Chapter 14. Friendship
Over the next three months Mason and Gallad became the best of friends and soon they started sparring with each other. Mason became a sharper edged weapon that the sith try to make him, while Gallad learned some new lightsaber moves. The Jedi Council disapproved because Gallad wasn't trying to sway the young sith from the dark side. He told them that he understood Mason better than they did and that their destinies were intertwined.
Siella was also apart of that friendship as well and had a desire to attend the opera. They were special guests of the Supreme Chancellor and sat in his private suit to watch the opera. Of course six Republic soldiers had to be on hand, because death threats had been issued at Mason because of his old ties to the sith. A padawan had leaked the information to the media and many people were demanding that Mason be made an example of.
The director of Republic intelligence wanted to move Mason, but he refused stating that he could protect his wife better on Coruscant. Every week Gallad would have dinner with Mason and Siella who was now seven months pregnant and her child beemed in the force like a light beacon in the mists.
Siella was happy as well with her husband and new life she was living. The pain of loosing her family was still there, but it was a little easier with love she had for Mason and their unborn child. She could see the change in Mason, no longer was he the moody emotional man she met over eight months ago. The anger and hate was still there under the surface, but his role as her husband, his friendship with Gallad and the expectation of their unborn son seemed to diminish all that. Sometimes Siella would speak to Gallad about this and he would smile and make small compliments about it. ("He is hiding something…") Mason thought to himself.