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By the judgment of the High Council, Anakin Skywalker, padawan to Master Elesse Vendar, is ready to seriously pursue her Trials of Knighthood. She's young for it, especially by modern standards - barely eighteen - but she's made remarkable progress under Elesse's tutelage, they hold, and she's already passed the Trials of Courage, Skill, and Insight through the course of her apprenticeship. She'd passed Courage and Skill at sixteen in successfully holding off a Sith Lord until her Master could join her in the fight, and she passed the Trial of Insight throughout the year after, as she pursued treatment for her own psychosis, recognizing the tricks her own mind played on her as illusions.

(There'd been a debate on if this counted for the Trial of Spirit, but - not quite, the Council believed, and none of them were privy to the true challenges Anakin had faced alongside Elesse in that year.)

(None of them were privy to the full details of her undercover mission with Elesse, the one that ended in her crossing lightsabers with a Sith. Certainly not to the ways Elesse tortured Anakin, to maintain and further their cover - that would count for the Trial of Flesh several times over, though Anakin doesn't exactly regret having an excuse to demonstrate her pain tolerance again.)

The Trials don't have to be back to back - they rarely are, especially when intentionally administered - and by tradition, she should pass the Trial of Flesh before undergoing the Trial of Spirit.

There's traditional methods, which one chosen idiosyncratic to the padawan, the Master, and the whims of current fads. But the Trial of Flesh always involves overcoming and pushing through great hardship - tremendous pain, sacrifice, losses that sear one to the bone. (Sometimes literally. 'Interrogation techniques' are a popular fallback, and the worst of those are, well. Some would find the description of having their flesh slowly burned away gruesome. Anakin had needed to excuse herself from her and Elesse's common room after reading about it.)

And so, to her Elesse, tone light and teasing and trying not to sound too desperately breathy -

"The real problem for this Trial might be finding a pain that's a genuine hardship for me to bear." Then, more seriously: "I'd - like this to be something you do, though, especially if we'll need to challenge my limits."

(That's what Trials are supposed to do. Life isn't kind, and doesn't care much for safewords.)

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Elesse makes appropriately admiring noises... but suggests that those too be shed.

(Anakin may not notice that Elesse has caused her bag to open, and begun to telekinetically retrieve several lengths of rope.)

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She's more careful (and more teasing) about removing those, her skin pebbling and her cheeks flushing under Elesse's gaze. The ship's air is cold on her exposed skin - which isn't helping her light shiver.

(She notices Elesse's actions. It just makes her shiver more, pupils dilating and breath coming a bit faster.)

Anakin stands with her feet slightly apart, her shoulders back proudly, and asks, "Like what you see?"

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"Very much so." An end of the rope slithers past her leg and with a flick of Elesse's fingers, wraps itself around Anakin's ankle. "It makes me want to just wrap you up and keep you forever."

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She glances down, and Elesse's taking her breath away but -

'You should,' she says through their bond, mixed with love and joy and desire and safety (with a sudden echo of a flash of memory - of the two of them who were married - tagging along in its wake).

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"I'll take that as permission," Elesse says, and the ropes move with sudden speed, snaking across Anakin's body to cross themselves in intricate patterns, knotting at strategic locations to rub and pinch and bind.

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She laughs and writhes, testing the strength of Elesse's hold.

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Nothing she couldn't break with her full, enhanced strength, of course- but the ropes are tough, and she doesn't have much more than a half inch of play in any direction.

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She doesn't push genuinely - enough to confirm she's held tightly, though.

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"Don't you look even lovelier now."

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Blush!!! And a proud warm glow across their bond.

"Thank you, Master."

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"Makes me just want to watch you for a while..."

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Tiny (attempt at a) squirm.

"We could cuddle," she suggests. "You could pet my hair."

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"But that might interfere with my view."

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"Even if I was at your feet, Master?"

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"That might serve." Elesse wiggles her fingers and ghostly pressure brushes over Anakin.

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Soft moan.

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Mmm.

Another gesture, and Anakin floats up into the air and Elesse wafts her over to a more comfortable place for them to sit together.

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She laughs, and starts nuzzling Elesse once she's in reach.

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What an energetic girl. Elesse gives her teasing snatches of attention, but mostly just watches.

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Sadly she can't put on much of an extra show like this...

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That's entertaining of itself.

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Good. (She likes pleasing Elesse.)

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Elesse is very pleased by teasing Anakin. (She's firmly wrapped up in her Force presence, though physical contact is brief and intermittent.)

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This is cozy and nice and taunting, and Anakin starts squirming more the longer Elesse teases her. (It's a good kind of taunting, though, getting her excited and focused more and more fully on her Master.)

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