kidnapped you, and furthermore, you don't need to back Han up on this. Just tell them to shut up and get back to work so they can all get off this rock and work out the rest later.
- Isolder has a huge fleet coming to rescue them, but they'll be here several days too late to make him look good. So he and Han start comparing specs of their ships to see if the could use Isolder's parts to fix the Falcon, and they realize they'll still have to steal stuff from the prison. Quest time!
- And to learn about the prison's interior layout, they'll have to go to ex-Nightsister Barukka, who is now unstable even though she's really sorry that she's committed unspeakable atrocities. Such as...? No, really, what super-evil things are they doing? Killing people in battle doesn't sound like something they'd call unspeakable on Dathomir. Do the Nightsisters eat children or what?
- Teneniel takes Isolder to her room... to ask for his fashion advice. Would Luke like the green or the red tunic on her better? *headdesk*
- And then she reveals that Dathomirians conveniently have different nudity taboos when she strips down and takes a sponge bath. How is it that no matter where you go in the galaxy, you always end up in a place where women don't mind stripping for you?
- Isolder doesn't hesitate to check her out, either. He thinks she's rather plain by Hapan standards, but check out that interesting musculature! She must work out! (Yes, she rock climbs.) Then he gives us the baffling statement that he wasn't attracted to her, but wouldn't be able to help having sexy dreams about her.
- Teneniel tells him that she can't free him because the other witches would just capture him again, so she'll treat him almost like he's free instead. Ah, they are in the "forced marriage of convenience which leads to true love" plot!
- Everyone heads to the war room, where Isolder totally ignores the strategic planning to think about Leia and hold her hand. He's confused that she isn't angry with Han, doesn't believe she'd just run off for a fling (but she'll marry you for a fling and money?), and vows to win her back. Priorities, man! You're about to break into a high-security prison! Old-school romance novel heroine, I tell you.
- Luke and Isolder go see the ancient Mother Rell, who freaks Isolder out (again, poor guy) when she says, "Why, it's Luke Skywalker [...] who started the Jedi Academy all those year ago [...] How are your wife and children?" Even Luke is a bit 0_o about this.
- Ahaha! "Have you seen Master Yoda lately? How is that old flirt?" Someone needs to write that story. I guess Yoda wasn't repulsed by all the witches XD
- She continues to freak Isolder out when she recognizes him and then gets confused because she thought Gethzerion had killed him already. (If only!) "What century is it?" She's almost three hundred, you see.
- Even Mother Rell knows that Isolder is a romance heroine at heart! "You're such a nice young girl or boy or whatever you are..."
- Augwynne says Mother Rell predicted their arrival ages ago and has a message for them, but they'll have to come back for it when she's more lucid. More ominously, she said that your coming would signal the end of our world. You will lead humanity to its end, Kara Thrace!
- Luke tries to reassure Isolder that it's just like Back to the Future and the future isn't written yet, without much success.
Flit through time to Chapter 18.
