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"Wrong," Aayla replied. "We are strong now as we were at the end of the New Sith Wars. Before they began, however, the Order numbered in the tens of thousands. Now, we barely have 11,000 or so from what I know."
"And that is really beside the point," Aayla went on. "The Council does know. We challenged them on it, and we won."
She looked at Harry, and Harry sighed but lifted a hand, conjuring a small Force light into existence around it. With his hand glowing, he reiterated some of the points he and his mother made in front of the Council.
After a moment spent listening, R'sonan frowned shaking his head. "I cannot agree with this. This is dangerous, just as dangerous as some of the techniques you use. That teleportation technique, that alone is far too dangerous for anyone so young to know. I will speak to the Council. These new techniques, they cannot spread further until the Council of First Knowledge understands them better."
"So you believe that you know better than the High Council?" Master Fay asked softly from behind R'sonan, who turned and looked at her askance. "Better than Master Dooku? Windu? Ranicisis? Me? Master Yoda? Do you really feel you know the ways of the Force better than someone who was spent centuries learning about the Force?"
"Your bias towards your padawan does you no credit in my eyes," R'sonan said softly but sternly. "You obviously have allowed your emotions to cloud your judgment on this."
"You have not answered my question. Does the Force tell you something it does not tell us? Does it tell you anything about the future now?" Master Fay replied just as softly, moving towards him. "I can tell you that the Force has not told me anything about the long-term future for some time now. Nor has it told anyone else about the long-term future. But perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps you have found a way to peer through the Veil of the Dark Side?"
R'sonan stared at her, but after a moment had to look away, bowing his head in near-submission. "I have not seen anything more than you have. And, and I can see that their bond is of the Light. But I had just become a padawan when Master Moira fell because she found her paramour making love with another woman. Her love for him turned to jealousy so quickly, and she fell so deep into the Dark."
He looked away from them all as he remembered that time, shuddering before he turned back. "She killed three other Jedi sent to apprehend her before she was brought down in turn. How, how can you say that would not happen to these two? Or to others to follow who attempt to follow in their footsteps? Do not say that it's impossible; such an example, it can only spread."
"It might," Master Fay said, sighing a little. "But the Reformation was not the first time the Jedi turned their backs upon allowing such attachments, and each time has slowly led to our stagnation or destruction. While we might open ourselves up to feeling the emotions of the Dark Side if we embrace the Light, it does not mean we will let them control us. It does not mean opening ourselves up to emotions in the first place is a mistake. And as for that specific instance happening among these two…"
She looked over at Aayla, who giggled shaking her head. She pointed to her forehead, then Harry's, willingly letting him catch her hand as he replied. "Master R'sonan, we're connected mind to mind. We could no more keep secrets from one another then you could stop the sun from burning. There can still be moments of jealousy, but no secrets, and certainly we could never go behind one another's backs."
"Truly?" R'sonan asked, sounding much mellower now. Whether that was because they had slowly been able to convince him or if Master Fay's presence inhibited even a Jedi's desire for conflict, Harry wasn't about to even try to guess.
"Truly!" Aayla replied, smiling at the old human Master now. "Master, I understand your concerns. I understood some of the Council's concerns. But, I also know that a lot of it was based upon false thinking, or perhaps too narrow-minded a focus. We Jedi have to widen our perception of the Force beyond simply keeping the balance, because if something comes along that is outside of that narrow focus, like the Veil of the Dark Side, we are affected all the more because we have no way to combat it. Would the Veil be causing so many problems if we Jedi could learn how to create some kind of Light Side equivalent? If we had been researching the Light Side of the Force, thinking about it, then maybe we could create something like that."
To one side Lily had been watching this conversation but not taking part in it, hidden almost entirely in a wall with only her head peering out. Now she laughed quietly behind one of her ethereal hands, winking at Master Fay who was the only one who could see her from her current vantage point. The ageless elven Master shook her head, sighing faintly at her friend's antics, though understanding her amusement.
They had in fact attempted to create a runic array that would emulate Harry's Force Light. Harry could do things with the Patronus spell that Lily had never imagined, but even he could not create a Light Construct which was powerful enough to burn away the Veil beyond its physical presence. The Light Side constructs could help fight the Dark Side slightly, but the Veil was too ephemeral a thing for it to truly effect, always there, blocking the future. So they had searched for ways to somehow take the constructs to the next level. Yet while Master Fay and now Aayla could replicate Force Light and even create small constructs of their own, Lily and Fay had been unable to find a runic equivalent at all, let alone a step up.
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