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Master Fay smiled, crossing her arms in her Jedi robes as she stared at the ship as it left. "I still have no more idea why she burns so brightly in the Force as she does when she is not a Jedi, but I can safely say that Padme is one of the good ones." Quinlan, who had arrived that morning, nodded agreement.
Several days later after saying goodbye to Mak and Kass, Harry and his family once more boarded the Lucrehulk, heading back to Serenno. The large ship was even quieter now without Padme and her maids aboard, let alone the Wookies, but the trip was uneventful, thankfully, and once on Serenno they once more settled into life in the training academy. For a time, anyway.
Only a bare week passed since their return before Master Dooku intoned that Harry had reached a level where Dooku was confident that, in his words, "the young man will not embarrass me for the amount of time I have given to his care. I believe, young padawan, that it is time for you to build your own lightsaber at last."
Raising an eyebrow, Fay stared at Dooku, then slowly nodded. She sensed something there, but it wasn't anything to do with Harry's level of skill, so she decided to bring it up with Dooku later. For now she would concentrate on Harry. "Yes, I agree. The connection between lightsaber and Jedi is not one that I have ever felt, but I have long believed that Harry's construction of his lightsaber should be important. Indeed, I think the Light Side of the Force has had a hand in making me see that."
There was more than one raised eyebrow among the other masters at that phrasing, but Fay ignored them as did Dooku. "In that case, we should once more make use of my family's map of known galactic space. Follow me."
Moments later, Fay, Quinlan, the two Padawans, Shaak Ti, Dooku, Giiett, Alecto, and some of the other more interested Masters all stood around the massive hologram which had been passed down in Dooku's family since the Sith had been thrown out of Serenno. They all formed a loose circle around it, with Harry facing the door into the amphitheater like structure, Fay directly across from him, and with Aayla and Quinlan equidistantly across from one another.
Fay stood forward as the hologram appeared in the center of the room, her voice formal and almost rolling in cadence. "In my days as a padawan, padawans would always receive access to maps much like this one, when they are thought to be ready to build their own lightsabers. Most of the time nothing happens, and they are given a choice of the few known planets to have lightsaber crystals, such as Adega or Ilum. Other times, padawans are given crystals as symbols of regard from Masters or Knights."
Aayla smiled over at Master Giiett, holding up one of her lightsabers, flicking the beam on and off. "I found one crystal on Ilum, and Master Giiett gave me the other. He'd found it in the gullet of a lizard."
"I did indeed," the squat Jar'kai user said, smiling in turn at Aayla. She and Zule had been a delight for the Jar'kai user to train, and he had actually wanted to take on Zule as an apprentice, but Glaive had beat him to it while Micah was out on a mission. Alecto was an excellent padawan, and as a Sentinel himself, Micah had even more to teach him then he had the two girls. But in terms of lightsaber training, the two were not very much alike, which hampered that area of Alecto's ongoing training, though Dooku and the other Masters had stepped into that gap here at the training center.
"So how do I do this? Do I just reach out to the Force with the idea of lightsaber crystals in my mind?" Harry asked, stepping forward so he was now actually within the hologram device, staring all around him at the lights of star clusters and at the other Jedi.
"That's essentially it, yes," Fay replied.
Alecto smiled, shaking his head. "I narrowed my choices down from those two planets to one when I was given the choice to try, but that was the only thing that the Force told me. Funnily enough, I know that Mak and Kass found twin crystals, though they didn't find them through the Force until they arrived on Ilum. After they did, however, it was like they were being pulled by a lodestar. The feeling is like you're being called, almost, or it was to me, a sound becoming louder in the direction you need to go."
Many of the other Masters and padawans agreed with that, only the Gand master remaining silent, as was his wont. Fay also didn't say anything. After all, she had never done this ritual herself, only seen it happen when she was younger.
"Okay, I think I have a handle as to what to do now, or at least what to look out for. Feel out for? When it comes to the Force, nomenclature is always weird," Harry said to a chorus of wry chuckles.
He breathed in, centering himself in the Force before raising both of his hands. This was a dramatic gesture that Harry didn't really need, but which did slightly help him concentrate his Force powers, and it seemed to fit the moment as well. And, as he spread his fingers, he sent out his mind into the Force, seeking guidance as to where he should go.
For several minutes the hall was silent as Harry's Force presence reached out. The Masters who had only seen him teach so far, those who didn't know Harry very well, were startled by the amount of power the youth had, his Force presence nearly creating an umbra around him, merging with that of Fay, Aayla and the Force Ghost, in some fashion they could not quite conceptualize.
They watched as Harry's arms first fell back to his sides, then his dominant arm rose, a single finger pointing to a section of the map. The section enlarged, seeming to blink for a moment as it downloaded from a long past version of itself. Then it expanded again and again, blinking each time, going further and further back to past stored versions. Harry's eyes opened, immediately seeking out his master's. "There, master. I will find what I seek there."
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