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A few moments later, the discussion ended, and the counts including Dooku stood up, shaking hands formally. Harry quickly got to his feet, moving around to help his Master to her feet, despite the fact that Fay obviously didn't need it, a courtly gesture that won many smiles from the counts and a flush from the twenty something heiress, who, Dooku now remembered, had a rather serious suitor somewhere around the place. The boy had a sort of understated charisma to him Dooku thought, again amused.
As the last of the counts left, Dooku turned to Master Fay gesturing with one hand for the newcomers to follow him. "We will talk in a moment," he said simply, looking from the two physical people up to the Force Ghost, who smirked at him before bowing in the Jedi manner while still hovering in midair.
Dooku felt his lips quirk upwards and he wondered about his odd humor at the moment. Perhaps Master Fay's presence is not just soothing, but somewhat uplifting. My mood has certainly changed for the better since their arrival. Part of Dooku wanted to resent that, but for the most part he was willing to simply let the effect wash over him.
The Jedi were silent for a few moments as they walked heading towards another landing day, before Dooku looked over at Master Fay. "We will have to call the Temple about this. I was assigned to that discussion because I was already here of course, but Yoda and the High Council will be interested in what went on. The pirates are a major issue throughout this sector. And I also have some friends in the Senate that probably need to be warned."
"I should probably check in with Master Yoda in any event," Master Fay replied with a slight twitch of her shoulders. "After that however, I would like to get to the reason why my padawan and I are here."
"Lightsaber training," Dooku said with a nod, and Master Fay's lips quirked into a smile as she nodded her head at the other Jedi's perspicacity. Dooku turned his attention to the young boy, who had remained behind Master Fay as respectfully as possible, and again the two of them locked eyes. After a moment the boys again bowed his head, and Dooku nodded. "We will see on that. But let us get the more onerous duties finished before the more pleasant ones."
A moment later, Master Dooku sat in one of the secure Hypercom link rooms within the Count's discussion hall. Master Fay stood beside him for now, while Harry and the Force Ghost remained outside. As they were waiting for to link up, Dooku cocked his head. "I will wait to ask more questions, but one just occurred to me pertinent to the moment. Can Force Ghost appear through digital technology?"
"No," Master Fay said with a shake of her head. "We can't hear Lily through communication devices either."
Dooku nodded filing the Force Ghost's name away.
That brief moment of byplay had taken enough time for the Temple to open the link on its end, and the image of the High Council appeared an instant later. "Masters," Dooku said nodding his head to Master Yoda and Master Windu before nodding his head slightly more formally to a few of the others. He respected many of the High Council, but there were a few that he felt were … ill chosen. He respected their abilities in the social sector and politics, but he felt that the High Council all too often reached a consensus by simply following whoever was first to speak rather than open debate.
Although thanks to Master Yoda, that had been changing of late, and the debates had become much more freewheeling since his return from the Explorer years ago. Now there seemed to be some kind of tension apparent in the High Council, coming to the fore whenever the younglings of Clan Saa were brought up or the abilities they, Yoda and their other teachers, were disseminating throughout the Order.
"Padawan," Master Yoda said, nodding his head, watching his former padawan for the little twitch of the eyebrow that he always got when he addressed Dooku that way. Master Dooku had several issues, and one of them was a bit of hubris, which Master Yoda felt it incumbent upon himself to tweak occasionally. To his surprise however his padawan did not rise to the jibe, but then Master Yoda saw Master Fay standing behind him, and had to force his face to not shift into a beaming expression at her presence. "Discussions among the counts you have been a part of, decision reached there has been?"
"I trust they understand that they cannot be allowed to arm themselves further," said one of the other Masters, shaking his head. "We are having enough issues with the Trade Federation, we do not need other separate groups militarizing themselves in the Outer Rim. I'm certain the Order can handle these pirates. All we need to do is find their base."
"That is strange," Dooku said softly, and Master Yoda and Master both held back winces. "I seem to have dialed the Senate's Hypercom address rather than the Jedi Order's. Very odd indeed."
"You know what I mean," said the same Master, Yarael Pouf, replied. He was one of the ones that Dooku felt was a little too quick to back the Senate line. That he had also been one of those who had tried to blame Dooku for the debacle with the Order's intervention into the Mandalorian Civil War was also something between the two of them.
"It is not illegal, nor is it an issue the Order needs to care about so long as Sorenno realizes that any offensive act against any of its neighbors will cause us to take action against them. Starfighters alone will not be able to conquer any of their neighbors, and that is all that we need to consider, which was why Master Dooku and myself wrote up the outline for the anti-pirate force we did." Master Windu said smoothly, cutting off his friend with a gentle gesture of his hand and looking past Master Dooku to Master Fay. "Master Fay," he said, nodding his head. "I do not know if you remember me, I was a young initiate the last time we met."
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