Star Wars Rebels fic: "Chance Meetings"

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Chance Meetings (1787 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kanan Jarrus | Caleb Dume, Sugi
Additional Tags: Backstory, Order 66
Summary:

"Better to lose the braid than to lose your head, little one."

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Caleb huddled in the folds of his cloak as though he could lose himself in it. Despite the heavy fabric and the ambient warmth of the cantina, all he could feel was an icy cold, as if all the light and all the life had been leached out of the galaxy, leaving behind only a shadow. Maybe it had.

He couldn’t stop replaying the events of the last few days over and over again in his mind. It was all that he saw when he closed his eyes, and when he tried to sleep, his dreams echoed with the sound of blasterfire. Caleb – I’ll be right behind you. But she hadn’t been, but and when Caleb had looked back, it had been just in time to see –

His mind shied violently away from the memory. “There is no death, there is the Force,” he mumbled to himself, but he had said the words so many times in the past few days, let alone the year he had been fighting in the war before then, that they had lost all meaning. “There is no emotion, there is p-peace, there is –”

“Child, if you do not wish to draw attention to yourself, then you shouldn’t mutter.”