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Since this made them both perform better in class, and both went out of their way to help the other younglings, the adults decided to let it go for now so long as they didn't become dependent on one another too much.
At one point as part of an experiment and with the children's permission master Fay took Aayla down to the planet ostensibly on a shopping trip. Harry was still able to pinpoint her exact place, though only through triangulation of course at this distance. Using the computer they generated the lines from where Harry pointed from where they started, to the second point, which was on the actual space station rather than inside the ship, about two kilometers away from his starting point.
Aayla in turn could do the same to Harry, and could feel his emotions wherever he was. In return Harry could not sense Aayla's specific emotions unless they were physically close by one another. This had more to do with the fact Aayla was a natural empath than any limitation of their bond however, a skill that didn't seem to cross over. He however could hear some of her thoughts even when she had been on the planet.
Micah trained all of the students in the first few exercises of lightsaber combat, as well as physical training overall. He was a Sentinel, and knew that far too many Jedi relied solely on their Force given abilities and their lightsabers to get by. Now that he had a chance to actually teach, he wanted to make certain that was not the case with these children.
In the second month of training, he made several discoveries that paid off his efforts rather handsomely. The days training was meant to build up their reflexes and, though they didn't realize it, their Force Precognition. The training room for this was a specially designed room with padded surfaces all around, with several dozen tiny soft balls littering the floor. Each ball had a small repulsor and a tiny computer imbedded under its surface.
After letting the children bounce around the room for a time, Micah calmly gestured with one hand, and the small balls, both those on the floor and in the youngling's hands, floated into the air. "The objective is simple children. While each of you take a turn, these balls will move through the room randomly under my direction. Your objective is to dodge them. Every time you let ten balls hit you in you will have to restart the exercise."
"Do they hurt master?" Wulo asked, placing his hooves down on the spongy floor delicately.
Since he could not roll or leap as easily as the others this really wasn't a fair test for the Chironian, but he still looked game, something that Micah approved of. "These balls do not young one, we might be stern at times but we are not needlessly cruel. In a year however you will graduate from such soft targets to harder ones, then two stinging bolts and from there to ascending levels of both difficulty and danger." Other differences would of course also be added on, noise and other distractions as well as different types of balls or objectives, but that wasn't material at present.
All of the students nodded, since that made perfect sense to them. "Are we allowed to use our own powers Master?" asked another student.
"Reaching out to the Force to predict the balls trajectory is of course allowed, that is indeed one of the objectives of this exercise. But if you mean can you push or otherwise block them, no, then no, you may not."
Micah chuckled, shaking his head as all the students let out 'awws' of disappointment at that, before going on. "You can also catch the balls. After its small sensors feels an impact the ball will fall to the ground, out of the action. I have seen a lot of different strategies in my time, so I would suggest you all pick your own strategy quickly. Now, do I have a volunteer to go first?"
Zule stepped forward, cracking her neck and doing a series of warm up exercises. "Better to get this over with quickly. The rest of you watch and see what happens," She ordered the rest of her friends.
"A wise tactic, volunteering to be a scout." Micah said agreeably, though he also knew the Falleen girl had certain issues with making headstrong decisions. Still, she was one of the most physically inclined of the clan, so this worked out well enough. With another gesture of his hand, the room began to hum, and the balls began to move around randomly.
Standing in the center of the room, Zule began to twist and dodge this way and that, leaping up and around, showing the immense body control that their training had already begun to give the initiates. They looked slow and uncoordinated to any Jedi, but to other children their age it would have looked like they were all training to be professional athletes or something similar.
Despite that, and despite Micah feeling the girl reach out into the Force around her in order to predict the balls' flight, she was struck several times quickly. But then to Micah's amusement she began to catch the balls out of the air as they came towards her, tossing them towards other attacking balls with little flicks of her hand.
"Excellent, well thought out, a good offense and defense at the same time. But how long can you keep it up I wonder?" Micah mused even as his eyes sharpened, watching the girl closely. Ahh, now isn't that interesting, she is able to use both hands equally…
Zule lasted another three minutes using that strategy before she was hit for a tenth time, a ball smacking down from directly above her to bounce off her blue hair. She paused, then pouting moved to the rest of the class by the doorway. "Do not worry young one," Micah said kindly, patting her head gently. "You did very well for your first attempt. Few initiates at your level last for more than five minutes."
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