«Hallowed be thy name, thou kingdom come…
Zilla walked through the forest of winterland, untill she came to the landscape where it were only summer.
She stopped and rested by a tree, leaning on it against her arm, looking down at the ground, where the snowy terrang went over to a dusty road, a forest trail with green bushes and healthy trees filled with leaves.
Zilla walked among them, untill she noticed an old lady sitting by the side of the road, dressed in old robes and with a basket of apples with her.
The lady raised up when she spotted her, and walked up to her with her basket,
«Ho, ho, ho.» The lady said, «Would you be so kind to take an apple from an old Santa?»
Zilla smiled at her,
«But I have no money, I…»
«But these are for free.» the old lady said, «Take the whole basket.» handing it over to her, «A gift for you and your loved ones.»
Zilla gratefully recieved it from her,
«Thank you wery much, but I…»
«Merry Christmas, child.» the lady said, squeezing her arm, «Ho, ho, ho.»
Zilla continued on her way away from the winterland and further into the land of summer.
She had no plans to go back to the cave where Anakin and Ahsoka was. At least not yet.
She stared down at the red apples in the basket. There was so many of them, and she wasn’t even sure if the other two from her own worlds even liked apples.
She sighed. What kind of weird lady gives away a whole basket with apples? For free?
She looked back over her shoulder, but the old lady was gone. And it was no trace of her. Like she never had been there.
Zilla shrugged her shoulders, and reached down with her hand into the basket. Taking up an apple and took a bite.
It tasted sweet, like… sugar…
She stopped, looking around at the circumstances. All of a sudden she began to feel dizzy to her head.
The apple she was holding on rolled out of her hand, and she sank down to her knees. Suddenly she couldn’t see a thing as everything became foggy for her eyes.
«Zilla!» Ahsoka’s desperate voice, «Zilla!» she ran through the snowy forest inside winter-land, «Zilla!»
But she was chased by Anakin who quickly haled in on her, before grabbing her by the shoulders and pushing her against a tree. Covering her mouth with his hand,
«Sssjjj!» He wispered, «Not so loud!»
Ahsoka stared at him, wide-eyed, breathing heavily,
«Master…»
«You can awaken the trolls. You need to keep your voice down.» taking his hand away.
She stared confused back at him,
«The trolls? Do they even exist? Or are you only trying to scare me?»
«The trolls are frightening creatures who dosen’t want to be disturbed, so we need to be cautious around here.»
«Okay…» she jerked free from his grip before pushing him back.
«Ahsoka…»
«I need to find my sister!» she snapped, «It’s your fault she’s gone…»
«My fault? She’d ran away all by herself, and…»
«Because you’re so…» she cursed through gnitted teeth, before marching away.
Anakin followed after her, clearly upset,
«Ahsoka!»
Zilla awoke, looking around. She didn’t even remember she had fallen asleep. But…
The apples! She remembered the apples, but…
She was no longer in summer-land she thought. And nor was she outside anylonger either.
She tried to raise up when she shocked noticed a chain around her hand. She quickly got up on her feet and stumbled backwards, as if she wanted to run away from the chain. And she looked around herself in panick,
«Hello? Anyone there?» She were in a cage? She began to breath heavily before she hurried forward to the bars, grabbing them. «Hello?» She saw a figure suddenly appear from nowhere, and stared towards it untill she recognized it. Startled and alarmed, she let her hands fall to her side and backed away,
«Ventress?» fixing her gaze at the which who comfortably walked up to her, «You’re in this world too?»
«Yes.» The nightsister smiled, «I just returned from a fight with a king so arrogant that…»
«You’re talking about Anakin?»
«So you know about it?»
«Why shouldn’t I? But… Why am I captured? Who where the old lady at the road?»
«It was Santa, of course.» Ventress began laughing, «You’re my pet, Zilla.» she explained, «I’m only taking you back.»
