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Thankfully for Harry, it was late and they were both tired, so Aayla didn't press him about him about the crystals, though she came back to it a few times over the next few days. Then Harry received a reprieve of sorts, though it was not of a kind he would ever have wanted. Orders arrived from Coruscant for Master Saa and the Explorer, and the ship began to make its way back to the Core Worlds.
The majority of the clan had advanced enough it was time for the clan to head to head to Coruscant for their final years of training. The Council of First Knowledge, which organized the Jedi academy, the training of the initiates and the Holocron Library had decided that even with the ongoing experiments the clan aboard the Explorer could not be left to its own devices any longer.
That meant it was time for Harry, Lily and Fay to leave the Explorer. Every time Fay or T'ra looked into the future they saw the Force had not wavered in its message: to bring Harry to Coruscant too soon was to invite some kind of disaster. Though despite being so clear on that the Force was frustratingly vague on what that disaster might be.
T'ra and Fay felt it might be a fracturing of the Order, though why or what the reason would be was unclear. Yoda hadn't been certain even of that, but the end result was the same. Harry had to leave his friends behind for their safety and his. Worse for Harry and Aayla, she couldn't come with him as had originally been planned for several reasons.
For one thing, like the majority of the clan, indeed all of them save Alecto and Harry, hadn't quite hit puberty just yet. That didn't quite mean the same thing among Twi'leks as it did humans, let alone the other races represented in the clan, but it was still 'a time of great emotional and physical turmoil which must be carefully planned for', as the Order put it.
This was one of the major reasons the entire clan was being ordered to Coruscant. It was the task of the council of First Knowledge to conduct initiates through the lessons necessary to instill control over their new animalistic thoughts and urges. And the five masters who made up the council refused point blank to let any clan go through it elsewhere.
When she had heard about this Lily's opinion on the Order plummeted to heretofore unseen levels, and she blistered the bulkheads with her diatribe. Fay and T'ra actually agreed with some of her points, though both were thankful none of the younglings had overheard her else they have to deal with their enhanced vocabulary. Despite that however they couldn't argue with the Council of First Knowledge.
Nor could Yoda at this point. He and Master Giiett were under extreme pressure from the rest of the council to show more of the ancient knowledge that had been rediscovered. Their new abilities had won them interest and several years of freedom for the clan to train, but the fact Yoda refused to tell anyone exactly where the new techniques had come from had begun to wear on even his supporters in the council.
Mace in particular was concerned about it, and Yoda's request for a study on the hereditary nature of the Force and his research into the Ruusan Reformation and the effect it had on Jedi abilities had set hackles to rising throughout the Order. Worse was his decision to push for allowing the Old Oath to be taken by those knights who decided it was closer to their own belief on how Jedi should act. But despite his position as Grand Master, Yoda could not make dictatorial decisions without explaining himself to the rest of the High Council.
The argument over this had gone on for months, until Yoda had been overruled. The Order, the other masters felt, had worked for over a thousand years based on the Reformation and the new Oath, and they saw no reason to change it despite Yoda's odd concerns. It was only the respect the entire Order felt for Yoda that allowed him to weather the storm, and Micah had nearly been removed from the council for his part in it.
But that argument had caused a lot of masters on all three councils to become leery about what was going on with the Explorer and even his closest allies wanted to know more about it as well. Yoda had reluctantly decided it was time to show the Order as much of the rest of the new skills as they could. This included the shields, the stun technique (Harry's version of the Stupefy) the conjuration and control of fire and water, and the ability to change their skin and hair colors, which Aayla and Zule, to no one's surprise, had perfected beyond even Harry's skill level.
Yoda hoped to let the initiates take over and expand upon his and Giiett's sharing of their new techniques, not just with other masters as the two of them had been, but other clans, padawans and knights. It would be a ground up approach to change rather than from the top down, and would hopefully cause the changes to expand faster than they could be stopped, both the new techniques and the new way of seeing emotions and the Force.
And of them all, Aayla was by far the best at shield spells, and at teaching them. Plus both Quinlan and Tholme had mentioned Aayla a time or two to other Jedi, and the fact that Quinlan had felt a padawan bond with the girl. It would seem suspicious if she wasn't with the rest of the clan. So despite his desire to let the two young bonded remain together, Yoda was forced to separate them.
When they arrived back in Denon, Fay decided it was time for them to leave. For the first time in years the Force was calling her away and it was time once more to take to the space-ways.
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