Chapter 4: Meditation

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.
~Jet Li

It had taken a bit of time to arrange. But Yuan had talked Orgus and Satele into letting the young woman use one of the training salles for some sort of private undertaking. Amazingly enough it wasn't Satele that had the biggest objection to the idea, it was Tavae's Master himself. He, of course had been her staunchest supporter, until Yuan brought up the issue.

"Well I have a request on our wayward Knight's behalf, Grand Master."

"That would be?"

"Privat…" she never got the word out before Orgus cut her off.

"No!"

Yuan looked at him slightly irritated and Satele merely raised an eyebrow waiting for him to elaborate.

He took a breath. "She is not ready to be allowed on her own. It would be negligent of us to allow her use of any of the training devices."

"Now who said anything about putting a saber in her hand?" Satele piped in. "It may just be that she needs somewhere where there are less prying eyes and more peace to meditate through whatever is causing her concern."

He appeared to mull this over and after much debate amongst the three it was decided that she would be allowed her "private" time but it would be in the room with the hidden observation area as well as be recorded to see if analyzing her actions would give any more leads as to why she was making no headway in remembering anything but the concocted memories supplied to her.

The three weeks that she had been back under Master Din's tutelage proved that she still had the basics down but that was all she seemed to be able to do. So now here the three stood observing what one would deem was a vulgar display of the body, another would carefully consider it using all available assets and the last found it interesting indeed that she would choose a certain pose or movement when she did. As it was none of them commented on the injured Knight's seeming non-progress in sorting out her thoughts. Master Din was too preoccupied by the fact that is repeat apprentice was dressed in an abhorrent dancer's costume and attempting to figure out just where she found it on Tython. Master Yuan was quietly appreciative of the fact that despite everything the girl was not too physically scarred. Master Shan had noticed bits and pieces of Katas in the girl's movements, none of the movements were connected and they definitely had a small flare of personality, but they were definitely recognizable.

As the three contemplated their individual thoughts on the girl below, the subject of their musings moved back to center after getting a drink.

Tana stepped back to the center of the room. She had completed her warm up and was moving into the real work. She focused on a number of half remembered names: Zeph, Luna, Rainy, Foggy, Stormy…the list ran on and on. As she focused on each she moved, ignoring the pain that twisted in her heart at not knowing of their fates. She was almost certain that they were dead. The wet trails that made their way down her face were completely unnoticed by her as she continued through a series of moves that had her onlookers staring in muted shock.

It was Satele who spoke up first. "It appears that she clearly remembers her Katas." She noted fully, choosing to ignore the glinting of the trails that flowed down the young Knight's face.

"Mmm…as well as a few other things." Yuan piped in .

It was Orgus' turn to pipe in but he chose to remain silent. Concentrating instead on following the bond he had with is padawan without being sensed. As such he held up but one finger to let them know not to interrupt him. They turned to continue watching Tavae.

Tana no longer saw the walls of the sale. Instead her mind had taken het to the last place she had seen her friends…Voidstar. The derelict hunk of metal hung in the vastness of space. Just drifting, waiting in rusted anticipation to give its secrets to those who could manage to link to the core and coax the fragged thing to life. The last voice she recalled hearing before breaching the cargo bay was that of the Grand Master warning to proceed with caution as the Imperials had also found the ship. They all knew what that meant.