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Dance in the Shadow of Honor - Chapter 51 - “Embers of Home”

(lovely art of Ucevi and Quinn by Sleepswithvillains!)

Summary: Ucevi knew exactly who she was and how her life should have gone. Powerful, arrogant, strong in the Force, born to a Pure-blood family whose lineage stretched back past the settlement of Dromund Kaas, past the start of the Great Hyperspace War. True Sith. Then in a moment, everything changed, and she was forced to play a role, blackmailed into becoming the sword in someone else’s battle. She walked a fine line between her duty to the Empire in the shape of her detestable master and the honor of her family and its Shadows…until she could reclaim her name and freedom.

Then she met Quinn who had the same sense of duty to the Empire that she did and a stubborn sense of honor as tenacious as her own. A man with a debt of honor to the very master she had bargained to destroy, who was clearly meant to be a weapon to be used against her, in more ways than one. But caution couldn’t prevent their growing respect, trust, and attraction, leaving each to struggle with the question of whether they could both find a way to fulfill honor and survive.

Notes: Mostly canon retelling with my own twists. Slow burn. Baras dies, obviously. Probably not that graphic, but cautious. Profanity. May eventually change to explicit rating. Most characters belong to Bioware. Ucevi, Joran, Toth’Anla, Toth’Onira, Tan’Koto, the Old Man, Sgt. Fesnil, Zusae, RSD-13, and the Parits are all my OCs.

(Thanks to @cinlat and @sleepswithvillains for comments, brainstorming and just for being so supportive! And thanks to RiaJade for the inspiration for the opera outfit!)

Pairings: Quinn x f!sith warrior, f!sith warrior x others

Warnings: possibly graphic violence. Profanity. Some explicit language.

(this is longer chapter than most of mine but I didn’t want to split it. I don’t think anyone will mind, lol.)

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Chapter 51 - “Embers of Home”

“I’m home!” Vette bounced into Ucevi’s office, lekku jumping with excitement. “And I got presents!” This is gonna be so much fun!

Ucevi frowned, dropping the datapad into a desk drawer out of sight. “I thought you and Meli were having lunch?”

“Yeah, we did that too.” Vette leaned back through the door, glancing around before she shut the door. No Quinn, good! Don’t want him to see this yet.

Ucevi raised a browstalk at Vette’s almost theatrical secrecy. “But Onira recruited me for a very important mission.” She set the flat gold box she'd had under her arm on the desk with a flourish, as if she were presenting the lost relics of Ryloth's pantheon.

Hesitantly, Ucevi lifted the lid, inhaling sharply when she saw the contents.

“Guess you told her you were going to the opera because she asked yesterday if I had your size.” Vette grinned, almost bouncing on her heels. “I like Onira, by the way. All she’s gotta do is smile and ask in that soft voice of hers and people jump to get things done.” Plus it was a lot of fun to hear her talk about you like you were a little girl, but I think that better stay my secret.