STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Broken

"I am quite sure it was Rand, yes. I did know him while he was here. I did not recognize his students, though I never really got a good look at them."

"Your news of Rand's surfacing is troubling. I hope you understand that. Information of him possessing students in the Dark Side is also rather disturbing. Did you speak with him?"

"I understand that, there is little doubt of that," Rianna replies. She hesitates a bit before answering. "And...yes. Some. Really I was just trying to buy time so that he wouldn't kill me, while hoping someone else would come soon..."

"Tell us your entire experience, you should," Yoda says.

"I had...underestimated the guards they had where the drugs were being produced and was injured...that's when Rand and his students appeared, killing the rest of the guards. Their own men, apparently. He kept taunting me...saying that he had room for more students and that he wanted a challenge for his own students. Saying that he wanted that to be me," Rianna says, shaking her head a bit.

"They left after a group of Reecee police arrived, but first Rand took my lightsaber...and then they cut through and dropped the walkway we were on. None of the police survived, and I'm still a bit surprised I did. For whatever reason, Rand decided to keep me from falling into one of the vats...and I think that frightened me more than anything then."

"It seems that our old friend has his eye set on you, Rianna," Windu says. "This is very dangerous for you, I feel. Rand was a powerful and talented Jedi Master; we are still not entirely certain what caused his fall or why he chose the Dark Side, nor what he hopes to achieve on his own."

"Destiny, this is," Yoda comments. "For Rianna to have found Rand in this way, fate, this is. Terrible though it may be."

"Indeed," Windu adds. "You must be cautious, Rianna... unless Rand planned the events at Reecee deliberately to meet you, which is unlikely, this is too disturbing to be happenstance. Did Rand say anything else?"

"I don't know what his plans are, nor why me...but I have no desire to have any part of it."

She pauses for a moment, before deciding to continue.

"I felt that he had been expecting me there...he had mentioned an object on Ord Coridari that he wanted, said that anything he wanted would be something the Council would not want him to have, and said that he was going to give me a chance to stop him."

"Ord Coridari?" Windu says, furrowing his brow further than it had just been. He looks to Yoda. "What could he possibly want there?"

Yoda rubs his chin. "Unsure, I am. Of little importance, Ord Coridari is. Not since times long past."

"Did he specify anything about what he wanted to acquire?" Windu asks.

"Simply that it was a box that was located in a mansion."

Windu nods in acknowledgement.

"The Council will need to deliberate our next step, especially now that Rand has given us reason to believe there is a motive to his dealings. I am not sure if it would be wise to send you to Ord Coridari, to follow the trail of seeds he has strewn for us. As a new Knight, you are still vulnerable, and it appears that Rand has ill intentions for you personally."

"But happen, nothing could, if to Ord Coridari you did not go," Yoda says. "A test, he wants to make this. To observe you and manipulate you. A dangerous game, this is."

"I am not that new. And if anyone else went to Ord Coridari, I think Rand would simply vanish again...but I may be able to draw him out," Rianna says. "Rand frightens me, but...I feel that I should be there. Send someone else with me, though, as I would not like to be alone if I go there."

"Someone in mind, I already have," Yoda says. "But feel, you do, that you must be on Ord Coridari? Search your feelings, you must, and understand what the Force tells you. A threat not only to your crude physical matter, is Rand. Your mind, he wants!"

Windu looks from Master Yoda to you, leaning forward and resting his chin on linked hands.

"I have not felt anything specific from the Force about this, but it is a feeling that I do have. I know it would be dangerous. But I would do my best to be cautious, and I would keep that in mind."

"No," Yoda says, pointing at you. "Opening your mind, you are not. To the future, you do not look, Rianna; only mindful of the present are you. Understand you must. Until you do, deny your request, the Council will. Meditate on the matter you should."

"Master Yoda speaks wisely," Windu says. "I have already stated the dangers that lie within the prospect of sending you to Ord Coridari, regardless of your escort and what you find there. Tomorrow, we will discuss the mission again. Until then, you should think upon the Grandmaster's recommendation."

Rianna is of a mind to argue, but knows that to do so would be a mistake.

"I will think on that, then," she simply replies.

Windu dismisses you with a nod before drifting into thought, as Yoda does the same.

Rianna will leave the room, then, intending to head back to her own quarters.

On the way out, you are met by Myraline, who waited for you.

"What did the Council decide?" she asks.

"Nothing for now, and that I should meet with them again tomorrow," Rianna says, not wanting to go into it.

"Ah, so they are deliberating," Myraline responds. "Very well."

Stepping into the lift with Myraline, it starts to descend.

"Rianna... I know how you must be feeling after Rand took your lightsaber," Myraline says. You almost expect her to begin lecturing you about keeping hold of that thing, but instead she unhooks her own lightsaber from her belt and hands it, hand outstretched with the weapon resting in her palm, to you. "I want you to borrow mine, at least until you can build another."