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Shaak Ti smiled as she finished drying off Aayla's lekku while all around them the girls were finishing up their designated bathing time. The ship had a limited water supply for such things, but since the boys had voted to use the sonic showers alone, the girls were able to use it all for themselves, and that day's physical exercises had been tough for them all. "I think it's time to get you started on wearing a training bra Aayla."
The blue skinned girl had closed her eyes in bliss as the older woman had carefully dried her lekku. As a Togrutan, Shaak Ti knew how sensitive they could be, and her gentle touch coupled with Aayla's exhaustion had almost made the girl fall asleep. Now she opened her eyes, looking up at the tall red-skinned knight. "Training bra?"
Lily laughed, gesturing Zule to hold up one of hers. "They will help your body from becoming too sore as you continue to grow up luv."
Blinking Aayla looked between the two adults and the object her friend was holding. Then her hands rose to touch her budding chest and she grinned standing up abruptly and rushing out clad only in her pants into the training room where the boys were still cleaning up after the class. "Look Harry, I've got boobies!"
"GAH!" Harry howled, blushing brightly and turning away along with the other boys old enough to have an inkling that girls were interesting as Shaak groaned.
Lily pursed her lips in an attempt to keep a laugh from escaping while Zule nodded sagely. "She seems rather proud of them, good for her!"
Some moments however were sad. At one point the Explorer went into lockdown as the masters and knights left the ship to help the planet they were orbiting over with a plague. Since it targeted young people with their undeveloped immune systems none of them were willing to risk the children in it. The children, with only Master Zeltesh and Lily left aboard, watched a lot of the local news, and began to realize that being a Jedi wasn't all fun or even all action. Sometimes it was sad and deadly.
But as should be expected, the training both in the new Force techniques (Lily had finally caved and begun to use the local terminology) and the Jedi's own training was the center of the initiate's lives. It took over everything, with the classes becoming more intensive on as the months passed, changing the initiates from young children into Jedi trainees in truth, both body and mind. And on top of that, Harry had his ongoing training with his mother, which were always rewarding.
Sometimes the techniques Harry came up with were simply better than anything Lily had run into back on Earth. A case in point occurred one evening when he asked, "I wonder why there aren't any spells which allow you to take control of the elements? I mean there are spells that summon up fire and water, but nothing that lets you control the element you conjure up except in a very simple, point it in the right direction, sort of way."
Lily thought for a few moments, then shrugged her shoulders. "It would come down to your ability to control the spell itself I expect. There were a few Dark spells based on creating a Dark magic infused fire, and they relied on total control of the fire or else it would get out of control and burn the user just as willingly as the victim."
She went on much more seriously looking down at Harry. "But Harry, burning someone alive is a horrible way to kill someone, it's incredibly painful and very dangerous."
Harry thought for a moment then shuddered as he realized what that would feel like. "Right, so not fire. But what about air?"
"Hmm, there are a lot of spells whose effect makes it seem as you're controlling the wind, making things float, summoning objects to you pushing them away. And the Jedi seem able to do some of the same things… wind could be the underlying element." Lily mused. "Yes Harry, that certainly sounds possible."
From that moment Harry decided to devote his time to learning how to move wind as he wanted to, into an actual attack rather than to push or pull a solid object.
For a few days he made no progress, but then Aayla got involved. "You're concentrating too hard with these," she said poking him right above the eyes gently for a moment. "Close them."
"What are you talking about?" Harry asked, somewhat irritated. This was hard darn it!
"You don't see the air silly!" Aayla said with a grin. "You feel it on your skin, smell it through your nose, and with humans, sense it with those little disgusting hairs you have all over your body.'
"I don't," Harry said automatically to which Aayla shuddered in theatrical relief. Hair was an amusing subject with Aayla. She thought hair on top of your head was interesting and fun to work with, which had become something of a bonding thing between the girls of the clan. But she didn't like the little hairs on people's bodies elsewhere. She found them gross to look at.
Harry had already determined that he wouldn't allow himself to grow any, even if he had to will that into occurring somehow.
"You know Harry she's right," Lily mused. "And possibly we're starting this from the wrong end of the wand as it were. Maybe we should start with the air already moving, and let you try to manipulate that instead of having to conjure up a wind of your own."
They asked Master Saa for help with that, and she agreed, coming by later the next day. Concentrating for a few moments, she began to move the air of the room they were in slowly in a circle around them, enough to ruffle their hair. Or at least the mortal's hair, Lily's stayed right where it was. Force powers like that couldn't work on her for some reason.
Aayla gave Harry's hand one brief squeeze, then let it go watching intently, with both her growing Force senses and her normal ones.
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