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N Y R Y S The name, or so it sounded, echoed out loud. 003 hiccuped with alarm, eyes darting back and forth widely, curiously asking why no one else around him was shocked by how loud the voice was. Not one person. Perhaps these creatures were hard of hearing, or perhaps he was trapped in a deep sleep, one in which his escape from servitude was the cusp of his bliss. Unfamiliar hands rose to touch his face, hands that were tirelessly burdened by the weight of laborious tasks, this did not feel as dreams did. Her voice endured inside of his mind, the faint trace of words still chiming inside of his ear, words both unrecognizable and inherently powerful. He closed his eyes, and placed the palms of both hands against his temples for focus. “What is wrong with me?” What this madness? His body pushed itself from his resting position, subconsciously operating without his permissions. He paced when he was anxious, a quirk so stemmed in his behaviour, it existed since before the drama held on that liner. Here and now, he paced harder. His proprietor had vanished and the enslaved accompaniments with him had left as well. There were feral but sophisticated creatures that nudged by him every few moments, and by their expressions, he began to wonder if he was not welcome here. “Who is she? And why does no one else hear her?” His feet carried him but his mind was blindly racing. 003 dangerously kept his eyelids closed, carelessly thumping into hair-raising animals was the least of his worries, considering he adamantly questioned if his his memories were failing because his brain had been reduced to complete lunacy. “Why won’t these animals just get out of my way?!” Then, aggressively, he stumbled. Opening his eyes in frustration, his surprise came as his reality drew whole once more. It was a surprise fully painted across his haggard features, for his feet had carried him more than just a few paces, he looked up from where he had fallen and saw what his soul had heard. What he saw, he was unsure of, but his instinct knew that the words had come from this one. He was certain of this, but disoriented in how he had found this place. And with his jaw loosened in awe, he stood and reached into his pocket for those same documents that had her name written upon them. Crumpled and now smeared lightly by the mire of his hands, he approached Darth Nyrys.

“Your name, what is it?” It had been weeks since the question was beaten into him, bruised knuckles and broken bones could not surface the answer from his mouth. It was no stalwart measure of will that kept him quiet in the face of his slavers, his mind was just blank. Bizarre really, the only thoughts he owned was what was immediately before him. Discomfort, blood and obnoxious extraterrestrial traffickers, those were a few that stood out. He had traveled and seen the most beautiful of planets, almost all of them riddled with plantations of those that were just as servile as he was forced to be. It was the question of his name that bothered him the most on the account that, no matter where he was, that question was asked by all. “Hey buddy, what do they call ‘ya? You gotta have a name, right?” No, but perhaps maybe he had one. His features were known to make bystanders wide-eyed. He could never understand if it was familiarity or shame, the details and differences did not matter when his next meal was often moons apart. He wasn't dead at least, and the fear of death had been erased since his near fatal disposal from the escape hatch of that twisted luxury liner. The man called himself a Sith, the one that pulled the door from his cell and freed him without second thought, such power was cemented in his mind. Every time the memory played out in his mind, he remembered it a little differently, each time more heroic and stunning than the last. What was his name? “We found you a new home, Mutt. You fetched a pretty price, but with some people I never plan to meet, so yer on your own from here." 003 stepped from the ground transport, while his slaver pulled the sack from his head, and unhinged the shackles on his wrist. He handed him some papers, some of which were stamped with a familiar face. "Is that what I look like?" The thought jumped out at him, distracting him from the repulsive cackle that his slaver ended nearly every phrase with. His stomach growled harder than last time, and he pulled his eyes from the small documents that were now crammed into both hands. He noticed that his Master moved and operated with a desperate urgency, extremely uncharacteristic for a creature that held a tight charge to those that served. Perhaps their lives were in danger again, especially in this place where they stood out like a sore thumb. His clothes were ragged, sweat-stained under the armpits, and quite obviously not coherent with the fashion of this place. Still, strange creatures brushed by him, looking either curious or confused. "What is this place?" They looked nothing like his slaver, who was unsightly by all means, but these things were terrifyingly inhuman. If he had to guess, these were the indigenous people of the planet, and he had seen nothing like them on all of the planets he had traveled too. They held a most frightening poise, and 003 simply watched them trek onward, too occupied by their own accord to notice how broken his world was. No danger. He stood for quite some time, awkwardly so, observing the world around him, not realizing that his slaver had truly left without him and there was no one left to keep him from running. His empty auburn gaze searched for direction, while his left hand subconsciously scratched at the long scars underneath the back of his off-white shirt. "What is a Darth Nyrys?" Frustration started to sink deep; while the words always played at the tip of his tongue but never jumped, his mind contrarily felt like a stone-cold wall, unmoving and lifeless. Exhaustion depleted his motivation to move, and he wandered slowly to the nearest building and leaned against it. Stuffing the small documents into his unhemmed pant pocket, he closed his eyes and breathed the foreign air in with a deep sigh. He blinked, swore he saw a blue man pass him by, and knew he had truly lost his mind.