Kavaraa had spaced out for a moment after hearing the word "pilgrimage" but as she collected her thoughts she looked at the elderly Togruta and tilted her head "I'm sorry? pilgrimage what do you mean?" Kavaraa's mind was racing, clearly Kormel had stumbled onto something huge, it could be good it could be bad but she had to find out what it was either way
The elderly Togruta stroked his chin "uhhh maybe let's sit down it's uh difficult to explain" as he finished he began to sit down and as he did a table and chairs appeared in front of them, whatever this place was he had some form of control. Kavaraa went to sit down and gestured to Kormel and Theron to sit down
Kormel quietly sat down next to Kavaraa while Theron frowned and shook his head "hold on I feel like you're being a little trusting of this guy, we don't even know where we are" Theron raised a fair point but they were already transparent blue what else could go wrong
The togruta chuckled to himself "that's fair I'll explain where you are and anything else you want to know but your back must be killing you after those puzzles" defiently considering Theron's success rate, Kavaraa smiled at Theron and after an audible groan he sat down. As he did Kavaraa took his hand and squeezed it; no matter what this was Kavaraa wanted to make sure she could still feel Theron's hand.
Theron smiled and squeezed it back as a kettle appeared out of thin air, the togruta took it and began to pour liquid into cups "would you like some tea?" he let out a tiny grin as he offered.
Kavaraa nodded intently "yes please do you have Vanilla Walnut" she had been craving tea for hours
the Togruta's face lit up "I do indeed good choice" Kavaraa smiled back as he poured her cup
She took it but before drinking any Kormel asked "so where are we and uh who are you sir" Kormel avoided eye-contact as he mumbled the question
The togruta finished a sip of tea "well my name is Avulo Bysh and I was a Jedi scholar quite some time ago and as for where you are you're still in the chamber, the holocron has just made you visualise this space so you can talk to me" Avulo gestured to the blue void around them
Kavaraa nodded as he talked "wait so you live in this holocron?" it was nice to meet another scholar even if he was seemingly trapped
Avulo chuckled to himself "no my dear I'm just a representation of him, like a recording but I can actually respond to you" he sipped his tea "the real Avulo almost certainly died many years ago" Kavaraa glanced to Kormel as they talked who was already taking notes on an unfamiliar notepad, that thing isn't gonna be there when they left she could already tell.
She glanced to Theron who was rubbing his forehead "of course, force stuff I assume well let's get back to the point here what is this pilgrimage" he nodded to Kavaraa looking pretty confused but trying none the less. Bless his heart he was the best
Avulo put down his cup "well I'm afraid I can't disclose that much information on it, that comes later, for now what I can say is that given your here it means you're particularly intelligent and wise. As a result you may be given the chance to gain access to secrets lost to the ages and protect them from the wrong hands" he paused to let someone speak but they all stayed silent after an awkward silence Avulo spoke up again "the pilgrimage is the test to prove your worthy" Kavaraa was stunned secrets lost to the ages, was she worthy? well that's what this was to test
Kavaraa shakily said "so we complete more trials like the ones in this temple and we find these secrets" she may be able to do that she wasn't sure
"maybe I'm afraid I don't know what follows my part, it was for extra security" Avulo seemed to stare off behind them for a second before turning back to them
Theron spoke up again "so what are these secrets? where are we going?" he seemed aggravated with the lack of detail.
Avulo grinned "if I told you that they wouldn't be secrets all I know is the next step of the pilgrimage" Theron sharply inhaled as Avulo finished
Theron pinched the bridge of his nose "so what, we complete all your trials and we're let into your special elitist jedi knowledge club" Kavaraa frowned at Theron
"Theron it's not like that it's necessary" it wasn't elitist they were just wary of the dark side, a few seconds of her frowning and Theron had began to look uncomfortable and tried to avoid eye contact with Kavaraa. She was half messing with him half being serious.
Kavaraa turned back to Avulo and blurted out "what's the next step" rather frantically
Avulo "first of all you've been lovely company and I wish you well" Kavaraa blushed that was so nice "second of all I can tell you the location in the form of a riddle" yessss Kavaraa loved riddles
"You will find us on the planet"
"with a resource used in your mechanics"
"a device defined by the twinkle"
"of it's shining unique crystal"
As Kavaraa began to question exactly what that meant she felt the same overwhelming blue energy envelop her and she when she opened her eyes she was on the floor of the temple. She quickly sat up "Kormel!" she looked and spotted him rubbing his eyes next to her "did you write down the riddle?"
Kormel nodded reaching for his notepad "of course i did it's right he-" he opened it up but there was no sign of it "wha?" Kormel asked looking at the blank page
Kavaraa put an arm on his shoulder "I don't think it carried over buddy" he nodded and began scribbling it down "ok so what are we thinking a planet with crystals" she scratched her chin thinking, she already knew but she wanted to build up to it
"ILUM!" Theron exclaimed as he began heading to the exit "we can think about the details later I need a nap" what Theron totally stole that from her, she was totally gonna say that. She stomped up next to him in a sulk, oh well he had a point a nap sounded pretty good right now…