Chapter 1
Blair moaned holding her face in her hands. She knew that if she failed this trial she wouldn't be allowed to begin semester 2 of her Jedi training. Her brown wavy hair slipped over her shoulders as she laid her head on the glass table.
"You look so glum" her friend Eden smiled sitting beside her. She was wearing her white robes with her hip length dark brown hair falling on her belt. Eden had green eyes that were the colour of a rare stone that could only be found on her birth planet Gujarat.
"Yeah you would be too if you were going to be kicked out of the last place that you could call home. Blair looked similar to Eden but a little different. Blair's brown hair was wavy and her eyes were the colour of Kinup's sky that was a very pale crystal blue.
"You won't fail." Eden was going to try and persuade her but she was right. Blair never got good marks on her tests. She had a high level of power running through her but she was never really good at trials.
"Don't try and tell me different. You know I will" Blair wiped building tears from her watery eyes. Eden sat beside her and wrapped her arm around her shoulder.
"Look I don't know whether I am any good at this now but I'll give it a go" Eden smiled.
"Huh?" Blair looked at her puzzled.
"Can you hear my voice?" Eden was speaking in Blair's mind and Blair jumped up with her eyes wide.
"How did you just do that?" she asked and Eden smirked.
"When I was little I used to scare my brother at night dong this and this is the first time I have done it for 6 years. I'll tell you the answers this way" Blair nodded.
"Thanks, but if they catch us." he voice trailed off.
"Have you got any better ideas? Or do you want to g back to Batik Tower?" Eden asked sternly and Blair lost herself in her thoughts of whips stinging her back every night and dark cold rooms with no windows.
"Fine" Blair agreed. When Blair was growing up she was sent to an orphanage known as Batik Tower on the far side of Corisan. The tower stood 124 gigots high with little to no widows in the rooms.
It was run by shadowy figures knows as Batikian's who were twice the size of an average human dressed in black cloaks. Their yellow eyes would glow orange when they were mad which was when a child cried or felt some kind of happiness.
The only time a Batikian was a rest was when every child was so miserable that their life was drained from them leaving them pale with all but no colour left in them. Their hair would turn a pale shade of blue and their eyes would become empty and white.
In Blair's case master Yoda had sensed the power hiding in her when she was 6 and saved her before she had become a soulless body just lying there not speaking or moving, just being fed once a day.
Blair was now scared for life afraid of dark places, shadowy people and now she never sleeps in the dark. Eden had given her a small crystal with lightning trapped in it that shone brighter than a light saber two years ago when they had first met which Blair had never left her room without.
A loud ping sounded from the top of the Jedi council and Eden and Blair stood up. Blair scrambled to pick up all of her papers of the table. Her seat floated backwards as she pushed it away and Eden caught it with her mind stopping it.
"Oh thanks" she stuffed the sheets into her folder and made her way towards block B where their trials were being held. Eden was almost guaranteed a place in practical lessons as she had an ability in which she remembered things really well and was just a natural at using a light saber.
"Just calm down" Eden patted her o the back as they jogged up the marble shining floor. It was a metallic blue and black splash on a white colour supposedly to resemble the shower of Meterorea.
The shower of Meteorea was hundreds of years ago that only Master Yoda had seen. The story goes that when the force began to slide out of balance a water planet called Prussia exploded causing the sky to shine a blinding white with splashed of blue and black.
As they both entered the trial room they gazed up at the way the room was set. It was in a circular dome with chairs rising right up to the roof in rows and columns. In the center of the room was a projector that would show their teacher if he was unable to be there or another image such as the galaxies.
Eden jogged up the spiral staircase and sat in the middle of the dome while Blair sat at the front so that she could get a better view believing that it may help her become a better paduane.
The tabletops flipped over and a clear glass screen rose up from the opening in the middle of the table. Blair jumped and her hand shook as she singed into the computer with her mind.
All Jedi and paduane could use their minds against the weak minded and on artificial intelligence. However, Eden somehow could communicate rather as well as the common mind trick.
"Begun now the trial has" Yoda hobble leaning on his walking stick. He sat down on the dish that he rod around on and begun to meditate as the class closed their eyes and began to answer the questions.
Eden scanned her eyes over the question quickly. The question read; Jedi are keepers of the peace but in the case of a droid attack shall the Jedi fight or defend? Eden went with defend, if the test was going to be this easy she was sure to get 100%.
"Blair, it's defend" Eden thought looking at the next question. After 45 questions they had to label diagrams of speeders, shifters and other mechanical things in the case of a speeder chase. They had to know what procedures were to be used in what circumstances and so on and so on.
"Computers down, trial is over" Yoda slowly opened his eyes as the computers shrunk into the desk. Eden stretched her arms down at Blair who smiled back at her.
Eden ran down the stairs jumping the last 10 steps and landing hard on the floor. She smirked at Yoda who shook his head friendlily at her before she ran outside towards the food stall.
A droid waddled up to her as she rested her elbows on the table pulling her cream coloured sleeves back. She dug into her leather belt pocket for some credits. She pulled out a few Republican coins and closed her fist tightly around them.
"C-can I help you?" the droid stammered and she looked up at the menu.
"Yeah can I get a medium well swap rodda and a cup of that red stuff he has" she nodded to the guy next to her who was hidden by a darker Jedi cloak than she was wearing.
"C-certainly" the droid waddled over to the machines that spun around with all kinds of different swap roddas and Chiniks.
"It's a Shirien chilled" the hidden Jedi said in a blank monotone. Eden moved her head forward to try and see who it was.
"Thanks" she smiled turning away when they lowered their head. The droid handed her the Swamp Rodda and drink as a tapping noise approached her from behind.
"See you I must, young Eden" Yoda's i8nability to say a proper sentence made her cringe. She was busted.
Blair moaned holding her face in her hands. She knew that if she failed this trial she wouldn't be allowed to begin semester 2 of her Jedi training. Her brown wavy hair slipped over her shoulders as she laid her head on the glass table.
"You look so glum" her friend Eden smiled sitting beside her. She was wearing her white robes with her hip length dark brown hair falling on her belt. Eden had green eyes that were the colour of a rare stone that could only be found on her birth planet Gujarat.
"Yeah you would be too if you were going to be kicked out of the last place that you could call home. Blair looked similar to Eden but a little different. Blair's brown hair was wavy and her eyes were the colour of Kinup's sky that was a very pale crystal blue.
"You won't fail." Eden was going to try and persuade her but she was right. Blair never got good marks on her tests. She had a high level of power running through her but she was never really good at trials.
"Don't try and tell me different. You know I will" Blair wiped building tears from her watery eyes. Eden sat beside her and wrapped her arm around her shoulder.
"Look I don't know whether I am any good at this now but I'll give it a go" Eden smiled.
"Huh?" Blair looked at her puzzled.
"Can you hear my voice?" Eden was speaking in Blair's mind and Blair jumped up with her eyes wide.
"How did you just do that?" she asked and Eden smirked.
"When I was little I used to scare my brother at night dong this and this is the first time I have done it for 6 years. I'll tell you the answers this way" Blair nodded.
"Thanks, but if they catch us." he voice trailed off.
"Have you got any better ideas? Or do you want to g back to Batik Tower?" Eden asked sternly and Blair lost herself in her thoughts of whips stinging her back every night and dark cold rooms with no windows.
"Fine" Blair agreed. When Blair was growing up she was sent to an orphanage known as Batik Tower on the far side of Corisan. The tower stood 124 gigots high with little to no widows in the rooms.
It was run by shadowy figures knows as Batikian's who were twice the size of an average human dressed in black cloaks. Their yellow eyes would glow orange when they were mad which was when a child cried or felt some kind of happiness.
The only time a Batikian was a rest was when every child was so miserable that their life was drained from them leaving them pale with all but no colour left in them. Their hair would turn a pale shade of blue and their eyes would become empty and white.
In Blair's case master Yoda had sensed the power hiding in her when she was 6 and saved her before she had become a soulless body just lying there not speaking or moving, just being fed once a day.
Blair was now scared for life afraid of dark places, shadowy people and now she never sleeps in the dark. Eden had given her a small crystal with lightning trapped in it that shone brighter than a light saber two years ago when they had first met which Blair had never left her room without.
A loud ping sounded from the top of the Jedi council and Eden and Blair stood up. Blair scrambled to pick up all of her papers of the table. Her seat floated backwards as she pushed it away and Eden caught it with her mind stopping it.
"Oh thanks" she stuffed the sheets into her folder and made her way towards block B where their trials were being held. Eden was almost guaranteed a place in practical lessons as she had an ability in which she remembered things really well and was just a natural at using a light saber.
"Just calm down" Eden patted her o the back as they jogged up the marble shining floor. It was a metallic blue and black splash on a white colour supposedly to resemble the shower of Meterorea.
The shower of Meteorea was hundreds of years ago that only Master Yoda had seen. The story goes that when the force began to slide out of balance a water planet called Prussia exploded causing the sky to shine a blinding white with splashed of blue and black.
As they both entered the trial room they gazed up at the way the room was set. It was in a circular dome with chairs rising right up to the roof in rows and columns. In the center of the room was a projector that would show their teacher if he was unable to be there or another image such as the galaxies.
Eden jogged up the spiral staircase and sat in the middle of the dome while Blair sat at the front so that she could get a better view believing that it may help her become a better paduane.
The tabletops flipped over and a clear glass screen rose up from the opening in the middle of the table. Blair jumped and her hand shook as she singed into the computer with her mind.
All Jedi and paduane could use their minds against the weak minded and on artificial intelligence. However, Eden somehow could communicate rather as well as the common mind trick.
"Begun now the trial has" Yoda hobble leaning on his walking stick. He sat down on the dish that he rod around on and begun to meditate as the class closed their eyes and began to answer the questions.
Eden scanned her eyes over the question quickly. The question read; Jedi are keepers of the peace but in the case of a droid attack shall the Jedi fight or defend? Eden went with defend, if the test was going to be this easy she was sure to get 100%.
"Blair, it's defend" Eden thought looking at the next question. After 45 questions they had to label diagrams of speeders, shifters and other mechanical things in the case of a speeder chase. They had to know what procedures were to be used in what circumstances and so on and so on.
"Computers down, trial is over" Yoda slowly opened his eyes as the computers shrunk into the desk. Eden stretched her arms down at Blair who smiled back at her.
Eden ran down the stairs jumping the last 10 steps and landing hard on the floor. She smirked at Yoda who shook his head friendlily at her before she ran outside towards the food stall.
A droid waddled up to her as she rested her elbows on the table pulling her cream coloured sleeves back. She dug into her leather belt pocket for some credits. She pulled out a few Republican coins and closed her fist tightly around them.
"C-can I help you?" the droid stammered and she looked up at the menu.
"Yeah can I get a medium well swap rodda and a cup of that red stuff he has" she nodded to the guy next to her who was hidden by a darker Jedi cloak than she was wearing.
"C-certainly" the droid waddled over to the machines that spun around with all kinds of different swap roddas and Chiniks.
"It's a Shirien chilled" the hidden Jedi said in a blank monotone. Eden moved her head forward to try and see who it was.
"Thanks" she smiled turning away when they lowered their head. The droid handed her the Swamp Rodda and drink as a tapping noise approached her from behind.
"See you I must, young Eden" Yoda's i8nability to say a proper sentence made her cringe. She was busted.