Warning for language in this chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars but I own my OC.

There was a persistent buzzing in her ear and she, for the life of her, couldn't figure out what the hell it was.

It scraped along the insides of her canals as it howled like a banshee into the softness of her eardrums and Gaia couldn't ignore it even if she tried.

Inwardly she fumed because wasn't death supposed to be peaceful or was everything that was said in church a dirty lie?

She had not died in the way she had - in an undisclosed manner because like hell was she going to bring it up! - only to pass into the afterlife and be tortured by the sound of static.

Gaia had been a - relatively - good person and she deserved a - relatively - good version of heaven, and if she didn't get that then she'd take it up with any higher being she had to in order to rest in eternal goddamn peace.

Jolting when a rumble seemed to pulse through her - because what else was going to start being annoying?! - Gaia felt herself being moved. Which was strange in itself because weren't dead people spirits, and weren't spirits incorporeal?

Frowning harshly as she was seemingly pushed through a tunnel and into the open air, that irritating and borderline painful humming in her ear became something that echoed the idea of a voice and almost-words were whispered directly into her mind.

Suddenly Gaia found herself filled with a strange sort of knowing and it told her many, many things.

It was that kind of knowing that let her know exactly what was going on here and she did not like what she was being told.

That almost-voice whispered almost-words into the shell of her ear, telling her that yes, she had died but was now reborn anew. That yes, she was with humans but no they were not earthlings and this was not earth.

It told her exactly where she was and she could hardly believe it because Tatooine existed only in the world of Star Wars and to acknowledge that she was on that sandy dust ball of a planet would mean that somehow, in the process of being reincarnated, she had also jumped universes and frankly speaking - that was insane.

It was mental - it was too fucking crazy - to even entertain the fact that she was now in a fictional world filled with aliens who swung around laser swords and played with space magic, but that almost-verbalized foreign intuition kept urging and urging her to accept the offered information and - oh this feeling had a name.

She had just realized that the painful buzzing turned knowing was the goddamn Force and upon her revelation that almost-voice had almost-screamed at her and Gaia was gobsmacked.

Just absolutely flabbergasted because this was some bullshit!

Some honest to God bull-shit!

Because honestly? - and she meant this with the utmost respect to JJ Abrams - Star Wars her fucking ass.

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