Brilliant, on a curve of Skywalker

The repairs were finished on the ship, and Luke still hadn't returned from beyond shadows. Ben was returning from his daily trip to check on him (his dad's suck-nozzle kept shifting out of his mouth and he was getting pretty dehydrated), and had poked around some of the other ships looking for anything food-like.

The Mind Drinkers had made themselves at home as visitors in the Shadow and were going through provisions faster than Ben had thought possible. At this point, the first thing they'd have to do when they left the Maw was get more supplies. At the beginning it had been worth it to get them to feel comfortable and learn about how they'd ended up here, but Ben was getting uncomfortable with how comfortable two of them in particular--Rolund and Rhondi Tremaine--had gotten with just stopping by to talk to Ender for hours. And eating everything in sight.

Ben wasn't jealous. At all. Really.

And also shut up.

"Ender?" he called as he stepped aboard the ship again. "You around?"

( Where Ben goes a little crazy. Maybe. A tad. )

After a few days laying low on Coruscant (if “laying low” also included a blistering lecture via comlink from his father about Why We Don’t Kill People With Lightsabers If We Are Trying to Be Stealthy), Ben borrowed a shuttle and went off to look for his cousin. As he expected, he found Jacen on the bridge of the Anakin Solo, staring out the viewport onto yet another battle scene. Clad all in black, with a long swirling cape, Jacen reminded Ben of a shorter version of their grandfather.

He was sure neither would be thrilled by the comparison.

Aides scurried around, making sure not to glance too long at Ben. They didn’t of them seemed surprised to see him, and no one offered a single word of greeting. Ben preferred it that way--it meant that Jacen was preparing to keep him around for a little bit, at least. If he was going to kill him immediately, Jacen’d be making more of an effort to put him as ease.

He imagined the lecture he would get from any one of his teachers for the cock-up he'd made of the Omas operation to keep himself properly contrite and embarrassed. Hopefully Jacen would assume it was also due to Ben being sorry about not being home to help his cousin ruin the galaxy.

The prickle at the back of Ben's neck warned him that he was being watched by something a little more potent than eyes, and the Force-nudge calling him closer to Jacen confirmed it.

( Can this possibly end well? )

[OOC: NFB, NFI, dialogue still from “Inferno” by Troy “Jacen is a Tool y/y?” Denning]