Yoda watched Mace comfort Obi-wan through slitted eyes. If any of his former padawans (and one in particular) had been in the room they would have rushed from the room in terror. THAT expression usually meant a hard whack on the shins and day doing menial labor. The expression did not last. It soon changed to one of sorrow. He sighed. It was such a burden to be placed on one so young. Obi-wan was only 15 years old. He had been coming to Mace and Yoda with his visions since he was 6 years old and he had first mentioned them to Yoda in the meditation gardens. As Yoda watched the boy he was overcome by memory.

***Yoda walked into the garden where the children from the creche were playing. He made a point to interact on a private level with each and every child in the temple. As he watching he noticed a young boy curled up in a patch on sunshine breaking through the trees. The small ginger haired boy was rocking himself slowly with no conscious thought. As Yoda approached the boy looked up and Yoda saw tear filled grey eyes widen in shock. The boy tried unsuccessfully to bring himself under control. Yoda seated himself next to the boy and spoke. "Hurt your self, did you?" "No Master Yoda." The boy whispered and looked away. "Then teased you are, by the others." "No Master Yoda. Well Yes. Kinda" "Then here why are you?" Yoda then looked at the boy and he crumbled. "I SAW something! It was dark and mean and it made me feel cold and yucky!" Yoda's ears perked up in shock. That the boy had felt so clearly what only a few others had sensed was shocking. Only those with the strongest connection to the Unifying force had felt the wave of darkness that had erupted through the force earlier that morning. Yoda looked at the boy again. "Wait here you will. Talk to your teacher I must." The boy nodded and shivered despite the warm day. Not long after the boy looked up to see Yoda again. "Come with me you will. Much to discuss we have." And led him away to his quarters. Thus starting a sad tradition that had yet to break.****

Yoda snapped out of his memories to see Mace lifting the boy (who was not nearly as small as the boy in his memory) and heading to the door. "Ensure you must that he sleeps the rest of the night. Session he has with the council in the morning." Mace nodded. "I had planned on it. His lack of sleep may be why this one was so... violent." Yoda's ears drooped. "Think that I do not. Reflections of the galaxy his visions are. Affected they are not by his sleep. Or lack of it. Sad it will be when this vision is fulfilled." Mace looked shocked and opened his mouth to say more but Yoda cut him off. "To bed, put the boy. Speak of this more we will, later." Mace nodded and headed out down the hallway.

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Yoda walked back to his seat after seeing Mace to the door. He sank down to try and meditate but as usual after young Kenobi left, the force was agitated. Anyone who was in tune with the Unifying Force could feel the turbulence left by such a vision. Those who felt that could also SEE the force swirling around the boy. It was an almost tangible force. There were times that even those with the least sensitivity could feel that there was something about Kenobi that made him different. So they pulled away. Consequently Obi-wan had very few friends. His master felt the something, and he too pulled away. And that is what caused the problems between Obi-wan and Master Jinn.

Qui-gon had almost no sensitivity to the Unifying Force. And what he did have he suppressed. So he had no way of realizing that his discomfort stemmed not from some defect or problem with is padawan, but from the force eddies that swirled around Obi-wan constantly. Qui-gon felt the fact that he was uncomfortable around Obi-wan meant that Obi-wan was not to be fully trusted lest he turn like Xanatos. But Qui-gon also felt that Obi-wan was a child of light. And wanted to connect because no child of light would turn to the dark. The dichotomy was tearing at him. So instead of pulling away completely he connected on a low level but never deeply. It left Obi-wan hanging and hoping for more one minute and being shunned the next. It wasn't a healthy situation. For either of them.

Yoda shifted and looked out onto the Corascant night. Obi-wan's visions had been getting stronger for the past several years. They were also coming more frequently. And while Obi-wan had exceptional shields they would not last through many more visions like the last one. Yoda had felt the echoes from his rooms. He rather suspected everyone in the temple had felt it one way or another. He also could feel that Obi-wan would not be able to hide the visions from Qui-gon much longer. He would either sense the disturbance, or more likely considering how dense his former padawan could be, Obi-wan would be thrown headlong into a full vision in Qui-gon's presence. And then the truth would come out. And Qui-gon would either deal with it in true Jedi fashion or he would recoil and reject Obi-wan. In which case either he or Mace would be acquiring a new padawan learner. He hoped it would not come to that.