Beyond - Legends Saga "Speak Into the Silence" | 2021 FanFic Olympics | Song!verse AU Decathlon

Title: "Speak Into the Silence"
Author: Mira_Jade

Genre: General (Family, Drama, Romance)
Rating: PG
Time Frame: my Song!verse AU; post-RotS through post-NJO
Characters: Ensemble Cast, with focus on the Skywalker/Solo family

Summary: Moments from another time and place, written for the 2021 FanFic Summer Olympics.

Notes: Because there's no way I wasn't going to dabble in my Song!verse for something as brilliant as the FanFic Olympics. For those of you who may not be familiar with my Song!verse, it's simply an AU world where Anakin was not so dumb and Sithy, and made better life choices during RoTS. His decisions circumvented the events of the OT, saved Padmé's life, and preserved the Jedi Order - which, along with the Republic itself, has since gone on to make some much needed reforms. Prior reading is not required to understand any of these stories, but, if you're curious, links to the rest of this series can be found underneath the spoiler tag below.

Spoiler: Stories of the Song!verse

• “An Old Song, Re-Sung” | The one that started it all! A complete RoTS AU short story where, and I quote: Anakin is not dumb and Sithy. From a certain point of view, at least.
  
  
• “Her Still, Small Voice” | The sequel to AOSRS. A Mara Jade origins story that is, unfortunately, on hiatus.
  
  
• "Even Without a Voice" | My answer to the 2018 DDC. Ahsoka's companion story to Anakin's, picking up right from her leaving the Jedi Order through just after the subverted events of RoTS.
  
  
• "In That There That Isn't Here" | This is something a little different for me. A Sintas Vel diary I started for the 2020 DDC. This is, as of now, another incomplete WIP, but one that I hope to start up again someday.
  
  
• "All That's Unsung" | A complete short story, set 3 years post-RoTS. Featuring Anakin and Padmé trying to have a date night, and Rex and Ahsoka babysitting the toddler twins.
  
  
• "So Few Things" | A WIP novel, set five years post-RoTS, focusing on Bly/Aayla Secura after the subverted events of Order 66.
  
  
• "Color Me Pink" | A complete, goofy short story written for the 2020 April Fools Challenge, featuring the preteen twins and Mara Jade building their lightsabers, set about 13 years post-RoTS. It mainly focuses on one of my OCs, Rhysa, and her relationship with Ezra Bridger. With bonus married and happy Aayla Secura/Bly on the side.
  
  
• "We Claim Our Own Landscape" | A WIP short story, set about 20 years post-RoTS, where Han meets the parents.

Then, various odds and ends can be found in “The Rest is Silence”, "Our Love of Constellations", and my "Cut Into Little Stars" UDC thread.

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, but for the words. My title is fondly nicked from Isak Danielson's Silence, which is a constant go-to on my Song!verse playlist.

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Index of Events​

I. "With No One Left Outside" (400 Word Cross Country) | T'ra Saa & Mace Windu



~ MJ

 

Author's Notes: This first ficlet is a glimpse of the reformed Jedi Order in this 'verse, featuring T'ra Saa and Mace Windu. T'ra Saa is a Legends character who has featured in my story So Few Things. A centuries old Neti Jedi Master, she was Yoda's first Padawan hundreds of years ago, and one of Mace Windu's instructors in his youth. Exploring this world from her unique POV seemed a more than fitting way to open this collection, and the words just wrote themselves from there.

My title is, once again, a nick from Isak Danielson's Silence.

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I.

“With No One Left Outside”
(400 Word Cross Country | 4 years post-RotS | T’ra Saa & Mace Windu)​

It was a peaceful summer’s eve on Ossus, one where the children laughed to chase glow-bugs as the adults strolled along the garden lanes. In one of the now empty sparring rings, a trio of Falanassi White Walkers debated philosophy with a Duros Star Searcher, while a lone Lasat Shaman knelt in a confection of symbols she’d drawn on one of the basalt outcroppings, her head bowed in prayer. The fountains danced and the breeze sang as two free clones chatted with a youngling’s visiting parents. That same youngling glowed brightly in the Force – much as the newly reinstated Knight Skywalker himself did, walking arm-in-arm in the open with his wife.

This was, T’ra thought, balance by its simplest definition – such as the Jedi Order had sought for centuries, and only now had truly obtained.

“You are pleased with these changes.” Mace Windu’s words were a statement rather than a question. Yet, such was an art she had first taught him herself, not so long ago.

“Are you not pleased?”

“It’s not my place to be pleased or displeased; time alone will judge our wisdom.”

T’ra held back from replying aloud, instead pausing to watch Depa’s Padawan as he chased after the Bridger boy. Caleb clearly thought himself too old for such antics, but Ezra had nabbed his datapad and now delightedly refused to return the item – him and the Skywalker twins and youngling Jade, all. Depa, who stood with Aayla and Tholme just beyond, observed the children with a serenity she’d so often struggled to maintain during the war. A matching peace had settled deep within Mace, she felt – and could well understand from watching her own legacy in the Force so poised to thrive, at that.

When she sank into the living Force to better appreciate the moment, it was still reflexive for Mace to follow. There, her incorporeal eyes could see their own eaves and every seedling beyond, sinking their roots in deep to anchor themselves. T’ra could foresee just how mighty their forest would someday become – how fragrant with flowers and pleasing with fine fruits before the storms inevitably returned anew. She, for her part, was honored to contribute to that tapestry of life in what a small way she could.

When Mace drew back from their shared vision, his expression was rueful. “Will you ever be through guiding me, Master?”

“Oh, never that, child. Never that.”



~ MJ