The force moves around a single anchor.

  Painting created by the detailed descriptions of Grandmaster Nizzal, the anchor used as the base was the force presence of Grey Jedi Apostle Aomi sed line of memories, 25. representative, memory line inator: Basti Shan. This memoriy lirictly beloo the most traditional ones, meaning that not a single person of the 25 representative choose to preserve their psyche as a force preseer their bodies perished. Ead everyone of them unanimously submerged and scattered their mind in the all powerful forbsp;

  A peaceful choice, showing bravery and absolute acceptance of the cycle of life.

  In the midst of the darkest forest area around Unity, in a shadowy part where the darkside trates a stoop-shouldered form of a thirteen-year-old gray skiwi'lek girl could be seewo leks, the right one much lohan the left, were lifelessly hanging by the side over her shoulders. She was sitting on the leaf-litter that was thickly c the forest ground while her legs and knees were pulled up in front of her chest as she hugged her own legs having nothing else to seek fort from.

  The small body of the teenager was unmoving, covered in perspiration, as the dull gray whirlpool like eyes dazedly looked forward seemingly lost between the shadowy trees f a natural byrinth, which surrounded her on all sides. She was the new Grandmaster of the Order, Nizzal the Gray.

  She had desded to the depths of sciousness and climbed out of it once again. It was not the first time she did so... but every siime, the hole got deeper, with every memory, with every life, the invisible weight pced on the shoulders became heavier. The days were like a drop of water adding onto the o, each life adding to the water was like a new river finding its way into that o, until it eventually dries up and a new one appears somewhere else to take its predecessor's pbsp;

  The forest was silent around her, as if it sehe gloom of the small girl, almost fearful of disturbihoughtful silenbsp;

  The girl blinked, as her head turned around and looked with a heavy and tired gaze into a certain dire.

  Her lips moved hesitantly, f a few tentative words.

  -You e out; I see you...

  She stated, but there was no movement in the shadows of the rge trees.

  -Your force presence screams like a banshee, you ot hide from my eyes, not anymore.

  There were a series of mild pints ing from the bushes, it was followed by a short pause, then a blue skinned woman walked out from behind a thick three trunk.

  A familiar female voice appeared among the trees.

  -Ahh... happy now? You just had to ruin my fun...

  The twi'lek suspicious expression ged to a slightly surprised one as she immediately reized the force presence of this newly arrived intruder.

  She reflexively hugged her knees even closer while leaning her head to the side a bit fused.

  -Aomi? What are you doing here?

  Aomi scratched her head while walking closer, then she looked at the much smaller girl with a fickle amount of irritation.

  -You!

  The twi'lek blinked surprised by the loud authoritative voibsp;

  -Me?

  She asked surprised, while looking at the bzing form of the woman's force preseanding right in front of her.

  -You are ing with me.

  Stated the chiss woman, and with a quient she grabbed onto the hand of the stubbornly opposing twi'lek and pulled her up to her feet in a single movement.

  Nizzal has spent the st few days in seclusion, as she was trying to figure out how to trol the eye teique, she received from the force blessing that happehrough the ritual, and she failed miserably... She did every possible teique, or ritual, or sg but those didn't provide a or ahat made her even more fused and if she was pletely ho with herself, she was extremely annoyed right now.

  Force blessings have happehroughout the history of the order, but they were extremely rare. The blessings always gave a unique ability deemed to be useful for the user by the force itself. Now it seemed that it had happeo her, and it was a first in all those memories she received from her predecessors. A pletely new experieo record in her personal archive. The only problem was that she had no idea how to trol it. It was activating aivating on its own, and she had no clue how to activate it by herself or deactivate it... It was annoying...

  She even brought her case in front of the Immortal cil of Grandmasters, and what did they tell her? That it was a blessing of the force, but they couldn't determine how it worked, or what it was supposed to do. They advised her to go on a secluded meditation to determihose exact things.

  All right I thought, but now I was doing that for three days straight and didn't get any closer to trolling them. I guess I didn't eveion what they do yet... Well, it's quite simple, yet very useful at the same time. When my eyes decide to turn into this gray cloudy mess, which I could only see thanks to Ahsoka taking a picture of it, my eyesight basically turns bck. Yeah, like literally as if someone pulled over a curtain.

  Then a few seds ter, I began to see small dots of light over the bck vas, I have determihat those dots are rge gatherings of midichlorians. Yes, I see the force, moving through the air, I also see it inside people, and items too. When I look at Aomi, I see a bzing storm of energy almost blinding my entire vision and my head hurts from it, I am also being nauseous from her overp presence... Ugh...

  -Please... just leave me be!

  I pleaded, as I already knew what her iion was.

  -No do, you will not sleep in the forest once again, you have to hold yourself onto certain standards. The Grandmaster 't sleep in the forest just like that, especially not alone!

  I felt a wave of nausea rushing over me... with a sense of panic I decided to throw away my dignity and begged her to let me be.

  -Please! Just one more day... I will figure it out, I swear... or at least wait until it turns off by itself... I 't go back to the city; I will throw up... again...

  -Sigh... just close your eyes, that will solve that problem...

  I felt a pull on my arm, and I panicked even more. My cheek flushed pink as the thought of being carried ba her arms to the temple appeared in my mind.

  -No, no stop! Wait! I-I know! The Immortal cil of Grandmasters allowed me to be in...

  -Seclusion, yes, I know... but they didn't mean you to run out into the forest and live like a barbarian! There are meditation chambers ihe temple, or just use the garden...

  The thought of those pces filled with the force to the brim almost brought me to my knees, as I tried to protest with all my might.

  -No, no, no, no, NO! You don't uand, I have already been there... and I thought I will die... seriously...

  Aomi stopped for a sed looking at the form of her new Grandmaster trying to escape from her grasp, while pletely overreag the euation. She looked like an average child that was being forcefully brought to the dentist. She couldn't help, but sigh... At least they were in a forest... she thought: If this situation would happen iy, I would have to knock her out, otherwise she would pletely humiliate their order. The average citizen already thinks of the apostles as a bunch of lunatics, with unbelievable powers... The real problem is that I 't evehem for such accusations, they are mostly spot on after all.

  A cruel thought came to Aomi's mind at that moment, she smirked and told her Grandmaster.

  -If that is the truth... then why don't you simply run away?

  The form of the stubbornly struggling twi'lek froze. Aomi tinued, as she saw the anticipated rea.

  -You simply send me away with a force push and run. Why don't you try it?

  -You... you know why! Don't tempt me, I will just knock myself out again if I use a powerful force teique in this state... You don't get it, it's not funny! The more force presence I see in my viity, the more my head will hurt. Going back to the damn city is basically torture! And no, closing my eyes doesn't solve the problem... it only dulls my senses somewhat, but I still see your presence even from behind a wall! My eyelids don't t half as much as a wall...

  -Yes, well... Pain be a great motivator; it will help you figure out your deal faster...

  -NO! I 't figure out anything if I faint you fool!

  -Now-now, young dy... is this how a Grandmaster is supposed to act? Should I wash your mouth with some soap, hmm?

  -I order you by my right of the Living Grandmaster, to leave me be!

  -Overruled, your cherished Immortal cil of Grandmasters se you ba the first pce, do you think I have no other things to do? So, stop ag like a spoiled kid and follow me obediently, py time is over.

  -Argh... fine, curse you guys!

  I was really excited at first... to get a pletely new ability, but after a few days of tinuous failures to use it for anything except creating splitting pain in my head, my excitement began to evaporate leaving nothing, but areme sense of frustration behind. At this moment I was just about to blow up in sheer frustration, but I don't even care anymore...

  -I would be better off without this dameique...

  I heard the marg steps in front of me e to a sudden halt hearing my annoyed pins. The fallen leafs rustled uhe feet of Aomi as she turned around likely to ridicule me further. She didn't like me, as I was now, the fact that I was a girl and in the body of a young teenager seemed to irritate her to no end... That robably the reason she se to look for Tuk'ata ba the cave, and probably also why she shared some awkward information so willingly with my new friends.

  To top it off, I know from master Joseph's memories that she wao be the Grandmaster but failed to fulfill the trials. Probably that was why she found some sort of sadistic pleasure in seeing me so helpless.

  -You look like a mess, kid... And from your expression I see that you are thinking something bad about me.

  Stated Aomi's voice... I had already closed my eyes to dull her burning force presenewhat, but it was a futile battle. I could still see her clearly standing right inf front of me. There were the sounds of rustling leafs, I saw her move, then I felt two lea well-toned arms grab onto me, as she lifted me up from the ground in a princess carry. I felt as if all the blood in my body rushed into my face, turning it beat red in mere seds. I was held like that while stubbornly closing my eyes, while she patted my bafly. I could imagihe stupid smirk on her faow that she's got to treat me like a child not even of my apparent age.

  Even so, I couldn't hold it against her... I felt just too miserable to protest. However awkward and wrong it felt to be held like that. The memories belonging to Revan were literally screaming in shame, while my current self... however awkward it felt, was kind of forted.

  Aomi voice spoke out to me, in a kione... this time she wasn't mog me...

  -You know, even if you are supposed to be a Grandmaster and all... the core of your current personality is still that of a genuine child. I sometimes, maybe... fet that part... sorry, I guess. Those memories you carry on, will only help you mature, and they already did. However, it takes time until their roots reach down to your core... The ge progresses over decades, but you... you probably already know that.

  I gulped, while my legs lightly dangled in the air with every step Aomi took. I was immensely fused, what... what was going on? Is she... is that motherly care directed at me? For a moment everythi right, as if a longing was filled inside me, the fear of losing this sense of safety also appeared, but I disregarded it quickly. I remember the time when Revan and Basti lived together... they had a family, they were the only ones belonging to it for a long time, but then they had a few children. So many years have passed by sihen, so many geions, now all dead.

  I felt another sense of loss, this one was much deeper, a bde carving through my inside pierg the pces most vulnerable to damage. My chest tightened and it was hard to breathe... Memories of faces belonging to people I didn't really know, yet still knew more than anything, and now they were lost in the wheel of time... Why does it hurt so much, the sense of loss, was so real... the weight of the memories... were so heavy at times like this... That was why, I rarely submerged myself deeply in those sort of memories... It was too painful to bear... To know of so many things, that are no more part of this world, is just cruel, not everyone bee a fhost... most just disappears in the force. And even among those, who , many choose to not do so.

  I finally couldn't help but lean on the shoulder of Aomi burrowing my fato the curve of her neck, sensing the flowery perfume Basti always used... Was it a subscious choice... or mere ce that she used the same perfume? My a had no doubt surprised her, as she went rigid for a moment, then she hugged me closer with both arms.

  -Now, there-there... no reason to feel ashamed f to rely on an old friend's help? We will figure out what's the deal with your eyes too, okay?

  -.. I know...

  -Good then, what about telling me what you have figured until now?

  -...You already know, what I knew...

  -I see, so you didn't figure out anything new about activating or deactivating it? Is there anything else?

  -Well... no...

  -That's iing, hmm...

  -Wah? There is nothing iing about it! I have tried a lot of rituals, meditation and even asked the cil if they knew how to do it...

  -Yeah... but did you actually try to use it as a part of your body... I don't know like imagining looking in front of yourself, and how you want to see it?... Well, it was just a sudden thought, but you probably already tried it.

  -Ah, ehh... no... I didn't really think of it as a part of my body, just yet... so I uhmm... didn't think of that... I will try it out... Ehh?

  -What is it?

  -Uhm... Aomi...

  -Did it work?

  -NO!

  -Eh, figures... o shout into my ears though...

  -Uhum... it couldn't be that easy... after all...

  -Whatever, you have a lot of time to figure it out, but noalk back to the temple.

  There was a hidden, meaning in her words, that prodded a certain fear iwi'lek. She opened her mouth and asked.

  -You meant, that we will back, right?

  -No, I meant that I would carry you back to the temple, like this through the ey.

  The twi'lek's body went rigid as her expression paled all of the sudden, then a few seds ter her face turned red once more.

  -No... you 't...

  -Heh, I didn't know that twi'leks could ge their colors just like that...

  -Shut up...

  The cursed chiss smirked loudly hearing that, but she stayed silent.

  At this time, Nizzy buried her fa her palms, but the embarrassment was visible on the slowly reddening leks. She couldn't see much of anything beyond the people's presehe ground and the rocks, aside from the temple, and a few pces ri the force like this forest they were about to leave didn't tain enough midichlorian to provide a three-dimensional funal vision. In a sense, while her eye teique was activated, she was blind, and only saw presences siderably strong with the force. This robably the first time; she was really happy that her body didn't tain that much midichlorians.

  She wasn't suffering from seeing her own preseil she didn't used any powerful teiques... In which case the force would rush to her like a rge mag drawing fine iron sand from every dire towards her in the middle. She did it once, ba the temple, the pain in her head was so extreme she literally fot what happened afterward. Aomi told her ter with a stupid smirk on her face, that one sed, she was standing, then, without any sign she fell over like a dead tree trunk with a foaming mouth.

  Obviously, that wasn't enough to deter her from figuring out how her eyes worked. And she was able to use simple force powers, like telekiically raising a cup, or small rocks, seeing the force ag like a rope made out of small particles between her body, the rod the ground was an eye-opening experie was really exg to see it, in small dozes... If she could trol this teique with her will, it will prove extremely useful. Nobody with a moderately powerful force presence will be able to hide from these eyes.

  Unfortunately, that time did not e yet.