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Aurra seemed surprised at the ferocity of his attack, but then Quinlan had caught many a fellow Jedi off balance with the bruising nature of the pace he could set in a duel, or how aggressive he was. But despite being pushed back, Aurra didn't panic, and actually led Quinlan towards another building which she had rigged like the first two. Jumping backwards quickly she used the Force herself to leap up and over the wall of said building, igniting the mine set against the wall of it as she did.
It was only his Force precognition that allowed Quinlan to throw himself away but this time he grunted in pain as his back was perforated by several bits of shrapnel, and he rolled desperately, shaking his head and trying to fight back the pain with the Force. Damn it, I should have just shielded, not only this time but the times before! I'm acting like an amateur here, have to get over the surprise at the ambush and start controlling my emotions! I need to think!
He didn't have long to get over the pain or prepare himself however, because then Aurra was on him once more cutting down hard. Quinlan rolled forward, gasping as her lightsaber caught him in the leg, slicing away a bit of his fleshy part of his calf. But since he had already been using the Force to keep the pain away, Quinlan was still able to fight.
Quinlan brought up his lightsaber to block a few blows, but Aurra knew she had the advantage now. The cut to his leg badly hampered Quinlan's movement hurting Quinlan's ability to fight even more than it would have another Jedi given his style of Ataru. Aayla used that ruthlessly, turning and forcing him to use that leg more. Another stinging blow from Aura's lightsaber cut across his shoulder, not deep, he blocked enough to keep the lightsaber from searing into his skin, but enough to cause that arm to fall to Quinlan's side, the pain too much for him to keep using it despite deadening the pain with the Force as much as possible.
But Quinlan wasn't finished yet. In reply he twisted to the side, dodging Aura's second lightsaber and aiming for her first. She pulled back in time to save her hand but his blow sliced cleanly through the emitter at the top of her lightsaber right above her hand.
"Kriff you Jedi!" Snarling Aurra pulled her second lightsaber up and towards Quinlan's now unprotected body. There was no way he could interpose his lightsaber in time to save him.
To her shock Quinlan didn't even try. Instead his injured arm rose from his side and suddenly something like a shield of Force power appeared around it, blocking her lightsaber. Aurra stared in shock as her lightsaber fizzled and hissed against that shield, never even seeing Quinlan's lightsaber come around, bisecting her from one shoulder to the other.
"Die, murderer." Quinlan gasped out, backing away from the bounty-hunter's body, a wave of exhaustion now hitting him like a hammer between the eyes. This wasn't the first time he had to use a Force Shield in battle, but he hadn't used them against lightsabers before outside spars with his own padawan, and that on top of the strain of using the Force to deal with the pain of his wounds and the blood loss from the wounds in his back was exhausting.
Yet Quinlan's fight wasn't done. He twisted around, nearly collapsing as he was forced to pivot on his wounded leg, his lightsaber barely deflecting a series of plasma bolts coming at him from nearby. Over the sizzle and fizzing noise of the bolts impacting his blade and the pounding of his own ears he heard a voice shout "The bounty bitch is dead, means more creds for us! Down the Jedi, he's already hurt!"
"Kriff it!" Quinlan shouted, losing his Jedi self-control, which he had never really had that much of in any event, once more. His lightsaber still moved this way and that, blocking or deflecting the blaster bolts back to his attackers, but he could feel his body beginning to fail, and couldn't concentrate enough to call up another Shield. The blow to his leg and the shrapnel in his back, which was still bleeding, was sapping his strength.
He tried to turn and move away from the ambush point, but wasn't able to before several stun bolts came at him from another side street, and he fell, unconscious next to Aura's body. He never saw the trio of humans who came down the street towards him. The last thing he heard was, "Fools, Lord Jabba want's the Jedi alive for questioning, the bounty bitch might've well been killed herself for disobeying that order. Tie him up and let's get going."
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"I can't feel her!" Harry moaned, shaking his head, his hands grabbing at his hair as his eyes shut in pain, his psyche questing out trying to find the now silent connection to Aayla. "I can't feel her!"
Harry, please calm down!" Lily commanded, wishing again that she had a physical body so that she could comfort her son. Fay was doing an alright job, her arm around Harry and her Force powers around his mind, trying to calm him down. But Harry was in no mental state to let her do so, and tried to shake her off physically. It was only when Lily's own ethereal hand touched his own that Harry began to calm down.
"Tell us more Harry, if you can't how are we supposed to help her?" Fay asked calmly, reasonably, hoping to calm Harry down just as much with her tone as her words. "What do you mean that you can't feel her?"
"I," Harry paused, thinking. They were rushing through hyperspace towards Tatooine, and the two of them, Harry and Aayla were now closer then Harry could remember them being since the last time they had physically seen one another. As such he should've been getting more out of their link, not admittedly enough to exchange thoughts, direct thought exchanges apparently had a light-speed limit. You couldn't do it without being in the same solar system.
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