[OOM] Ilum, Jedi Enclave.

[stuck_mynock]

They have all of an hour to get up, shower, have breakfast and get ready before Atton is rushing off, yelling back at Will and Guppy about how they should start making tracks.

Five minutes later, they arrive in the hangar bay, and Atton starts looking around for their snowspeeders. He's a little miffed when he sees what they have instead.

Furry animals, about halfway between mammal and flightless bird, with reins and harnesses.

"I thought we were getting snowspeeders, not tauntauns," he protests.

The Jedi he's talking to shakes their head, sadly. "Snowspeeders are all broken."

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[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"'Cuse me," Atton calls, chirpily. "This is the archaeological dig for the Rakatan ruins, isn't it?"

"Yes," one of the Jedi replies, a little gravely. "But I'd recommend turning back now, if I were you. The visions are stronger here than at the Enclave, and there are ghosts." It's said very matter-of-factly.

Atton jabs a thumb over his shoulder, back towards the Enclave.
"Isn't the nexus more thataway than thisaway?"

The Jedi just shrugs, mounting a nearby tauntaun and riding off. After a few moments, the rest of the people there follow along.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy looks around edgily in case the creepy clown thing is around.

[will_scarlett]

"This is where we're meant to be, aye, Atton?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Aye," Atton replies, sagely, peering down the pit, and at a shaft within it. "S'quite deep."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Remind me again what exactly we're looking for and what it looks like?" Guppy asks.

[will_scarlett]

Will's just glad to climb off the beast and pats it as he ties it up,

"Oh aye, is."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"A room like the one in the laboratory at Transimir. Something with a computer that contains any records that Rakata scientist left here. Shouldn't be too difficult."

A pause, before he reaches out, wrapping one arm around Guppy, another around Will, and lifting them slightly off the ground as he jumps down.

It's not a hugely long fall, and once they land he puts them down again.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy holds tight onto Atton and closes his eyes so that he doesn't have to look at the drop. Then he opens his eyes again.

"Did we just fly?"

[will_scarlett]

Will grips Atton rather tightly as they go down,

"Guess that works."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"No, Guppy, we fell. It's like flying, just in the opposite direction," Atton replies, letting go of them and heading down one of the tunnels. "Be on your guards."

[guppy_sandhu]

"But we didn't go smush." Guppy says. "Which normally happens with falling."

He gets his stun gun ready and follows Atton. He can hear something, very quietly, not quite touching his conscious thought yet.

But if he paid attention, it would sound like the beat of drums.

"I like not going smush." he adds.

[will_scarlett]

"Oh aye, an can get up the same way?"

There's the sense of age and someone watching so Will keeps looking around, trying to figure out who's there.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I can just grab you and jump," Atton replies.

[guppy_sandhu]

The drums beat that little bit louder, touching Guppy's consciousness. He listens to it, looking around, wondering if it's actually drums or just something in the cave vibrating or dripping or something.

[will_scarlett]

When Will hears a dog howling he freezes,

"We the only ones 'ere?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Not necessarily," Atton notes, sniffing the air. "But I can't smell anyone else."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy looks around.

"Can you hear it too?" he asks, meaning the drums.

It's not just drums now, there's a guitar filtering in.

[will_scarlett]

Since Will thinks Guppy's talking about the dog he nods,

"Oh aye."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Pause.

"No, I can't."

[guppy_sandhu]

"It's music..." Guppy looks in the direction of the sound, as a violin joins the mix.
"One day the artist said
Lets try rock and roll
And people danced the night away
With music in their soul..."
He has an entranced look on his face, and takes a few steps towards it.

[will_scarlett]

"Nay, isna."

Will puts his hand on Guppy's arm,

"Dinna leave."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton opens his mouth to say that visions can't hurt them, then closes it again before he can.

After all, they're in an underground, mazelike set of ruins. Visions can't hurt them, but that doesn't mean that following them won't lead them to things that can.

He sets a hand on Guppy's shoulder.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy doesn't move forward, but he does stare intently at the sound.

"But soon there were the ones,
Just used it to get high...
It's time to break the needle,
You'll see we'll still get by..."

He grimaces. The tune is good, but the lyrics read like they were written by a teenager.

And then he sees a teenager. And he gasps, recognising the familiar mop of dark curls. And his immediate thought is that he's about to see something horrible happen to what is presumably his son...

[will_scarlett]

So Will squeezes his shoulder,

"Guppy, what is it?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton waves a hand in front of his eyes, experimentally.