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"The kitchen is through there," Fay explained, gesturing to a doorway sat next to their table and the chairs. "You'll find a lot of things in there I think that you will enjoy experimenting with Harry, I know I will."
Harry had kept up cooking while aboard the training vessel, learning from Master Giiett while he was there who was somewhat of a gourmand among Jedi in that he could actually cooked very decent meals rather than simple meals to fuel the body. The children needless to say had been an appreciative audience for his skills.
The cockpit was small, set in the head of the sleek, almost birdlike design of the yacht, it was still the original size because there were too many electrical devices in here for Lily and Fay to want to use space expansion charms around them. Nor was there honestly any point, since Fay and Harry were the only people aboard. Everything looked well cared for, and Harry could almost feel Fay's presence here. "How long have you owned this ship Master Fay?" he asked.
"Over a hundred and twenty years now. It's a discontinued model I understand now, but it was top-of-the-line back then, made in Kuat. They foisted it on me after I helped the locals deal with a series of natural disasters. I tried to tell them not to, Jedi should not grow attached to objects after all, but having my own ship was simply too useful for me to turn down."
Harry nodded, and began to familiarize himself with the controls. Like the others he had been taught a few easy lessons about how to pilot, but nothing major just yet, considering their ages. He knew how to activate the communicators and the shields, as well as how to read the radar, but he couldn't pilots just yet despite being told more than once his reflexes would serve him in good stead at the task.
"Call the bridge Harry, which would be those buttons over there. Tell them to open up the hanger bay doors." Fay said, pointing to what she wanted, as she slipped into the pilot's chair with Harry taking the navigators position. Lily hovered above them, watching everything with interest, her form half in, and half out of the cockpit, pushed through the closed hatchway.
"This is the Whispering Wind, requesting clearance for takeoff?" Harry asked through the communicator.
A few moments later, the yacht exited the larger training vessel, moving into a prescribed route out and away from the busy space lanes of the planet below, another Ord system called Ord Nuva with Harry watching avidly. Of course he'd seen this several times already, but such things never got old for him.
It took the ship about 40 minutes to clear the busy portion of the spaceways around the planet, moving towards the designated hyperspace out section. There Fay closed her eyes briefly, allowing the Force to tell her once again where she needed to go.
The answer somewhat startled her, being quite a bit further away than she had expected it to be, but she obediently turned her ship in that direction, facing not quite core world word but almost in that direction Galactic North. There was a few troubles apparently nearby but the biggest one the Force was telling her about was in that direction. Interesting, and rather worrisome that a problem as far away as that one needs my specific attention. Or Fay, frowned further, is it that my padawan is being called in that direction, and it is both our presences which are needed?
Regardless, she had her next destination in mind, and quickly inputted the coordinates into the system. Looking over at Harry she smiled faintly. "You will be able to feel out of Force like this eventually Harry, to know where it wishes you to go. But for now, are you ready?"
"No, I don't want to leave," he said honestly, "but I know you need to be on the move and I know it's important to keep my abilities under wraps, I just wish I didn't have to leave Aa, um I mean my friends."
Fay smiled slightly as she watched Harry steel himself, vaguely feeling him send one last farewell down the mental link he and Aayla shared. Aayla responded in a similar manner, then Harry opened his eyes and nodded at her. "I'm ready now Master."
Fay wordlessly reached forward and activated the hyperspace engines, and Harry twitched as back on the Explorer Aayla did the same. Their bond wasn't quite gone entirely they could still feel one another, but that connecting corridor had narrowed to a bare glimmer, and with it their ability to speak mind to mind.
Aboard the Explorer Aayla crumpled to the ground only to be caught by Wulo who charged forward from the end of the hanger bay, catching her on his back as the rest of the clans quickly gathered around her along with the teachers not on duty in the cockpit.
In the Windblown Harry's hands gripped the armrests of his chair, and he softly began to sob while Lily leaned down, throwing her arms around him in one of her ethereal hugs as Fay did the same from the side, shaking her head sadly.
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The moment they came out of the first jump, Harry reached out through his connection to Aayla, trying desperately to find it. He did eventually, but the distance was so great he couldn't get much out of it save a general location, which was next to useless at this range, and the fact she was physically okay.
Coming out of his mediation he shook her head, looking almost shattered, so sad Fay hugged him again, her arm around his shoulder as she looked over at Lily. "No luck?"
Gathering himself with difficulty Harry shook his head slowly. "I can feel her, but only barely, not enough to get much out of it. I think she can feel my feelings a little better, but not much at this range."
"I don't think it's a power thing, it's just we can't seem to reach that far… like we don't know how or…" He trailed off, unsure how to explain what he was feeling.
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