Kavaraa sat in her meditating room clearing her head, it was a brilliant idea to install this she seemed to come here so often. She had been contemplating the encounter with Kormel, physically it was nothing but what he had said had really stuck with her. Was she going against her teachings? if so was that because they were outdated? or had she become misguided? she had pondered these questions for hours and needed to know more context before she made her judgement hopefully it wasn't too bad.

She got up and made her way to the force cage which had seen a surprising amount of use since it had been installed. Kormel was still unconscious, Kavaraa didn't remember hitting him that hard, she decided just to wait she needed to get to the bottom of this. Look at him he could barely even be called an adult, slumped against the floor, his unkempt dusty brown hair was covering his forehead and what could be seen of his face. Kavaraa hoped she could get through to him the dark side has done terrible things to naive young jedi.

About half an hour later Kormel began to stir "huh wha- where am i"

"you're on my ship we took you away from that temple after you tried to attack me" dealing with those with an affinity for the dark side could be difficult. The quick swings in emotions could lead to danger, she would have to be tactful about this.

"yo- you were going to stop me I- I couldn't let you do that" he seemed skittish and flustered hopefully he didn't believe in his power to much

"Kormel i still don't entirely know what it was you were doing, I had no intention of stopping you until you became hostile" Kavaraa wasn't the bad guy here she had to make that clear otherwise she wouldn't get anywhere

"I- but yo- you where saying i was using the dark side I- I would never" this poor kid she had to help him.

"can you honestly say that you weren't using your emotions to fuel your powers" this would go one of two ways lets hope it's the good one

"well uh um well yo-" he stumbled over his words for a minute or so "i guess maybe a little" his head hung low "but but i thought that's what you said, in the holocrons, don't suppress your emotions" Oh no oh no was it that easily misinterpreted? that wasn't what she meant at all.

"uh no no that's not what I meant, I meant it's ok to feel, you're allowed to feel happy, sad, disappointed, even angry if just a little. You shouldn't have to be an emotionless husk to be a Jedi. But when you use the force you have to be calm and composed" Kavaraa said trying to regain her composure " Like turning it on and off, does that make more sense?"

Kormel looked stunned "oh… right, that does make sense i guess i just heard what i wanted to hear" he seemed to shrink as he leaned up against the wall burying his head in his knees

"no no no I honestly don't think i explained it very well now you've pointed it out" Kavaraa sighed "you're probably not the first person led astray by my old vague teachings" Kormel seemed to look a little more hopeful at that "i was still pretty naive back then i think i've grown a bit since then"

"s- so i'm not a bad person" Kormel said muffled

"no of course not it's very easy to be seduced by the dark side but you, you've managed to avoid that temptation after knowing what it feels like" Kavaraa was pleased with herself she had managed to help him out even if it may have been her fault in the first place.

The room was silent for a couple minutes "so what were you doing in that temple" Kavaraa had been itching to ask but his mental state definitely had been more pressing

Kormel sat up looking bewildered " y-you want to hear about my research" was she seen as important why was that a weird request

"well sure you said you were in search of knowledge and that's my whole thing" Kavaraa said with a smile "i'm always up for a higher understanding of the force

Kormels face lit up suddenly " oh well um ok af-after i finished learning fr-from you're holocrons on Tython I started searching for si-similar teachings in the Tython libraries but cou-couldn't find anything so i went to look for more spe- specific similart-"

Kavaraa interrupted "sorry could you slow down i don't have a notepad i thought i was getting the short version" he was certainly enthusiastic, Kavaraa liked that she would be exactly the same

"oh we-well the context is kind of important" well we should do this properly then. Kavaraa went to the controls and turned off the force cage

"cmon we can discuss this over some tea" she gestured for Kormel to follow but he looked surprised "something wrong"

"yo-you let me out I th-thought i wasn't safe" oh this kid he certainly was inexperienced

"Kormel it's ok you're clearly not intending on hurting me and even so I have a lot of combat experience if you did attack me you'd just end up back in there"

"oh uh ok" Kormel stood up slowly

"cmon then i'll put the kettle on and i want to here about this research"