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"I think I'm done," Fay said, stepping back from the table to allow Lily to hover over it closer. She could have course even passed through Fay's body to do so, but feeling the Force Ghost move through you like that was odd and not wholly pleasant.
Lily worked down the array one Rune at a time, until finally she nodded. "It's good to go. Now all you need to do is to push a bit of your Force power into it to activate the array using this rune here," She said, tapping one of the larger runes in the array. "Once you jumpstart it, the array should automatically begin pulling the Force from the universe around us instead, but you have to start things off."
Fay nodded, pressing one finger against the activation rune, then began to push a bit of her Force power into it. She backed away slightly as the runes glowed, the runes themselves glowing slightly, a yellow color almost. Then the entire granite slab began to glow a very pretty mixed gold and orange color, like a sunset almost.
Then the slab of rock began to glow brighter, and brighter, and brighter until people were shielding their eyes.
"That shouldn't be happening!" Lily said "Harry!"
Saa and the two knights however had already reacted, flinging up their hands protective shields forming around everyone between them and the granite slab. The slab exploded the second later, the light going out abruptly as it did, though that wasn't nearly as important as the shards of rock that zoomed around the room like shrapnel. Dozens impacted the shields of the Jedi, bounding off or dropping to the floor, all their momentum taken from them, and the children all breathed a sigh of relief, thanking the knights profusely for their quick reaction.
Several dozen also zoomed through Lily's spectral form to no effect, and she sighed faintly shaking her head. "Okay, that shouldn't have happened. I used that very same runic array when I was 14. It was one of our first projects and I don't remember anyone blowing up like that. It's specifically used because you can't blow things up even if you mess up a few of the runes or put them in the wrong order."
"I felt the Force pour into the slab," Fay said thoughtfully. "It almost seemed to condense the Force too, though I'm uncertain of that…"
"That's it!" Lily said, smacking her for head with one of her hands. "Of course! At home, gathering the magic is often difficult depending on where you are, but there's so much Force in this universe that it's taking in too much. I should have realized that would be the case! We'll have to figure out how to put a limiter into even the least power intensive array."
That was but the first misadventure Fay and Lily had with runes. When Fay tried to create a Notice-Me-Not array like those that covered the magical lands back on Earth, she forgot where she put it. Only Lily being able to actually take her hand and move it towards the slab of steel Fay had used that time allowed her to find it once more and cross out one of the runes to cancel the array. An expansion array placed on a small maintenance closet got the both of them lost for an entire day. The same didn't happen to the expansion charm oddly enough, but there were a few things the expansion runic array could do that the charm could not, so they kept at it.
It took months of experimentation, but finally Lily and Fay were able to create an actual working array, with limitations built into it to limit the amount of force it could siphon in. From there, Fay dove into further experimentation with a will, using Fay's yacht, the Windblown, as a test bed for several of them. Master Saa also joined them at this point, eager to learn this new, extremely advanced and esoteric type of Force ability.
Harry surprisingly wasn't much help in this, being slow to learn the runic scripts himself. He instead concentrated on actual Force manipulation, and enhancing his direct combat abilities.
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A little over two years passed thus. Harry and Aayla's bond continued, not growing so much from its beginning but always there, always between them. They followed Lily's instructions and began to organize that connection in a way, putting doors on the connection between their minds which but for most of the time those doors were open, serving no real purpose.
However they did indeed help greatly when Harry went through puberty at around thirteen and started to have thoughts about the girls around him, and of course Aayla in particular. But instead of shutting Aayla out, something that Lily had both expected and feared, Harry handled it in a unusual way based off his growing mastery with Occlumency.
Aayla discovered this one evening as the two of them finished discussing a series of math problems they were learning from Knight Cale. Walking back to the doorway that led back to her own mind, Aayla's astral form paused, cocking her head as she pointed through the mental landscape. "Harry, why's that crystal pink?"
Hiding a gulp, Harry smiled wanly, really, really that Aayla wouldn't push on this topic. "Um, those are not-fun type embarrassing memories, like talks with my Mum about my dad, or that time we found Master Laitha meditating in the hydroponics section dressed in her underthings and I walked into a tree and other things of that nature."
Narrowing her eyes, Aayla turned her attention on him for a second before staring at the crystal in question. It was small, only coming up to her waist, and not very thick, but it was a dark pink color unlike the other memory crystals all around them, so it grabbed her attention. As did her own memory of that time, and the whisper of the emotions Harry had felt then. She didn't know what to make of them, though they had irritated her a little at the time, like when he allowed Zule to run her fingers through his hair or vice-versa.
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