Kavaraa zipped up her snowsuit as the ship began to descend to the planet of Ilum, she had no idea how to find the temple once they had arrived but hoped it would become clear once they got there. She was at least prepared for the climate with her big artic snowsuit, she'd learnt her lesson from her trip to hoth long ago that she did not deal well with cold. Since then Kavaraa had decided to have a coat custom made she'd be the first to admit she went a bit overboard with the design. She lifted the hood up fitting her montrals into their sleeves chuckling at the ridiculousness of the look, it was purely functionality over style but she didn't care her montrals got frightfully cold without them. People told her it made her look like a bunny which she thought was a compliment, she'd also chosen to insulate it as much as possible as to avoid a cold chill and of course the thing had millions of pockets.

As she put on her gloves and snow boots she noticed Kormel lurking outside the door trying to act natural, he'd be there for ages if she didn't intervene "Kormel do you wanna talk to me?" he seemed caught of guard dragging his feet as he entered the room nervously

he rubbed the back of his head "uh yeah I kinda might need some gear for the uh cold weather d-do you have anything i can borrow" Kavaraa frowned seemed like a lot of fuss over nothing she had plenty of spares no need to be embarrassed

She opened up the cabinet "sure I got some spares although they may be a little big on you, they're Theron's size and mine well they have these silly montral cosies on the top" Kormel looked up at the snowsuit Kavaraa had picked out and took it silently. Kavaraa's expression softened Kormel was far too nervous something was up "so I'm assuming you want to talk about more than borrowing a snowsuit?" Kormel's eyes went wide as he put on the snowsuit seemingly shrinking at being found out.

He stammered not making eye contact "i uh well yeah I just well do you remember what the Avulo Bysh guy said?" Kavaraa noddded, she'd been meaning to look up Avulo but they'd got so caught up in the pilgrimage that when they got back on the ship she just had a nap instead "well he said this is uh a test to see if we're um worthy right?" Kavaraa nodded again staying silent she wanted to allow Kormel to say what he was thinking without her input. Kormel finally looked at Kavaraa in the eye "I fell to the dark side at least a little what if I'm not worthy" Kavaraa could see the fear in his eyes and couldn't help but feel bad for him.

Kavaraa moved forward putting her hand on his shoulder "hey come on bud the fact that you're even asking those questions is a step in the right direction" she gave a warm smile as Kormel frowned clearly confused

"what do you mean" Kormel sighed still looking fearful

Kavaraa tilted her head "it's good to be unsure if you're worthy because doubts about ourselves are some of the things that make us strive to be better people" Kormel began nodding slowly a look of understanding coming across his face "It's perfectly natural to have doubts but we don't let them overcome us, we let them fuel us to be better" she gave him a warm smile letting go of his shoulder, he seemed to be reassured of their goal Kavaraa wasn't entirely sure if any of them were 'worthy' but they should at least try. As the conversation ended she felt the ship touch down on the ice of Ilum she was excited for the next leg of her journey she really felt that she was on the right path finally.

They had landed on a ridge not to far from a republic base and were now working out where to go from here. Kavaraa was trying to find the next temple or clue through the force while Theron analysed the area and Kormel messed with the starmap. However Kavaraa wasn't looking yet she had just been looking across Ilum, the bright white snow and ice reflecting starlight to create a truly stunning visual. But Kavaraa didn't feel in awe she didn't have the fondest memories of this place especially given recent events, it had been many years but she still remembered being called in to stop the Sith attack. Empire vs Republic it all felt so trivial now but yet it wasn't, it was the way the galaxy was going and what was she supposed to do? should she even do anything? was she obligated? she thought we were past that. She put the thoughts to the back of her mind and focussed on trying to find a sense of something special or a potent force connection. She began to focus trying to find the secret clue but as she did she was met with an array of powerful forces causing her to flinch back in pain. She held her head as it throbbed with pain and sighed, right Ilum home of lightsaber crystals is gonna have at least some potent force energy should've seen that one coming. She hung her head for a few seconds before she started messing with the snow, she drew a little togruta face with a smile but was disappointed when the wind caused snow to blow over it rendering it just snow.

She sat there for a few more minutes before she heard a voice from behind her "as expected schematics, mining records and other such underground data has elicited nothing on the spooky secret hidden jedi temple" Kavaraa chuckled as Theron sat down next to her "any luck on your end Barsen'thor" Kavaraa gave him a coy grin

"nah it's a dud there's too much potent force energy here for me to even sense the place" Kavaraa put her head on her hands pouting

Theron put his arm around her "well let's hope the kid has something we missed, if you're done though why are you still out here then it's freezing?" she told Theron to get a snowsuit like hers but noooooo and now he was gonna be the one whining, she certainly wasn't cold.

Kavaraa looked out at the icy outcroppings dotted over Ilum "uh I dunno I was just well thinking about last time I was here" Theron nodded letting out a sigh of his own

"the whole Malgus thing?" Kavaraa nodded not making eye contact "look Kav there's nothing you could've done about Oss-" Kavaraa interrupted before Theron could finish

Kavaraa snapped "yeah but there was something we could've done!" looking pointedly at Theron before her expression dropped "uh ah sorry I shouldn't have snapped at you" she fidgeted awkwardly embarrassed she'd let that happen

Theron squeezed her shoulder "It's ok Kavaraa don't worry about it" Kavaraa knew she was better than that this place was just bringing it all back.

She stood up taking a deep breath "let's focus up we should probably scout the area just in case of uh beasts or something" wow great excuse Kavaraa, but to be fair they probably should scout the area while they wait for Kormel

Theron stood up seemingly brushing off the awkward conversation "yeah sure might as well" they began to head towards a somewhat steep but scalable descent off the ridge. They began slowly edging down the hill Theron let out a grumble "man this is steep I can barely balance myself" he was right he was barely keeping himself up, Kavaraa for some reason was not having the same problem

Kavaraa chuckled putting her hands on her hips "really I don't think it's that bad maybe if you had allowed me to get you special snow boots you wouldn't be having this issue" Theron let out a long sigh turning around to head further down. As they began to reach the bottom of the ridge Kavaraa saw Theron lose his balance tumbling down into the snow with a wumph.

Kavaraa let out a snort as Theron picked himself up out of the snow "oh yeah yeah real funny" he wiped his face clean of snow as Kavaraa continued to laugh

She managed to stifle her chuckles for a second "I'm sorry it's just you gotta admit getting covered in snow is pretty funny" she continued laughing at her dork of a husband

She then noticed Theron begin to grin "oh yeah it probably is pretty funny" and before Kavaraa could react she felt a cold wumph of snow hit her face, she stumbled back nearly falling but managing to maintain her balance.

Kavaraa's face scrunched up "hey cmon" Theron began laughing to himself

He grinned picking himself up off the floor "you're right that is pretty funny" he wiped the snow stopping as he noticed a devious grin on Kavaraa's face

She lifted her arms up "you wanna dance spyboy" as she did she lifted the snow around her with the force as Theron's eyes widened. Kavaraa unleashed the barrage of snowballs as Theron dived behind a rock, evaded her for now.

After the barrage was over he popped his head over the rock angrily "hey come on the force is definitely fowl play let's keep this above board" Kavaraa conceded that he had a point

She grinned at him "fine but I'm still gonna wipe the floor with you" she rolled to the ground hiding behind her own rock

Kavaraa could hear a chuckle from Theron "we'll see about that Barsen'thor" Kavaraa instinctively rose up ready to aim but as she did she spied a snowball heading straight for her that narrowly avoided her traveling just between her montrals as she ducked. She let out a sigh of relief as she scanned the area for that distinct red coat as she did she prepared a small army of snowballs ready to go for Theron when he showed himself. There! she spotted him running between the ridge towards her position she let out a volley of snowballs each narrowly missing him as he slid into a small snow trench. Dang it now he hand the upper hand she began to run closer zigzagging as she went she could see snowballs being fired but only Theron's hand was visible one hitting her leg. She managed to avoid the rest of the snowballs sliding behind a rock staying there for a few seconds creating snowballs before she jumped over the trench spotting Theron exposed. She rained down fire on him as he began to run getting hit a few times as Kavaraa landed in the trench, she spyed him leaving her vision heading back towards the ridge. She couldn't let him get away she put together a huge snowball and sprinted out the trench, she was met with the surprise of Theron standing still waiting for her with a huge snowball. Oh no she began to try and slow down as Theron threw the snowball at her it clocked her in the face causing her to fall back onto the ground. She quickly regained her composure though throwing her own snowball at Theron causing him too to fall down next to her. They both caught their breath as they lay next to each other then Kavaraa started giggling to herself and Theron promptly joined in laughing as they lay in the snow. They laughed for a few seconds before they turned to each other

Kavaraa smiled at him "I love you you silly fool" she leant in for a kiss that they held for a few seconds

Theron grinned "you too you cute doofus" they began laughing again as they lay in the snow.

Suddenly Kormel came down the ridge holding the map from before "guys guys guys the map has changed it's got new coordinates here" he stopped noticing that Kavaraa and Theron were lying on the ground "um sorry am I interrupting something?" Kavaraa giggled loudly as Kormel looked on in confusion…