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They had bot noticed Zule's build just then as she hugged them so tightly, and now Harry was frantically apologizing mentally to Aayla. "I am so sorry, Aayla, I don't, that is, it doesn't mean anything it was just a, an automatic hormonal thing!"
To his surprise however, "Don't worry Harry, Zule is really good looking, even I know that. Hmm, I wonder what it would be like to kiss another girl? Hugging other girls is certainly nice, they are so soft and smell much better, even better than you Harry." Aayla mused.
"Erk…" Harry couldn't help it, he just couldn't stop his treacherous mind from going there just then, and the image of Aayla and Zule kissing and hugging one another appeared in his mind, swiftly being shunted aside into one of the pink crystals that marked his more embarrassing thoughts and feelings.
Aayla still spotted it however and broke out into a giggle that filled their connection. "Oh ho, so that's the way of it is it, hmmm, I didn't know you had such perverse ideas hidden in these crystals of yours Harry, anything else I should know about?" She teased.
Harry couldn't think up a reply but thankfully for him Quinlan's voice brought them both back to the physical universe. "Aayla, Harry, you're falling behind."
"I wonder what that's about," Lily mused, as the two teens hurriedly caught up with the adults. Harry was now flushing somewhat, while Aayla seemed to be womanfully keeping in a case of the giggles, her lekku twitching to denote her amusement. Fay shook her head, having no idea and Yoda didn't even notice, so consumed by thoughts about what even the tiny hints Zule had gotten meant in the long term. A few moments later all of the humor had vanished from the group, as they made their way up into the High Council's meeting room.
Master Windu cocked an eyebrow as Yoda entered, followed by Master Fay and by Lily first. "Master Fay, I do not know if I could even guess the last time you set foot on Coruscant. And a Force Ghost? Suddenly certain long-held mysterious become less so. Though the reasoning behind the, let us call it well intentional obfuscation of the truth, does not."
Lily simply smirked at him before floating forward, her eyes roving around the room as she took in the responses to her presence. Evidently word of her arrival had reached more ears than just Master Windu, who Fay had described to her. None of the gathered master looked surprised, but most were looking at her closely save for Master Giiett who was smiling slightly in welcome. Like Master Windu besides Micah they were all thinking that she was the real source of all of the new techniques that had been spreading throughout the Order for the last few years.
Then Harry and Aayla entered with Quinlan, all three of them bowing formally to the Council before standing with Aayla in the center between the two very different looking young men. This close even the most blind to the eddies and currents of the Force could feel the bond between Harry and Aayla, a band of Light connecting the two of them. Master Windu's eyebrows rose, but that was the only sign that he allowed to show on his expression.
Leaning back Mace looked at the boy, not with his eyes but with his Force senses seeing beyond his connection to Padawan Secura, to the boy that he was. A shatterpoint, just like all those years ago this boy represents a shatterpoint for the Order. Yet I still cannot see if Master Yoda was correct all those years ago, that adding in impurity to the Order would mean we would be stronger in the end.
Aloud Mace said, "I see there is more going on here than even I suspected. Why do two padawans seem to have a Force bond? It seems to be based on emotion as well neither of which should be allowed. Even you, Master Fay for all the respect you have earned cannot get away with flouting the Order's rules on this matter so completely."
"Start from the beginning I will." Yoda replied, speaking up in a way that made many of the council members blink in surprise. It was not at all usual for Yoda to start any discussion, he normally let everyone else have their say first then speak, since his position gave his voice such weight. But after he began to speak about how he had been called by the Force to the Explorer all those years ago, and his introduction to Harry and Lily, they understood.
There were a few narrowed eyes at the idea that he and Lily had argued about the Order and Harry's continued involvement with it, but the two of them took it in stride as did Harry and the others. Master Saesee Tiin, who Aayla mentally pointed out to Harry, cut in at that point. "Yes, Yes, we've had these discussion before, and there have been slow but steady changes to the Order's stance on abstaining rather than controlling emotions, Mind Healers like Master Luminara Unduli and Master Ve'lone Grant have made their points plain. We also acknowledge that sometimes humans and other weaker races need physical release to retain their balance with the Force."
Harry and Aayla both flushed at that understanding what he was saying while the humans on the council, even Mace Windu rolled their eyes at the physical strength and pilot specialist's dig at them. "But this bond between two equals is beyond even that. It is based on Light Side emotions now, but that is not the problem. the problem is twofold: the split loyalties this bond imposes, and conflicts such a split will invariably lead to. And the fact Personal attachment leads to jealousy, then anger, the Dark side. There is a reason even with the changes you have championed in the last few years Master Yoda that the Ruusan Reformations' changes to the Order have not been overthrown."
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