Chapter 17- Punishment

"I still can't believe you told him!" Adali said as she scrubbed. "We all lied our hearts out, the 'perfect story' about where we were. I could have told Master Arlos, but did I? No. Obi-Wan, how could you?" She added, scrubbing even harder.

"He knew. I am telling you, Qui-Gon knew. It was the guilt. He has ways of pulling things out of a person that are unparalleled in our universe!" Obi-Wan defended, voice rising as he scrubbed back and forth with his toothbrush.

Adali continued scrubbing, her toothbrush almost not worth using any longer. She stopped and looked up at him, "You couldn't have held out a little longer? I was only asking for one or two years longer. Once we became Knights ourselves, I wouldn't have minded them finding out. At least then they couldn't have punished us then."

"I'm sorry, but you've never been guilted by my Master. It's like hell on Coruscant, he just smiles and acts likes nothing is wrong." Obi-Wan continued to defend.

"That's probably because he didn't know anything was wrong Obi-Wan." Azah grumbled, she was however, having fun listening to Adali pounce on him.

"Azah is right. He probably didn't have a clue as to what was going on, and you told him!" Adali grumbled, looking around the room. "And they said we have to clean the entire room!"

"I don't think they'll ever know if we cleaned it all or not, they're Masters, not Gods." Azah piped in. "And you haven't heard the half of it, they have something else up their sleeves. I overheard my Master on her commlink with both of your Masters. It appears we're up for something more sinister as well."

"Oh no!" Adali groaned. What could they possibly be planing, nothing could be worse then cleaning the entire 'Room of a Thousand Fountains' with toothbrushes. "Did you happen to hear anything else? Like what this sinister plan might be."

A semi-evil grin spread across Azah's face as she continued scrubbing. "Possibly." She replied.

"Well? Don't just sit there, share the details. We have a right to know what will happen to us. Don't we Ben?" Adali said, elbowing Obi-Wan.

"Adali, you know I hate that name." Obi-Wan groaned.

"Well, you didn't hear it from me, but..." Azah began, grinning wider.