Day 15- Age

skywalkersapprentice:

Ahsoka Tano is 42 when she realizes she isn’t getting any older.

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This one fought me all day because I wanted it to be perfect. This is a concept I’ve been thinking of for a very long time.

It was a realization
that took a while to sink in, one that had been slowly dawning for
quite some time. One that perhaps, subconsciously, she’d known for
years, but didn’t want to think about. Every time the whispers
entered her head, hissing suspicions, she pushed them aside in favour
of new missions, new knowledge, new distractions, anything but the
one truth she did not want to face.

But she could not
run from it forever.

It was a cold day
on Chandrila when Ahsoka Tano looked into the mirror and accepted
that she was no longer getting any older.

It was now
undeniable. At age 42, she was supposed to have more stripes twisting
down lekku that should have been longer. Signs of aging should have
begun to line her face. Her montrals were far too short.

The only thing old
about her was her eyes.

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