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Lily shook her head and let the young knight to tend to him, floating into the air to make certain the rest of the clan was in sight. Aayla and a few of the other girls had moved to look into a clothing store, not interested in the actual clothing so much as the colors from what little of their conversation carried to her. Others had found what looked like a local pet store with Knight Toramund, but thankfully the locals had very little in the cute and fun-looking department. A group of seven or so had gathered around Alecto and Harry, watching the race avidly.
Jedi in training but still children, Lily thought, amused. She frowned then as Aayla looked around sharply, moving away from the rest of the group. Harry also looked up, having felt something through their bond, and as she watched he took Alecto's elbow and gestured the two of them back through the crowd away from the race.
Moving down she hovered over the boys, looking at her son. "What did Aayla sense Harry?"
"She doesn't know, anticipation, anger, a desire for money, nothing major, but the anticipation spiked suddenly, it grabbed her attention." Harry replied.
Aayla had recently begun training in her latent empathic ability. Beyond the ability to block out the feelings of those around her, Shaak had been training the Rutian Twi'lek in how to be on the lookout for specific feelings, even while surrounded by a crowd. This was the first time they had been off the ship since that training had begun, but it had already borne fruit.
"Okay, so it might be nothing, but it might be something?" Lily guessed.
Then she gasped as suddenly a hover car, which looked like the sci-fi equivalent of a limo, roared around the edge of the small side street they were on. Ahead of them a young local boy and his parents had been walking, with Aayla walking up behind them. Two more local men had rushed out of an alleyway between Aayla and the family, heading right towards the boy. They barreled the parents out of the way and continued on towards the limo, which slid to a stop right in front of them as the passerby began to notice something was going on and roar or shriek in response.
Alecto however didn't respond by screaming. As Harry and Aayla both reached out with the Force to grab the limo and hold it in place, he grabbed a blaster from an onlooker's belt, pushing the setting button onto stun quickly. Going down on one knee he took two shots and the would-be kidnappers went down in a heap.
While the parents grabbed their child and tried to run away, another local pushed out of the limo, pulling out a large blaster rifle. But before he could fire it, Aayla had wrenched it out of his hand, and Knight Toramund, the closest of the minders, had arrived. A lightsaber strike to the front of the limo and his green blade came up pointing straight between the local's central set of eyes, humming gently.
"Surrender?" He suggested, to which the local growled, but put his hands up.
While Alecto, Aayla and the nearby initiates gathered around Aayla, she hurried in Harry's direction, a wide beaming smile on her face as Lily shook her head. I do hope this isn't a theme.
There were other moments, some humorous…
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Five months after Aayla and the others had helped to stop that attempted kidnapping, the Explorer found itself orbiting a planet which had its capital city located on a large plain. This finally gave Wulo enough room to roam and a few of the other initiates went with him, while Shaak Ti and Master Saa took the rest on a nature walk to a nearby forest. They wanted to teach the children about different types of terrain, how to sense different animal types through the Force, and other things.
One moment all was well, then the two women realized that Zule was missing along with Harry. They were just about to look around for them when they heard a loud bark through the trees Aayla could be heard laughing as she stared at something out of their sight through the trees, which caused both women to slow down slightly, if only to show the proper Jedi gravitas when they arrived on the scene.
As they arrived, they found Zule sitting on top of a giant dog-like creature with the head of a reptile but the body of a dog save for its claws, which looked more feline than anything while Harry stood next to it beaming. Seeing the two minders, she smiled happily, wrapping her arms around the animal's neck, which let a purr-growl that reverberated around the forest clearing. "It followed me home Master Saa, can I keep it?"
Lily realized Zule must have started to secrete the pheromones her race was known for. It wouldn't matter much to the knights or initiates given their mental discipline, but it had been enough to somewhat domesticate the wild beast in front of them.
While Shaak Ti simply shook her head in surprise, Master Saa replied promptly, seeing no reason to change the response they had worked on for if the initiates ever tried to smuggle an animal aboard the training vessel. Indeed, their arguments would work far better against such a beast as this rather than the small cuddly creatures they had been worried about. "I'm afraid not dear. Think about how much food it would take to feed such a large animal, how much space it would need. Not to mention how hard it would be to potty train him."
That caused the young girl to blanch, but Harry, his emerald eyes gleaming with delight was about to speak up when Alecto clamped a hand over his mouth. "No," he ordered, to which his human friend pouted as Lily laughed in the background.
Of course such moments were not just found while on field trips…
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