Noventa - A Star Wars Story

"Cal maybe, and maybe one or two more. I don't think Cal would wanna leave unless things got real bad though."

"We don't have a ton of space, so taking everyone along would be hard. Who else did you have in mind?"

"Yeah, him. Maybe some others if they want to get off this rock."

"Korvalus? Or someone else in mind?" she asked with a kind smile.

"Thanks. I might have to bring friends, though."

"It's really not a planet to hang out at, right," Fey agreed with a snort. "I don't think the Force has ever told me where to go, but if you need a ride off-planet, I'm sure we could accomodate."

"I'm not sure Noventa is the best place for that. But I'll go where the Force tells me to go, I guess."

"Mm," she nodded, finding a satisfying grip in one hand, "that sounds preferable, yeah."

Looking at the weapon, she imagined for a moment what it would be like as a lightsaber. "So... are you going to stay here on Noventa, to train to become a Jedi?"

"It's not really a laser. The blade is made of high-energy plasma focused through a force-infused crystal."

She looked at the girl trying to figure out the grip.

"In Makashi we usually use one hand, to help us maintain a range of motion with the rest of our body."

"And getting used to where the blade is since it's a deadly laser-beam, right?" She wondered how many accidents Jedi and the like had with these things in the old days. Fey shifted the weapon a bit in her hands, trying to find a comfortable grip... and trying to decide if it needed both hands or just one.

"Lightsabers don't have any weight beyond that of the hilt. That means fighting with them is a bit different."

"Well," she looked at the practice-weapon, "guess we all start somewhere. I didn't really learn how to use weapons until somewhat recently, but I guess I'll find a way to use this too."

With the weapon extended, Fey gave it a few small swings to test its weight. "It's much lighter than a vibroblade."

"That's something my master could do as well. It's a trick I haven't picked up myself. Most of my time training was with the lightsaber, and not the Force. But the Force can do incredible things in the hands of those trained in it."

The twi'lek silently thought about what that must look like. Not to mention how great it seemed to be able to mend wounds and injuries with the Force.

"I've not been able to do that, or any of those things. Sometimes, I can feel what others feel, when it's very strong emotions..." it lent some more weight to her theory that people might've developed their talents based on their environments, as a young girl like Quinn had probably had to rely on such senses to survive on her own - unless Kor or Cal actually were her relatives. "Sometimes, I'm able to do some things better than I used to, like I know just how to do something without having much experience with it. But mostly it's subtle things... like, uhm, being more persuasive, I guess I could say? Making people feel or think a certain way."

"I can do that," she said. "most of the time, at least. When the dark side isn't interfering like it is on this planet. My master could do many more things with the force. She could move things without touching them. She could heal wounds with it. Do amazing things."

That all seemed a little odd to her, especially since her attachement to the rest of the group had helped her away from those bad things Quinn spoke of.

"I see," she said thoughtfully, determined to think more about it. "Peace and serenity, huh. Those are hard feelings to come by these days - especially with the situation as it is now. But I'll give it a try."

Fey tilted her head to the side as she regarded Quinn with some curiosity. "So, how does the Force work for you? I met another who could sense the presence of others around them - their feelings and such."

"Yeah, something bad has woken up."

She wasn't sure how much she should say about that particular thing.

"As for the light... it's, like I said, peace. Serenity. Love and happiness could be seen as part of it as well, but as I've been taught some of those can lead to the dark side as well. Love is great, but it can lead you to form attachments. And that can lead to fear. Resentment. And so on."

"Fear..." she paused a little as she mulled over the word. "So, that thing that woke up, it's something of the Dark Side then - since everything suddenly felt so wrong and negative and full of dread, yes?"

The twi'lek knew she had certainly let those kind of emotions control her before, but if that incredibly unpleasant feeling that awakened darkness was of the Dark Side... that the Empire had seemed to have this aura to it too sometimes, it was reason for her to steer away from it. She didn't like how those things made her feel, and what it made her remember.

"So the Light side is good emotions, if I understand correctly. Like love, happiness... that kind of stuff?"

Oh boy. Now Quinn *really* understood how her master must've felt when first teaching her.

"It's like how a coin has two sides. Only in this case there's more to it. The force is split between dark and light. The lightside is peace, and serenity. It's everything you think of when you think of the Jedi. The dark side is the opposite of that. It is powerful, but it is fueled by all of the negative emotions you may have. Anger. Fear. Hatred. The more you draw on these emotions, the stronger your connection to the dark side of the Force. And that changes you in turn. Twists you. That's something everyone with a powerful connection to the force has to be aware of."

"Uh... not really? I didn't know there were sides of the Force?" Fey shrugged. "Isn't the Force just, you know, the Force?"