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"You would, my little Guardian," Master Fay said, her good humor now restored. "For now, however, I believe we have some meditation to get to," she said, clapping her hands.
The former Trade Federation ship arrived right on time a few weeks after that discussion, and Harry found that what minimal free time he and Aayla had to spend together practically disappeared. They got up with the sun, and they went to bed utterly exhausted every night. The only time they had was in the mornings; if they woke up early enough they could have a few moments to spend together tenderly hugging or kissing before joining the rest of the Jedi for breakfast.
Harry and Aayla were both happy, as were all the Jedi Masters, that the special powers of Clan Saa were spreading amongst this group quickly. By this point nearly every youngling and all of the older Jedi could produce a shield. Now they began working on holding it and using it in combat against both long range and hand-to-hand opponents. The stunner and color changing techniques too had become commonplace among the group of Jedi at the center.
More than a few of the masters who had been ordered to come to Serenno for retraining and lightsaber practice completely stopped trying to learn a new lightsaber style. They instead focused entirely on these new abilities. The Consulars felt that these and the other techniques Harry was teaching were much more in keeping with their personal combat styles. Dooku wasn't happy about that, but could not argue the point as well as he had when the classes began.
In contrast to those, and even element manipulation, however, teleportation proved to be a nonstarter for many of the Jedi. That technique took imagination, control, and power, being far more power intensive than any of Harry's other abilities except for conjuration and transfiguration. The only one outside of Harry's own extended family that could transfigure was Master Dooku. Even Shaak couldn't quite pull it off except in small items like needles. Though this actually didn't matter much considering she could also propel said needle so fast they could penetrate body armor like buckshot.
So all in all, despite being incredibly busy, chaotic at times, and pushing Harry and Aayla to a degree that even full Jedi found hard to keep up with, their lives on Serenno and within the training center proceeded very well for them. Others, however, were not nearly as happy at how things were going.
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Since his decision to do away with Plagueis in any way he could contrive it, Darth Sidious had not had much time to actually devote to that goal. His public identity as the Chancellor was a full time job after all, a fact he was noting somewhat wryly as he leaned back in his chair in the Chancellor's office after a meeting with the Alderaanian senator. The man is so sanctimonious and moral it makes my skin crawl, but he is so useful as the head of the anti-corruption committee. An attack dog who doesn't realize he is only ever launched at targets I choose. Doesn't make him any less pleasant to be around.
Yet on top of that he also had other tasks, and Sidious punched in a few quick commands into the computer set into desk. He waited several minutes as it went through several thousand security programs before connecting into an entirely different network, which in turn eventually connected him through several dozen cutouts to the computer network in the secret underground base the Sith had built up over the millennia directly beneath the Jedi Temple. Security, as always, was a must, and since Sidious needed to remain here visible and available for meetings for the rest of the day he couldn't get away physically. The Jedi might not be at home with the world of computer espionage, but that was no reason for overconfidence.
The first thing that caught Sidious's attention as he worked his way through the backlog of notes in the system was that Plagueis was away once more, not in the underground base or even in his yacht in orbit, something Sidious had already sensed. With the amount of time he had to devote to his public persona, Sidious had barely been able to notice the absence of the other Sith even peripherally. Force curse it! Just one evening, that is all I would need. Just one evening where he sleeps on Coruscant! As Chancellor, Sidious couldn't get away even for the time it would take to head up to orbit, and even if he could there was no way he could arrive on Plagueis's ship before Plagueis was aware of his presence, even asleep. And Sidious had no desire to face his former master head on if he could help it.
Not that Plagueis was idle by any means on those trips. Regardless of his rising conviction that Plagueis's continued existence was in many ways damaging the Great Plan, Sidious understood that. The older Sith continued to work on his experiments in Sith Alchemy, and while Sidious still felt many of them were abominations and also pointless, there were others for which he could see a use. Plagueis was also handling some of the military aspects of the Great Plan, finding scientists and ship designers the galaxy over who could be manipulated in the future. That was actually what Plagueis was doing at present, meeting in person with a few scientists elsewhere in the Republic. He hadn't left any indication of what scientist or why, however, which greatly annoyed Sidious.
Sighing, Sidious once more pushed those thoughts to the background. Besides, there were many parts of the Great Plan he had to keep moving on too. Plagueis will die; that is certain. It will happen; the Force is on my side. It will happen; I just need to be patient and grasp the opportunity when the Force presents it to me.
With that thought he turned his attention to going over the other bits and pieces he had to look at, mostly about ongoing espionage work the universe over, as well as the slowly building plans for the Trade Federation's hidden army. That seemed to be building apace despite not having access to the Lucrehulks the Trade Federation lost over Naboo.
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