Daj'Raen's Room
As you enter the long ovulare room, lit by a single skylamp in it's center your eyes are immediatly drawn to the strange scribbled script covering the otherwise smooth walls. As you enter and down three stone steps you notice that the room is fairly bare other then a modest bed against a far wall, one table also bare excet for one data-plate and a holo-emmiter and one uncomfortable looking wooden chair for some reason leaning against the extreem opposite wall. across the floor is littered with pages too numberous to count along with various tomes and volumes scattered about haphazrdly. your eye is then drawn to a small alcove where upon closer inspection is filled with various lightsabers on display as if taken as trophies, there are a dozen at the moment. Next your eye scans the mess of script covering the walls and as you inspect closer there appears to be a patern hidden in the negative spaces, somethng that looks like a star chart but other then that it's meaning is unclear. Near the bed is a door leading to the bathing chamber and beneath the bed one can jsut make out an image slate, but it is turned off and incripted.
~Master
Daj'Raen enters his quarters, drops his cloak by the door haphazardly and strides towards the bed kicking loose papers as he goes.
~Unbuckling both his saber belts and using the force he levitates them across the door depositing them on the table beneath the wall of trophies before dropping himself onto the bed.
~massaging his temples for a time master
Daj'Raen struggles with his situation before slowly turning his eyes back to the wall filled with his devoted research and studying the all too familiar paterns.
~For a long while the jedi regards the shapes in the negative spaces before flopping back lieing flat on his firm bed staring through the sky light in his room returning to his ponderings.
~His mind flashing back to his mired past
Daj'Raen calls forth the data tablet hidden under his bed with the force. the small flat disk hovers into his outstretched clawed hand and flickers on. The master gazes at the image springing onto the screen and a single tear falls from his golden eye.
~So focused on the image master
Daj'Raen is starteled from his remenisings when a chime comes at his door. Springing upright the jedi master returns the data tablet to it's hiding spot before straightening his garments and with a calm eveness in his voice calls out. "Enter."
~The door slides open with a slight hiss and in walks Master
Windu,
Daj'Raen stands slowly placing both clawed fists agains his hips and watches the dark skined master stride into his chamber slowly.
Windu looks over at the other Jedi with a frown. "Those padawans have left again, but I don't want to send any of the other masters after them. Someone is trying to cause trouble, and I'm not sure who it is yet."
~Narrowing his golden eyes
Daj'Raen glares at the shorter master as he strolls into the center of his room. "Well if you hadn't sent me on that last pointless mission i could have kept a better eye on them! they are compitent enough, they shouldn't need a baby sitter!"
Daj'Raen then strolls over to the lone table and looks at the wall to lightsabers. "I've warmed the council many times to be weary of unforseen dangers threatening the Jedi, but Master
Yoda refuses to heed my words, instead you have seen fit to send me on pointless mission far beneath my talents and kept me away from the front lines!"
~"We've had this conversation before
Daj, the council takes your pervious actions rather seriously, if what happened on Besbin occures again on the battle field we as the Jedi will suffer with the senate. When master
Yoda and i are confident you have your lust for battle under controle we will re-evaluate your status in the war!" Master
Windu stated emotionlessly standing cross armed int eh center of the room staring at the back of the reptilian Jedi.
Windu sighed slightly. "And you know why you must watch over the younglings. There is something else there that they do not sense, someone trying to sabatoge their mission. I would much rather you do this than cause more trouble for us in battle. Their mission is much more crucial than your need to be on the front lines. You know this already."
~Turning suddenly to face the dark skined Jedi a flash of anger on his aquamarin scaled visage, "There are Dozens of masters who would be better suited for those kind of tasks... with respect."
Daj'Raen's face softens. "And i was well within my rights to exicute those traitors, i had all the prof i needed. But when i presented my findings to the council what did i recieve? Austrisisation
, and you all still did nothing about the possibilities of their links with the senate and the Trade Federation, and look what happened then, Naboo was almost lost because you failed to react in time! and once again i tell you that our ranks are under threat, and again you case me into the background instead of utilising my skills."
Anger flashed over Windu's face. "You decided you were to be judge, jury, and executioner. That's not our way! If you want to protect the order, then do as the council bids you to do! There are threats deeper than just traitors right now. And problems bigger than yours, Daj'Raen." The Jedi calmed himself before looking at Daj'Raen again. "We will discuss your reinstatement as a general at another time, but right now I need you to do as I ask. And right now you are the best option we have. The young Twi'lek will not listen to any of the other masters, her powers of persuasion are much too strong for that. And Master Yoda will not tamper with her power because he sees the potential she holds. The rest of the council know she needs to be tempered, however none of us hold the proper skill to do so. You need to protect her, at least, and I know you are well capable of that. Especially against the Sith they are unknowingly tracking."
~A slow, sharp toothed smile creeps across Daj'Raen's face, "So they have located a sith? Excellent." Turning to Master Windu slowly, his saber belt in hand, "I have expressed before my unwillingness to take on another padawan, but i too have sensed the young one's skills, and i WILL be able to control her if i must. But rest assured Mace we WILL be deiscussing my reinstatement upon my return! i will NOT be kept from the war!"
Windu's smile at Daj'Raen faded slighlty. "Can you handle her as a padawan? I know you do not wish to have another, yet there are circumstances in this that make you the only option we have. She is a student of Almas, therefore more used to having her freedom. If you are willing, there is a ship waiting in the hanger bay to take you to them. They're going to need your help." He pulled a small disk from his pocket. "This is your assignment and her complete history. So if you decide to take her on, tell her it is the decision of the council." With that the dark-skinned Jedi swept from the room.
~Taking a moment to let the door slide shut Daj'Raen ponders his fellow master's words before sliding the disk into a pouch on his belt, straps his saber belt round his wasit and turns to the wall of trophies.
'Typical council, they never listen' He thinks to himself placing his clawed hands on his hips. 'If they want me to watch over this youngling i suppose i must, as long as i am allowed to return to the fight.' looking to the door, 'If this one is half as powerful as Mace claims then she might jsut make a worthy padawan...' Daj'Raen's thoughts trail off as he adjusts his garment and hovers his cloak back into his right hamd then chimes his communicator.
~"R4, prep the Vindicator for launch, i will be there in a moment." A series of beeps and whistels mark the droid affirmation then switching channels the master continues, "Captain Sparks; he your men preped and in the main hangar in five minutes, we have a mission."
~"Yes Sir and might i say, it's about time!" The all too familare clone voice came over the communicator as Daj'Raen threw his dark cloak around his shoulders striding to the door.
~'I couldn't agree more old friend.' The reptilian jedi thought walking out of his chambers briskly.
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