Obligatory disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars or its proprietary characters,
like Darth Vader or the Emperor. I created Kyle and Kieran Katro, Tessa
Richards, C-3P1, and the group of aliens, who Cassandra first encounters.
Star Wars: Cassandra's Journey
By: Myst Dragon
Chapter 2
Roughly an hour after clearing the space station that she had recently awoken in, the young Katro began to meditate. As she meditated, she began to see the Force flowing through and around her, as well as everything around her. She saw that it was very similar to chi, except that chi only flows on the inside of living things, and is hard to focus for an external effect. Then she began to see her chi. Restricted to a focus level of an untrained person. Finally, she collected the pieces of her psyche and found herself inside a stone-carved temple. It was heavily shadowed. She looked around the temple that she often retreated to whenever she needed time to herself. On the walls were images of her mother, father, uncle, and other people that she had become close to. There was also an array of guns, as well as a katana with the blade reversed. The shadows seemed to hide a presence, which made her uneasy.
Cassandra: "I know you're there! Show yourself!" Out of the shadows, walks a blonde haired boy, with a sad, yet defiant look on his face. "This isn't you. Show me your true self!" The boy changes into a young man, who is sad and angry! "Closer, but not quite. I said 'Show me your true self.' Show me the being you've allowed yourself to become!" The young man then changes into Darth Vader. "Finally, I can finish this." She pulls her father's sword from the wall. As she slashes at Vader he pulls out his lightsaber, cutting off the blade of her sword! She looks at it, in shock. "This could be bad." Back on the ship, she falls on her wounded side, screaming in pain. "What's happening?"
After using an undershirt as a bandage, she goes to the cockpit and discovers that the ship had stopped, with all systems failing! She manages to launch an 'S.O.S.' buoy before its system powers down.
Cassandra: "This good. I'm much better off now, than when I first woke up on that table! Okay, it looks like I've got roughly half 'an hour, before I lose life support. At least I've still got short distance radio communications." Twenty minutes later a rebel fleet carrier drops out of hyperspace near her ship, and transmits a signal to her.
Carrier: "Identify yourself, and tell us your condition?"
Cassandra: "I guess it doesn't matter if these guys are imperial or not. I can't do anyone any good if I'm dead." She responds saying, "My name is Cassandra Katro, and almost all of this ship's systems have failed. I have about nine minutes before I lose life support."
Carrier: "Roger. We are locking on to you now, and will be drawing you into hanger two. The men, who will be standing by your ship, will be there as a security measure only. They will not attempt to board, unless you cause trouble."
Cassandra: thinking, "I feel a strange presence on that ship. It stirs a strange conflict in Vader's emotions. This is probably a rebel ship. I remember noticing a part of a log onboard that mentioned a 'rebellion'. I wonder if he feels Vader, in place of me?" As her stolen vessel is brought to a stop in the hanger, the feeling in the back of her mind becomes stronger, because she feels the presence stronger. She exited the ship holding her wound, which had been pulled open when she fell. She scanned the hanger and noted that the guards' uniforms were different from the ones she'd seen on the space station. She also confirmed that they were rebels when she saw their symbol on the ships in the hanger. Then she saw the cause of her uneasy feelings, a young man with sandy hair, and blue eyes. The top of his black outfit reminded her of a karate uniform top. Underneath that he wore a standing collar shirt. The guards hadn't been pointing their guns at her yet, so that seemed like a good enough sign. As the young man walked towards her, she seemed to feel the conflict in the dark lord's emotions grow stronger, and it was becoming more difficult to retain her composure.
Cassandra: "Please stay back." The young man stopped. "You feel Vader don't you?"
Luke: "Yes, is he in that ship?"
Cassandra: "No, he isn't anywhere near here. I am the one you are sensing. I've been experimented on, so I radiate energy like he does. I am Cassandra Katro, a wanderer, and you are?"
Luke: "I am Luke Skywalker."
A woman with dark-brown, braided hair, and brown eyes walks past the guards. She wears a white shirt, a brown vest, and brown pants. Cassandra could tell that she had been very active recently, but there was still a little baby fat left on her cheeks.
Leia: "And I am Leia Organa, and if Luke doesn't think there would be a problem let's get that wound looked at."
Luke: "I don't sense any threat from her."
Cassandra: "I'm so glad you approve." With that, Leia leads the young woman to a med room of the large ship. "Nice... and empty. Where's the stuff?"
Leia: "The Bacta is right here." The Alderanean picked up a cloth and dipped it into a bluish liquid. "Lay on the table, please."
Cassandra: "You aren't going to strap me down are you? I would never have pegged you for the type!"
Leia: "What!"
Cassandra: lying on her good side. "I'm just messing with you." Thinking "Too bad I can't keep joking like that to distract me from Vader's conflicted emotions about that boy. It's taking almost all of my concentration to use the force to block out the pain in my side. Wouldn't be nearly as ha..." her thoughts are interrupted as the princess places the cloth on her side. The added pain being the pebble that burst the dam, causing Cassandra to scream out in pain as she feels it all at once! "That wasn't to bad. Touch of a baby."
Leia: "The Bacta should have only stung a little. I don't understand."
Cassandra: "I was using the Force to block out the pain from my injury. It's harder with that boy around, so that little sting was all that it took."
Leia: "Do you mean, Luke?"
Cassandra: "Yeah, his presence stirs a conflict in the back of my mind, an annoying one."
Leia: "Stay here and rest, while the Bacta helps your wound heal. I'll see what our technicians can do about your ship." With that the woman leaves the injured wanderer in the med. room to rest. Cassandra decided to use the time to learn a little bit about what was going on around her, by pulling a display in front of her and accessing the ship's libraries.
The next day the youngest Katro had found a fair sized empty cargo room, and she began practicing her father's 'Art of the Dragon', which Kieran had adapted a heavier use of chi. She followed through one of the art's many intricate patterns. She felt Skywalker entering the room.
Cassandra: "Shoo fly. You bother me!"
Luke: "It might help if you talked about what's bothering you."
Cassandra: "I don't want to talk about it, and if I did, it wouldn't be with you." She spoke in a tight and controlled manner, maintaining her step in the pattern she was practicing.
Luke: "That's an interesting style, who taught you?"
Cassandra: "My father, now shut-up!"
Luke: "It might help you find peace within yourself, if you meditated."
Cassandra: whirling to face him. "Listen farm-boy! I would meditate if I could, but because I'm stuck so close to you, the tin man's emotions are making it almost impossible to focus!" With blazing speed she rushes towards him, pulling her acquired lightsaber into her hands, giving him barely enough time to defend himself! "You don't know what it's like to have someone else's raw emotions constantly clawing at your conscious mind! His emotions are hard enough to handle when there's nothing to stir them!" she leaps back and rushes him again in the exact same manner, but this time she shoves her knee into his gut when he blocks. She finishes him by stepping back and kicking him hard enough to send him flying into the wall, twenty feet away! He falls to the floor winded. "I sense that you believe you are capable of saving me from the dark side of the Force, but only I can save myself from what is within. I am a wanderer, and I will never be a Jedi or a Sith! I'm going somewhere that I know you won't follow me, the shower room."
Roughly two hours later Princess Leia enters the shower room to speak with the young wanderer.
Leia: "If whatever you've been trying to clean, hasn't come off yet, it most likely won't."
Cassandra: "I can't help but wonder about you. First in the med. room, and now your approaching me in the shower!"
Leia: "You are incorrigible! Do you always joke around like that?"
Cassandra: "Not always. Mostly it's when things seem really bad. I feel like I can trust you, so I'm going to tell you something that I normally wouldn't tell a person I don't really know to well." She pauses "I... I'm scared. These emotions. This presence. Vader's raw emotions were placed in be with no rational guides or thoughts of what brought them to being. I feel them trying to become part of a whole, with me. They're struggling to make me something I'm not, and I'm frightened I might lose."
Leia: "Don't worry, I think you can do it. You just have to be willing to accept other people's help every now and then. I almost forgot! That ship you were on had some parts that weren't properly connected; so a lot of them burned out and to protect itself, the power core began to shut down. The ship is a Nubian C34 Cargo ship, so some of the parts will have to be manufactured in the machine room. In about a day our technicians should have it fixed. It's a shame that you can't stay and fight along side us."
Cassandra: "I'm sorry, but I need to resolve a personal problem first, maybe afterwards, as a way of saying thanks for your help. My father used to be referred to as the 'True' Wanderer, back on Earth. He helped people everywhere he wandered. He also blindly influenced people's lives in a positive manner, not realizing that a prophecy about him being the key to our world finding balance was actually true! When I was five he'd already settled down, and started passing all of the martial arts he'd learned to me. You can tell your friend that he shouldn't feel bad about me kicking his butt. I've been at it much longer!" The rebel leader couldn't help but laugh at Cassandra's last comment. The next day the youngest Katro gave thanks and said good-bye to her newfound allies, and set course for Tatooine.
Luke walks into the hanger where Leia is waiting.
Luke: "I couldn't see past Vader. The part of him inside of her is just too intense."
Leia: "So, is that how she beat you?"
Luke: "What!" he can't help, but shake his head and laugh. "That would be half of it. The other would be her style. Her attack was ferocious, but also calculated. She needs to be wary of the dark side."
As she finalizes the course and makes the jump to light speed, she notices a presence behind her. She stands up, sharply turning around to face, a platinum colored, humanoid droid.
C-3P1: "I am sorry to have startled you ma'am. I am C-3P1, human/cyborg relations, at you service."
Cassandra: annoyed, "Why are you here?"
C-3P1: "I had been assigned to this ship, to aid its owner. My primary functions are assisting in diagnosing ship malfunctions, and translation. Would you be Cassandra Katro?"
Cassandra: "That's me. Why?"
C-3P1: "So you are now the owner of the ship. Thank goodness! The previous owner did not take kindly to my advice and had me shut down. May I ask a question?"
Cassandra: "Shoot."
C-3P1: pauses confused, "I don't believe that firing in this area would be advisable."
Cassandra: shaking her head, "Just ask the Question."
C-3P1: "Why did you change the name of the ship to, the 'Lost Soul'?"
Cassandra: "I didn't, but I think it fits me quite nicely." She smiles genuinely, as she feels things will be quite interesting on her journey. "Can you keep track of the controls and make sure nothing else goes hay- wire while I get some rest?"
C-3P1: "I am quite able of performing that task." Hearing that the young wanderer goes into a room in the back of the ship, and quickly falls asleep.
As the young woman opens her eyes, she finds herself back in the cave where she found the Jedi Starfighter. She is wearing her wrap-around shirt and the tan leather jacket that her father gave her.
Cassandra: "I must have been more tired than I thought. Let's see what's down this cave!" She starts walking through the cave and stops as she hears a familiar voice.
Kieran: "Cass! Don't go down there!" Cassandra turns around to see her father. Most people would guess that he was thirty, but a few knew why his aging had been slowed. His manner of dress fit his casual attitude, black jeans, and a slate long-sleeved shirt, with three buttons down the collar. His short brown hair was mostly combed back, with bangs hovering over his right eyebrow. As she looked into his chestnut colored eyes, she feels the strength and compassion of his spirit.
Cassandra: "Dad! What are you doing here?"
Kieran: "I'm here to warn you about what is inside the cave."
Cassandra: "It doesn't matter who or what is down there. I'm Cassandra Katro, and I can handle anything!"
Kieran: "Cass, I know you can handle yourself, or I never would have accepted you becoming a wanderer. A direct fight is not what you'll find down that cave. You will find a ship that will take you to a distant part of the universe, with little hope of returning home. Strange people will restrict the flow of chi in your body, and will replace it with a strange ability. They will also place a strange psyche into your mind that will struggle against your own. Are you sure you want to go down that path?"
Cassandra: with a slightly amused look on her face "I'm a wanderer, like you were, and always have been. You might not travel long distances anymore, but you've never really settled down. I travel wherever the wind blows me, like you used to. If I don't take this path someone who needs my help wouldn't get it. I'm sorry, but I can't be that selfish. And who knows, maybe I'll find whatever it is that I'm looking for!"
Kieran: smiles warmly. "Let's hope you do find that, as well as a way home so your mother can yell at you for not keeping in touch."
Cassandra: smirking "And people wonder were I get my sense of humor."
Kieran: "Just remember that I've given you all of the tools you'll need to protect your psyche, such as the mental discipline to do this." The elder Katro held his hands close to his chest as if he was holding a ball, and he closed his eyes. As he meditated his face changed from one of compassion, to one of annoyance. Sparks of energy began to fly between his hands, and eventually a ball of energy forms between his hands. When he is satisfied, he thrusts his hands forward, releasing a barely visible blast of energy. While the blast itself is barely visible, the affect on the cave wall is very visible. "No matter what happens I will always be with you in spirit."
Cassandra's eyes suddenly fly open and she sits up looking around disappointed as she looks around. A sad expression falls across her face as she balls up.
Cassandra: "I didn't get to say goodbye. I want to go home."
Star Wars: Cassandra's Journey
By: Myst Dragon
Chapter 2
Roughly an hour after clearing the space station that she had recently awoken in, the young Katro began to meditate. As she meditated, she began to see the Force flowing through and around her, as well as everything around her. She saw that it was very similar to chi, except that chi only flows on the inside of living things, and is hard to focus for an external effect. Then she began to see her chi. Restricted to a focus level of an untrained person. Finally, she collected the pieces of her psyche and found herself inside a stone-carved temple. It was heavily shadowed. She looked around the temple that she often retreated to whenever she needed time to herself. On the walls were images of her mother, father, uncle, and other people that she had become close to. There was also an array of guns, as well as a katana with the blade reversed. The shadows seemed to hide a presence, which made her uneasy.
Cassandra: "I know you're there! Show yourself!" Out of the shadows, walks a blonde haired boy, with a sad, yet defiant look on his face. "This isn't you. Show me your true self!" The boy changes into a young man, who is sad and angry! "Closer, but not quite. I said 'Show me your true self.' Show me the being you've allowed yourself to become!" The young man then changes into Darth Vader. "Finally, I can finish this." She pulls her father's sword from the wall. As she slashes at Vader he pulls out his lightsaber, cutting off the blade of her sword! She looks at it, in shock. "This could be bad." Back on the ship, she falls on her wounded side, screaming in pain. "What's happening?"
After using an undershirt as a bandage, she goes to the cockpit and discovers that the ship had stopped, with all systems failing! She manages to launch an 'S.O.S.' buoy before its system powers down.
Cassandra: "This good. I'm much better off now, than when I first woke up on that table! Okay, it looks like I've got roughly half 'an hour, before I lose life support. At least I've still got short distance radio communications." Twenty minutes later a rebel fleet carrier drops out of hyperspace near her ship, and transmits a signal to her.
Carrier: "Identify yourself, and tell us your condition?"
Cassandra: "I guess it doesn't matter if these guys are imperial or not. I can't do anyone any good if I'm dead." She responds saying, "My name is Cassandra Katro, and almost all of this ship's systems have failed. I have about nine minutes before I lose life support."
Carrier: "Roger. We are locking on to you now, and will be drawing you into hanger two. The men, who will be standing by your ship, will be there as a security measure only. They will not attempt to board, unless you cause trouble."
Cassandra: thinking, "I feel a strange presence on that ship. It stirs a strange conflict in Vader's emotions. This is probably a rebel ship. I remember noticing a part of a log onboard that mentioned a 'rebellion'. I wonder if he feels Vader, in place of me?" As her stolen vessel is brought to a stop in the hanger, the feeling in the back of her mind becomes stronger, because she feels the presence stronger. She exited the ship holding her wound, which had been pulled open when she fell. She scanned the hanger and noted that the guards' uniforms were different from the ones she'd seen on the space station. She also confirmed that they were rebels when she saw their symbol on the ships in the hanger. Then she saw the cause of her uneasy feelings, a young man with sandy hair, and blue eyes. The top of his black outfit reminded her of a karate uniform top. Underneath that he wore a standing collar shirt. The guards hadn't been pointing their guns at her yet, so that seemed like a good enough sign. As the young man walked towards her, she seemed to feel the conflict in the dark lord's emotions grow stronger, and it was becoming more difficult to retain her composure.
Cassandra: "Please stay back." The young man stopped. "You feel Vader don't you?"
Luke: "Yes, is he in that ship?"
Cassandra: "No, he isn't anywhere near here. I am the one you are sensing. I've been experimented on, so I radiate energy like he does. I am Cassandra Katro, a wanderer, and you are?"
Luke: "I am Luke Skywalker."
A woman with dark-brown, braided hair, and brown eyes walks past the guards. She wears a white shirt, a brown vest, and brown pants. Cassandra could tell that she had been very active recently, but there was still a little baby fat left on her cheeks.
Leia: "And I am Leia Organa, and if Luke doesn't think there would be a problem let's get that wound looked at."
Luke: "I don't sense any threat from her."
Cassandra: "I'm so glad you approve." With that, Leia leads the young woman to a med room of the large ship. "Nice... and empty. Where's the stuff?"
Leia: "The Bacta is right here." The Alderanean picked up a cloth and dipped it into a bluish liquid. "Lay on the table, please."
Cassandra: "You aren't going to strap me down are you? I would never have pegged you for the type!"
Leia: "What!"
Cassandra: lying on her good side. "I'm just messing with you." Thinking "Too bad I can't keep joking like that to distract me from Vader's conflicted emotions about that boy. It's taking almost all of my concentration to use the force to block out the pain in my side. Wouldn't be nearly as ha..." her thoughts are interrupted as the princess places the cloth on her side. The added pain being the pebble that burst the dam, causing Cassandra to scream out in pain as she feels it all at once! "That wasn't to bad. Touch of a baby."
Leia: "The Bacta should have only stung a little. I don't understand."
Cassandra: "I was using the Force to block out the pain from my injury. It's harder with that boy around, so that little sting was all that it took."
Leia: "Do you mean, Luke?"
Cassandra: "Yeah, his presence stirs a conflict in the back of my mind, an annoying one."
Leia: "Stay here and rest, while the Bacta helps your wound heal. I'll see what our technicians can do about your ship." With that the woman leaves the injured wanderer in the med. room to rest. Cassandra decided to use the time to learn a little bit about what was going on around her, by pulling a display in front of her and accessing the ship's libraries.
The next day the youngest Katro had found a fair sized empty cargo room, and she began practicing her father's 'Art of the Dragon', which Kieran had adapted a heavier use of chi. She followed through one of the art's many intricate patterns. She felt Skywalker entering the room.
Cassandra: "Shoo fly. You bother me!"
Luke: "It might help if you talked about what's bothering you."
Cassandra: "I don't want to talk about it, and if I did, it wouldn't be with you." She spoke in a tight and controlled manner, maintaining her step in the pattern she was practicing.
Luke: "That's an interesting style, who taught you?"
Cassandra: "My father, now shut-up!"
Luke: "It might help you find peace within yourself, if you meditated."
Cassandra: whirling to face him. "Listen farm-boy! I would meditate if I could, but because I'm stuck so close to you, the tin man's emotions are making it almost impossible to focus!" With blazing speed she rushes towards him, pulling her acquired lightsaber into her hands, giving him barely enough time to defend himself! "You don't know what it's like to have someone else's raw emotions constantly clawing at your conscious mind! His emotions are hard enough to handle when there's nothing to stir them!" she leaps back and rushes him again in the exact same manner, but this time she shoves her knee into his gut when he blocks. She finishes him by stepping back and kicking him hard enough to send him flying into the wall, twenty feet away! He falls to the floor winded. "I sense that you believe you are capable of saving me from the dark side of the Force, but only I can save myself from what is within. I am a wanderer, and I will never be a Jedi or a Sith! I'm going somewhere that I know you won't follow me, the shower room."
Roughly two hours later Princess Leia enters the shower room to speak with the young wanderer.
Leia: "If whatever you've been trying to clean, hasn't come off yet, it most likely won't."
Cassandra: "I can't help but wonder about you. First in the med. room, and now your approaching me in the shower!"
Leia: "You are incorrigible! Do you always joke around like that?"
Cassandra: "Not always. Mostly it's when things seem really bad. I feel like I can trust you, so I'm going to tell you something that I normally wouldn't tell a person I don't really know to well." She pauses "I... I'm scared. These emotions. This presence. Vader's raw emotions were placed in be with no rational guides or thoughts of what brought them to being. I feel them trying to become part of a whole, with me. They're struggling to make me something I'm not, and I'm frightened I might lose."
Leia: "Don't worry, I think you can do it. You just have to be willing to accept other people's help every now and then. I almost forgot! That ship you were on had some parts that weren't properly connected; so a lot of them burned out and to protect itself, the power core began to shut down. The ship is a Nubian C34 Cargo ship, so some of the parts will have to be manufactured in the machine room. In about a day our technicians should have it fixed. It's a shame that you can't stay and fight along side us."
Cassandra: "I'm sorry, but I need to resolve a personal problem first, maybe afterwards, as a way of saying thanks for your help. My father used to be referred to as the 'True' Wanderer, back on Earth. He helped people everywhere he wandered. He also blindly influenced people's lives in a positive manner, not realizing that a prophecy about him being the key to our world finding balance was actually true! When I was five he'd already settled down, and started passing all of the martial arts he'd learned to me. You can tell your friend that he shouldn't feel bad about me kicking his butt. I've been at it much longer!" The rebel leader couldn't help but laugh at Cassandra's last comment. The next day the youngest Katro gave thanks and said good-bye to her newfound allies, and set course for Tatooine.
Luke walks into the hanger where Leia is waiting.
Luke: "I couldn't see past Vader. The part of him inside of her is just too intense."
Leia: "So, is that how she beat you?"
Luke: "What!" he can't help, but shake his head and laugh. "That would be half of it. The other would be her style. Her attack was ferocious, but also calculated. She needs to be wary of the dark side."
As she finalizes the course and makes the jump to light speed, she notices a presence behind her. She stands up, sharply turning around to face, a platinum colored, humanoid droid.
C-3P1: "I am sorry to have startled you ma'am. I am C-3P1, human/cyborg relations, at you service."
Cassandra: annoyed, "Why are you here?"
C-3P1: "I had been assigned to this ship, to aid its owner. My primary functions are assisting in diagnosing ship malfunctions, and translation. Would you be Cassandra Katro?"
Cassandra: "That's me. Why?"
C-3P1: "So you are now the owner of the ship. Thank goodness! The previous owner did not take kindly to my advice and had me shut down. May I ask a question?"
Cassandra: "Shoot."
C-3P1: pauses confused, "I don't believe that firing in this area would be advisable."
Cassandra: shaking her head, "Just ask the Question."
C-3P1: "Why did you change the name of the ship to, the 'Lost Soul'?"
Cassandra: "I didn't, but I think it fits me quite nicely." She smiles genuinely, as she feels things will be quite interesting on her journey. "Can you keep track of the controls and make sure nothing else goes hay- wire while I get some rest?"
C-3P1: "I am quite able of performing that task." Hearing that the young wanderer goes into a room in the back of the ship, and quickly falls asleep.
As the young woman opens her eyes, she finds herself back in the cave where she found the Jedi Starfighter. She is wearing her wrap-around shirt and the tan leather jacket that her father gave her.
Cassandra: "I must have been more tired than I thought. Let's see what's down this cave!" She starts walking through the cave and stops as she hears a familiar voice.
Kieran: "Cass! Don't go down there!" Cassandra turns around to see her father. Most people would guess that he was thirty, but a few knew why his aging had been slowed. His manner of dress fit his casual attitude, black jeans, and a slate long-sleeved shirt, with three buttons down the collar. His short brown hair was mostly combed back, with bangs hovering over his right eyebrow. As she looked into his chestnut colored eyes, she feels the strength and compassion of his spirit.
Cassandra: "Dad! What are you doing here?"
Kieran: "I'm here to warn you about what is inside the cave."
Cassandra: "It doesn't matter who or what is down there. I'm Cassandra Katro, and I can handle anything!"
Kieran: "Cass, I know you can handle yourself, or I never would have accepted you becoming a wanderer. A direct fight is not what you'll find down that cave. You will find a ship that will take you to a distant part of the universe, with little hope of returning home. Strange people will restrict the flow of chi in your body, and will replace it with a strange ability. They will also place a strange psyche into your mind that will struggle against your own. Are you sure you want to go down that path?"
Cassandra: with a slightly amused look on her face "I'm a wanderer, like you were, and always have been. You might not travel long distances anymore, but you've never really settled down. I travel wherever the wind blows me, like you used to. If I don't take this path someone who needs my help wouldn't get it. I'm sorry, but I can't be that selfish. And who knows, maybe I'll find whatever it is that I'm looking for!"
Kieran: smiles warmly. "Let's hope you do find that, as well as a way home so your mother can yell at you for not keeping in touch."
Cassandra: smirking "And people wonder were I get my sense of humor."
Kieran: "Just remember that I've given you all of the tools you'll need to protect your psyche, such as the mental discipline to do this." The elder Katro held his hands close to his chest as if he was holding a ball, and he closed his eyes. As he meditated his face changed from one of compassion, to one of annoyance. Sparks of energy began to fly between his hands, and eventually a ball of energy forms between his hands. When he is satisfied, he thrusts his hands forward, releasing a barely visible blast of energy. While the blast itself is barely visible, the affect on the cave wall is very visible. "No matter what happens I will always be with you in spirit."
Cassandra's eyes suddenly fly open and she sits up looking around disappointed as she looks around. A sad expression falls across her face as she balls up.
Cassandra: "I didn't get to say goodbye. I want to go home."