Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up, but its the end of the year and I've had college stuff to do. In this chapter I hope I've made it clear that it's up to you whether you think Kyia is right or not as thats kinda revelant to later chapters. Anyway, hope you enjoy it, thanks for another nice review strider's girl. Oh and check out my latest story, the adventures of bunny foo foo in the sw universe, its my first proper attempt and humour fic so feedback would be gr8.

Kyia took a deep breath to compose herself before stepping out into the sunlight, knowing that she would need it. Her short Master was flitting about the gardens gently muttering to himself, it was as agitated as she had seen him in a while.

"Hmm good yes?" He took a flower by the stem smelt it then stuffed it into his mouth, raising an ear as if making a cryptic point.

"You're early" She commented, ignoring it.

"No, you are late, getting hungry I was" He indicated the flower, bringing it back to her attention, "Taller you have grown" He glanced up at her "Not getting as much air up there I think"

Kyia gave him a wry expression and sat down on the grass beside him "I know what I'm doing, this feels right."

"Less air makes a Jedi's brain work less well," Yoda continued.

"What about Quelenas? I have a duty to my planet," She countered, out of all the encounters she had endured the Jedi Master was the only one that had caused her to lose her centre, Kyia felt like a young initiate back at the temple again, "The Republic is tearing itself apart, I can't let them become a part of that".

"And what of your duty to the Jedi hmmm? Or what believed in your parents did?"

Kyia held up her hand as if to direct the comment away "Don't bring them into this"

"Rejecting many people you are"

The Quelena turned her eyes to the floor, no longer being able to look him in the face "I don't know how else to fight this"

"From the inside" He pressed

She shook her head "I have to protect my home, I swore an oath to them too, I have terrible dreams".

Master Yoda put a small hand on her shoulder, "Make the nightmares disappear leaving the Republic will not".

Kyia took another breath and straightened herself up "Maybe not, but it will keep Elphora out of them"

The Jedi Master shook his head "Reckless you are being. Outside the Republic investigate the Sith I cannot, protect I cannot, risk that would you?"

Kyia looked back aghast "So the Council would just abandon me?"

"No choice they will have" He whispered, suddenly feeling tired, he liked it about as much as she did that bureaucracy had such a hold on the Order "Growing a separatist movement is, be seen to aid it we cannot".

"But Elphora would never…"

He cut her off "Believe that the Senate will? Naïve you have grown. Seen as an act of discourse any aid given would be. Trusts we would lose. The resulting isolation, playing into the Sith Lord's hands you would be".

The Quelena sighed, "Okay I get it, but either way I'm Kesseled, and the Force has not given me a clue to what I should do. All I've got left is doing what I believe is right."

Yoda closed his eyes, his ears lowering in concentration as he stretched out with the Force. A breath escaped his narrow lips as he returned his never faltering gaze to Kyia "Speak to me it does not, always in motion the future is".

"See".

The old man quietened his voice in concern for his ex-padawan "How feel you?"

"Like I've been to Tartaris and back" She smiled softly, sensing it.

"Have you?"

Kyia laughed releasing tension, "No, worse, Hapes".

He pricked his ears up for a second in understanding "Kyia, please, leave do not, as your former Master I beg you, hurt you will be".

Kyia shook her head "I can't do that, I'm sorry Master Yoda".

He hissed, banging his gimmerstick on the ground in frustration, "Your father's stubbornness I sense in you, need that you do not! Learn what is requested of you must".

"I'm not a child anymore, I do not need another lecture on responsibilities, I know better than anyone what they are right now. I will not be caught unprepared like Master Qui Gon Jinn and Obi Wan were".

Yoda made a brief silent note at the informal use of Kenobi's name but the point Kyia made was valid, in their arrogance the Jedi had been unaware and they had paid for it "Help that now we cannot".

She shook her head again "I disagree, I do not think Anakin wants to lose another Master. The poor boy will start to think he's jinxed".

The Jedi Master did not say anything, he did not have to, a nudge from the Force and Kyia's extra sixth sense said enough.

"You think he's dangerous, don't you?"

His eyes narrowed "What we are discussing this is not." A wall went up around his thoughts to scupper Kyia's probing mind.

However she had known him long enough to spot a blatant change in subject when she saw one "He's just a kid, I don't think he's got the Exar Kun Sith alphabet datacard under his bed".

"Grave danger I sense in his training, fearful he is"

The argument started to pick up pace "He's just a child with no training, torn away from his mother, home planet with strong Jedi abilities, of course he's going to be scared, he'd have to be a droid not to be".

"Fear leads to anger…"

She cut off his mantra "No, its how you deal with fear that counts, everyone gets scared, no matter what the Code says."

Yoda's jaw visibly dropped "When for eight hundred years you have trained Jedi, an opinion you can have"

Kyia stared back at him stubbornly "Anakin is a sweet boy, if you gave him a chance you'd see that instead of a Sith Lord in the shadows"

"Hmmph" Yoda glared back with just as much intensity "One to talk about seeing Sith Lords in the shadows you are not. On Elphora too long have you been, above you a large universe there is. Forgotten that I think you have. "

"And I'll be damned if I let the Sith use Elphora as a stepping stone to getting control of it" She countered.

Yoda stood up and exhaled, letting the volume in his voice dissipate "Give him an easier time you will then" He began to walk away, over his shoulder he muttered "Alienate those who care about you, you will".

Kyia closed her eyes, wondering why life had to be so difficult at times. She stood and returned to her rooms where Obi Wan was waiting for her.

"Well?"

"Don't ask" She sat down beside him on the settee.

"That bad?"

Kyia leaned her head on his shoulder, suddenly grateful he was there "Worse. He told me that if I left the Republic the Jedi Council couldn't intervene. He doesn't think much of Anakin does he?"

Obi Wan remembered his encounter with the Jedi Master after he had told him that he would take Anakin as his padawan learner "I don't think it's that simple, he's just being mindful that's all"

"I know" She relaxed as he moved his arm around her "Considering Jedi aren't allowed to be angry that was one of our worse arguments" Kyia paused "I should probably go and apologise for my disrespect when he's calmed down".

Obi Wan chuckled, finding the thought of an argument between Yoda and Kyia strangely amusing "I wonder, how did you get through being his padawan without one of you killing the other".

"Wasn't easy" Kyia commented, half in jest "Mind you, he played a part too, some of the things he said were insensitive, do you think I'm…"

"Whoa" He held up both his hands in a gesture of surrender "I know better than to get caught in the middle of you too"

Kyia sniggered "Sorry".

He looked at her and smiled; when she smiled at him back he leaned in for a kiss.

The new intercom buzzed

"I swear I've only had that thing for a couple of diacts and already I want to skewer it with my sabre already".

Obi Wan grimaced "Me first"

She pressed the button and Anice's voice crackled down the intercom "I thought you'd better know, Master Yoda is leaving, what did you say to him?"

Kyia sprang up "Oh no. Has his ship lifted off yet?"

" 'Fraid so"

"Okay, thanks Anice". She turned the com off. "Great, just great." Suddenly she had this great urge to retreat back into the forest, she did not. That was the old Kyia, the new Kyia realised that the problem would still be here when she got back "I'll talk to him when I go to Coruscant to sign the release cards. No doubt the rest of the Council will have something to say too". Kyia sighed and went and sat back down "Things are going from bad to worse".

Something flickered inside Obi Wan, the feeling of not being in control anymore, as if the Force was randomly shifting them from one path to another "I think whatever happens, it's history that we are making right now".

She nodded "But everything's getting darker, I can feel it".

The other Jedi closed his eyes, he knew what she was talking about, that elusive disturbance that he had felt on Naboo, Kyia had picked up on it "I sense it too".

"See?" Kyia grinned darkly "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everyone's not out to get you".

"Very funny" His reply laced with sarcasm. He raised an eyebrow, his eyes grazing over her "I thought you only turned blue when you get wet?"

"Huh?"

He kissed her gently "Your lips are blue"

"Tired" She closed her eyes and placed her head back on his shoulder "Its more discrete than giving everyone a view of your tonsils like humans do".

"It's called yawning"

"Whatever" She leaned further into him

"Kyia"

"hmmm?"

"You asleep?" There was no reply, the silence and Kyia's shallow regular breathing answering his question "Me too".

Anice opened the door quietly intending to tell Kenobi that his apprentice was sleeping sound in his room to find his master in a similar position. She saw them asleep on the blue sofa underneath the window. Obi Wan was leaning on the large arm and Kyia had her head on his shoulder with her legs sprawled beside her.

"Cute" The old woman whispered to herself whilst backing out and shutting the door lightly. She felt a sadness that whatever Kyia had found in Obi Wan could not last, but that was tomorrow's troubles and right now Kyia deserved her rest.

The whole Palace, it seemed had come under the same hypnotic spell of rest as if it knew that it would not see the likes of it in years. Outside small flying mammals rested on the branches of tall trees making papery whispering sounds to each other as they settled in, soothing the disturbed air. Then from the mountains the Elphoran equivalent of rain, a grey white mist descended to refresh the planet's population, the other creatures unaware of galactic troubles, because of the lack of relevance to their lives.

It was in this calm that Kyia lapsed into another dream, this one guided heavily by the Force.