Hey folks,

  Today I am bringing you ara rge chapter, oh cheese and a rge soda to celebrate the reag of the 100. chapter of a story in a gaxy far far away.

  This story is turning out to be quite a fat one.

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  -From the perspective of Lily.-

  I ending my time in the pany of Kalifa and Barriss. We were ihe Hall of a Thousand Fountains, pying a game of dice. It was a simple game, ohat you only needed a few dice to enjoy. Even my new panion, the Overmind, seemed to accept it as a useful activity and that was something to be said.

  The game looked like this. One of us rolls the dice or dices and the other two tries to prediany of the five dice the other took and what hey will eventually end up showing. It was a game of predi, which supposedly honed your supernatural abilities to predict the immediate future.

  The one closer to the actual number will have one ce to sp the top of the other one’s hand. That is held out in front of us, from the start of the game. But the other pyer is allowed to try to pull away her hand. If she fails to, she will lose a life. Everyone has three lives at the start.

  It was a fun game that hohe ability of fht, which was said to be crucial for the jedi, and I could see why it might prove useful. If I had this ability when I was fighting with the zealots, or when I was hit by the shrapnel of a broken bone bde. I would be able to easily foresee it and move out of the way.

  Now I genuinely wao learn this skill with all my heart. I listened with strained tration as Kalifa threw the dice after she rolled them around the cup a few times.

  My eyes were closed, as this was the rule for the game. You weren’t supposed to peek at the result, it wouldn’t be fair. I was trying to pry open the door of the future if only for a sed to uand this mysterious ability when, instead of the image of several rolled dice, something different blinked into my mind.

  I saw hundreds e spaceships appear outside of the phen after a brief moment of shod disbelief, a sensation of fear spiked through the ether, reag my body momentarily, overwhelming my mind. Then I saw millions of ser beams shot simultaneously, bsting against the still panicked ships. Many such ships were destroyed in the first wave of ining one sided attacks.

  I could hear millions of terrified screams carrying the undeniable call of death.

  The screams of terror, and pain which rang through me started to wear down my mind, I saw the st se of the visiohe defending ships finally started to react sending back series of blue psma beams at first they were doing it with an ineffit scattered way then the blue streaks of death finally seemed tao a simir shroud as their enemies were, resulting in a plete maion of chaos. I was suddenly thrown bato my body, into the present, feeling powerless and drenched i. My brain ulsing with spikes of pain hammering through it.

  I was momentarily shocked by this pain, which was not present before, and winced while elig a small groan.

  -Auh...

  I heard a pair of surprised gasps o me. I wao sit up, as I realized I was lying on my back, but I was immediately pushed back down on the floor with four hands.

  -What is this? Why does my head hurt so much...

  I was immediately scolded by one of the excited voices. It clearly belongs to Kalifa, as she scolded me lightly.

  -No, you fool, lie down. You should have told us if you weren’t feeling well. You are such a child, colpsing on us all of a sudden... Are you hungry or what?

  -Hungry? I... I guess, but...

  I heard a pair of smirks, realizing that they were making fun of me... it was one of their favorite pass times activities since I came here. At first I didn’t realize, what they were doing, but after a few days... it was evident, I guess I was starting to uand the meaning of sarcastic humor, and why people were often saying the exact opposite of what they meant or felt.

  It was either from cowardiot daring to state yenuine feelings, or to iionally fuse the oppo and make fun of him or her while also eaining everyone around.

  -I knew she was hungry. There is not a siime she isn’t, you see Barriss? I told you not to worry.

  There se of silehen a brief chuckle came from Barriss as she stated pyfully.

  -Yes... I just don’t seem to uand how she didn’t turn into a ball of fat that we could roll around iemple’s corridors. That would be a sight to see... As, she is just as skinny as she was when we first saw her. The only thing I feel good about is that she is as ft as a stick bug.

  Then, after Barriss’ short monolog, Kalifa whispered to her mock spiratorially, in other words loud enough for me to hear with a smirk.

  -Stop saying that, or she will realize that we are actually envious, her metabolism is just out of this world. But you are right… not that it matters to begin with.

  Barriss gave Kalifa an annoyed side gnd said.

  -What do you mean? Of course it matters.

  Kalifa huffed in a boyish manner iion while crossing her arms over her chest. She argued.

  -It’s not that our tits will get much use, anyway. Don’t you remember what happeo Master Skywalker? He got kicked out of the Order because of “Unpreted per-perversion”. As things are, I would rather eat as much as I want and don’t gain a…

  Barriss raised her hands in front of her face, trying to hold in a wave of ughter. She evidently failed and started to bawl with untrolble ughter, rolling onto her bad shaking from the mention of Anakin Skywalker's trial.

  She mao squeeze out a few words between her rounds of ughter.

  -Do you remember… his expressiohey brought up… haha… the-the reason for his expulsion?

  Kalifa also started to ugh, seeing the ridiculous state that Barriss ended up in.

  -Chuckle… of course I do, but he had it ing for him.

  Barriss, still ying on the floor, with small bursts of ughter shaking her from time to time. Eventually, she started to calm down. She sat up at st and said to Kalifa.

  -All things sidered, he still has the rank of General… even if that is partly thanks to the influence of his wife as a senator…

  Kalifa smirked again and pou the uing Barriss, starting to tickle her side, which resulted in another wave of ughter in the meantime. She scolded her.

  -Barriss, Barriss… where is your i act hmm? What are you insinuating there? Do you io do the same? I thought you were too prude to make sugraceful accusations and to think of such ideas your master would be disappointed... As; I don’t think you are wrong… also he is still thought to be the chosehe cil wouldn’t punish him as much, while that possibility is still alive. But that wouldn’t be the case with you, or me… So don’t even think about it.

  -Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha! Nooo, okay, I gave up! Plea-please… leave me be! I… I am sorry…

  Kalifa made a grimace, while copying the voiaster Windu as she stated in a ically straining deep voice.

  -Sorry is not enough. I want to see results, as. Spare your words of pt for those who care about them.

  - You… fine… I will give you some of my spare chocote… if you let me go!… ah…

  In the very sed, Kalifa was sitting ba her inal pce with a tented smile.

  Barriss huffed and puffed a few times, and crawled to a sitting position feeling kind of powerless, after su underhanded assault.

  -You… you are evil…

  She said to Kali, and pulled her legs up against her chest, seemingly about to cm up for the day. It was one of her habits. She was the silent, brooding type. At least, that was how Kali categorized her… When I asked what she thought about me, she said I was the cute airhead who sometimes turns into a killing mae.

  I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.

  I rolled my eyes seeing this, a thing that I learned from Barriss which was supposedly meant to showcase your annoyance of certain things or certain persons.

  The other two noticed it and looked at me funny.

  Kalifa spoke up first.

  -Look at it, she is doing it wrong again...

  Barriss turowards me as well, and hen added another few words.

  -Yeah, it’s kind of disturbing... I mean, how does she even roll her eyes in pletely different dires? It’s kind of creepy...

  Oh... so you were supposed to roll them symmetrically? I didn’t realize... I corrected it without a word.

  -Eh? She corrected it!

  Stated Kalifa.

  -It would seem so.

  Agreed Barriss, with a sigh letting go of her inal iion of being a human sized cm.

  I decided to end their bullying session and forced myself to sit up. This time, they didn’t try to hold me down, as both of them were too submerged in their own little world.

  -I wasn’t that hungry...

  Two pairs of eyes turowards me, not uanding what I was talking about.

  -I mean, I didn’t colpse because of malnutrition, and I wasn’t feeling bad either.

  I stated this at first, with the iion of clearing up the earlier misuanding.

  I saw that the girls, finally caught on to what I was referring to, and a vile glint, were mirr in their eyes. As they exged a mischievous gnce.

  I gulped.

  -Sure you weren’t..

  -Yeah, totally not.

  -You… sigh… just listen for once. Please.

  It seems I failed. I rolled my eyes again, this time properly, and said with a huff.

  -I believe I had a force vision, of sorts just now.

  The two girls tensed up for a sed, then Barriss asked me with a serious tone.

  -What did you see?

  Kalifa didn’t say anything, but she was clearly ied.

  I sighed and said, feeling a bit scared.

  -I saw thousands of battleships appear outside of this phere is a battle going on already. Lot of death, fear and pain...

  The two girls were looking at me frozen, wide eyed, and worried.

  I heard Kalifa’s words, ced with worry but still holding onto a bit of hope as she asked.

  -Ah... look Lily, we are sorry for making fun of you; I promise we will stop, so there is no reason to make such a bad jok-...

  As if on cue, a series of warning sirens began to scream around the temple, ting the cruel reality of the situation. All three of us were spooked by the ued noise, and I could see cold worry set in the already paling faces of the girls, my new friends.

  Barriss jumped up, her blue eyes set in a perma expression of worry. Looking around with a haunted gaze, one simir to the ones she made when she jolted awake from a bad dream in the middle of the night. Over these few days, we ofteogether, usually choosing one of our rooms for this purpose. The masters of the order were extremely overwhelmed with their work. They couldn’t spare time to teach us now. They had to sort out casualties and bury those bodies which had been brought back from different systems.

  Needless to say that the general mood was not great, not until a mysterious bunch of force wielders arrived at the temple as guests. We didn’t have the ce to speak with a single one of them yet, but we could take a few peeks of them when they arrived here.

  I inally wasn’t that ied, but seeing the otion made around the ehing, I also became curious. It was evident to us that the general mood of the temple ged with their arrival, as if every jedi was relived by the , giving them something else, somethio speak about, a way to distract their depressed thoughts.

  The temple had a very solemn and pristine air, whily grew stronger sihe e’s betrayal. Even more so, than usual, so many passed away, often without a trace, disied in battles, burnt to crisp in waves of heat explosions, ripped to shreds by shrapnels of blown up ships or simply lost among the endless parsecs of space, some yet to be found, while others fotten o be seen again.

  The waves of disturbingly sharp screaming noises geed by the alerting sirens now were ranging through the air from every dire. The sound waves were stantly ging frequencies, as if wanting to draw even more attention to their existence.

  I heard a familiar deep voiside my head. At the time, I was growing aced to it already. It seems there was enough spaside my head for the two of us, after all. Since he stopped causing me pain by looking through my memories, I didn’t mind it that much.

  I believe that is exactly what it is desigo achieve. Through your awareness, I could also sense a surprising amount of ships appearing around the p. A battle raging with sutensity is bound to extend to the surface, ohat might endahe tinuation of our mutual retionships.

  I blinked, feeling fused, then asked in my mind, sihe Overmind never ceased to se when I was talking to him aloud instead of only fog my thoughts. He didn’t eve me speak about him. I was forcefully stopped, uo open my mouth if I had the iion of speaking about him.

  Naturally, I still tried to, but the attempts resulted in utter failure. Putting me in ridiculous situatioually, I was forced to st. What a mess... Oh, but wait? What do you mean by that? I thought that you couldn’t leave... Were you lying?

  No, I ’t. What I meant is, if you die, we ’t coexist anymore.

  I... I see, but, wait if I die, ain’t you going to die as well?

  That is ihe case.

  So... why are you so calm about it? Aren’t you afraid?

  Fear is a new cept for me. I believe that I uand the sensation of fear through your emotions, at least to a certain degree. I am ly sure how to feel about it. However, I know that I don’t want to lose my geiformation and memories. That makes me feel disturbed, maybe... Yes, I believe I do feel fear.

  I... Ugh, so we agree that... her of us wants to die, right?

  Survival is preferable. I agree.

  So... what to do now?

  Based on my observations throughout the days we spent here, I believe we should leave this pce as quickly as possible. This alien temple structure is clearly a position of high i, which likely is a priority target for the ehat came attag this phis observation was made by analyzing your memories of the event you refer to as the e’s betrayal.

  No! I won’t leave without my friends, especially if what you said is true.

  Friends? I do not uand this cept nor the need for it. I have been trying to analyze the purpose behind your iions with those female sapients. I thought it to be a misguided attempt at a mating ritual, but I have been proved wrong. Then I believed that you wished to use their knowledge, which seems to be true, but why are you so protective of them now when you have learned what you sought? I find that I ot wholly prehend the reasons behind your behaviors. I find myself w if you have any such reason to begin with.

  Eh? What do you mean... mating? Which part of these looks like mating to you?!

  You have been sleeping together more often than not, however I find it baffled that no reproductive ans have been utilized during thi...

  Oh, no-no-no! Shut up! I take that back, don’t answer... I don’t want to know... ... ...

  There were a few seds of awkward silen my mind. Then I started an attempt to clear out the awkwardness and asked.

  What is it that you don’t uand about it... I mean, about f-friendship?

  I ’t see the purpose behind your as. What is the goal that you try to achieve by wasting your time in meaningless banter? Is there a deeper purpose which I ot seem to prehend?

  Well... I enjoy being in their pany, its f-fun.

  Defihe meaning of fun.

  What...? Is there nothing you like to do? Something you enjoy doing is what we call fun... You are so stupid at times...

  Fun is what I enjoy?

  Yeah, obviously you dummy! Tell me what is that you like to do in your spare time?

  Based on yiven parameters of the meaning of fun, I do believe that I enjoy dev new lifeforms and expanding my and the swarms’ evolutional choices based on their geical information. Is that an acceptable answer?

  ... Ugh, that sounds like work to me... and you are not all!

  Defihe exact meaning of ni this particur text.

  You... ugh... you never seem to run out of questions, do you?

  Asking questions is the seost effit way to seek out knowledge. In my current state, I ot do the first one.

  Which is?

  Abs their geical information, naturally.

  I felt baffled by the answer. You! You bastard, now I see why the other zergs wao screw me so much! It was you all along. This type of thinking is the very reason why they were attempting to cut me apart all the time! And its root was you all along, your zy ass behavior! YOU, damn you! I don’t want to TALK to you any LONGER!

  ... I am inside your mind. You ot ignore me.

  Just watch me!

  That is exactly what I meant. You ’t stop thinking, and I read your thoughts. It’s a misguided attempt born of frustration and stubbornness. Something that is deemed to fail.

  Naah! Stop it, you are just a bully! You have nht to lecture me!

  I am your creator. I have every right to lecture you.

  NO! I won’t listen to you!

  I just described the reasons why you ’t stop listening to me. Could it be...? No, I don’t feel any structural disturban your brain. You should be capable of uanding what I spoke about.

  You... why you little, stop insulting me... you are so annoying, just leave me be, for now... please...

  Stroional fluctuation has beeed. I will retreat and cut direct mind e until you calm down. Your emotions are too overwhelming for me.

  ... coward!

  I could beat the crap out of this annoying bastard!... Only if... that wouldn’t meaing myself up in front of a mirror... damn...

  While I was submerged in the fast-paced internal dispute, whily sted for a few seds iime, I found my arm being grabbed and pulled up by the two girls. I was quickly pulled along to move in search of either one of their masters. My promised practice session with Master Windu was still being postponed, with an uain amount of time, too.

  I suppose that will be stretched out even further based on what dires the events seem to take now.

  We were running through the corridors, searg for any master to give us some dires, what to do, what was happening around.

  Finally, we have heard a familiar voice, the voice which belongs to no other than Master Yoda. He eaking with someone in ay corridor. We decided to move towards the dire of the voices. While also sparing some energy to listen to the versation. Based on the voices, he eaking with another padawan, a girl. She likely sought him out, with the same iion as us.

  That was what we thought, but as we got closer, we realized that the girl’s voice was filled with the fidend pride of someone in an equal position. It was different from hoadawan was expected to speak with the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order.

  And for that reason, we decided to stop and listen to the versation. Kalifa was especially ag strange, hearing the voice of the unknown girl. Did she know her from somewhere? Based on her grimace, which showed she indeed reized her voice, the answer robably yes... I will have to questioer.

  Anyway, all three of us decided to hide in a crook of the corridor’s wall behind the heavy curtains, while listening ily to the particur versation as the targets of our eavesdroppioo submerged in their discussion to notice our presence.

  The unknown girl’s voibsp;

  -I have ordered the Dark Seeker to a support of the orbital positions.

  Master Yoda’s voice.

  -reciate the thought, but what could otleship achieve against suumbers? I would rather wish you stayed out of it, as the destru of your ship could result in... unforeseen diplomatic outes.

  The girl’s voiswered in a somewhat coy tone.

  -Usually, nothing. However, I believe that you will find this particur one different in this regard.

  -How so?

  Asked a harsher, but also just as familiar, voice, this time belonging to Master Windu. There was a moment of silehen the girl spoke expnatorily.

  - Only half of that ship is an actual ship. The entire midse, including the bridge, is nothing else but a huge meditation chamber. I believe you are familiar with the cept of battle meditation?

  There was a surprised gasp as Master Windu hastily asked.

  -Don’t tell me... you have someone who is able to expand their mind to cover aire battlefield of such magnitude?

  The girl spoke in a triumphant voice, seeing the evident surprise of Master Windu.

  -The whole battlefield? No, it will be more like the entire p and the surrounding spabsp;

  There was a few seds of silehen Master Yoda spoke solemnly.

  -I will admit, to have such talent among your people is ued, but it is certainly a relief. Battle Meditation is a finicky art that is rarely practiced among our people, at least not anymore. It needs a particur sort of talent, which is rare to e by. I am afraid that over the long years of peace; we have almost entirely stopped the practice of this art, that solely focuses on battle situations. We might have to reintroduce them to younglings. I believe that some of the more etric masters, who came back from their self exile and missionary journeys, still have suffit knowledge to teach it.

  The girl answered calmly.

  -Yes, believe me, I know how annoying it is to actually achieve a. I myself practice the art, but I am uo expand my awareness farther than a few kilometers. At least for now.

  -That is already a very admirable level. Some would even call it mastery.

  Praised Yoda.

  -Yes, well, at least until they withe real thing.

  Said the girl, a small level of frustratioering her voice.

  There was a momentary silehen the girl added mischievously.

  -I believe that you, Masters, have some unusually curious visitors ing by. And I wouldn’t wish to stand in the way of pleasant versation, not any lohan absolutely necessary. I will join the rest of my escort in my appointed quarters. Battle meditation or not, our enemies’ numbers are overwhelming and a ground invasion is unavoidable. Reinforce the defense of the temple, and the Senate, both of them are crucial points. Losiher of them will greatly affect overall morale. Which could lead to signifitly different outes. Call us if you need help with something.

  Master Windu answered with annoyance.

  -You have done more than we could impose upon you. Also, we have already ordered reinfort of those positions. Your advice is unnecessary, but still... weled.

  He added that st bit after Yoda whipped him across the back of his leg with his crooked walking stick.

  There was aremely awkward silence for a while.

  The girl’s voice broke it, eventually.

  -...I guess I will go now. See you ter...

  As we heard the light steps of this mysterious persoing closer to us, we hastily stepped out of our hiding space, and acted like we were simply walking by. Which also turned out to be pretty awkward as the person clearly khat we were eavesdropping on them.

  Just when we mao “uncurtain” ourself in wild panicky movements since my wings naturally stu the fierial, adding a few unintended cuts and holes to it... I was really feeling sorry for the damage... The girl who the voice beloo stepped out of the er and we could see each other at st.

  We were staring at each other, while she walked by with elegant graodding to us politely. That lightness and elegance of how she held herself simply looked out of pce at a girl of her age.

  I also realized that Kalifa immediately started to fidget o me as her eyes met with the girl’s gre. Her face even turned a bit pink, while she was staring at the ground, finding it more iing than anything else in the world.

  Barriss looked at the strange girl with abundant curiosity. She was clearly curious about her and seemed to even admire the way she held herself. She was clothed in a nicely designed cloth in the different shades of gray, white and brown and gold in a small amount.

  The cloth was simir to a jedi robe, but there were iing differences. It was more modern, in design, and it wouldn’t really stand out in a crowd. The robe was able to maintain a solemn atmosphere while still holding onto its practicality.

  Or... maybe the robe was nothing special, and only the way the person wore it gave it a sense of solemn air.

  Our eyes met with the stranger. She was looking at me a lot lohahers, but I wasn’t bothered by it since I got used to people staring at my eye color with suspi. It was a daily occurrence... the Jedi didn’t like my eye color. It remihem of their old enemy. The ehat was likely behind this particur attack.

  Our staring petition was broken by the dry cough ing from our fnks.

  All three of us jumped slightly as we turo fa angry Master Windu. He was ready to scold us, but still held it in because of the presence of the important guest.

  He gave us a deeply offended gre, which promised that this was not over yet, and asked in a dry tone.

  -What do you want?

  Hearing this, Barriss, who was the most favored by the masters among us, stepped forward and described my vision to Windu and Yoda, who also appeared in the meantime. His legs were a lot shorter and only arrived now... Then he asked what to do.

  We have been told to stay out of trouble and wait ihe temple. Only if the temple is attacked, in the worst-case oute, were we allowed to take part in the defense! We have also been told that the younglings who weren’t capable of defending themselves were led by a few knights to the underground ste rooms. Ohat were only opened after the st atta the temple. They were created with evacuation purposes leading to hidden pces outside of the temple, but many of them were out of ission, funing as mere ste rooms for so long that they needed heavy repairs.

  The time that went by sihe st attack was only enough to clear and reinforce a few of those secret corridors. However, it was enough to escape the temple and search fe outside. We are not going to be trapped inside of our temple once again.

  A very annoying voice seemed to resurface from its short exile.

  Since when did you start to believe that you actually beloo this order of psioies? They only io use you. I would know since we are simir in this regard.

  No, you are back again... Oh wait... are you scolding or praising them right now?

  It is praiseworthy of them to realize one of my children’s endless potential. However, they are greatly misguided if they believe that their meager efforts trol my zerg.

  Are you saying that I am out of trol?

  Yes! Even my extremely sophisticated mind trol only had so little effe you. Their much weaker attempts at making you feel favorable towards them are nothing more than a desperate attempt.

  I don’t even know what you are talking about…