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"I wouldn't have put it quite like that, but essentially yes." Lily said as Master Fay and the others finally entered the Temple's main hall. Behind her came the others, with Quinlan carrying some kind of bundle under one arm, a wide bowl of some kind covered by a cloth to Yoda's discerning eyes.
Zule had been standing by respectfully allowing Lily and Master Yoda to talk, but when she saw Harry pushed back his hood the moment the doors to the Temple closed behind him, she grinned, racing forward to throw her arms around her two friends in a very un-Jedi like manner. "Harry, Aayla! I'm so glad to see you and that you're all right!"
This act brought looks of censure from many of the onlookers and one of the master's, an elderly human woman who had taught in the temple for decades, made to move forward. Yoda's eyes however caught hers and she paused as he glanced around them. "Business you all have elsewhere, yes? If not, business find for you I will."
The Jedi all around them moved on including the teacher, and with a sigh Yoda turned to Master Fay. "Good you are here, it even if a confrontation I predict the reason behind your presence is."
"That would be correct, Master Yoda" Fay replied coolly, laying a gentle hand on Quinlan's shoulder. "Quinlan here and Aayla have a report to make, and I think we should all be there. Best to get this over with quickly."
They looked over to Aayla and Harry who were greeting Zule and Wulo, talking animatedly amongst themselves.
Yoda tapped his gimer stick on the ground, the sound cutting through the general hubbub getting all four youngster's attention. "Wulo, return to meditation you will. Zule, own duties you have hrhrhrm? Your Master, finished with his own reports to the Council of Reassignment will be soon. Unhappy he will be if waiting for him you are not."
"True Master Yoda," Zule said, though the bright smile was still on her face. But unlike Wulo who peeled off at once she walked with the others up the stairs for a time, continuing to catch up. "Anyway, I had been thinking about the two of you for a few days, and I thought maybe something was going wrong on Aayla's mission, but my master said that was too vague and too based on emotion for us to act on."
She might have let a scowl appear on her face then if not for Master Yoda's presence. "He didn't like the idea that I wanted to get in touch with you and Master Fay either. Master Glaive is a great teacher for me in many ways, but… he doesn't really have the best personality. I suppose I need a sterner teacher in many ways given my temper and impulsiveness, and I learned a lot about diplomacy from Master Saa and Master Ti before being assigned to Master Glaive. But I wish he would trust my judgement as much as he does his own."
"When was this?" Fay asked, looking around from where she was in front with Yoda and Lily, speaking quietly to the two of them about Harry's progress and the confrontation to come interrupting their discussion.
Zule flushed as all three masters and even Quinlan turned to her. "Um, about… five days or so ago I think. At least, that was when I realized the Force might be telling me something."
"That would place it before Aayla got into trouble, and even before Harry had his Force Vision on the matter though during the time he began to be concerned about her. But you say it was a vague feeling, one you couldn't localize?" Fay asked, as Yoda listened intently. Lily didn't understand why this was important, but Quinlan had an inkling his brow furrowed.
"Yes master, just, um, I would think about Harry or Aayla at odd times, nothing connected, just random moments I think. Why, is that important?"
"It might be." Fay said, looking down at Yoda. As she had said before with the Dark Side growing in strength most Jedi were running into trouble seeing their own course into the future, let alone being able receive warnings about someone not directly connected to them like this. The effort Fay had to put into trying to see the proper way forward in terms of Harry and Aayla's bond and the High Council was proof of that, and not only was she one of the best at such things but they were intimately connected to her.
While what Zule was describing was vague, and based on emotions too, which a lot of masters would use to discount it as Master Glaive had, it might well be a good sign. If, that is, they could figure out a way to do the same thing consciously. That was going to be a tall order given the emotional element and the fact it was based off personal connections, aka attachments, which the Order frowned upon and also very much a part of the live in the now sort of teaching that the few Living Force proponents followed rather than the logic, balance and long term visions of the Unifying Force followers.
With that the two of them turned and began a new discussion on this information, while Quinlan and Lily Listened in. The three teens turned back to their own discussion, talking mostly about the missions they had been on, and what Harry had been up to, since Zule and Aayla had seen one another every day for years before Aayla became Quinlan's padawan. This went on as they moved up the temple until Zule stopped three levels below the top of the temple.
"Well, this is where I have to leave you guys. It was good to see you again, and I hope it won't be as long before we see one another again Harry." With that Zule impulsively threw her arms around the two newcomers, hugging them tightly before turning away, never noticing that Harry and Aayla had frozen just for a moment.
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