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"I know that Master Tholme and Quinlan are known to be very good at hiding, but there is a difference between hiding and being and utterly unseen. Besides, you might say I have a hidden advantage. I, after all know Harry. That makes it far easier for me to find his mind behind the Cloak that you put up. But that kind of skill is precisely what Harry needs to be able to fool, at least for a short amount of time." Fay went on, her voice stern and devoid of humor for a moment.
"So it's back to the drawing board been? Or does this mean we just won't be able to go to Coruscant?" Harry asked, his tone an alloy of worry and hope. He didn't really want to go to Coruscant, he been told so often by Master Fay and before her Master Yoda that it would end up in disaster somehow that he had lost any slight interest in going to the temple he'd had in the first place. "Is there any way we could get the Council to come to us?"
"Unfortunately that is the crux of the matter," Master Fay sighed looking up as Lily moved through the wall separating the sitting area from the patrol craft's cockpit. Behind her came Master Dooku, who had set Osic, Fay's astromech droid, to control the ship for the remainder of the journey.
"I have long thought that the High Council is a little too proud of their own perspicacity and positions. It would be beneath the Council's dignity for them all to come out to see us, even if they could come up with a plausible reason that the Senate would accept for such a move. And we cannot in good conscience ask Quinlan to leave out the fact that Harry arrived to save Aayla from his report. It is after all a very big deal. How else would you be able to explain away the fact that the slaves were freed in such a fashion and Sorenno is going to be involved in repatriating them?"
"So I spent much of last night and much of this morning meditating on what we should do," Fay said with a sigh. The Force was murky on the matter." She emphasized the words one after another, giving them a certain special meaning that Dooku seemed to understand immediately. The youngsters didn't, nor did Lily.
Sighing Fay decided to explain. "The Force usually sends or allows us to see portions of the future if we have the skill to discern it. I am of course quite good at that, the Force has guided my steps for…"
"Years, decades, centuries," Lily interrupted with a laugh.
Master Fay mock-scowled at her for a moment before turning back to the children. "I am one of the best when it comes to determining much a course of action into the future, as you know Harry. But the Dark Side has grown strong enough of late that even my ability to do so has been curtailed. I can still sense where the Force wants me to go, but when it comes to even a topic that is as convoluted as this one, it becomes far harder to discern meaning. In this case I saw several paths, each of them with a greater or lesser chance of leading to disaster."
Both of the children stiffened, while Lily's eyes narrowed, those emerald eyes of hers becoming hard gems as an unseen wind began to pick up around her. Dooku despite being somewhat surprised decided to not comment on it, watching as Lily moved to 'sit' on the upper bunk above the two children.
Sighing he moved over to take a seat next to Fay, leaning back slightly so he could look at everyone in the compartment. "Elaborate please. I must say that my own meditations on the matter came up with nothing, but this is not the first time I have felt my ability to discern my own path be restricted."
"It is a wise man who can admit he is not the best at something," Lily quipped, but her eyes were still those hard emerald spheres as she too turned back to her friend.
Master Fay sighed once more, looking up at her friend then the two youngsters before looking at Dooku. "In one, we attempt to ask that the Council come out to meet us. It doesn't work, and instead they send a few representatives, with orders to forcefully separate us from Aayla and from Harry both. I am uncertain why this happens, only that Master Yoda seems to have had no say in the decision. Needless to say we don't go along with it, and things spiral out of control, though why is a mystery the Force did not share with me."
"We can, as I previously mentioned try to cover it up. That doesn't work however, and Quinlan is heavily remonstrated with. Something happens, and…" Fay sighed. "I don't know why, but he is suddenly wielding his lightsaber against Aayla. I have no idea far into the future that bit of the vision was, but I can safely say it is a bad sign."
"Okay that's just not happening," Aayla said, shaking her head at the very idea of fighting her Master. While she didn't have as great a connection with him as she would have if Harry wasn't around, she still respected, even cared for him dearly. The idea of coming into conflict with him about something in the future was anathema to her.
"I don't see the connection between Quinlan being reprimanded and he and Aayla coming to blows," Lily said sharply.
"Nor do I, but I could sense that at heart it was about a schism within the Order which placed Harry, Aayla, and their friends on one side, and the majority of the Order on the other. Indeed it wasn't the only vision that had such a schism occurring. The third version of us not going to Coruscant, instead asking for Master Yoda and Master Windu to come out to us by name, which we could get away with…." she glanced at Dooku.
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