By the end of his month with the Baran Do Sages, Jacen came to master various other techniques in their Order, at least on a basic level. He came to summon small whirlwinds and came to control lightning in a way that was similar to the Jedi's own Electric Judgement technique, and he felt himself more and more centered, a common philosophy in the Sages' Order. Jacen felt much of his guilt over Luke's death disappear as a result, though there was still always a tiny niggle of that guilt in the back of his mind, and Jacen felt that he would continue to grieve over Luke's death on some level for a long time.
There wasn't much that Jacen could learn beyond the more advanced techniques of the Baran Do Sages and some combat, but as Jacen practiced some of the combat techniques against other Baran Do students, all of whom used wooden staffs in place of something like a lightsaber, he found very little that was different from any Jedi martial arts. And given that the Baran Do Sages did not emphasize the need for martial arts, for they did not believe in it as strongly as the Jedi, Jacen found it amazing that this Order had any standards for martial arts at all; and he was even more impressed that there were students who managed to defeat him in sparring practices. Fortunately, there were a few students that he himself was able to beat, so his ego wasn't totally bruised.
And throughout it all, the vague vision that he had experienced and told Master Ziil on that day in the Training Hall, in front of all those other Baran Do Sages, was never discussed again. Neither Master Ziil nor any of the other Sages ever brought it up again, at least not to Jacen, and the latter, in turn, did not want to discuss something that the Force-sensitive Kel Dors around him didn't want to talk about. So he never brought it up again in his further training sessions with Master Ziil or in what few interactions that he had with the other Sages in their Temple.
Nevertheless, at the end of his month with the Baran Do Sages, he felt that he had learned enough; anymore time here, and he felt that he would be a full-on, committed student of their arts. The entire point of his sojourn was to spend a little time here and there learning at least the basics of other Force sects' tenets, not to choose one as a permanent decision.
Master Ziil was understanding of this when Jacen told him, and saw him off to the Solo Quest, which had been refueled and maintained under the Baran Do Sages' expense as Ziil allowed it.
"I am glad that you had come to study under us, Jacen," Ziil told the human as they stood at the foot of the Quest's lowered boarding ramp. 'If you ever wish to continue studying under us, you are more than welcome to return and possibly become a full-time student. We do not get many non-Kel Dor students in this Order."
"Thank you for the offer, Master Ziil," Jacen said with a formal, polite bow. "But my place is not here. I have a personal obligation to learn under other sects, to see what they have to say about the Force. And I must say that your Order's teachings were very... enlightening." Jacen emphasized the last word for comedic effect; it was a pun on the Sages' control over electricity.
Ziil tittered. "Amusing.
"But, you know, Jacen," Ziil continued in a more serious tone, "I know that we have not talked about that vision that you had some weeks back. So I wish to speak to you of it now."
"What is there to say, Master Ziil?" Jacen asked. "I experienced a vision that I don't even understand, and I'm the one who's in the best position to understand it!"
"Precisely," Ziil agreed. "Which is why it is so problematic. Jacen, you have experienced a vision that no other Kel Dor has ever experienced, and the vagueness of that vision is not an indicator of your baseline training of our ways. On the contrary, even though our visions are more concrete, you have experienced something, as I have said after you first explained your vision, that not many Force-sensitives in the galaxy could ever possibly experience. And that makes you someone special, Jacen. It was not something that we Baran Do have talked about since your vision, and we have kept it to ourselves, so that it would not interfere in our activities, such as my teachings to you.
"But because of that specialness, which I do not even quite understand, you have foreseen a dark time that could rival either the fall of the Jedi Order under Palpatine's hand or the invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong. For this, we, the Baran Do Sages, will do our best to take special precautions, with whatever visions that we achieve from the Force and what we feel to be the right course of action on a united front. I only hope that whatever you predicted can be stopped, and I feel that you, the foreseer of whatever that nightmare was, might have the power to stop it.
"That is what I wish to end our time together on, Jacen."
Ziil then placed a mask and set of goggles over his face that fed him helium and Dorin's special unknown gas, and he allowed Jacen to lead him up into the Solo Quest. They reached the cockpit, where Jacen closed up the ship's boarding ramp before activating the Quest's airvent system, sucking out the alien world's gases that invaded the vessel and replacing it all with human-suited oxygen.
And that finally allowed to remove his oxygen-providing mask and protective goggles before passing them off to Ziil.
"Thank you for all that you have taught me, Master Ziil," Jacen said with one last formal and polite bow.
Ziil reciprocated the bow. "And thank you for learning under me, Jacen. Farewell."
The Kel Dor then turned and left the cockpit, only for Jacen to stop him from traveling any further through the ship by saying, "Master Ziil."
"Yes?" the Sage Master asked when he turned back to face the human.
"Seeing that you could see into the future," Jacen said, "at least to a limited degree... does that mean that you foresaw me coming to your world?"
Ziil tilted his head, as if mimicking a human smile in his Kel Dor way. "Sadly, no. But I had welcomed you all the same, had I not?"
Jacen smiled. "Yes, you did. And I'm eternally grateful for that." He nodded. "May the Force be with you, Master Ziil."
"And with you, Jacen."
Jacen turned back and shut the cockpit off from the rest of the Quest before opening up the boarding ramp, allowing Ziil to leave. After shutting the ramp back up, Jacen had the rest of the ship vented off the helium and Dorin gas again before flooding it back in with more oxygen, allowing him to open the cockpit back up to the rest of the vessel again.
Before long, the Quest was up off the deck, the ceiling above the ship open for it to soar up and out into the dark dusty skies above. After that, it pierced through the atmosphere, broke out of Dorin's gravity well, and jumped into hyperspace for the Hapes Consortium.
