CHAPTER 9: Informants
"Ezra!" yelled Alyria's voice. Alyria walked through the corridors of the Ghost looking for the padawan. Kanan poked his head out of his room and saw Alyria entering the corridor, seeming much more calm than her tone of voice sounded, he walked out and stopped her, asking, "Why do you need Ezra, Alyria?"
She looked at him and responded "I was looking for you as well. I needed to talk to the two of you, seeing as the others won't be joining us in a couple days."
Kanan looked at Alyria curiously, "What are you...?" Before Kanan could finish Alyria grabbed his wrist and pulled him along with her on her search for Ezra. "Could you slow down!?" Kanan asked as he was practically being dragged by now.
"The faster we find Ezra the Sooner I wont have to drag you." responded Alyria. She dragged Kanan all around the ship, finally deciding to check with Hera, and see if she knew anything. Alyria, still dragging Kanan, walked into the cockpit to find Hera. "Hera, do you know where Ezra is?"
"No, i thought he was already out training with you two." responded Hera.
"Why don't we just find him using the force, Alyria?" questioned Kanan.
"You can't always rely on the force when you are met with a wall. There is a lesson that Ezra can learn here. We will wait for him to arrive, and once he does we can deal with the situation from there."
"What were you planning to do for training today anyways?" questioned Hera.
"Nothing in particular, mostly general training, and strategy in different scenarios." replied Alyria. "Well I'll be waiting in Sabine's room until Ezra finally shows up."
"Alright, I'll come get you when he shows up." replied Kanan. After that Alyria left and headed off to her and Sabine's room to think while she waited for Kanan to retrieve Ezra from whatever he's doing.
When Alyria entered the room Sabine was no where to be seen. Alyria sat down, and took out her communicator. "Ranger, Junior, are you there?" she spoke into the communicator. After a while of silence she spoke into it again, "Do you copy, Ranger? Do you copy Junior?" continued silence. She started to bear a worried expression, she started again, "Ranger... Junior... respond. Ranger? Jun... " before she could finish she heard the door open behind her, she jumped at this, and nearly dropped her communicator. She quickly turned around and hid the communicator, it was Sabine, who seemed to be eyeing her suspiciously.
"Ranger?" Sabine asked, "Junior?" She started to narrow her eyes at Alyria.
Alyria sighed, "Listen," said Alyria, "There are some things that I haven't fully explained for good reas... "
"I don't care if it was with good reason, you are still hiding things from us, if you're a part of this team you don't hide things from us." interrupted Sabine.
"Listen, Sabine. I want to tell you and the others more, but there are things that I can't share."
Sabine put her face into her hand and said, "Get out. I need to think." cooperating Alyria left to avoid angering Sabine further. Alyria decided to walk outside and see if she can see Ezra. She climbed up to the top of the Ghost and looked around for a bit, until she felt her communicator going off, she pulled it out quickly and spoke into it, "Ranger?! Junior?! What's going on?" It took a minute for a reply to come back, but a drained voice came from the communicator, "Hey there Solstice." the voice laughed slightly before coughing uncontrollably. "What's going on Ranger? Where's Junior?" questioned Alyria. "Things aren't good, that's for sure..." a pause interrupted 'Ranger' before he continued, "Sorry 'bout that Solstice, didn't want you to hear me coughing up whatever's left inside of me. Before you start making proposals about you coming to save me, forget it. I'm lost, and... so's Junior." Alyria was stunned and couldn't speak, or even move, she couldn't fathom what she was just told. After a duration of time she spoke again but more lightly, "The Collector?" she asked. 'Ranger' replied, "Yes, and... he the Kyber crystal." Alyria was stunned again. "I'm going to make him pay." laughter and coughing came from the communicator again, "Do me a favor Solstice, Don't go down that road again." The communications were turned off on the other end, "Ranger... Ranger?!" tears started to roll down Alyria's cheeks, and she put the communicator away. It took her a while to pull herself together, and get back to searching for Ezra for the day's lesson.
(Hey guys, sorry about the lack of updates but I landed in the hospital for some time, and couldn't get anything done even a whiles after I returned home, but now im back and now i should be able to update more often, I hope you're all enjoying this and please leave feedback, it helps a lot when I know people are enjoying this short story enough to spend time to leave a review of a chapter.)