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Lily looked at the two of them, then her eyes strangely slid past Tholme to settle on Quinlan before she gestured them over. "Something happened while Aayla and Harry were asleep you two should know about," she began, then it looked over to Fay to handle the actual explanation.
Of the three, Fay had been able to feel the majority of what they had discovered about the strange bond between Aayla and Harry. And it is strange Lily reflected as they began to talk. There's certainly not anything like that on Earth, magical bonding were just a made up plot point for juvenile romance novels, not reality. Magical oaths are a different story entirely, very serious business, just like magically bound legal agreements. But actual bonds, like this one no.
What was odder was that they could sense one another's thoughts even after Lily explained how to keep one another out. As young as the two of them were they saw no reason to keep one another out yet, but at least Harry understood that eventually that might be necessary. They could also feel one another's presence, which was beyond anything she had ever heard of.
That aspect is sort of like a familiar bond, a familiar would always know where his master is, and oftentimes vice-versa. But that's not right either because in the familiar bond the familiar is most definitely secondary in the bond, getting a lot from its master, but giving only of its physical abilities and becoming somewhat subservient to said master.
Though I've never heard of a familiar bond between a magical creature and a person except for possibly Albus and his phoenix which he may or may not have been bonded with. Lily had her doubts about that one. Maybe it's different if the familiar is intelligent enough to have nearly human thoughts, but I doubt even that is anything like this!
She broke out of musings as Quinlan reeled back, shaking his head and looking over at Aayla. "So that is why."
"Why what?" Lily asked.
"I can no longer feel the padawan bond between myself and Aayla growing, it is a faint shadow of what it was before. I would assume this is because she can only sustain one such bond at a time, and this one sounds stronger than a padawan bond is supposed to be anyway." Quinlan replied.
"I'm sorry," Lily said softly, reaching out an ethereal hand to touch the young man's shoulder. "I understand how important those are to Jedi."
"I will get over it." Quinlan said smiling slightly at her touch, nodding up at her and then over Master Tholme. "Besides it's not like it is entirely gone, I can still sense her, if vaguely."
Tholme looked at him gravely before nodding his head in approval of his padawan's manner.
Just then the door to the infirmary opened, and two more newcomers walked in. One of them was the diminutive green-skinned alien with long ears that Harry had remembered seeing. Instead of bouncing all over the place though he moved now like an old man, and indeed looked it. He had wizened, wrinkled features and white tufts of hair on his head. For all that however his aged eyes were clear and intelligent, holding a power in them that somehow Harry felt as he entered, leaning on a small wooden cane as he did.
The second was a tall woman with hair that moved like hair would but looked like thin tree branches falling down past her shoulders. Her face looked kind but stern, with a tan complexion and skin that looked like a cross between human skin and a slim, young elm tree's. She had wide lips which were currently set in a small smile, and light blue eyes. She also felt old to the younglings, almost as old as the short green skinned Jedi.
They both looked back at Harry for a moment as they walked in and the diminutive alien spoke. "Hrhrhrm, greetings, Young Harry Potter, Yoda I am, Grand Master. Eager to meet and talk with you I have been, thankful to see you awake we are."
Harry could only nod his head, unable to break away from that aged knowing gaze as Yoda moved toward his bed. For some reason he felt Yoda was, not testing him, but feeling him out, not his mind but his very being, in a way Harry could not understand.
Whatever he felt however seemed to satisfy the old being and suddenly Harry heard Yoda's thoughts in his mind, as did Aayla since their minds were still connected. "Hrhrhrm, tested you have been. Grief you have felt, anger you have felt, given into it you have not, the dangers of that path you have seen. A defender you have become rather than an avenger. Good, hehehrereh, good, stay true to that you should. Even if alone in your own mind you are not. Interesting that is, this bond study it we must."
Then the communication off and Harry and Aayla looked at one another in surprise. But before they could speak Yoda went on aloud. "Introduce you I should to Master T'ra Saa, new head of this academy she is." Then he suddenly smiled, changing his wizened face almost entirely as he reached up, touching Harry on his shin where it stuck over the bed. "But learning, all of us will be here. Learning from one another we will. Looking forward to being a student I am, a long time it has been, hrhrhrm…"
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The next few days Harry and the other injured joined the rest of the clan who had been busy since the battle through physical exercises, as well as playing gofers for the Jedi who were busy trying to repair the ship. Alecto and a few of the other most serious minded were put on duty aboard the ships bridge to watch the radar screen and help with some of the computer work going on, while others were simply used as gophers in the engine room or elsewhere on the ship. Luckily, the Jedi had already disposed of the bodies of the attackers, so it wasn't as disturbing as it would've been for the youngsters.
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