Part 8
Jysella Horn allowed herself to collapse into her seat and close her eyes as the last of the Shamed Ones returned to their hiding places. More than a year had passed since her ship exploded and she had 'died'. More than a year since she had somehow landed in a transport to Coruscant. More than a year since a group of rogue shapers had rescued her. She would have been dead were it not for the shamed Yuzzhan Vong who rescued and healed her. Upon discovering her lightsaber, the Coruscanti Shamed Ones asked the Jedi to lead and redeem them.
As the Jedi Knight relaxed herself and allowed the Force to flow through her, Jysella, for the first time since she was shot down, sensed another Force-sensitive in the system. By the nine Corellian hells! Saved!
The diminutive Jedi had to contact whoever was in the system. The Galactic Alliance must learn of the temporary damage Jysella Horn, through the hands of Yuzzhan Vong pariahs, had caused all the dovin basals in that core system. If that person had entered the system a month later, a year's work on the parts of Jysella and the Yuzzhan Vong Shamed Ones would have been undone.
The sudden rush of hope faded as the young Jedi realized that whoever was in the system, the person was not conscious and definitely not able to convey her information to the Alliance.
A thud bug hit Jysella's jaw and the Jedi began to lose consciousness. In a brushing motion, her right hand sent her lightsaber down a hidden chute in into the quarters of her most trusted rescuers. She had known that she would eventually be betrayed and captured and she was prepared. The Yuzzhan Vong would capture an unconscious Jedi, but her weapon would remain intact and her ex-warrior friend would have something to fight with when the time comes for her to escape.
"Jeedai, we have you at last! My superiors will be most pleased."
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Master Shaper Sa'eth Kwaad gave a slightly relieved smiled beneath his implants as he heard the report from a priestess of Yun Yuzzhan. The supposedly dead Jeedai Jysella Horn, had been captured alive and scheduled to be sacrificed in two weeks. To make the situation even better for the Master Shaper, the captured Jeedai was the proven cause of all heresy and the epidemic of the equipment in the Yuzzhan'tar system. With a good sacrifice to look forward to and an end to the cause of the illness in the dovin basals, the shaper could finally replace his thoughts of a disgraceful death.
The Master Shaper from Domain Kwaad was about to reach into the seven cortices for information when a face formed on one of his villips.
"Great Shaper, we have the Hapan princess. Warmistress Kodachi Cha demands the presence of a master shaper and the mysterious recording we took from …"
"I know what you're talking about. I will send one of my shapers with the recording." The Master Shaper replied.
"Great Shaper, Kodachi Domain Cha also wishes to discuss some information with you. She also asks for the hair collected from Jacen Solo when he was in our Embrace of Pain and the Adept who had collected the recording from that infidel prince's body. This is all, belek tiu."
"Belek tiu. She will have what she wants." The shaper ended the message. The villip reverted to its natural form and the shaper allowed his body to slouch into his seat. Just when he thought Kodachi Cha's attention was off of him, her messenger relayed to him a message that told him of more attention from that embodiment of a nightmare.
The shaper shook the tentacles on his headdress aside and straightened himself. If that woman demanded a private conversation with him, he might as well send himself as the promised Master Shaper with the recording and the hair. The gray-skinned shaper did not like this. Qelah, why did you have to disappear? Come back, cousin. If you'd stayed, our holy caste would have had one steady leader and we'd never have lost almost two thousand to heresy. That gossip about a /iJeedaii from Domain Lah is spreading like a cancer in this caste. I'm not supposed to be head of our caste, you are! Just where on this planet am I supposed to find Solo's hair? The Master Shaper sighed. The torturous position was not destined to be his.
Sa'eth Domain Kwaad picked up a probe creature and began to search his belongings for the recording that was salvaged from Prince Isolder's body a year ago, during the attempt to take Hapes. In that battle, one group of warriors managed to chop down the pesky Prince Isolder and another man had done away with that Skywalker kid. It was a shame that Skywalker's 'demise' was later proven to be a mere ruse used to buy time for an escape to nobody-knows-where.