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Chapter 6

"Wow, I wonder what's going on?" Anakin said, as he sat down in the main hallway watching Jedi rushing back and forth like a head of headless chicken.

"Dunno," Strat said, "But whatever it is, it must be big." Lumi and Strat were sitting with Anakin in the hallway. For some reason the Room of a Thousand Fountains where they usually met was closed.

"Must be if all our Masters have been recalled," Lumi added from where she sat.

"It was a bomb," Cha said as he walked up.

"What?" Strat said. They were all shocked.

"In the Room of a Thousand Fountains, that's why it's been closed," Cha said, sitting down. "We'll be here a few months with our Masters in various meetings."

"Well at least we'll have time to catch up this time," Anakin said. When they had met up the year before last, it had been cut short with Strat leaving on another mission. They were almost certainly going to staying around for a while now. Lumi and Ani's Masters were on the Council, Qui gon having been asked a couple of years ago. Strat's Master was on the Council as well and Master Kenobi as he was referred to now, having been promoted earlier in the year, was high up in the Grey Guild and so would be heading up an investigation from the Temple. In any case, it was chaos.

"Listen guys, I have something to ask you," Strat said, slightly uncomfortable.

"What is it?" Lumi asked, concerned.

"I found something out on my last mission, something serious, and haven't told my Master, it's kinda sensitive," Strat said, his discomfort increasing.

"Come on, you can tell us," Anakin said.

"Maybe somewhere a bit quieter," Cha suggested, they all nodded and moved to Lumi's apartment as it was closer. On the side on the kitchen table was a freshly baked cake. Seeing their pleading looks Lumi shook her head.

"Un uh," she said, "This is for Master Yoda."

"Suck up," Cha grumbled. Cha had become Lumi's greatest fan and often begged her cakes, bread and cookies. Lumi often gave in, she had heard from Qui gon what an abysmal cook Obi Wan was and felt sorry for him.

"I'd like to see you tell the head of the Order no if he asks you to bake him a cake," Lumi said with a raised eyebrow. "Besides, yours is in the oven," she said walking away and checking on it.

"Alright, Strat, what is it?" Anakin said when they were all sitting down.

"We were on the Kestler moon," Strat started, Lumi put a glass of water in front of him. She had a tendency to mother them all, it was something deeply ingrained in her behind the mocking façade, it was something only the people closest to her saw.

"Go on," Lumi encouraged with a small smile.

"Well, to put it bluntly, Senator Etiq from Tathem is kidnapping women from here on Coruscant and selling them as slaves," Strat blurted out.

"Your sure of this?" Cha said, "Etiq is a powerful Senator, going against him would be near impossible," Cha had a good knowledge of the workings of the Senate and saw the corruption.

"Positive, I heard it from one of the victims myself," Lumi rubbed his shoulders comfortingly, Strat obviously didn't like repeating all this.

"Why haven't you told Master Bevan Mak?" Lumi asked.

"They are very good at covering their tracks. The only people taken have nothing hardwired in the system, it's as if they don't exist. Everything is done in cash, they have no registered address and no family or friends. They're invisible, as are the people that take them. The Council would need something concrete before even thinking of going after them. And there isn't anything there."

Anakin was leaning back in his chair thinking. "We need to be sure that the Council won't act first, then we'll think of something to help these people."

"Anakin, talk to your Master, he's the one most likely to tell us something," Lumi said, getting up to get the cake out of the oven. "Once we have something more definite we will go after the sons of bitches."

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