Mmm…this is good…they finally got the cocoa mix right! I take another sip, this time a marshmallow makes it into my mouth. All the better. The Master on the other end of the table smiles at me. Ugh… I give her my best I-don't-want-to-talk-I'm-drinking-cocoa look. Doesn't seem to have worked… Oh yes! The happiness-patrol has gotten up and left the building! I quickly turn back to my marvelous cocoa. Mmm…This is good…
A couple hours later, I am wandering in the halls. Suddenly I find myself in front of Nejaa's room. Before I can even knock, the door bursts open and a happy faced nephew peeps outside. "Let's go do some saber practice." I suggest.
"But Master is…"
"He'll be fine. Come on."
"You sure…"
"Come on worry-wort."
Eventually Nejaa pops outside and walks with me down to the training room. As my nephew chatters away at me I suddenly suggest, "Hey, I'll race ya!" And I go thundering down the halls. "Hey!" Shouts Nejaa as he thunders down after me. As I open the door to the training room Nejaa finally catches up to me. He races up onto the training pad and hops back from foot to foot waiting for me. I hear shouting from a different section of the temple, but dismiss it almost instantly, and rush up the join my nephew.
About an hour later, we are in the thick of battle, the lightsaber's hissing and clashing echoing around the room.
"You're getting better." I tell him.
"Really? Aw, your nice Aunt Jaz!"
With a flick of my lightsaber I disarm him and catch his flying lightsaber in my free hand. "Maybe I was too nice, eh?"
Nejaa sighs, and opens his mouth to reply but he is cut off as a Master flies into the room.
"You're a Halcyon, right?" She breathlessly quires, coming up at a full sprint. "Please, help me hide! I have a lot of angry Master on my tail!" I recognize her as the ice cream eater in the cafeteria, as I toss the lost lightsaber back to my opponent. I can feel the "lot of very angry master" racing through the halls towards us. As Nejaa ignites his weapon, I reply to the Master, "You better run" and I block with a high parry an attack from Nejaa. Looking over at her again, I say to the open mouthed, shocked Master "Now might be a good time" and I attack back at Nejaa as she flees the room, taking the far right hall as her excape. Soon after she leaves, Qui-gon Jinn enters the room in a full gallop, looking around the room, he sees the tail end of a brown robe exiting the left hall on the side of the room. As soon as he leaves, Nejaa switches of his lightsaber and asks me, "How did you get him to enter the wrong hall?"
"Simple. Its something I know and you don't"
"Aww… come on, you can tell me.
Hopping out of the ring I don't hear Nejaa's plea as I ponder who, and how one could make Qui-goon so mad… and where did Qui-gon got those red splotches from? "Time for you to go home." I tell Nejaa
"But I don't wanna!"
"Too bad. Go"
"Humph."
As Nejaa leaves the room, the tired, running master peeks around the corner and walks up to me. And I tell her "Your friend is at the far end of the temple by now." She gives me a big smile. "To think I didn't finish my ice cream for that."
