Obsession

They're in his veins

"It's been two months since Mother Talzin's death. Neither of the brothers have said a word. Well, Feral of course has said nothing. Maul refuses to leave his side. With Feral unable to speak, Maul's short fuse has been cut in half. Anything someone says about Feral or Obi-wan or Mother Talzin or even Savage and Maul snaps and hunts down the reason why they said it. They both seem... lost.
"I can understand their protectiveness over each other, they are the only family they had left. I have sent Mandalorian scouts down to Dathomir to find and help all survivors from the attack... but... we've searched the entire planet and... there were no survivors. Maul and Feral are the last sons of Dathomir. The last of their kind. I can only imagine what Maul must be feeling... Multiple times we have caught him trying to... end his life, but Feral is always there to calm Maul down. Maul has lost, so much. I never thought anything could break him down to this point in his life, to where he can't stand to live anymore. He always use to talk about how his training kept him alive through everything. But I think it had been the ones close to him, his family, that has kept him alive.
"On another note, Feral seems to be making good progress with the new mechanical vocal cord my engineers gave him, even though the mechanics of it wraps around his neck. He is slowly regaining his ability to speak once more and move his neck with ease, even since it is an artificial piece, the mechanics of it just hint in his voice. With also surprising help, Maul, when he is in his good moods, tries to help Feral with his speech. From him comes Feral's biggest leaps in regaining his voice. Oh, how Obi-wan would be proud of him for pulling through these times and helping Feral. I only wish I could be more of a help to Maul and his recovery, but I am doing as Obi-wan wished and taking care of him. I only hope things will get better soon." Satine spoke into a recorder calmly reciting what had happened over the couple months. It had became a new hobby of hers, recording everything that happened. If something happened to her, she would want her successor to know everything that had happened and she could also hope that they would also take care of the brothers. Although she knew though that the only Mandalorians that were alive were the ones that made it onto the ships that retreated from Dathomir and the one that hid during the invasion of Mandalore.
She placed the recorder in a drawer and closed it. They had been in the ship so long it felt like a natural home to her. She stood up and left her room in search of the brothers.

Feral held onto his brother's arm as they walked throughout the ship. After their mother's death, Feral noticed that his muscles weren't as pronounced as they were when they were under the Nightsister's spell. He guessed that when they were all killed the spell must have been broken as well. Which also meant he was slightly shorter than Maul. He felt like a true baby brother compared to Maul, yet he vaguely remembers seeing Maul when they were youngling. Feral doubted that Savage ever remembered sparring with Maul when they were younger. Savage always did it to get their mother's attention even if he always lost. In those times, Feral couldn't help but notice the pain and sadness riddled over his mother's face. He never knew why until the day when Maul was ripped away from her by Sidious. Savage and Feral tried to help wrench their eldest brother free from the monster, but as soon as their eyes met with the Dark Lord's they both froze and fell down scared. His eyes held such hatred and threat in them. Feral doubted that Maul even remembered that day. With his brother in such a depressed state be doubted he could pull his mind out of the recent events.
"We should get you something to eat." Feral heard his brother say, it was all he said these days only worrying about Feral and not himself. Feral also found himself feeding his older brother just to make sure he had food in his system. Feral also took note of the distance that was in his brother's voices and the  glaze over his yellow and red eyes.
Before Feral could nod in agreement, Maul stopped suddenly and started to gasp. Maul clutched his chest and gasped for air falling to the ground. Feral tried asking him what was wrong, but nothing came put out his mouth. He knelt down to Maul trying to say something. He looked around and saw Satine pass through an interconnection of the halls.
"S... Sa, Satine!" Feral struggled to shout as he got off of the ground and chased after her.
"Feral? What's wrong?" She asked confused as Feral tugged her to where Maul was.
"Oh my! Maul!" Satine gasped as she rushed over to Maul, who was on his hands and knees struggling to breath. He clenched his chest with one hand as it felt like his chest was being crushed. Satine helped him move into a position where he was sitting and leaning against the wall. As sudden as it came, it left him and he felt the weight released and he breathed in the cool air that circulated through the ship greedily as if it was his last time breath.
"B...Brother?" Feral choked out placing a hand on Maul's shoulder. Maul looked at him and Satine for once without the glaze of depression in his eyes, but now with confusion and fear.
"Maul, are you okay?" Satine asked quickly not knowing if another whatever just happened would happen again.
"What happened?" She pushed for answers
"I'm not sure... my chest just became... heavy and I couldn't breath..." Maul said knowing even though he didn't want to talk that Satine had to know every detail. Than Maul looked at Feral, with confusion knotted in his brow.
"Brother, did you feel a shift in the force?" Maul asked with his hand still on his chest his two hearts beating erratically.
Feral shook his head even though there could have been, he was too deep in thought and panic to notice. Maul sighed as Satine helped him stand.
"Come on." Satine said leading him down the hall with Feral quickly following behind them.

"There is nothing physically wrong with my patient, that could have possibly caused any tightness of the chest or loss of breath." A medical droid reported to Satine as it removed the medical equipment from Maul's body with the careful help of Feral. Satine watched as the younger brother looked at his older brother with eyes filled with worry.
"Than what could have caused him to have that sudden attack?" Satine wanted to know exactly why it happened and this droid was giving her no answers.
"I am not sure, I only know that it is nothing physical. Although, it could possibly be on a more mental scale than physical." The droid replied
"What do you mean?" Satine asked confused
"Considering my patience's background, there are possibilities of mental damage. My patient is already depressed as can be stated of the obvious. There are the possibilities of him having post-traumatic stress disorder or just simple anxiety attacks. Both which would be the cause of the tightness of the chest." The droid explained
"I think I would know if I had something wrong with my head droid." Maul snapped at the medical droid.
"Maul, calm down, it's only trying to help figure out what caused what happened in the hall." Satine said trying to calm him.
"It obviously can not figure out what happened, now if it is done poking and prodding me, it's past lunch time now." Maul said getting off of the examination table.
"Sir, I would kindly like to ask of you to please, get back on the examination table." The droid spoke and Maul walked to the door.
"Come Feral, it is time for us to eat." Maul said and Feral quickly followed Maul out of the room.