Author's Note:  I still have Breakaway to finish rewriting,
Galactic Treasure to update someday, and my first SW fic to
continue. So I'm definitely crazy for doing this, especially
when my 'Net is down at home and I have no idea when it'll come
back up again. But the idea latched on and would not let go.
What's a penumbra? It's the darkest point of a shadow.  Aria
Saralyn, a wonderful SW fanfic author, once wrote a fic called
Darker than Darkness. This fic is inspired by it, although I'd
say this one is more intense.  The rating for now is T, though
depending on how bad it gets, I may actually have to jump it up
to M. *cue gasp from readers* I know, I know, I've never done
anything worthy of the M before. But this fic… just might
warrant it.  This is much, much darker than the vast majority of
BLoSC fanfiction out there. And despite that, I'll do my best to
stay true to the characters.     He has a carefully-constructed
routine for a carefully-constructed universe.  In the morning,
he wakes up, has his coffe