At any other time Mira would have felt desire at the muscled Atton walking across the floor naked as the day he was born. He was worth some drool, moving like a cat, built like a mandalorian and with the face enough to charm the clothes of a twi'lek... She couldn't bring herself to admire him now though, now she could only watch in worry.

Scratching the back of his head the man punched a few buttons upon the wall terminal, bringing up a list. "Wow...we've had a few calls." Normally he had that wonderful relaxed tone...there was not a hint of it now however.

"Well? Who called?" Mira didn't like the way her lip shook, that Atton wasn't blocking the wave of worry emanating from his mind frightening her.

"Uh...Olmark...thirty times." Oh crap. "A few other senators...the titles on their messages seem to be either nice...or gloating?" Oh crap! "Erm...Holonet News, Holonet Extra, Holonet Gossip...the list is sort of long here..." Mira could actually feel the room get colder as she pushed deeper into the bed, trying to hide herself. "Umm...and fifty-six from the Dantooine enclave apparently."

"Fifty-six!?" Mira groaned, suddenly feeling dizzy. This wasn't happening...! "Any messages from there?"

"Only after the last call...want me to put it on?" Atton's grimace spoke volumes of what he thought of that idea.

"Um..." Mira closed her eyes and bit her lips, feeling a wave of nausea roll over her. This wasn't happening! She wasn't sure what the message would say of course...but the sinking feeling in her stomach gave her a pretty good idea. No! It might not be about what she thought it was! I might not! They couldn't know! There was no way! Maybe it wasn't about that! Maybe something else had happened! A disaster or something! Yes...no! Ah! She didn't want to watch the message! She wanted to curl under her sheets and not come out!

Was it just her or was the world spinning awfully fast?

"I'll take that as a yes." Atton dryly remarked, hesitantly pressing a button.

Mira forced herself to watch as the picture of Mical arrived on the screen. The man's face was a mask of furious neutrality, ready to explode. The view was wide enough to show that the man was in his quarters, she could see the round cushion he sat on when he meditated...as he stepped back he uncharacteristic kicked it aside. "Atton, Mira...I know you're both there to hear this."

No, nononononono....

Turning back towards the camera the man stood with legs apart, hands behind his back. The mask of barely contained rage made both Atton and Mira cringe. Mical didn't get angry, ever. She vainly prayed to the force that Mical would remember that, by the looks of things that seemed unlikely. "Now I had a very relaxing session of meditation last evening...until I got a very odd feeling. A tugging at old bonds, a very odd tugging..."

"Oh...sithspit." Atton's voice was flat as the man limply dropped down on the floor, his worry an echo of Mira's own.

"Now I couldn't quite believe what I was feeling, even though I intellectually understood it...I couldn't believe either of you would have the audacity to do such a thing...I refused to believe it." A very frustrated sigh escaped the man as he turned and begun to pace from side to side of the screen. "So naturally I left my quarters to take a walk...and accidentally put on Holonet News. And do you want to know what I saw...?"

The question hung there as Mical completed another five circuits of his pacing. Then he lunged at the camera, making Atton jump while Mira pulled her covers tighter. "A damn catastrophe that's what I see!" The screen shook as he actually struck the camera: "Not only do you defy the jedi tenets at their very core! You manage to do it in front of millions!"

Mira's face burnt with embarrassment at the thought, and Atton's seemed almost as bad. "How could you be so stupid that you didn't notice the camera droid following you!? A damn farmer would have noticed! Were you that busy staring at each other!? You knew there were hostile senators ready to pounce at any sign of weakness! And then you serve them one on a silver plater!?" He pushed away with a growl and resumed his pacing, now gesturing wildly. "And they were smart about it too! Not only did they discredit the order! They left you alive instead of taking the chance to end your lives and save me the trouble!"

"Wow...he's angry." Atton noted. Was that amusement in his voice!? How could he...no Mira...focus. He was just trying to deal with it...don't lash out on it...listen to the angry master about to kill them.

A groan escaped the man on the screen and he rubbed his face in frustration. "Can you even comprehend what you've done? You've risked the entire jedi order's continued existence! People are already apprehensive about us and now...this of all things!? Are you two trying to get us thrown into the outer rim!? Did you decide that being a jedi wasn't funny all of a sudden!? I know you two doesn't seem to understand the responsibility we have...but to be so reckless!? It's beyond comprehension!"

"Y...yeah." Mira stuttered her answer.

He stopped his pacing again, this time he had a grave look on his face: "As a...friend...I'll say this. Atton; you're a sleaze and disgust you me. Mira; I'm very disappointed with you..." The words hurt, more then Mira thought they would have. Atton just grunted something under his breath. "As a jedi master..."

Mira found herself taking a deep breath of fear, feeling an invisible hand grip her chest and press all air out of her. Oh force...

The man took a step towards the camera, face grim. "I hereby order you both back to Dantooine for trial, Bao-Dur will take up your work on Coruscant, hopefully his libido won't get the better of him..." Mical snorted and looked away. "I have already set everything up with a very angry and disappointed Olmark...you will be escorted out the temple the moment you call him. I do this by the authority by the jedi order and there will be no arguing!"

"Hey that's not entirely..."

"I'm talking to you Atton. I will not be refused in this." Mical shot a glare into the screen before it turned dark.

Mira swallowed and Atton sat...very silent.

"Well...that sucks."