Or held enough funds for a cab ride from the most expensive location on the entire planet. It was meant to be used for emergencies, and she hadn't even been sure if the account behind it was still active. "Just take me somewhere where I can forget," she replied absentmindedly while she entered the banking information her master made her memorise more than a year ago. "Where to, Miss?" the driver wanted to know and for a moment, Ahsoka was pulled out of her thoughts. The technicians had never taken a life why did they have to die "for peace"? What had Offee been hoping to achieve? How could a dead family be the price for peace?
The maintenance staff, who were hired after most of the temple's residents went off to fight in the war. She didn't blow up an armoury or an artillery emplacement, but people who were just doing their work. My best friend killed innocents to promote peace. Yet it turned out to be anticlimactic - one moment she was in the heart of the Republic, and in the next she stood outside in the chilly breeze, walking to the air cabs as if on autopilot and ignoring the few questions still thrown her way while the reporters camped in front of the side entrance zeroed in on their next victim.
She couldn't go back, which meant that the only path open to her was forwards, into the unknown.
When the turbolift doors snapped shut and the chaotic noise was cut off the young Togruta knew that the step she dreaded has come at last. But the main reason why her mind was going a lightyear a minute was her future, which just became a huge uncertainty. And just like with the dust from near misses, she let it wash over her as there was little she could do other than hope for it to be over. Compared to this onslaught, even a Separatist airstrike would have been an improvement. The crowd of reporters was swarming her, bombarding her with questions about the trial, the Jedi Order and her opinion on everything from the war to the latest "Blast off" holomovie. Walking down corridor after corridor, each looking like the last and clogged with people.
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