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"Are you threatening me Jedi! One push of a button and -GAH!" Suddenly the Toydarian couldn't move. He hovered in the air held there by a Force grabbed from Dooku.
"Normally a Jedi would not resort to threats it is beneath us, a sign of aggression that all too easily can lead one slowly but surely to the Dark Side. However, slavery is I feel the greater evil here, and if we have to threaten you to remove from your presence two individuals you have treated as property so be it."
With one hand still making the grabbing motion that was keeping the Toydarian in the air via the Force (his people were immune to mind tricks, not physical Force attacks like this), Dooku kept on pulling out money, putting down enough for four slaves on the table in front of the little creature. "That I feel is a more than fair price. Now, give us the device to turn off the chips implanted in Shmi and Anakin Skywalker."
His hand flexed, and the little alien was able to move once more. Warily looking up at Dooku, Watto moved over to pick up a small control device. "456759 for the mother, and for the boy…" he hesitated then said "453907."
"Very good," Dooku said equably. "Qui-Gon, why don't you take the device and head over now to turn off the chips? I will keep our friend here company."
"First you threaten me, now you insult me!" Watto nearly screamed, waving his hands in a way just shy of histrionics.
"Simply being prudent my friend," Dooku said still glacially calm, moving to leaned against the nearby wall. "it costs us both nothing to make certain your memory has not failed you after all. Unless it has in fact done so, in which case yes, it will hurt you."
It took Qui-Gon a few minutes to reach the Skywalker place but once there he quickly turned off the devices and radioed Dooku that he had. Dooku nodded equably at the flying little alien, setting the radio at his belt. "And thus our business is concluded. However, Anakin said at one point that you were a fan of pod races. You might like to know that Anakin was working on his own pod racer on his own time."
With that Dooku told the flying alien where Anakin had hid his pod racer. "I imagine that could be worth quite a bit, or could allow you to sponsor another pod racer yourself." Already the little alien eyes were lighting up, his previous surly acceptance giving way to interest. "You see my friend, we Jedi deal fairly when we can." After that Dooku left, with Watto still staring after him, then down at the money on his table for a moment before swooping down to start count it gleefully.
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By the time Dooku rejoined the others at the Skywalker place with the lifter carrying the Nabooan engine the others were mostly ready to leave. Master Fay though was still sitting in the center of the main room, her hands folded in her lap as she meditated on where they should go from here.
Dooku took up a similar position across from her, his own Force senses reaching out. But Dooku had never been the best at being able to use the Force to discern the future, precognition like that was difficult at the best of times with anything not directly involving yourself. And since the Veil had begun to grow over the Force, even that had begun to be the next best thing to impossible.
He did not look up as Harry and Anakin walked out of the back room, leaving a golden-colored droid. Lily, who had been hovering beside her friend did, and her son shrugged. "Anakin says he's been working on this droid for years now, building him out of bits and pieces. It's pretty impressive work, and I thought he could sell it to give his mother some money or perhaps even just give it to his mother to help her in the future."
"An excellent suggestion Harry," Lily said fondly, looking down at Anakin, who seemed eager to get on his way. He didn't seem to realize, or perhaps hadn't figured it out just yet that if he was accepted into the Order he would have to leave his mother behind.
Lily wasn't happy about that aspect of Jedi training, but despite all the changes master Yoda had been making to the Order of late, attachments to other people and especially family like that was still a big no-no. There was also of course the logistics of that sort of thing. The Order couldn't play favorites allowing a few people to have their parents nearby or the equivalent. They would have to extend that to all of the Order's younglings. At this point there was just no infrastructure in place to allow for that kind of thing, and there was still no sense of need for it either.
She looked over as Aayla walked back in having moved outside for a moment to look at the engine they had bought with Padme. Harry, the droid, Anakin and Shmi joined Padme, as Aayla went to gently wake up the two masters out of their trances. Dooku came awake before she could reach him. Hopping to his feet with a quickness that belied his advanced age he nodded to her, and moved towards the door joining the others.
But Master Fay came out of her meditation far slower, frowning. She looked over at Lily, her face showing a certain amount of confused worry. "Our little plan should be workable. With your help at any rate my dear," she said looking at Aayla as she got to her feet, reaching forward to run a gentle finger down one of Aayla's lekku.
The girl smiled, looking up at the taller master for a moment. "Whatever I can do to help Master Fay."
"We couldn't do it without you trust us," Lily said dryly. "You see, we'd like to make certain that something like your predicament doesn't occur again, and there is a device called a pensieve in my world. It allows other people to view your memories as if they were living them themselves."
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