Dear Master,

It's been four days since I've first arrived. Coruscant is so different than what I imagined it to be. The people here are very nice and I have already made friends. However, the food is worst than the people as we are served gray lumpy soups that resemble the porridge you make every time you attempt to cook. I must say that your porridge taste better as it has a burnt taste while this has no taste. It is like I am eating air with a lumpy texture. I long for a bowl of rice now. Maybe my wish will come true if we can deal with the other matters they have on other planets before they can deal with our issue. I do not know where I can train and I have yet to ask. These days have very busy. I keep on getting lost in the buildings and I feel as embarrassed and shy as I was when I first entered the Roshigumi headquarters. Hopefully things will get better and I can be more familiar. Maybe I will even learn to like the food here.

From,

Hong Linali

Lin closed the seal of the envelope with a lick of her tongue. She vaguely remembered that the mail slot was next to the mess hall and thought," I'll take the letter there when I go get lunch." In the past few days, she had taken care of all official business and was finally able to settle down. She wanted to train though. To hear the slicing sound of her sword cutting through the air and the feel of cold metal. Lowering her hand to her waist, she felt the black lacquer of her sword sheath and the groves where gold designs were embedded. There was also the feel of a red silky ribbon tied tightly around it. What was tied to her waist was the only thing she lived for other than her master. Linali was currently the only one in the barracks as all the other men had gone who knows where. Her head turned to the door when she head the whooshing sound of the door being slided open.

A familiar voice said," Hey Linny!"

The only person who called her Linny was Tup. He was covered in sweat but had a victorious grin on his face. His whole body just screamed," I came from training and I'm sweaty from winning against somebody." She knew it too well.

She smiled lightly and asked," Did you come from training?"

His shocked face was enough," Um Yes. How did you know? Wait never mind...you're a captain so you should know."

She nodded and asked," May I ask where you train? Like is there a place designated for practice?"

" Yes would you like me to show you?"

She nodded eagerly. This was her chance to finally get some practice. After days of not doing anything active, she was growing mentally restless. He quickly wiped of some sweat with a towel and the sweat on his tear shaped tattoo glimmered like a real tear. They started out down the hallway leading to the mess hall but turned into an unfamiliar corridor. She encountered some more sweaty clones chatting noisily and a few waved to Tup. Again, she felt quite alien here as she was also used to bowing to her superiors and having people bow to her; in which she responded with an acknowledging nod. He walked through a set of automatic sliding doors that resembled the Mess Hall's doors. Inside was a ocean of clones and Jedi training. Some were concentrated like there was no tomorrow. Others socialized and exchanged jokes.

" Hi Lin! I'm so glad you could finally join us for training!"

Ashoka was waving energetically from a bench with a water bottle in the other hand. A blue skinned twi'lek nodded at her. After exchanging a glance with Tup, she tentatively stepped towards them. Ashoka got up and walked towards her.

" Hey Lin! You here to train?"

" Um yes."

" Alright then! What do you want to do? Cardio? Stealth? Sparring?"

" Um sparring seems nice."

" Alright good choice! You can spar with me but...um I'm not so sure if my lightsaber can spar with your umm…"

" Katana."

" Ah yes katana. I think my lightsaber will cut through it."

Lin smirked and replied," Our katanas are designed to withstand everything including jedi lightsabers. We didn't want to take chances of having our swords break when holding off foreigners."

" Alright then. Let's start!"

Ashoka led Lin through a sea of clones and jedi. There was a strange structure with glass walls. It looked like a mini arena surrounded with walls to protect the people watching outside. There was a pad of buttons attached to the wall and Ashoka pushed a few of them and the walls suddenly disappeared. " Wow. I haven't seen anything like that." she thought.

They both walked inside and Ashoka explained," Alright the rules are simple. We just spar any way you want. The one who manages to disarm their opponent is the one who wins. Winner gets loser's desert."

" Alright." she replied while thinking," Honestly the dessert tastes like water so that's no problem for me. However, I won't lose to a jedi."

Her face darkened as she took her stance against Ashoka. Ashoka cocked her head. Linali's stance was quite strange. Her sword was still stuck inside its sheath and she put her hand on it grabbing the hilt. The group stood motionless; both waiting for the other to strike. By that time a small group of onlookers had gathered. Everyone was talking about the new girl and they were all rather curious to find out what skills she had.

Linali smirked to herself. They probably thought she was a little sissy and that Ashoka could take her down with no sweat. " I've spent years practicing day and night on this technique. It has never failed me and it never will."

Ashoka thought to herself," Come one! Why isn't she moving?! She's probably waiting for me to make a move. Well, no matter since this is gonna be a piece of cake. The girl looks so frail and skinny that she can stand to eat a bit more than she does."

Ashoka let out a battle cry and lunged at her. Instead of flinching back like she thought she would, Lin continued to stand there staring boredly at her. " Is she trying to show off or something?" Ashoka pondered while running.

However, Linali was doing the quite opposite. She was known in the Roshigumi for her ability to observe her opponent's skill in the middle of battle. Observing helped her decide her approach. She was never known to be predictable. Captain Hong would go aggressive with one, than gentle yet fast with another. That was her strength and many other's weaknesses. Suddenly, when Ashoka was in earshot of Lin, Lin swung her sword at her and blocked Ashoka's strike. She pulled with such force that Ashoka grunted in pain as the shock travels mercilessly down her arm. She decided to swing again only to have Lin block it.

This was how it went " back and forward". Ashoka would swing and lunge while Lin took defensive and blocked. However, she did not seem to be in a desperate position. Her gaze traveled up to Lin's eyes. She knowticed that there was something off about her right eye.

Ahsoka gasped," Her eye's changed!" The normally wooden brown eyes had morphed into blood red. Surrounding the pupil were three black dots joined by a circle. They spun slowly in a circle. It seemed to be mesmerizing and she couldn't help but stare.

This made Ashoka lose focus and suddenly her vision blurred. However the feel of cold metal on her neck made her attention snap back. There were the cool metal of Lin's blade on her neck and the black haired wielder stood behind her with her hands on Ashoka's shoulder. She had cornered her.

Lin said coolly," I guess I won this round."

Ashoka stammered," H-h-how did y-y-y-you do that? I didn't even see you!"

Lin sheathed back her sword in one smooth motion and said nothing. She turned her back towards her and merely just said," The only thing I will tell you is that attack is meant purely to kill. If we had been truly fighting, you would be dead right now. It is called Muon Satsujin."

With that she pushed her way out of the observing crowd leaving Ashoka still standing with her mouth agape.

" Eh Snips, looks like newbie beat you." taunted Skywalker waking up next to her.

" S-She h-her eye. There is something weird with her eye!" she stammered

Skywalker put an arm around her and said," Now now Snips. I understand you lost but that doesn't mean you have to go round blabbing some nonsensical nonsense."

" You don't understand Master! Her eye turned red! She mentioned something about Muon Satsujin. I'll go ask Fives to help me search it up."

She tore his arm off her shoulder and ran out of the practice room. Master Aayla was still in the room however. She walked over to Skywalker and mumbled," Looks like she's not to happy about losing. Please keep an eye on her Skywalker."

He mentally groaned and replied," Of course. She never likes losing."

He ran out after her leaving the blue skinned twi'lek shaking her head. Student after Master.

Linali walked back to the barracks. Her vision in the right eye was starting to blur already.

She thought," Ugh It's happening again?!"

Her walke speeded up to a run and she ran to her bunk. She covered her eye with a hand and already felt the warm sticky flood flowing onto her fingertips.

" Dammit!" she whispered angrily.

Sorting through her bags she hastily pulled out a white silk cloth and held it against her eye. " I can't believe that it's not healed yet!" she thought angrily.

Currently she was the only one in the room. Suddenly Tup's voice came out," Hey Linny I just saw you beat the crap out of Commander Tano. Dang girl you're tougher than you loo-"

He stopped short when he saw her hunched over on her bottom bunk with a white cloth bundled against her right eye. The white was stained with little bloomed flowers of blood. She looked up silently and stared at him. Tup's eyes widened. He gawked.

" Lin is your eye bleeding?! We need to get a medic." he yelled

He was about to bolt out before her cold hand shot out to grab his. She said," No that isn't necessary! This is normal. The bleeding will stop soon enough. It's my fault that I used it and didn't cover it with the eye patch."

She lowered the bloody cloth to reveal her eyes. They were red and had three black drops surrounding the pupil. Blood seeped out of the eye and it looked like she was crying blood tears.

Tup nodded and sat down on the bunk next to her. The two remained silent as she wiped the blood off her face. She sighed and went through a bag while pulling out a crisp white eye patch. Tying the patch across her face she let out another sigh.

" Don't tell anyone about this. If my master finds out, he'll worry himself so much that the old man can't sleep."

" Kay but seriously...what was that?"

" It's called a Sharingan. It's a genetic mutation to an eye that allows the user to see their opponents muscle movement. That allows to us to predict one's movements. I injured my eye a while back and I was on strict orders to not use it so I could let it heal. Guess I should have listened."

" Yup. Is there anything I can do though."

She smiled and pulled her finger up to her mouth to make a "shhh" motion. He laughed.

" Come on. Let's get dinner."