Anodyne Vao - Dark Child of Tython Chapter 3TattoineAt the bottom of the Great Pit of Carkoon, the feared and deadly Sarlacc waited patiently in silence for it’s next meal. Thirty feet above the hundreds of teeth that ringed the Sarlacc’s gaping maw, Anodyne Vao, Dark Lady of the Sith was ready to give the Sarlacc that very meal. Before, bound in stun cuffs and clad in old dirty cloaks stood three Jawa’s, faceless except for the pair of glowing yellow eyes that peeked out from the black voids under their hoods. There had been ten Jawa’s originally, when she and Iveta walked into her safehouse to find the little scavengers busy stripping the place bare. The oth
Anodyne Vao - Dark Child of Tython Chapter 2In the dim light of her ships cargo hold Anodyne Vao, Dark Lady of the Sith stared up at the face of Ari’tana, Jedi Padawan. It was a face that was now frozen in behind a layer of carbonite, contorted in a mixture of pain and shock, the usual involuntary response a living body makes when the near instant freezing process of the carbonite occurs. Anodyne did not like the practice of using carbonite freezing to transport prisoners. While it was a practice both the Empire and Republic both used when dealing with high value, high risk targets, Anodyne found the mental trauma that it caused to the subjects often times hindered the interrogat
Anodyne Vao - Dark Child of Tython Chapter 1Two Weeks Ago: HothDespite the best cold weather gear the Empire could afford, Lord Anodyne Vao was losing the battle to make her teeth stop chattering. Hoth on a nice day was one of the most inhospitable planets in the known galaxy, and this was not one of those days. It had been a hour since the engines of their speeders had seized, frozen solid from the cold. Even with the help of the force the cold and wind blown ice pellets had slowed their pace to that of a infants crawl. An hour, it had taken them to hike the half kilometer to their current location, of which was the shattered edge of a crater, overlooking the mostly intact wreckage