Chapter 1
My intercom rang out waking me from my dreams. I sit up in a cold sweat. The nightmares are coming back to me. My master, Ch'uik, is calling me for another of his late night "lessons". I respond back, "Alright master, I'll be down in minute." I never thought being a Jedi padawan would be this tough. I drag my body out of bed and get dressed in my usual garb. Light brown tunic and pants and black leather belt. It's warm out tonight so I don't think I'll need my cloak. I don my apprentice rat tail along with a short pony tail and head down the stairs.
I see my master waiting for me patiently. He looks me over as he does every night to make sure I'm ready for the lesson. He sighs heavily and looks at me with his signature stern look. "Padawan, where is your lightsaber?" I look at my belt and see it is missing, of the most essential tools of a Jedi, and I left it on my nightstand. He waves me away and I go back to my room to retrieve it. I find it and clip it to my belt. I sigh, I begin to think that Master Ch'uik is losing his patience with me, this is the third time I've forgotten something before a mission. I descend down the stairs and present my lightsaber to my master.
He nods and begins to walk toward the door, I closely follow behind him. "Master, may I ask you a question?" He looks back at me, "Of course my young padawan." I try and formulate the question clearly so there's no confusion, "Master, are you losing your patience with me?" He stops suddenly, as do I. He turns around to me and speaks, "My young apprentice. It is my duty to remain patient in the most hectic of situations. You have not broken my patience in the slightest, Sodim." He turns back around and continues to walk, I stay paused for a moment still mulling over the thought. "Coming Sodim?" he yells from a short distance. I snap out of my thoughts and catch up to him. Everything between us is silent for the remainder of our journey to the lower ring of Coruscant.
We reach the lower ring and Master Ch'uik begins to look around like he's searching for something he lost. He wanders around looking at every building he passes, about thirty minutes later he finally finds what he's looking for and goes inside the building that looks rotted and decrepit. "Stay here padawan, I'll be back soon." He says. He then goes into a dark room. I walk around the room for a few minutes and then sit on the floor to meditate. It's a long while before he comes back, I don't ask him where he's been. I only follow him back to the apartment in the upper ring where he woke me for this lesson.
When we reach the apartment I ask him, "Master, what was the purpose of waking me up for an adventure that you could've done on your own." He pulls back his shoulder length hair and sits in a chair in the lobby, I sit in the chair across from his and he says, "I took you along with me because I wanted you to learn to have patience in a situation that calls for you to wait and listen. I just went off into another room and observed you until I thought you were ready to go." I looked at the floor and let out a sigh and looked back at Master Ch'uik. He had a small smile on his face. He left for his room and left me in the lobby to think about what happened. I sat up and walked off to my room to lay down for a nice, undisturbed rest.