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A second later Fay banked the ship around into a slow downward spiral. "We will be landing at the temples personal landing area, and Master Yoda now knows that Lily and Harry are with us. No Harry I didn't mention you, though I gave him the impression of your mother, and Yoda is smart enough to know that she would not be far from you. He also has felt Aayla's presence, and I would wager has already begun to put two and two together."
Behind the two pilots Quinlan decided to make this a teaching moment, looking over to where Aayla sat behind Harry. "Reach out with your own senses padawan, see if you can feel any minds you recognize there. And Harry, try not to help her. That would break your stealth."
Harry nodded, watching Master Fay instead of Aayla as she worked the controls of the ship, moving them delicately through the crowded airspace over the temple and the Senate district. It was the first time he'd seen such crowed air lanes and it was interesting to see how the ship responded to the delicate maneuvering.
For her part Aayla closed her eyes briefly, reaching out with her senses through the Force. She wasn't nearly as good at this as she was at her stealth abilities. After a few seconds she smiled widely. "Zule is back! And so is Master Ti."
"Master Ti?" Lily asked looking over at her. "I thought Shaak was a knight?"
"She is, but she was also one of our teachers. In the temple you have to call any teacher master," Aayla said with a shrug, still not opening her eyes. "I can't feel Alecto, but since he was chosen by a Master already that doesn't matter much. I can feel Wulo, and a few of the other clan members."
"Stretch out further padawan," Quinlan ordered. "Try to feel out the minds of the Jedi you don't know well. Describe them for me." Since no Jedi would bother with Force Cloak or Stealth in the temple their presence in the Force could be felt by one another at a distance. The only Jedi who routinely hid her Force presence even in the Temple was the Dark Lady. Even Master Tholme didn't bother hiding his presence in the Temple.
This went on for a few moments, but Aayla could only find a few separate minds from the multitude that stood out to her enough for her to describe verbally. Of those she was able to give names only to a few: Master Windu, and Master Ranicisis and Yaddle. One felt like a mind made of metal, a fortress that let nothing in or out. The other felt like a very patient predator almost, while the last felt almost like Yoda, only younger and more outgoing.
"We will have to work further on that," Quinlan said with a nod. "Still, you did very well for your first attempt at this range."
Nodding Aayla opened her eyes just as the yacht touched down, its landing ramp slowly opening a moment later. Master Fay led the way out as was proper, with Harry in the center, his hood up to help his Force Stealth and Cloak to hide his features. Lily had already phased through the wall of the yacht, heading directly into the Temple where she startled a few Jedi, who gaped at the Force Ghost, but she merely waved at them heading towards the doors which led into the temple.
There she found Zule waiting in an open hallway, looking towards the large doors leading into the Temple. Master Yoda was there as well, and Wulo but it was Zule who noticed or at least acknowledged her presence first, since Yoda had no doubt felt her approach. The half-Falleen, half-human girl's face lit up at the sight of the Force Ghost. "Mistress Lily!?"
Wulo turned as well, as did several other Jedi Knights Masters and padawans in the vicinity. This area appeared to be a thoroughfare leading to and from different areas on this level as well as up further into the Temple. "What's the matter with you all?" Lily quipped, suddenly grinning and waving her hands at the onlookers. "It's like you've seen a ghost."
As Zule, Wulo and more than a few other Jedi surprised themselves by groaning at the horrible joke, Master Yoda turned to her, smiling. "Welcome teacher Lily. Strange it is that you have come, a reason there is for your presence, as well as that of Master Fay?"
"You might say that," Lily said, her face falling into grim lines for a moment as she moved closer to the aged Grandmaster, ignoring the ongoing shock and awe at her presence, waving Zule and Wulo away for a moment. "I respect you Yoda," she said slowly leaning down to so they were face-to-face and could whisper. "So I'm only going to ask two questions of you: Are you going to make a fuss about Harry and Aayla's bond and did you know what kind of missions she was sent on?"
Yoda stared into Lily's emerald eyes, and slowly shook his head. "Know explicitly what sort of mission Aayla was assigned I did not. Heard about it after the fact I did, worried I was, yet a way to recall her there was not. Your son and her bond, a reality it is, a hrhrhrm, fuss, I will not make." He sighed long and loud for a moment but did not look away from Lily's gaze "The decision to separate them, plagues me often over the years it has," he said quietly, so the onlookers could not overhear.
"Ah you've started to realize the big secret haven't you" Lily asked, shaking her head and 'standing' back up. "I don't think even my son is figured it out, though Master Fay has."
Yoda's eyes closed in pain for a moment that he still nodded. "Serve the Force the Jedi do, but the balance most important, too often Jedi have believed. Force of order well and good, a force for the right thing, the moral thing, better it would be."
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