Children of the Force
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Qui-Gon came over and smiled.
"I am going back to get a little sleep," he said. "You go ahead with your friends, Padawan."
"Come on," Asa said, grabbing one of his hands and tugging him down the hallway. "Petin and I are going on patrol soon. You can come with us."
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Obi-Wan tried to clear his mind as he followed Asa and Petin through the hallways and to a large room. So many thoughts were going through his mind, he was ready to scream. He stopped, closed his eyes, and forced himself to calm down.
Breathe in...
"Obi-Wan?" Asa's voice broke into his thought. He opened his eyes. "Are you all right?" He smiled reassuringly.
"Don't worry about me," he told her. "Worry about your missing friends. And hope that I can do as Omou and Suru say, when the time comes."
Petin cocked his head. "How do you know now is not the time?" Obi-Wan blinked; then he shrugged.
"Eh, who knows. I don't. Must be the Force." He grinned. Petin gave him a strange look, then shrugged.
"Well, come on, then," the younger boy said, "Time for patrol."
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Obi-Wan, Asa, and Petin moved through the lower levels, keeping to the shadows as they passed beings from all over the galaxy. As he looked around, Obi-Wan felt he could almost be back in Coruscant. Except, in Tomidu, there was a supressed feeling of...well, he couldn't quite place it. Not really fear...it was almost...defeat. He mentally shrugged away the feelings and turned to Petin.
"What exactly are we doing?"
"Keeping an eye out for the Neru." He gave Obi-Wan a side glance. "They are the "policing force" for Lord Jogi. Kinda strange how he organized it right after the COTF first escaped from the camps and made an organized resisitance." The latter was said in an obvious sarcastic manner.
"How do the Neru distinguish a memeber from an ordinary citizen?" he asked, looking around at the abundance of the younger generation running around. Asa answered, a strange look in her eyes.
"Nobody knows. Not even Omou and Suru. Or if they do, they haven't told anyone. They aren't really called the Neru. That's the name Shinzo gave them, which means "to sleep" in our ancient language. I'm not sure why she calls them that-" Petin cut her off, slicing the air with his hand, and pressing into the shadows in a dark alley.
"Neru," he hissed. Obi-Wan peered at the crowded streets. His eyes fell on two figures marching through the streets, dressed in black with the symbol blazed in bright red on their backs. The people did not scatter as he expected they would, but spread out to a respectful distance. He sent out a probe with the Force, and to his surprise, the wave recoiled against something and flowed back. The Neru's heads snapped toward them and he felt as if they were staring right at him.
"Uh, Petin, I think they saw us, " Asa whispered. Even as she spoke, the blasters that came up in the Neru's hands confirmed it. Obi-Wan reached for his lightsaber, and froze as another wave of the Force flowed toward him. With a rush of horror, he realized that it came from the Neru.
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