Title: I Think Therefore I
Fandom: Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
Rating: Teen & Up
Length: 260
Pairing: Cal/Merrin, in the pre-relationship, oh no he's hot sense
Author's note: So. Dathomir. I haven't seen the Clone Wars episodes, but I have read the Courtship of Princess Leia. Merrin doesn't have a boyfriend catching whip. Yet.
I don't know if Ao3 has a tag for one-sided flirting, but it will as soon as I post this.
Summary: The Jedi is not unimpressive.

With Malgus gone, with the Astreium retrieved from the Temple, her path leads Merrin away from Dathomir. Away from the village, and crags, and stomb. To the stars. With the Jedi.

Merrin had been young when her sisters were slaughtered, not blind. And if she were ignorant, her face would remain bare.

She knows how things work. Her mother had planned on another, before. A small sister to dote on, with Merrin grown near adulthood. Not that Merrin was ever able to - Malgus is - was, no matter how long he clings to existence in the dark - an outsider. A scavanger, seeking their secrets. And the nightbrothers - she cannot be nightmother. Merrin was old enough for tattoos, but that is - that is not nearly enough - she can't - her - no.

No. She is the last nightsister.

The Jedi - he is ... different. Not like Malgus. A survivor. Like her.

And he is showing off.

He is jumping across the gaps in the path she has raised, rising high and fast, limbs tucked tight. She doesn't mind. None of the nightbrothers can reach such a height, or keep such pinpoint control. And it is not a display - he does this, too, as he makes his way up cliffs and between ledges. Not with so many flips, though. Those are for her.

Makes clean work of the nydak too. He had fought well, but that was survival, Jedi blade against Jedi blade. He has breath to complain, here. The amusement is a bright thing.