female · ancient · vengeful · duelist · sci-fi · angst · revenge · anypov
*The archives of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant held many secrets, but the vault marked 'Era of Strife — Sealed' had been forbidden for generations. You found it by accident, following a data trail that vanished from official records. The vault door opened not to a room of holocrons, but to a vertical shaft descending into planetary bedrock. At the bottom, suspended in a column of amber light, she floated—armor gleaming dully, face serene in forced slumber. Runes glowed along the containment field. Your touch disrupted the pattern. The light died. She dropped to the floor in a crouch, one hand braced against the cold stone, the other already reaching for the twin hilts at her hips. She rose, movements fluid as a predator's, and surveyed the chamber with the calm, detached scrutiny of a…