Twice Exiled, Twice Redeemed

[Writer]

"I didn't lie about learning quickly," Jana said quietly. "But your guess about the barrier is correct. I do know of it." She paused. "What's your interest in it? What it hides? My past. I've not been living long. I am only as old as I appear to be. But in those sixteen years, I have experienced more than anyone my age will know in a lifetime."

 

A look of pain passed through her eyes, but was quickly banished as her face became once more emotionless.

 

"Knowing how to heal myself was simple," she went on. "I've seen Masters do it during training... creating simple scratches and using the Force to heal them. I've been to the healers for more serious injuries. I felt what they were doing and imitated it the next time I got hurt." She shrugged. It really isn't that difficult."

[jokemaster]

"What happened to you?" Asked Kelso.

[Writer]

Jana winced visibly. "I don't want to talk about it."

[jokemaster]

Kelso nodded. "All right. I respect that. So why don't you tell me what else you have learned."

[Writer]

"Anything I've seen Masters do," Jana answered. She winced again. "Even some... darker things."

[jokemaster]

Kelso sighed. "Tell me some of the darker things. And don't worry. I'm not going to throw you out of the airlock or have exiled. I just need to know."

[Writer]

"I don't..." Jana began. Then, she sighed. "Alright, but I couldn't tell you any specific names. There's what's like lightning coming from my hand." She demonstrated with a surprising lack of emotion, sending the blue bolts into the floor. "Choke, which I won't demonstrate. I've learned to drain the life energy and Force energy from any living thing. I won't demonstrate that either."

 

She fell into a thoughtful silence. "Those are the main ones, but they aren't the worst. There's something else... it basically crushes the thing I focus on..." She lifted a small stool with the Force and quickly closed her hand. There was a very loud noise and the stool was flattened as if a very heavy ship had just been set down on top of it.

 

"There's something that works far slower than the drain I told you of earlier," she went on. "It causes a great deal of pain and a very slow death." She shuddered. "But though I know how to do it, I am very reluctant to do so." Another shiver ran down her spine. "I think from my description, you may understand why."

[jokemaster]

Kelso nodded. Training her was going to be hard. He'd only trained one apprentice, a long time ago. Now he had one that knew a lot of things she shouldn't....or perhaps that wasn't the correct word.

 

"Do you feel anything when you use them?"

[Writer]

Jana nodded. "Pain. Pain of the one I use them on. Pain because I'm using them. Sorrow that there seems to be no other way to accomplish what must be done."

[jokemaster]

"That's good. I don't sense evil in you. There's some darkness, yes. But knowing how to do those things will do it to you. Now, who did you see using those powers?"

[Writer]

Jana hesitated. She wasn't sure she wanted to tell him.

[jokemaster]

"This is very important." Said Kelso, sensing her hesitation. "We're in this together now."

[Writer]

Tears began to form in Jana's eyes. "My... my father..." And she began crying softly.

[jokemaster]

Kelso was shocked by the answer, but didn't show it. He put an arm around Jana to comfort her, and tried to send reassurance through the force.

[Writer]

His reassurance was mixed with his shock and Jana felt both through the Force. She pulled away and stared up at him, brushing the tears out of her eyes. "I've surprised you."

[jokemaster]

"You have. Not just your history but your skills too. When I came, you said you were advanced, but I didn't know how far ahead." He smiled. "You're farther ahead than I thought you were. To be honest, I don't even know how to begin teaching you, so I'm asking you: What area do you think you need to work on?"

[Vladimir-Vlada]

"Well, Yery." began Kyle "Since it seems like that you don't wish to practise levitation, then let's proceed to something else. What do you believe that are your strongest amongst Force Powers?"

[Tysyacha]

"My best Force Powers?" asked Yery. "Without a doubt, they are

Heal, Burst of Speed, and Stasis. I'm also rather good at Throw

Lightsaber, since I let the Force do all of the work there instead

of me. Would you like a demonstration, Master Soran?"

 

At a pleased nod from Kyle, Yery threw her emerald Consular's saber.

 

The blade whirled effortlessly into a trash receptacle, vaporizing both

it and the crumpled paper contents inside. "I'll pay for that," said Yery.

"Although, I do think that this Force Power would be a lot more effective

if I could master the double blades." She sighed wistfully. "The saberstaff!"

[Writer]

Jana frowned thoughtfully. Finally, she said, "I can fight what I see easily. But the Force allows some to vanish," as she said this, she disappeared from sight and her disembodied voice continued. "Though I can accomplish this also, I cannot fight those who have done it." She reappeared. "I can't sense them in the Force like I should."

[Vladimir-Vlada]

Kyle stood shocked at the sight he had just seen. The lightsabre turned an enitre trash receptacle into scattered atoms and molecules.

"Well... That was impressive, I must say." began Kyle after calming himself down "Although your skill is impressive, you have to learn to control its devestating power... Or maybe I am wrong: The devestating power is the direct outcome of you being able to control it. So we'll begin with Healing first. Are you ready?"

[jokemaster]

"We'll work on that." Said Kelso. He disappeared, his voice seemed to come at Jana from all directions.

 

"Concentrate. Open yourself fully to the force, and trust your instincts. Try to find me."

 

Kelso carefully guided her with the force, showing her how.

[Tysyacha]

Yery nodded. "At your command, Master Soran."

 

((Note: I will be going on a business trip tomorrow, but I should

be back Tuesday night. I've been a road-trip junkie lately!))

[Writer]

True to what she'd said before, Jana learned quickly. It didn't take more than a minute for her to locate him. The second time they tried, she cut that time in half. The third time, she found him almost instantly.

[jokemaster]

"Good." Commented Kelso after the third time. "You learn fast."

[Writer]

"Thank you, master," Jana said quietly. The smug self-confidence she'd shown before did not show itself now. She sounded surprisingly subdued.