"Are they going to let you train me, Andi?" Andi smiled at the boy, and she said, "In due time, we will know for sure. As of now, you must stay calm. Do not let the old guys in the chamber get to you." Kor'd looked down at the ground, "Too late."
Andi grabbed Kor'd's sholder, and knelt down in front of him.
"Let me tell you a little story." Kor'd smiled, "Okay!" Andi began, "There once was a little girl. She dreamed of becoming a Jedi Knight one day. As the force might have it, she ran into a great Jedi Master. The Master brought her before the Council, and it took them three months to agree to train her"
Kor'd looked at Andi with a coked eye, "Was that little girl you, Andi?" Andi laughed, "Yes, yes it was me." Kor'd smiled, "I don't think it would take that long for me." Andi stood up, "Do you just think that, or do you believe that?" Kor'd shrugged his sholders, "I don't know."
They turned and began walking again inside the great Jedi Temple hallways. Padawans walked about, conversing amoung each other. Kor'd looked at their tails hanging down from their heads. He looked at the older ones, they walked about with their training lightsabers on their belts. Soon they passed a giant entry way. Inside the entry was a great archive, shelves and shelves of holocards were stored here... possibly billions of holocards in all. They glowed an eery green hue in the darkened room.
They walked right to the front gates. The Jedi Knight guarding the gates smiled as he keyed in the access code to open the doors. Andi and Kor'd then started to walk down the grand staircase, it seemed like it took forever to get down to the ground level. Once there Kor'd looked at awe at the great statues of the Jedi past, surrounded by tall buildings reaching high into the sky. Jedi and civilian walked around doing their business. Andi punched in a code in her com link, and from out of nowhere a two seated speeder floated down from the sky, and landed right in front of them. "Hop in, Kor'd." Kor'd bounced his little body into the speeder. They took off into the Couracanti sky, and mixed in with the speeder traffic headed away from the Temple.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," Kor'd said. Andi placed her hand on his head, "My boy, there is a big world out there. It's more than just this place and Fondor. The Galaxy is too great of a place to know everything. Even the Jedi archives don't have total and complete knowledge of the Galaxy, and it's been around for thousands of years." Kor'd nodded and gazed down upon the buildings below them. The sun was setting now, and the lower levels glowed with an amber hue, it was then that he realized what he was doing here. He was going to be a Jedi.
Suddenly he sat up straight in his seat and gasped. Andi looked at him, "Kor'd what's wrong?" Kor'd gasped again, and again. Andi looked ahead, her homestead was dead ahead. "Don't worry we're almost home, Kor'd." Kor'd began to speak softly, "Oh no! No! No!" A few minutes later the speeder landed right outside the home of Andi Vuu-Shik.
She picked Kor'd up and brought him inside. He was still gasping. She laid him down upon a couch, and placed her hand on his forehead. "Calm boy, calm. Everythings going to be fine." Kor'd imediatly calmed down, his breathing slowly returned to normal.
"You must rest my child, you've had a long few days."
Kor'd grapped her hand, "I saw it!" Andi frowned, "Saw what? What did you see?" "Troops! Hundreds of them! They were shooting inside of the Temple!" Andi looked dead into Kor'd's eyes. "Are you sure that's what you saw?" Kor'd swallowed and nodded, "Yes, Andi. And they were lead by a Jedi Knight!" Andi hushed the boy, "Son, there arn't any troops that Jedi can lead. Surely you are misinterpeting what you see." Kor'd let go of her hand, and Andi could see that the boy was getting angry. He looked at her with a fury in his eyes she had never seen before. "I know what I saw. I'm not crazy. My mother told me I was crazy. She never believed me." He said that sentence through tight lips. His eyes were narrow, and he stared directly into Andi's eyes. Secretly she became frightened of the boy, remembering what he did on Fondor, but she kept her face straight. "Well what if I told you that I believed you?" Kor'd's anger began to fade slowly. "Do you really, or are you just saying that?"
Andi grabbed his hand this time. Her touch reasuring, soothing, soft. "I really do believe you, Kor'd. I was just stating that the Jedi have no army. If it is the future you are seeing, you must rest. Dwell on what you saw. If it is a true vision, the force will show it to you again." Kor'd's anger faded away completly. "Alright, Andi. I'll rest." Kor'd turned over and in a few minutes he was asleep. Andi finally came a peace. She closed her eyes, reaching out into the force to calm her nerves down.
She stood up and walked into her bedroom. This boy will be something to watch grow up.
