Jedi Academy Grounds & Entrance Hall

Brielle smiles in elation when Knight Starfield says that he would be willing to help her in continuing her training until a more official decision is made about her becoming an initiate.

You would? That would be . . .

Brielle's joy fades visibly, her shoulders slumping as she realizes that it would be unfair to accept Knight Starfield's offer when she has not told him everything that he should know about her. The Masters that Johun spoke of, naturally, would need to know about her heritage before making any decisions about whether or not to admit her to the academy as well, but Brielle feels that knowing of it could very well make Johun reconsider his offer, and so she cannot in good conscience keep it from him.

I think there is something you, and the Masters of course, should know before we go any further, Knight Starfield. I probably should have told you earlier, when you asked me to tell you about myself, but . . . shaking her head, realizing that there is little point in explaining her reticence when the reasons for it well be clear soon enough, Brielle takes a deep breath and steels herself for the repulsion and rejection she knows may very well result from what she is about to say before continuing. The investigation my uncle was conducting when he found me? He was tracking an Anzat that had been killing Force sensitives . . . feeding on their life essence. The Anzat was very, very old, and had become . . . unstable, making enough careless mistakes that my uncle was able to find her, and . . . he killed her when she gave him no other choice. That Anzat . . . was my mother.

Brielle lowers her head dejectedly as she finishes speaking, as though anticipating being asked to leave and never return. Her disgust about what she is, or rather what she has the potential to be by virtue of having been born an Anzat, had been evident when she spoke, and there is also fear in her emotions; fear that her nature will prove more powerful than her fervent desire, also clear in her thoughts and emotions, to overcome it in order to become a Jedi.

Continued from Terrain


Ky Rynn sat in the cock pit of the Firespray and waited for Sabina Gaultieri to come.  He stretched out his hand and pointed to an empty seat normally reserved for the copilot.  The seat had seen better days.  It looked like it had been scorched by blaster fire at one point, and the padded seat had odd, dark stains.  Unlike the rest of the ship, the cockpit was kept in incredible condition.  Everything inside was clean and well-cared for.  There was not a speck of dust in the cock pit, and the room smelled fresh.  


"Don't touch anything. Now start from the beginning. Exactly who and what are you? Why did you set my house on fire?"

He asked Advika while he piloted the ship towards the Jedi Academy grounds.  The ship was flying through the terrain in the planet's lower atmosphere.  He was not familiar with this particular Order but knew of its existence.  He himself had trained at another Order on the other side of the galaxy.  If the situation was different, he would have taken Advika off to Ossus or elsewhere.  But he was uncertain if his ship would be able to tolerate the journey off-world.  

"Let me make it clear to you. That friend of yours who's now dead in my backyard will never hunt you again. But that's not going to stop others like him from doing the same. I'm going to bring you to a place. Somewhere that will keep you safe. I won't be able to protect you all the time. The best way to protect yourself is for you to learn how to protect yourself. I would bring you home if I could. But it will only be a matter of time before those hunters, and more of them will come after you again. Once they know who you are, they will hunt you to the end of the galaxy until you're dead. Their kind will slaughter whole families and burn villages to the ground looking for people like you. They'll do it for sport. Sending you home will only put everyone there in danger, assuming they're still alive."

The topic was grim, but he had seen what Darksiders like Kwame could do. The goat happily trotted all over the cabin before it jumped up onto one of the seats and sat there like a person. Ky Rynn let out an exasperated sigh. He had forgotten all about the goat who seemed all too happy to come along for the adventure. He reached back and gave the goat a friendly head pat.

"Of course, you somehow survived."

Ky Rynn's face held a pensive expression that hovered between concerned and uncaring as he heard Advika's tale. He sat back in the pilot's seat, produced a long pipe from seemingly nowhere, and began to smoke. The air began to fill with the scent of stale tobacco smoke.

"So you are from this world then.  Better this rock than another."



Ky Rynn blew puffs of smoke into the air while staring at the ship's dimly illuminated 'no smoking' sign. He carefully thought about his answer to this inquisitive youngster. He was attempting to decide between sending her on her way or leaving her here.

"How do I word this in a way that your small, under-developed, pubescent mind can understand?" He started, "some people are born ordinary, some are born lucky. You, on the other hand, are neither. Instead, you have something about you that is special from the others. You have the potential abilities to do things with your mind, and to see things before they happen. There are others, like you, in the galaxy. Each one of them is linked to each other. Some of them can influence the weather, others can speak to lesser creatures, things like that. There are people out there that hunt people like you. They wait until they show any ounce of potential in their abilities, they take them and use them. But if the person doesn't have any skill in the things they need, they kill them. It's better to have you dead than a potential threat to them."

He looked back over his shoulder at where they came from, "a hunter like that guy would have tried to train you, realized quickly how inept you were, and probably killed you within a month. When he was finished with you, he'd go back to your family. Why? This gift runs in families. So any brother, sister, parent, or cousin that you have will be next. I've seen them do that. They come and destroy whole villages looking for people like you. They do not care who will stand in the way when they have a target, like you, to find. Do you understand?"

He got out of his seat and began to walk out of the ship through the open hatch at the back. "Now you have two choices: I can keep you here, they will protect you and train you until you are ready to leave on your own and able to protect yourself from those people. Or, I can return you home to Coronet or wherever." He looked back at Advika, "but it will only be a matter of time until they come looking for you again."

Advika gives Ky a skeptical look when he says that he wouldn't be allowed to stay here with her and will be dropping her off and going back to his farm, not really surprised that he would just want to be rid of her as quickly as possible since he had made that abundantly clear from the moment he took notice of her on his farm while she is not sure what he means about someone like him unless he means because he is unsociable and on the grumpy side even if, underneath all that gruff exterior he must be at least a little decent since he didn't just let the hunter recapture her.

Pursing her lips in commingled irritation and amusement when, after the dark, curly haired human that introduces herself as a Knight and then introduces her Padawan, Ky refers to her as a creature. . . again, Advika finally takes in what has been said and realizes that Ky is depositing her at a Jedi Academy, to be trained as one, and looks surprised and probably a little shocked and maybe a bit irritated too since Ky could have told her that and spared her a lot of confusion if he hadn't instead talked around it. She smiles happily though when Ky says she can look after her goat, Kaponianani, which makes her do a victorious fist pump before she pats Kaponianani's head with one hand while she waves with the other and tells the Jedi Knight and her Padawan, "Um, hi, nice to meet you both, and then throws Ky under the bus as she points at him and says, I am pretty sure he's one of you by the way. Could he stay for a while as I get started with the training? I think he's been out in the wilderness on his own for waaaayyy too long."