From the perspective of Nizzal.

  After I mao catch up with the others "we" by which I meant me, Laora, Anakin and Ahsoka, were sent out to look around the cave. We were searg for any signs of dangerous, possibly humaing, cave-dwelling monsters. Luckily, we didn't enter anything except a few big rats. Since we didn't find anything dangerous, we decided to head back to the ship, where the others stayed behind and began to pack out some sort of survival gear, and camping equipment.

  Yes, we decided to stay here for a while, sihe Ebon Hawk's detectors were stantly pig up series of heavy tremors through the ground; those tremors were inating from the surface. We figured that a p-wide bombardment had begun. I guess, Dooku didn't like our attempt to put him out of misery. It's good that he didn't realize that we were the ones who tried to kill him. Not that it made any difference, since he wao kill me even before that...

  Anyway, our main goal, as Aomi stated, had been reached. We mao create infightiween the Separatist worlds. Seeing the cruel ways of t Dooku b the whole world of Zygerria after he assassiheir queen will send the desired message to anyone who thinks that allying themselves with the Separatists will save their world from suffering and possible destru.

  While we were trag back our steps to the ship. I had the opportunity to listen into the general banter of Anakin, and Ahsoka. Now that I think of it, they are nuing for about three whole minutes.

  I turned around, trying to figure out what was going on.

  The moment I looked at Ahsoka, I realized that she looked troubled. They must have fought while I was ign them. Unfortunately, that means that I have no idea what could have caused this deep frown to appear on her face. Maybe, I am not too te to figure out what was going oween them?

  Ahsoka stopped suddenly, she turowards her master and asked a question from him.

  I was quite curious at this moment, so I also stopped and listened carefully.

  Anakin stopped too, and looked at his padawan, waiting for her question.

  -By the way, master, you didn't tell me what is the other thing you hate....

  Anakin seemed fused, as he asked.

  -What do you mean?

  Ahsoka pouted slightly, she realized that her master had already fotten their earlier banter.

  -You said that there are two things you hate and both of them are present here! How could you fet it already... Are you starting to get senile?

  -Shut it Snips. I am worried about Obi-Wan. We were uo make a e, since we are too deep underground for the signals to reach the surface. I hope he is alright.

  -Have faith Master, Obi-Wan will be alright and Rex is also with him to save his hind quarters in case his diplomatic approach fails to achieve its desired effect.

  Anakin seemed to think about this. After a few seds, he said with an even more worried expression.

  -Now that you mention it, I don't seem to recall a single mission when he mao solve any quarrel with actual diplomacy.

  Ahsoka's mouth slightly opened, but she doesn't seem to find the words she was evidently looking for... Then she helplessly shut her mouth and after releasing a long sigh, she directed the versation back to its in.

  -So, anyway... What is the other thing you hate, Master?

  She asked her question again.

  Anakin, seemed to have awoken from his own worries as he looked up and began to speak finally.

  -Oh, well. If you really want to know, who she is...

  His eyes widened for a sed, as if he had just remembered something very important. Then he looked at me with clear disirrored in his eyes.

  -So she is a person? Do I know her? Wait, where are you looking at?

  Asked Ahsoka as she turned around and looked at me. She seemed fused for a while, then her eyes widened with realization, as she turned back to her master.

  -You 't be serious! Are you hating Nizzy, when there are people like Ventress running around the gaxy?!

  -What? You asked the question, would you rather hear me lie about it?

  -How you be this iive, you jerk! Why don't you hate Ventress more, she tried to kill us multiple times!

  -Because I don't have to live with her uhe same roof!

  -You are, you are... hopeless...

  Okay, my worries were totally unfounded. It is time to tinue my walk back to the ship. Before, Laora leaves us here! She didn't even stop to wait for us. That woman's attitude is beyond shameless.

  So yeah, where was I? Oh, that is it. This cave is actually at the bottom of a partially dried out ke. There is still water in the ke, but it is very little, pared to what it must have looked like in the past. It's size must have been quite big, sihere are still visible walls of the old el reag as high as thirty meters at certaihose walls once served as the water bed fiant quantities of water.

  Although, it is clear that this had been ged decades ago. But where did the water go? Sihere is still water in this pce just a lot less, it means that this pce still tio get water from a river. So where does the water end up?

  With only using your eyes, you will never realize, that at the bottom of the currehere is a giant uer cave. The cave is in fact is so big, that our ship could easily desd into it, even if it was ten times bigger. Yes, the cave is the ahe shear mass of the water that was held in the ke, must have weighted so much, that the underground cave system simply caved in. After that, the water began to press itself into the newly created opening in the earth, filling up the underground caves, creating a giant opening that in the end ected the caves with the ke's water. Slowly refill the ke with water until it has reached its inal depth.

  Or at least this should have happened; but it is clear, that the caves are irely filled with water, as it still tio pour into it. That means the water must flow into some underground river, or ke. It is a pretty iing phenomenon, to be ho. Create a somewhat unique underground living enviro.

  Because of Aomi ensuring us that it was in fact safe, as they have made the necessary adjustments on the ship to work uer and in highly pressurized enviros.

  My ship simply plopped into the water after Equ turned off the engines slightly above water levels. Then, after Aomi hit a few new buttons on the trol panel, a pair of propellers extended out into the water from a hidden slot, and we slowly began to head deeper down into uncharted territory.

  Well, at least most of us felt like that, Aomi was different, though, she had been down in these caves many times before. We traveled about half an hour with the ship this way. That was the time when the cave tunnel suddeended outward. The light rays that we used to light the cave walls in front of us had been lost in the plete darkness of the water. We were uo see the end of this giant underground watershaft.

  Aomi was pletely rexed, so I decided to trust her. She simply followed the water currents, as she entered into different tunnels, while trolling the ship as if it were a walk in a park. I had long lost t of how many different tunnels we entered and which shaft we just left behind, when suddenly our ship broke through the water's surface; that very moment a ghostly blue light appeared around the ship.

  We were still in the caves, in parts where the cave had not been flooded. It was a colossal air pocket, to be more precise. There was a blueish hue c the whole pce, as fluoresg giant blue flowers were lighting up the shores of the at least one kilometer wide and few hundred meters tall chamber.

  A lot of questions popped into my mind about this pce, and I wao ask them from Aomi immediately.

  I didn't mao do that. She hushed me, and ordered me, Ahsoka, Anakin, and Laora, to look around the side tunnels for any dangerous creature that may or may not have been lurking around. We were supposed to chase it away, or kill it while she and the others ered activate an energy fence around the camp.

  She at st parked the ship in shallow water, he shore. We decided to leave it at that, si would be uo activate the jet engines in a cave kilometers below ground only to attempt to park the ship on solid ground... or more like sand... sihat was what covered everything around here. Fine white sand.

  I will have to ask her about this cave when we reach the camp. It is close now. I looked down to see where I should pce my feet. A happy smile uionally appeared on my face as I saw my legs. The sleek bck boots and bck sturdy trousers with a lot of pockets were about to make me emotional. I was bay ship. My gear that I brought from Hoth was still here. Therefore, all my clothes were here. I was finally wearing clothes that were practical, and not mentally challenging to put them oime. I hought that I would miss normal clothes this much. Well, I also gave Ahsoka a pair of my clothes, since I didn't wao experience cave dwelling in an overly plicated and otherwise useless handmaiden dress.

  Well, she looked a bit funny in my clothes as they were a bit small for her. My long trouser only reached a bit under her knee. She was always taller than me, but now that difference had reached an unfortable level.

  She sent me a mog gre, when she realized how much taller she is than I am... So I poi out to her, in a cheery voice, that she is so lucky, to be this extremely ft and thin that my clothes, evehey are much smaller in size, miraculously mao fit her.

  Her smug expressioed immediately and turned into a gre. What?

  In the meantime, I also decided to stop slowing down my aging, for now. It is definitely not because of Ahsoka tinuously annoying me for my small size.

  At times like this, I feel sad that no one in our order has ever created a teique that could actually do the opposite thing, hasten the users growth speed.

  You would think, that if you do one, you do the other as well. That is a very faulty clusion. Think about this: the fact that you push down a five ton mass of rock from the top of a mountai mean that you also push it up to that same mountain.

  The distance you o travel is the same, but the way, the approach you o take and the effort to spend is pletely different. Also, it is not like I just make up a teique out of nowhere. These teiques are the fruits of hundreds of years of stant research. It often took geions to finally create a single one of these extremely powerful and potent force teiques.

  It is much easier, to simply wait for me to grow naturally, at least until I hit seventeen hteen... I am not going to suffer Ahsoka's smirks any longer... Wait... am... am I being maniputed by her? I looked at my current body with scrutiny... Well, even if I am maniputed... I at least will be able to visit any pub and drink what I want... hehe... So I don't give a damn... I think?

  We closed on the rge hall of the cave where we left the others, as the weird blue colored flowers began to appear more and more frequently. The flowers were pretty nice. Sadly, they didn't have a st. Their size varied from a few timeters to a ten and even 15 meters big. Some seemed to be more like a tree than a flower. I only saw flora like this on Felucia before, but they were ly the same as these ones. I have made a bunch of pictures of them. I may try to figure out if there is any dotation oer.

  I followed Laora as she walked in the dire of the camp. She was just as ued as usually, well, she probably had been here already.

  I don't really know, how this flora is able to grow this big underground and stay alive. They obviously didn't vert energy from sunlight... Then where did they get the energy instead? I wonder... The air here is very moist, and there is plenty of water. The water is quite warm. There must be an underground spring nearby too... I don't know... Maybe I will ask Aomi...

  We walked bato the camp at st, there were eight pilrs raised around the tainers pced in the middle of the pilrs. Those pilrs will ed redirect the pure energy lines when it is activated, but it was still dormant so we walked through between them.

  Laora walked to the pile of boxes that were brought here from the ship while we were away. She simply plopped down on top of a rge chest, leaned her back to another one while releasing a tired sigh. She at st lifted her legs up and pced them on another metal box in front of her. Then she closed her eyes and pletely ignored us.

  Well, she must be tired... Best to leave her be than. I turned away from her and looked around the camp. There was not really that much of an actual camp yet... There was this pile of unopened metal tainers, in the middle of it. The only thing that was about to be funal was the energy fence. I doubt that we will eve, although, Aomi doesn't seem to be the type who does unnecessary things... Maybe we were simply lucky to not run into a while patrolling.

  -Oh!

  Suddenly a deep humming noise appeared around us, as the energy feivated. It formed an octagon formation around us and the tainers o us. The energy beams that ected the eight pilrs were gray-colored.

  I looked at the others. They seemed to be tent, for now. Ahsoka sat down on another tainer, while she tio fidgetting with her hands a. She must think, that I am angry at them for that previous matter... Well, I don't really care. I also hate Anakin's guts. He is self-tered, and annoying at the best of times. Also, he never listens to anyone, besides his own ego, I mean. Am I jealous, because he has about fifteen times the talent to el raw forergies than I have? Probably, but that doesn't necessarily have to turn you into an obnoxious jerk.

  Now he is gring at me, because I stared at him for too long... I turned away, and pulled out my lightsaber, while standing nearby, waiting for the others to appear.

  This saber hilt was made for me by my master. It was a standard one-bded lightsaber hilt. As standard as you get. The hilt was made from dark gray durasteel. It was covered by bck-colored leather straps at the bottom, to provide an easier grip on it for the wielder. There were only two bck buttons on it. One was the activator, which also funed as a deactivator when the bde was already ighe other was the hal mode. This button was covered with a thial pte that o be opened before the button could be pushed. This was for the reason of avoiding any actal ge in bde funs in the middle of a battle.

  And that was it. There were ra additions to it. It was as simple as possible. A minimalist design that shuns everything that is unnecessary, a maion of a reliable and practical killing ohere be no doubt, about it. This on was created with a siention. And that is to destroy its wielder's enemies.