Pssst, Everdark/blinded Obi… they missed a bug egg. And now Obi, who is reacting to so much, can feeeeel something, and it’s wiggling. What do you think? Massive psychiatric trauma for everybody!!
It sounded like scratching, like
something was twitching in his head.
Obi-Wan struggled to move along, cane
on the floor as he hesitantly made his way around the temple as
everyone’s thoughts and emotions brushed out against him before
they noticed him and shored up their own shields to help him.
He knew that everyone could feel him in
return.
His shielding were shoddy and ruined
since Maul’s attack and the loss of his eyes. Sometimes Obi-Wan
woke up swearing he could feel the bugs and smell the honey still, a
silent cry on his lips, his mind feeling raw from the day where he
had no barriers to protect him anymore.
And it was getting worse.
He couldn’t shield worth shavit
anymore.
He was broadcasting worse than an
initiate and so far he’d been taken aside by no less then four
fellow council members in an attempt to help him.
And yet…
Obi-Wan was getting worse, it was
getting so bad that even borrowed shields were degrading too quickly
to justifies the power use and he swore he could feel something
moving inside of his head.
There was something wrong, Obi-Wan was
sure of it and at this point of his paranoia he was almost willing to
go to the healers to check but…
He knew, from feeling others emotions
and thoughts, that they thought he was being paranoid and having
flashback.
But…
Stopping against the wall so he
wouldn’t be in anyone’s way, Obi-Wan reached up to touch the
bandages wrapped around his empty eye sockets, brushing it as gently
as he could to feel where it would dent in. His fingers came away wet
and after a moment of shock, Obi-Wan lowered his fingers to sniff it.
It smelled like infection and with that
Obi-Wan turned around and headed back the hall he had come with his
heart beating rapidly.
He was going to the healers.
()()()
“Well it seems like there might be an
infection master Kenobi.” Healer Querno said cheerfully as he
continued unwrapping his bandages.
Obi-Wan forced himself not to think or
say anything as he knew that he had no shielding, because remaining
on a healers good side was important and Obi-Wan was going to think
something very bad if Querno continued to be so cheerful about the
damn situation and heard Anakin laugh quietly at that thought,
imagining the other leaning against the wall as he watched Obi-Wan.
Right, broadcasting. Stupid Anakin
catching him on the way to the healers.
“Now now Master Kenobi, I know the
situation is less than ideal but I’m sure we can handle it.”
Querno laughed with Anakin, removing the last of the bandage off
Obi-Wan’s face to expose the empty sockets. “Now le-” Whatever
Querno was going to say was broken off by a loud SQUEAK and Obi-Wan’s
hands clenched down on the bed in shock as Anakin gave a loud and
vulgar huttese curse.
Shaking, Obi-Wan could feel something
crawling out of his right socket, wiggling slowly inside the cavity
as it did with the brush of what must be wings touching the edges,
something with tiny sticky legs and if his tear ducts still worked he
would have been crying at that moment he was pretty sure.
Anakin’s hands, something Obi-Wan was
able to tell from the way it was a mech and flesh arm, clamped down
on his upper arms to keep him still as the healer jerked into motion,
Obi-Wan feeling the brief touch of metal against his cheek before
there was a jerk and then a stamping of a foot on the floor and a
crunching noise.
Silence.
Trembling as he listened to the healer
panting with both his and Anakin’s shock battered against his mind,
Obi-Wan finally gave into a whimper. “Please… put me under. Put
me under right now.” He whispered out.
Blessed darkness greeted him as Anakin
instantly followed the request without hesitation.