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Master Fay of course simply laughed as she watched the two youngsters, now with both of them wearing the sensory deprivation helmets, moving in tandem like the best Master/padawan pairs could, their lightsabers flashing and smashing bolts aside. "We should really have seen this coming."
"Is there any way we could shut down that portion of the connection? It hinders the training if they are always using this ability, and worse it builds interdependency. What will happen if they can no longer rely upon it because of distance?" Quinlan asked, shaking his shaggy head. Despite having taken the time that morning to shave and shower, his dreadlocks and Kiffar markings made him look unkempt even in traditional Jedi robes like now.
"You already answered your own question, Quinlan. Take Aayla elsewhere, send her with Knight Vosa and Master Unduli or something else of that nature," Fay said absentmindedly. Her face had taken on an introspective look as the two padawans moved to join them, having finished off fifteen droids at once. In this kind of environment, with the attacks coming in at all angles, that was very impressive.
"Let us experiment then. Though I think we should keep the true extent of their bond a secret, even when you are before the High Council." Dooku mused. He was concerned about how it would affect Harry's training going forward, but he could see the utility of such a bond in the future and was uninterested in letting anyone else know, even other Jedi given how he knew the High council would react to their bond already.
A series of experiments proved that Harry couldn't feel Aayla's emotions as well as she could feel his, but he was slightly better at using her Force Precognition and senses to feel out the area around her. They both concluded that made sense given what he had been able to do through Aayla when he helped her on Tatooine and her own ability as an empath.
Attempts to stop it occurring were completely ineffective. The two of them simply could not fully shut down their Force Precognition links. Distance helped immensely with the training though, simply removing Aayla from the vicinity forced Harry to stop using her Force Precognition to aid his own.
Talking about it over dinner, Master Fay summarized their findings from this new level of closeness in comparison to the way the bond had worked before the two youngsters were initially separated, shaking her head. "Their connection is always going to be there, always that bright little thread of Light between them. Neither one of them will ever be alone in their own heads ever again I don't think, not entirely anyway. They have to open that door to share thoughts, but the doorway is always there, waiting to be used, an undercurrent of emotions and senses going through it."
She sighed faintly. "I'm rather jealous in a way. They are sharing a part of themselves they can never share with anyone else."
Aayla cocked her head thoughtfully as she looked at Master Fay then at her own Master, who looked just as conflicted about this information as Fay did, despite having known about the bond for so long. Dooku did not, not having any kind of padawan bond with either youngster, though he was growing somewhat fond of Harry. "I don't know about that Master, I think we could if you want to try?"
Master Fay blinked looking at Aayla then it Harry, who was also looking at Aayla, nodding slowly. The two of them clasped hands underneath the table and then slowly lowered their mental defenses, and just as slowly Aayla began to extend a tendril of mental Force a whisker gentle Force touch toward Master Fay. She felt it and after a second closed her eyes and was…
Suddenly somewhere else. Fay found herself in the same kind of mental avatar she used when she had begun to organize her own mind under Lily's instruction. Her mind was normally a forest glade, filled with dozens of tiny pools and small trees. But now she found herself standing in what looked like Harry's description of his mental plane. And beside her, just as suddenly, holding her Avatar's hands were Harry and Aayla's mental avatars.
Harry realized as he stared through his mental eyes at his Master's form that it had never been his power his 'magic' as his mother had called it at the time, and still occasionally did that had forged the connection the bond between him and Aayla. It had always been Aayla! She had been the one to forge that path in the first place when she helped him to create that first Light Construct during the Bando Gora attack. Harry had merely solidified it. He had changed their connection into what it was now, but it was still Aayla who held the key to that door.
And just as suddenly Fay could feel it, the love and affection these two shared, the love and affection Harry felt towards her, the respect and affection Aayla felt towards her. There was no barrier here, her own feelings were bare to these two as well, her love for them, her concern, her growing worry about what the Force had planned for them. It was only the depth of Fay's memory and her internal shields that kept them from seeing as much of her as they would have from one another.
The depth of their union was beyond shocking to her, it was a joyful merging, as Aayla had said. Their minds were still separate, they had not become a hive mind, but they had become connected, and far more than the sum of their parts.
Then she was back in her own body, a smile so wide it split her face as she stared at the two children across from her at the table, Aayla gasping slightly, leaning against Harry's shoulder as the boy looked exhausted as well. For some reason that act had taken it out of both of them. "That was amazing Aayla, Harry, thank you for the experience. I don't know if I would be able to put up with it for long periods of time, but it was certainly amazing."
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