Private Call of the Force

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie let out a slow breath through her nose, some of the earlier tension still clinging to her shoulders, but no longer coiled as tight. “…You’re very calm about something that feels like it could go catastrophically wrong,” she muttered.

Still, she followed when Matsu motioned, falling into step a pace behind her again. Her eyes tracked the movement automatically—habit—but it wasn’t sharp the way it had been before. Just… present. “Yeah, well,” Kyrie added after a moment, “meditation sounds like a terrible idea right now.”

Her brow furrowed slightly. “If what you’re saying is true, I sit still long enough and this whole thing gets louder?” She shook her head once. “I’m not convinced I want that yet.”

Kyrie glanced off to the side as they walked, expression thoughtful but edged with hesitation. “…But I get the point.” A small pause. “I didn’t ask about it for no reason.”

Her fingers flexed lightly at her side, grounding herself. “And yeah… it’s not going away.” That came quieter. More certain. Kyrie’s gaze flicked back toward Matsu as she mentioned her wife, something shifting again—less resistance, more curiosity.

“Fifty three years,” she repeated, like she was testing the scale of it. Her brow lifted slightly. “…That’s a long time to not ruin something.” There was a faint, dry edge to it—but not dismissive. Just… honest.

Kyrie walked in silence for a few steps after that, turning the thought over. We took a step. Her jaw tightened faintly. “…I don’t like steps that don’t have a clear outcome,” she admitted.

Her eyes dropped briefly to the floor, then lifted again. “But I guess that’s the point, isn’t it.” Another pause. Kyrie exhaled slowly. “I don’t think I’m ready to just walk up to her and say it,” she said. “Not yet.”

Her gaze shifted forward, more focused now. “But I’m also not pretending this is nothing anymore.” That felt like a line being drawn. She glanced sideways again. “…And if meditation is going to force it out anyway, I’d rather decide when that happens.”

A faint huff of breath followed. “Preferably not in the middle of a room full of people.” Kyrie adjusted her stride slightly, falling more evenly in step now. “…So I’ll think about it,” she said. “And maybe not run from it.”

A beat. Then, quieter— “That’s about as far as I’m getting today.”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

She listened as the woman debated and talked with herself working through the stages and just held a bemused look on her face. "Sounds like a plan." She said it going from the courtyard into a room and she set Hanae down who looked with a frown before she gave her the bag of candy. The little girl roaming off with the other two as Matsu spoke gliding to the center of the room. "We won't meditate but I will answer and help with your force related issues while you are here. There is a lot more that can be learned and spoken about." The jedi grandmaster rremained there at the ready while she hovered but allowed a space for Kyrie to be able to join her.

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie gave a small, almost immediate nod as they stepped into the room, some of the tension easing out of her shoulders. “…Good,” she said under her breath. “That’s—good.”

There was a faint trace of relief in it as the topic shifted away. She stepped forward into the space Matsu had left open, her posture settling into something more familiar—less tangled in thought, more grounded in what she knew. Kyrie glanced briefly toward Hanae as the girl wandered off with the candy, a flicker of something softer passing through her expression before she refocused.

“You said you’d help with Force-related issues,” Kyrie began, tone more steady now. “I can start there.”

She lifted one hand slightly, as if illustrating the thought. “I can sense danger,” she said. “Not just obvious threats—more like… pressure building. Something about to go wrong before it actually does.”

Her brow furrowed faintly as she tried to explain it. “It’s not perfect. But it’s enough to react early.”

Her hand lowered, then lifted again after a beat. “And when I touch things sometimes,” she added, slower, “I can… see things.”

A small pause. “Not clearly. Not always. But impressions. Moments tied to the object.” Her gaze sharpened slightly. “History. Emotion. Whatever left a mark.”

Kyrie tilted her head. “That’s been useful.” A faint, practical edge returned to her tone. “Tracking people. Figuring out what happened in a place. Reading something that wasn’t meant to be obvious.”

She folded her arms loosely again, though this time it felt more like habit than defense. “Both of those are… valuable,” Kyrie said. “In hunting.”

A brief pause, then her expression shifted—curiosity threading through it now. “But that’s just what I already have,” she continued. “You said there’s a lot more.”

Her gaze fixed more directly on Matsu. “What else goes into being a Jedi?” she asked.

A beat. Then, more pointed—“And could I be both?”

Kyrie’s brow lifted slightly. “A Jedi… and a bounty hunter.” She let the question sit there, watching for the reaction. “Or do those two things not mix?”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

SHe was listening to her for the moment and gave a nod as psychometry and precognition were mentioned and described. Good skills to have while the grandmaster moved a little with interest. "Hmm well these days the jedi order certainly is something new in good and bad ways but there has never been anything against a jedi collecting bounties. Sometimes maybe questionable bu in theory they are doing it for worlds and helping with crime which is a goal they try and do to keep the peace." She said it but held a hand up. "As too how much there is well that is difficult. There is a great deal one can learn once they have learned the basics. Improving yourrself and your knowledge will always open new paths to you as well and make learrning what the force can do an amazing journey."

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie listened, her expression tightening slightly in thought as Matsu spoke, but there was a small, almost imperceptible ease at the answer. “So it’s not incompatible,” she said quietly, more to confirm than challenge. Her gaze lingered for a moment, weighing that, then shifted forward again.

A brief pause. “…Then I’d need the basics,” Kyrie added, more directly. She straightened slightly, focus sharpening. “Is there someone here who would actually teach me that?”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

Her hand came up to her chest. "Do you not like learning from me?" The jedi grandmaster took a moment and mostly did it in good humor and overly dramatically just for the moment though. "The basics of the force are what we all have. It is just brigning it out and the first start is stilling your mind of distractions to feel and call the force to you. To find that place in your mind between the chaotic thoughts and the serene emptiness. To be where the celestial falls to meet the rising man." THe jedi master though motioned so that she could come and sit in front of her. "Find what helps you, breathe and go to that place in your mind without distraction. Like when you are on a hunt."

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie blinked at the dramatic reaction, caught off guard for a half-second. “What—no, that’s not—”

She stopped, a faint flush rising across her cheeks as she realized how that had sounded. “I didn’t mean it like that,” she said quickly, rubbing the back of her neck. “I just assumed… you’re the Grandmaster. You probably have more important things on your calendar than teaching me how to sit still.” The last part came with a faint, self-aware huff.

Kyrie exhaled, letting that pass, then nodded once. “…But I’ll take the offer.”

She stepped forward when motioned, lowering herself to sit across from Matsu. Her posture wasn’t perfect—more practical than formal—but she settled in, grounding herself. “Like a hunt,” she repeated quietly.

Her hands rested loosely on her knees as she drew in a slow breath, eyes narrowing slightly as she tried to follow the instruction. “…Alright,” Kyrie murmured, more to herself than anything.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

"What could be more important then aiding a young force user in being able to open her mind to a universe of possibilities. I prefer knowing any that I can and encounter." She said it when she was looking at her but offered the place for her to be able to come over and quiet her mind. "I have plenty of time, we'll teach you and then you can rest up or of as you would like." The grandmaster moved quietly around her while the girl was sitting there and focusing. "Yes go to that place when you are hunting, that stillness and clarity, that place your mind will be able to connect to a target and then switch it... connect to the universe to the energy field that weaves throughout all life."

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie shifted slightly, then moved closer into the space Matsu indicated, settling beside her without hesitation. She adjusted her posture, shoulders loosening as she planted her feet and rested her hands lightly on her knees.

A slow breath in. Then out. Her eyes lowered, not fully closed at first—just softened—before she let them shut completely.

Kyrie didn’t speak. She followed the instruction exactly. Her breathing steadied, deeper now, more deliberate. The tension that usually lived in her frame began to ease as she reached for that familiar place—the stillness she knew from a hunt.

Her jaw unclenched. Her brow smoothed. Another breath. In. Out. The sharp edges of awareness shifted, no longer scanning outward for threats but narrowing inward, finding that quiet, focused point she relied on before a strike. Kyrie stayed there, silent, letting the rhythm take over.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

She gave a nod to the girl. "Good, now go to that place where you feel the force, your instincts... the energies that alert you when you are on a mission or a job." She said it and moved quietly around her. Allowing the force to move through the room and pulled at it so that it was heavier and stronger in the room. It would make connecting to it easier when she was moving to glide into position. "It will be better though, allowing yourself a chance to feel it, to feel the force itself throughout the room and then throughout the galaxy and pull it to yourself." SHe gave a nod before shifting so that she would be able to glide and hover above for different angles.

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie remained still, eyes closed as she listened. A slow breath filled her lungs. Then another. She followed the familiar path without resistance, slipping deeper into that quiet place she knew from tracking and hunting. The place where distractions fell away and instinct remained.

For a moment, she simply sat with it. Then her brow eased slightly. “I can feel it,” she said softly. Her breathing remained steady as she reached beyond the narrow focus she normally used. Instead of searching for a target, she let her awareness expand. A faint look of concentration crossed her face.

“It’s... different.” Another breath. “Usually I'm looking for something specific. A threat. A trail.” Her fingers relaxed against her knees.

“This feels bigger.” Kyrie settled back into the sensation, letting it wash over her rather than chasing it. “I think I understand.” she murmured. Then she fell silent again, continuing to follow the feeling outward.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

"Good." She said it with a look on her face as she was moving around. Allowing the force to expand around them where she would be able to check. Kyrie had her mind going and she seemed to be getting into the flow of the force itself. "Good." She said it with a nod of her head before she was roaming with one hand out while she spoke. "Now that area where you feel it, work on keeping the connection with a hand there before she was going. "HOld it in your mind and slowly open your eyes, try to move the area in front of you." She said it while hoving there in front of her. "Try and push me, to feel the resistance and the energy how it adjsut and flows."

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie's breathing remained slow and even as she held onto the sensation. She nodded once. “Okay.” Keeping her eyes closed for another moment, she focused on maintaining the connection rather than chasing it. The instinct to narrow her awareness onto a target tugged at her, but she resisted, letting the feeling remain broader.

Then she slowly opened her eyes. The room seemed different somehow—not changed, just more present. Kyrie lifted a hand toward Matsu, her brow furrowing in concentration. She reached for the feeling she had been holding in her mind and pushed.

At first nothing happened. Her jaw tightened. Then she adjusted, trying again—not forcing it, but letting the sensation flow outward. A faint ripple stirred through the air between them. Kyrie's eyes widened slightly.

“I felt that.” She kept her hand raised, focusing on the resistance Matsu had mentioned. “It’s... strange.”

Another small push. “This isn't like lifting something.” Her concentration deepened as she tried to understand the flow rather than overpower it. “It moves back.”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

She gave a nod of her head to the girl. "Yes, the force is like that, it isn't always a solid.. it flows it moves. Like water you can hold it for a moment and then it will slip through your fingers... it will carve through rocks, wash away and smooth the strongest parts of a person and the galaxy and it will do it without ego or pride or second thought. It is why the jedi respect it, the sith weaponize it and all want to understand it as it weaves throughout the universe and the galaxies." She spoke while she remained moving aaround the woman in the center of the room but allowed the force to wrap around her gliding form so that she could be felt at her presence.

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie lowered her hand slightly, though she kept hold of the connection she'd found. Her eyes followed Matsu's movement around the room, but she focused more on the presence she could feel than what she could see. “Water,” she repeated quietly. The comparison seemed to settle more easily than some of the earlier lessons.

She took a slow breath and let the Force flow through her awareness again instead of trying to seize it. “I think I understand that better than trying to treat it like a weapon.” A small pause. “Or at least... only a weapon.”

Kyrie reached out once more, feeling the current rather than forcing it. The effort looked less strained this time. Her brow relaxed slightly. “So the difference is intent?” she asked. “The Jedi work with it and the Sith try to make it work for them?”

She tilted her head, considering the thought. “Seems like both sides would say they're the ones who understand it.”

Her attention returned to the sensation of the Force around her, lingering on the feeling of Matsu's presence moving through it. “But I can feel what you mean about it flowing.”

A faint smile tugged at the corner of her mouth. “It feels a lot less complicated when I'm not trying to wrestle it.”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

"Both sides can say that, one studies one tries to bend it but the force has a balance and bending it or breaking it leaves a scar, a wound upon the force and the galaxy where wrongness can grow." She said it but the girl was getting it and that was good. She had something to grasp while they were going. "But keep that line, keep that energy and connection in your mind allowing the force itself to expand outwards from your body." She allowed herself to stop for a moment, suspended there in the air as she was looking over it. WIth Kyrie having her eyes closed she couldn't see the jedi grandmaster hovering above and to the side of her... more reaching out as she manipulated the molecules to make them more hydrogen so the water could be there in the air and around without it being an ocean.

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie nodded slightly, keeping her eyes closed as she held onto the connection. “A scar,” she murmured. “That makes more sense than good and evil.”

She took a slow breath and focused on maintaining the line she'd found, resisting the urge to tighten her grip on it. Instead, she let it remain open. Let it expand. Her shoulders loosened as her awareness pushed outward from herself rather than narrowing inward toward a target.

“I can still feel it,” she said quietly. The sensation was different now—broader, less focused on a single point. Kyrie remained still for a few moments, concentrating.

“It feels... easier when I stop trying to control every part of it.” Another breath. She tilted her head slightly as if noticing something at the edge of her awareness. “And bigger.”

Her voice softened. “Like there's more there than I usually let myself notice.”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

Listening to her as she was starting to feel the force and being able to control herself.. it allowed the moment to stretch. "Yes, once you can hold it for the moment remember the feeling and start to open your eyes... find a place where you can go to it without the thought and focus. Once you can then you will be able to have a better control of the force in situations." She said it but remained there with Kyrie able to work on the force. Her movements taking her to the far side of the room so that she would get to hover with a small look afjusting her center of gravity to be like a ferather in the wind. "Now once you have it send it outward.. through your limbs towards me."

 

[Kyrie Blaze]

Objective: Learn about the Force/Jedi
Location: Hidden Path Base, Odessen
Outfit:Casual clothes
Tags: Matsu Ike

Kyrie held onto the feeling, committing it to memory before doing as instructed. Slowly, she opened her eyes. She took a moment to anchor herself in the sensation without losing it, testing whether she could maintain the connection while aware of the room around her.

“I think I have it,” she said quietly. Her gaze found Matsu across the room. Kyrie lifted a hand, not forcing the connection this time. Instead, she reached for the same current she'd been feeling and guided it outward through her arm.

Her brow furrowed in concentration. The push was gentler than before, less like shoving and more like extending something already there. A faint smile touched her lips. “That feels different.”

She maintained the connection for another moment before letting out a slow breath. “Less effort. More... direction.”

 

[Matsu Ike]

Kyrie Blaze

"Yes, that is what you want to hold onto and feel." She remained where she was as the movement pushed her into the air and around the room while she was drifting around. "Though you want to practice, it is a mixture of stamina and repitition that is able to be use. The more you repeat the movements, the more you will be able to call it to you and the easier it will get. The best jedi can maintain the force without it going away even while they sleep and being able to maintain it like that can be a mixture of benefit and burden. Without it you can be worse but with it you will be able to last thaat little bit longer or always be ready to help another, always be alert and sensing danger or for problems."