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Harry blinked, but resolutely also pulled slightly away from the link as Aayla ordered him to, and she pulled on her clothing quickly. When she was done, she looked down at herself and allowed Harry to do the same through her eyes. "This is very weird, and I'd really rather you not use my senses like this, but under the circumstances Harry, I can only say thank you."
"Thank you!" Aayla did not like how her voice trembled there when she spoke aloud, or the shivering feeling the felt even in her mental palace. She was not some kriffing damsel in distress! This was an aberration, it would not happen again!
Harry's joyful laugh banished her irritation, and again all she could do was send out a sort of mental hug. Not willing to send her astral projecting into her mental palace and meet him face to face just yet, it was more of a feeling that a fact. "I missed you!" They both shouted suddenly, both mentally and aloud, and then they laughed before Aayla resolutely returned her attention to her present straits. "I have to bet that someone's going to come and check up on Bib in a while. Where are you?"
"We're just coming into atmosphere: me, Master Fay and Master Dooku."
Aayla bobbed her head in surprise, setting her lekku to swaying as she blinked, astonished. "Master Dooku! He wasn't, that is he's not taking missions any longer! He retired to his home planet with his former padawan and Master Unduli right?" Master Dooku had regularly taught at the Temple, being a master lightsaber duelist, and she'd actually had a class or two with a hologram based on his teachings. "What have you been up to Harry?"
"Getting lightsaber instruction the past few weeks," Harry said laughing. "Master Fay doesn't use a lightsaber, remember?"
"Oh yes," Aayla muttered aloud and mentally, looking down at her side for a moment where her lightsabers should rest. She was a Jar'kai user, though like Zule though she knew that she had a lot to learn. Master Giiet had started them both down that road, and she'd learned quite a bit, but this was going to be the first time she'd had to use her lightsabers in real combat, and she didn't even have them. Lovely.
"Summon them to you," Harry said in her mind. "Shouldn't that work?"
Aayla bit her lip in thought for a moment, thinking of where her lightsabers would be. She and Quinlan had stowed them in a small cleaning droid, one of dozens that cleaned the Jabba's palace just in case the first night she had been here. But it had been assumed that one or the other would be in the same room with the droid, able to command it to release them, and get at them physically. Still it wasn't like it would cost her anything to attempt it. "I suppose I could try…"
Harry wordlessly held out a mental hand, giving of his own Force powers not even directing them now, letting Aayla take what power she needed for this. This was like the gestalt any group of Jedi could create, something that no Sith or wizard would have been able to. Yet their version was deeper, and Harry was powerful, which made a difference.
Holding up her hands Aayla closed her eyes for a moment in order to help her visualize the little droid, sending out her Force senses. It looked like a sort of bug creature but with wheels instead of feet, a black scarab back, with some kind of sucker on the bottom to soak up liquids, dust and other things. The one they used had a small white dot on one of its legs, and she found it quickly despite the fact it wasn't truly alive.
It was on the far side of this very floor, closer than Aayla had thought, but still quite a ways away given the size of this palace. Even so, she found it and then found her lightsabers within the droid, her Force senses skittering around them, the two crystals she'd used in their creation positively singing with her powers. That had been an idea from Master Lily from years ago which Aayla had followed up on: that awhile Jedi might not need focuses, they could still imbue their power into artifacts, and Aayla had done so with those crystals.
Gathering herself and taking liberally from Harry's Force powers, she directed her Force 'hands' to grab at her lightsabers, and pulled them towards her, 'yanking' hard.
The Force pull was so powerful it ripped the droid apart to the astonishment of several guards nearby, who had gathered to hopefully take their turns with Aayla after Bib was finished with her. They stared in shock at the spiraling silver hilts before they slammed end on into the wall shattering it with how fast they were going as a 'Boom!' echoed around the room, shattering eardrums and throwing people aside. Several booms later, the lightsabers had shattered several more walls in their way as the guards, holding their hands up to bleeding ears stared after them. "What the kriff was that?!"
In the small cubicle Aayla leaped up into the air, her hands flashing out to grab her lightsabers out of the air, activating them with a flourish before she came down, grinning now. "Interesting," Harry said thoughtfully, his clinical tone taking her somewhat aback for a moment before she too stared down at her lightsabers. "The Force grab also protected them, funny that. Or was that somehow carried over into the technique by your unconscious mind?"
"Analyze later," Aayla ordered, cutting the door to ribbons and marching out, her eyes alight with battle light, eager to cut down anyone who got her way. Harry's soothing presence calmed her down somewhat, but Aayla felt that she had a right to be a little irritated right now given what it almost just happened to her.
"Will be there soon Aayla, and you won't have to do it all alone," Harry said, and Aayla got the impression that he was standing up from a chair, already moving towards the hatchway.
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