SUMMER IS HERE! So to start it off here is a new chapter!
Chapter 9- "What did you find?"
After Turk left, Sasha sent a message to her master giving him an update on the mission then she sent a message to Kate and Nathan to look up anything on the missing, Rylan Talken. Now she was calling the Governor himself to see what he can provide on his eldest disappearance.
"This is Governor Talken," Talken answered.
"Governor, this is padawans Monroe," Sasha said. "I've got a question for you."
"Fire away," he said.
"Can you tell me about your eldest, your son Rylan?" she asked.
There was silence on the other end for a moment.
"First, my eldest is my daughter Ashlyn, who is three years older than Rylan," he said softly. "Second, what do you want to know?"
"How he went missing and your relationship with the Dean?"
He sighed. "14 years ago, my eldest son Rylan was walking home from a study session at a friend's house. My wife and I heard a scream out front. We both ran only to see his bag and books on the ground, but he was nowhere in sight. We searched the town before we called the police to help find him. They searched for two years and didn't find him. They presumed him dead, but we didn't believe it." He took a shuddered breath before continuing. "Now the Dean was my rival in the race for Governor. I beat him out with 70% of the vote. Let's say he wasn't happy… at all. The interesting thing is that Rylan went missing a month later."
"Did you think Dean Myers was responsible?' Cayden asked.
"We assumed, but he left Vitia two weeks after I won Governor," Talken said. 'We didn't hear from him again until her took the job as Dean of the Academy ten years ago."
"I still think it's him," Kai whispered to Izzy.
Sasha glanced up at them with a raised eyebrow.
"Thank you, Governor," she said. She hung up.
"Now what?" Ahsoka asked.
Cayden looked at the chrono then at Sasha.
"We've got three hours until dinner. So why don't you, Ahsoka, and Izzy go talk to Lili?"
"Alright," she said moving to stand. "And what will you two do?"
Kai and Cayden exchanged a glance.
"We'll ask Rye or Jolene to see if they know anything," Cayden said.
"Okay then, but we need to meet back here an hour before dinner to debrief each other. Understood?"
Everyone nodded.
"Good, may the force be with us," Sasha said as they went to change out of their uniforms before going.
"Oh my gosh, dude, she said the line!" Kai said star struck to Cayden. Cayden chuckled.
Two hours later…
Like said before, the group gathered in Sasha and Izzy's room for the debrief. Cayden and Kai went first.
"So Jolene and Coach Rye actually gave us something to work with," Kai said.
Cayden nodded. "According to Coach Rye, he was speaking with Gil in that very same hallway. He says he left to meet up with Jolene for lunch, but when he heard the scream, he turned around and headed back. Gil was dead when he got there."
"And you don't think he could have killed Gil?" Ahsoka asked.
"Heck no!" Kai said. "I've known Coach Rye since I've been here, and he is one of the coolest and nicest teacher at this school. He would never lie…would he?"
"I used the force to tell if he was lying," Cayden said. "It came up negative. He was telling the truth."
"Then what about Jolene?' Izzy asked.
"She's cleared," Kai said. "She was in the lunch room when it happened."
"Alright so Jolene and Rye are not suspects but did they notice anything unusual?" Sasha asked.
The boys shook their heads. She sighed.
"How about Lili?' Cayden asked.
"We asked her about what she knew and she was afraid to answer," she said. "I believe she is still traumatized from his death and doesn't want to talk."
"I wanted to use a mind probe," Ahsoka pointed out.
"We wanted to get information, not harm her further," Sasha reminded her. "Sometimes you're like Master Skywalker."
"Well you're just like Master Kenobi."
They both grinned, cheeky grins. Cayden smiled, but got them back on topic.
"Maybe we'll get there once this settles down a little for her," Cayden said.
Ahsoka froze. "We may not even have that kind of time."
"What do you mean?" Izzy asked confused.
Cayden and Sasha felt it too.
"What's going?' she looked at Kai. 'Did they find another clue? Is this a Jedi thing? What did you find?"
"We didn't find anything," Sasha said. She turned pale white. "They found us."
CLIFFY! Who are "they"?
BTW: I love how Kai is a total Jedi fan, like geeky fan. I love geeks!