Dagobah Slip Stream
Part Fourteen
Kir had awoken early that morning, unable to sleep. Not because he was excited. No, it was nothing more romantic than his internal clock screaming he was late to his post.
Something about years of military training… he laughed. It sounded like something Cas would say in her oh-so rare candid moments.
He made the call to the Medical Officer, he had arranged for the two of them to see one of the older, female medics that had already had children of her own. Knowing she would have experience and knowledge on the subject.
Next, he called the members of the council. He had got Xan. The Head of Intelligence, had always been an early riser, even when they were little boys. Again, military training is something special.
After a few moments Xan agreed to send one of their Jedi Healers over to stay with Cas. Well, actually what they agreed upon was getting Master Yue to order a Master Healer/Midwife to stay with her. Once Cas was pregnant, that is.
She would never refuse the order of a superior, even if she would that of a friend.
He then went to take a shower, as he did every morning, but he took a slow, leisurely cleansing shower. He was just climbing out when the door chime sounded.
He pulled on a towel and rushed out of the refresher station. He then exited his room, into the main room of the suit, to the door.
When he got there, he let in Syn.
"Is Cas here?" She asked.
"I think she's still asleep."
The blonde apprentice raised one eyebrow. The closest the Dathomirian girl ever allowed herself to come to questioning a superior. Cas had trained her very well, in many respects.
He shook his head. "I haven't checked on her yet. Master Yue said to let her sleep late. Let me go pull on some pants and we'll go check."
She nodded and stood outside his room while he when to his closet. "What do you need from her?" He asked as he came out, pulling his zipper snug.
"Master Yue wants the data files on the apprentice's standings as duelers, as Master Cas evaluates us."
He nodded as they walked down the hall at the other end of the chamber. He knew that they had mentioned it.
When they reached the door he typed in his security override code. It allowed Cas's Guards enter and exit silently when they wanted to check up on her without bothering her. But, like now, it also let them override her night lock.
They saw Cas sitting on the bottom windowsill of the almost wall-sized window that allowed light into the master bedchamber. She sat in the middle of a meditation circle.
The circle sat in the middle of a Nich-Quay square. The square, according to Cas, was part of the Jude Chi Jiin meditation cycles. It allowed one to mediate and move, learning to use the gauntlet and adjust your balance to compensate for it. Attuning your self to how the individual gauntlet altered your appearance in and view of the Force.
The square was marked off by large pyramid-like Holocrons. The Holocrons warned viewers how close they could come to her while she meditated and provided the needed information for proper use of the gauntlet in her possession.
That way she only had to keep the prominent information on the use of Jude Chi Jiin and its basic techniques in her head all the time. If she needed to know more she would have to go through meditation cycles and search the holocrons for what she needed.
They watched as the large gauntlet retracted. Normally it stood anywhere from a quarter centimeter encircling her fingers to four centimeters off her forearm. It became a small patch of silver with its crystal blue focusing jewel on the back of her hand, and an intricately carved piece of silver on the back of her forearm.
She took a deep breath and her 'wall of knowledge' collapsed back into the holocrons. She looked up at them and raised her eyebrows questioningly.
"Syn has come from Master Yue for their dueler standings."
She gestured languidly over to a data pad at their feet.
"Syn." She spoke her voice was lower then it should be, but then he was always a little different after spending time in the holocrons, and the Force. "After dinner tonight, I want you to take the Padawans that are big enough to reach the pedals to the simulators, the ones in the Jedi hangar. I want you all to practice until lights out. Invite any Guardsmen you can steal away."
She then turned her attention on Kir and waited.
"I've arranged an appointment for us for one o'clock with a female medic, Dr. Tressa Nicks."
She looked at him a moment later, expecting more. When he didn't say anything she nodded and stood. "I'm going for a walk." She turned out the large window.
"Something's out there, waiting for me."