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  1. #21
    Feeling slightly more comfortable with the stride of the kirruk, Cordelia relaxed marginally behind Jarvi, but continued to hold on to him. She let go as they passed beneath low hanging branches, lifting them up and away from them when she could, and ducking beneath them when she could not.

    "I don't really know what the rest of them want.", Cordelia admitted. "I think.. maybe they just needed to find a place to put themselves back together."

    "No..", she said, already knowing the answer without having to speak to her master about it. "We're not staying."

    They could serve the galaxy best by continuing on as they had been, and by returning to serve with the rest of the Jedi if they were called to do so.
    Last edited by Cordelia Morgance; Apr 29th, 2019 at 02:30:29 PM.

  2. #22
    It occured to Jarvi, for the first time, that he didn’t really know any of the Jedi. They were a people he had observed a little from afar, as a group. LIke most of his tribe, he had assumed that they were a constant community, putting down firm roots on Ossus, but perhaps they were coming and going all the time.

    “After I take you to the library, will you show me your ship?”

  3. #23
    Always a catch.

    Behind the native, Cordelia smirked. It seemed a fair compromise. An escort to the Jedi Library, and a general idea of how to return should her master desire to. Also, should the Ysanna allow them to come this way again. There was no guarantee, she supposed. In exchange, she took Jarvi for a look at her master's star yacht. How much trouble could that get her in really? It was an acceptable risk.

    "I guess that will be alright, sure."

  4. #24
    Jarvi smiled to himself, satisfied with the easily made bargain.

    At one moment, they were wading through the trees and at the next, the dense forest gave way to a clearing. There before them stood the Great Jedi Library, or at least what remained of it. A vast structure of ornate stonework, it was shattered and broken in places but no less majestic for it’s flaws. It had been thousands of years since the library had last been intact, but it’s ruinous state did little to detract from how impressive it was.

    It was almost impossible to imagine how such a towering structure could appear so suddenly, and yet it had, concealed from view up to that point by the dense canopy above. Jarvi swung himself down from Littlefoot’s back.

    “Well,” he said, as Cordelia climbed down too. As she walked ahead a little, he looped the rope tether around the kirruk’s neck to a nearby branch.

    “What do you think?”

  5. #25
    "Umm, yeah. Wow.."

    Cordelia wasn't sure what she had expected. She had even seen some images of the Jedi Library before, but seeing it up close and personal made it that much bigger. She had intended to note the location and then return to her master, but it was awfully tempting, already being here..

    "It's impressive. Have you ever been inside?"

    Turning back to Jarvi, Cordelia weighed the risks versus rewards of going in, without Satkia.

  6. #26
    “Of course.”

    Leaving the kirruk behind, Jarvi paced until he stood alongside Cordelia. He stared a moment longer at the library itself, before his gaze drifted back to the Jedi at his side.

    “It’s my people's duty to protect what’s inside.”

  7. #27
    Feeling the gaze on her, Cordelia looked to her side to Jarvi.

    "Right." She had heard something about that.

    It was possible that Satkia might not want to come to see the Great Jedi Library at all. In the time before they had known each other Satkia had been the student, and the late Master Natalia Sal-Koron the wise master. It was possible they had come together even. Or that Cordelia's master had made the trip on her own at some point, like a pilgrimage.

    She tried for a moment to imagine her future self as the wise Jedi Master... Yeah, not yet.

    Smirking now, Cordelia had made up her mind. "Would you care to take me inside?", she asked hopefully.

    It might be her one and only chance, if they were not staying for long.

  8. #28
    Every time Jarvi had set foot inside the hallowed halls of the Library, it had been in the company of other Ysanna. As he looked up at the shape of it now, he knew there would already be members of his tribe inside, keeping vigil over the remains, yet the prospect of entering alone - admittedly with a Jedi beside him - made Jarvi feel… uncertain.

    In spite of that flicker of doubt, Jarvi turned a grin toward Cordelia.

    “If you like… though you should know, it would take days to explore the whole library.”

    There were sections that Jarvi had never seen, and never expected to see. The full extent of the library was known only to some of the oldest of the Ysanna.

    An idea occurred to Jarvi. Why shouldn’t he know more of the place, of the secrets it held? Perhaps in doing so, he could learn more about the Jedi….

    “We have camps inside. You could stay with me there, if you wanted to see everything.”

  9. #29
    Something about taking her inside.

    Cordelia had been traveling with the Jedi, and learning from them, for the last seven years. She knew conflicting emotions when they were left unguarded. There was a trace of doubt in Jarvi maybe? Perhaps what she asked was not as easy as it seemed. Maybe the smart thing to do was head back.

    Just like that thought, the indecision seemed to have passed and he was agreeing to take her inside the Great Jedi Library.

    "I am not sure that I have days..", Cordelia admitted.

    She had planned to be back by tonight, but.. Master Beltrak knew where she had been heading. If she was required back before then, Cordelia felt sure that the Jedi Master would roar up on her swoop in a cloud of dust and say so.

    "But.. maybe overnight?"

  10. #30
    “Wait here,” Jarvi called back to Littlefoot, before he motioned for Cordelia to walk with him.

    Though they were still a way from the library, Jarvi’s mind had leapt ahead. He thought of the possibility of crossing paths with the other Ysanna, and explaining to them that he had brought a Jedi into the library. This wasn’t what the tribe had committed itself to. They were supposed to guard and protect the library, not escort people around it. Well, no one had ever explicitly said he shouldn’t escort people around it. That was basically the same as saying he could, right?

    “If you tell me what you want to learn about, I’m sure I can take you to the right section tonight.”
    Last edited by Jarvi; Oct 14th, 2019 at 01:07:52 PM.

  11. #31
    Cordelia walked with Jarvi as he lead her toward the library. She still got the impression he was not so sure this was a good idea anymore than she was. Riding a swoop at max speed, flying around other swoops, potentially crashing in an explosion of fire and instant death was not a good idea and yet both she and her master made it a point to do so on any world that had a track.. She could handle a library.

    The Jedi Knight thought about the library and what she might discover inside but only one thing kept coming to her mind. A conversation she had had with a blind padawan called Serah. Maybe she could find something to help her, when she did eventually make it to Rishi to search for her sister.

    "How about maps and charts? I have.. a friend.. who would like to know more about the planet Rishi."

  12. #32
    “Maps and charts,” Jarvi echoed her words, a hint of uncertainty or perhaps surprise in his voice. Maps and charts were well and good, but they weren’t where the true value of the Great Library could be found, were they? Unless they were maps that lead to some sort of boon or treasure.

    “Have you been other Jedi…” he seemed to be struggling for the right word, brow furrowed, “Monuments… like this?”

    As they waded through the tall grass, the dirt beneath their feet began to give way to paving stones, half-hidden beneath the abundant flora. They were following a path now, one that was well-worn from the footsteps of many pilgrims before them.

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