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For a moment, the Council room was silent beyond the nodding of heads as everyone tried to figure out where to go from here, slowly returning to their chairs, shattered internally by two experiences none of them had ever considered, both the horrible molestation and that blazing, transcendent moment when Harry's mental presence arrived. Needless to say after that experience no one was willing to question Harry and Aayla's bond further. Harry's recreation of Force Light, something Master Yaddle had been working towards for months, and his saving Aayla from that fate put paid to that.
"You will not stay here on in the temple will you?" Mace asked at last, looking at Master Fay and Harry and the Force Ghost.
"We cannot. Our presence still causes a disaster if we stay here too long, even with Harry hidden under the best Force cloak imaginable. I believe the Senate somehow finds out about his abilities and fear and concern and grasping avarice do the rest." Fay shrugged unwilling even now to say that the response to his abilities even from within the Order was still a concern. She could see it still in the faces of Master Pouf and Master Koth, despite their being shaken from the memories Aayla had shared. "Master Dooku has taken him on as a lightsaber student, and we will stay on Serenno for a time."
"Since we arrived there, beyond the…" Fay paused… "Incident I suppose you could call it, With Aayla I have not felt the pull of the Force taking me away. I think I'm doing precisely what the Force wants me to, preparing Harry further for his own future."
"If that is the case, do you believe him to be the Chosen One?" asked Master Pouf, somewhat sarcastically if still shakily.
"No, I do not believe in that prophecy," Fay replied with a shake of her head. "In fact I'm rather worried about Masters who do. We Jedi are all too concerned with the idea of balance instead of thinking about the right thing to do. And as Harry said earlier, we have shut ourselves out from emotions for fear of the Dark that we have shut out the Light as well."
"While I will no longer question your bond padawans I still do not know if I can agree with that," Mace said shaking his head. "Balance is what we should always seek, in ourselves and the Force at large. Balance has served the Order for over a thousand years, most of them peaceful. I realize we are entering a time of turmoil, but that is no reason to throw off all of our traditions. I will allow that in some cases like yours looking to the Light alone is the way forward, but it cannot be that was for the Order as a whole."
"These runes," said another Master, looking down at the bowl. "How difficult would it be to start students training on them?"
"Somewhat hard," Lily said shrugging her shoulders. "Since I refuse to stay here either. However anyone can use this pensieve, and I imagine it would be more useful here among you all than with us. I will warn you though I don't think that non-Force users could use it, if you were thinking of trying to use it in criminal cases or something."
"Useful it will be yes. Yet surely, written notes about specific runes or something you have?" Master Yaddle asked plaintively, her long ears quivering eagerly. "Use them to begin our own training we could."
"Sorry, no," Fay said sympathetically, watching as Yaddle's ears drooped almost down to her skull. "I would also be very leery of experimenting with them at all. Some of the mistakes Lily and I ran into could have been life threatening, explosive, or both had we not taken as many precautions as we have."
Seeing the crestfallen expressions on the little green alien and others Lily decided to bend somewhat. They had after all won literally every point they had come here intending to fight for either. "I would be willing to train Knight Ti and the others who were on the Explorer or someone they chose, so long as they earned my trust first. The same concern with the Force techniques we've shared, that of feeding arrogance and a need to use them for personal gain, applies to runes too after all."
That seemed to cheer the masters up, and more than one of them fired questions about the techniques at Harry and the others. Lily and Fay answered many of them, but subtly began to push Harry and Aayla to answer them after a time. During this it was decided that while Harry and Aayla would remain together and on Serenno, Quinlan might well be called away at times to take missions with his former master. His abilities at Force Cloak made him one of the best in the Order for undercover missions.
The conversation continued for another hour or so, until the masters started to run out of questions. Then Harry asked a question of his own. "By the way, what's going to happen to Anakin Skywalker? He seemed an ok kid when we were on Tatooine."
Yoda sighed, his ears twitching as more than one master there blinked in surprise at the idea of the most powerful Force user found by the Order in centuries being described in such lukewarm terms. Of course none of them knew that Harry was just as powerful, perhaps even more so when he was first found.
"Trained he will be, Master Jinn already intending to take him as padawan. But reservations I have. There is anger in him, arrogance too. Younger than either of you to he was when found, but anger in you, not so much there was."
Hate or arrogance, have them you do not either, he thought, staring at Harry. Oh, Harry had the ability to hate within him, Yoda had seen that brief flash in his eyes as Aayla must have pointed out the Masters who had given Aayla her mission when they entered the room. But despite having more reason to be arrogant than most, Harry wasn't, and it would take something special for him to make the jump from righteous anger to flat-out anger.
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