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Parental Guidance

Parents....

She had barely known her mother when she was taken by the Jedi Master L'hnnar from Corellia during the early years of the Galactic Civil War, and now she had another parent whom she knew in many different ways but at the same time didn't know he was her parent in the first place. She had to admit to herself, when they first saw each other after so long, that she wasn't exactly the nicest person to him. He could have easily just slapped her across the face and said "Get over it kid!" but he didn't.

[member="Ember Rekali"] had handled it the way she expected him to, with honor and dignity. He respected her choice of allegiance even if it meant the possibility of meeting her on the battlefield. He was truly a father, but who was he really? There was a man underneath all that armor plating, someone with a beating heart and a pair of lungs which required air. Someone who no doubt had some kind of emotion because she got her stubbornness from somewhere. She got her looks from either him or her mother. There were so many questions that she needed answers to and the only person who could answer them was him.

So she had to make the call, atleast for now it would be a call. In due time, she would find a way to find him and see him and maybe...just maybe see if she still felt the same way about him as she had before. A man who had mentored her in the ways of the Force. A man who had guided her through some of the darkest times of her life. A man who was there for her, a shoulder to cry on, a hand to grab her when she fell, a father indeed.

She held the holotransmitter in the palm of her hand and cleared her throat, her left hand manipulating the communications frequency before she pressed the signal button...on the other end it would beep softly and hopefully he would pick up. A knot began to form in her chest as anxiety began to set in, all the questions and emotions were bubbling up inside. She just prayed she could hold it together and not blurt out something incoherent when he did appear before her...not like when she saw [member="Ayden Cater"].
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

He appeared on the holotransmitter in full armor, a blend of Dathomiri and Mandalorian aesthetics. The mask was humanoid, with aesthetic suggestions of a T-visor; he removed it and took down his thick hood, revealing a weatherbeaten man of early middle age. Purple Vahla eyes, long hair going grey. Scars. Bags under his eyes. "Good to see you, kid. My, ah, sources say you're settling in moderately well now that Grayson's running things, an' I'm glad to hear it. How goes the fight?"

Maybe he meant the war against the One Sith, maybe he meant the struggle for the soul of the Order's remnants.
 
"Aren't you just the lovely father? I have something for you?" She gently leaned down and set the holotransmitter down on a rock before her, as she did his holo shimmered and became lifesize almost immediately. With a smirk she scooped down and brought a handful of dirt within her black gloved hand. A ray of sun catching her chestnut-brown hair which apparently had a unique tint of purple to it according to a select few, her amber-red eyes glaring at the man before her. She wasn't angry, no, she just was upset she didn't have him there all those years.

She gently tipped the dirt out of her hand, raising her arm above her own height as she did so before dropping it back infront of her. She quickly dusted the excess away with her other hand before pursing her lips and folding her arms across her chest. "So, no, how are you? I'd like to see you? Let's just skip the formalities and go straight to the punch, huh?"

[member="Ember Rekali"]
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

"You're a Jedi Master, kid. You made your call like a big girl, you always know where I'm at. But when I'm asking you how things are going in, you know, the two biggest tasks of your life, yeah, I'm asking how you're doing. Feth, do the burlapsniffers have you on edge these days." He grimaced. "So I hear you ran into Gil Skirata. Good man, better than any I knew on Coruscant an' that's a fact. How'd that go?"
 
Aaralyn bit her lip and attempted to hide her emotions that punched at her gut. "You know, you could be a little bit more sensitive? Just because I'm a Jedi Master doesn't mean I'm some stiff-board who walks around reciting the Jedi Code every five seconds or when I'm about to do something." She made a motion towards him, her voice softening. "You know, how about trying...How's my little girl? Or I hate the fact we left on bad terms? Can I buy you that speeder bike I never did when you were little?" She tried to crack a smile through tears that threatened at the rims of her eyes as she held her arms tighter against her chest. She didn't know why, but this was important. It felt important to get this out.

She sighed heavily and turned away a bit from the holoreceiver. "Good, I guess...."

[member="Ember Rekali"]
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

"Look, kid..." He weighed his words carefully. "I'd give just about anything to be able to give you the memories, the upbringing, that I tried to give Rach, Certh, Faran, and Benna. But that's not an option. You don't want me to treat you like a kid, buy you the shiny speeder, or tack on terms of endearment we should have found together twenty -- feth, eight hundred years ago. I never changed your diapers, kid, but I sure as feth tried to teach you to hold a sabre straight and think like a grownup, both before and after I found out who you were. I did the best I could for you, and now you're asking me to unlock what I locked up when all my other kids-"

He grimaced. "I lost track of sensitive when the love of my life got her limbs ripped off, when my son took a poisoned blade through the chest on Ossus, when my oldest boy ate a nuclear warhead at Keldabe and wound up soul-shoved into a Hutt body, when my daughter got knocked up by some pimply Padawan and then died with her brother in the Jedi assault on Metalorn. I am trying to be sensitive to what you say you need from me. I intend to keep trying. But you are not the only one in pain, kid."
 
Aaralyn grimaced and even winced as he spoke of her half-siblings, something she neglected to take into account. She composed herself quickly and nodded to his holo with a somber look on her face. "I am sorry for sounding selfish...and for your losses. I guess I was just the kid you didn't know about, which is fine." She shrugged slightly. "I mean, I'm sure you did but Mom had a part in it too...you both did. And you're both at fault, but you're right, I'm a grown adult and you have shown me some things." She bit the bottom of her lip and nodded. "I guess that is just the hard headed nature I have to want to know everything I can...a bit of stubbornness."

[member="Ember Rekali"]
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

"Well, let's think back to burlapsniffer one-oh-one," he said, as gently as he could manage. "Can't be so focused on what's in front of ya that the big picture gets missed. But anyway. So. How'd your meeting go with Gil? I just heard you'd met with him, haven't had a chance to ask him how it went or what it was about. Did Popo or Grayson send ya as some kind of unofficial envoy? Fingers crossed, y'know?"
 
"I went there on my own in an attempt to talk him into peace between the Republic and the Mandalorians. Apparently this has been accomplished already and I was on a foolhardy mission with a priceless artifact..." She held up a hand. "I don't think you should mention anything about me to be honest, I'd let things calm down before you did such a thing."
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

"Fair enough." He'd run the Jedi Shadows for a good while; he knew how to keep his mouth shut. "Think I've been out in the boonies too long. What peace -- and what artifact? You didn't bring the Codex of Tython, did ya?"
 
Aaralyn grinned big and pulled the necklace out from her undertunic. "I still had the final piece, it wasn't like he was going to be able to do anything with it anyways!" She objected, knowing full well what was going to come next. "I turned it over to Kiskla as soon as I returned...but I might have double-crossed Gil in the process? I'm not sure?" She questioned and shrugged as she tucked away the necklace. "He said I was free to go, so I assumed that meant with the Codex...and you knew I was the last one to have it over eight hundred years ago! What did you think, it would magically appear!?"
 
"It's with Grayson, and yeah I think Gil might have thought he was getting it to learn more about the Force as a whole? I'm not quite sure on that..." She shrugged lightly.

[member="Ember Rekali"]
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

Ember grunted in disapproval. "So the Order has the Codex. Well, I suppose they needed something, considerin' they lost Tionne's holocron, the Great Holocron, and the Vodo-Siosk Baas holocron when Coruscant fell, Sar Agorn's is somewhere in Confederate space, and the Bodo Baas 'cron is a Senator's paperweight these days. Not to mention the fethers that trawl auction houses and vaults to gobble up anything remotely holocronlike -- and the last time the Jedi sent anyone to anything like that, it was to drop unwarranted acts of war on half the galaxy at poor fethin' Contruum. Plus there's the Velok raid that gutted the Tython archives a couple years back. Yeah, the Jedi vaults'll be looking pretty bare right about now."
 
Aaralyn frowned and gave him an unimpressed look as he listed off the Jedi Order's lack of accomplishments in safeguarding artifacts and relics. "I can recover them with or without the consent of the individual holding them. They belong to the Jedi Order and well if it means that I personally make a few enemies along the way then so be it..." She waved a hand infront of her as her arms unfolded from her chest. "Perhaps it's time that the perception of the Jedi Order be changed in the minds of the people?" She brought her hand to her chin and then snapped her fingers in sarcasm. "I got the perfect person, Grayson can do it!" She rolled her eyes and threw her hands up towards his image. "What do you think we're trying to accomplish dad?"

[member="Ember Rekali"]
 

Ashin Varanin

Professional Enabler
[member="Aaralyn Rekali"]

"Oh, they'd be the Jedi Order's property if the Jedi Order existed." Ember smiled without humor. "I have no idea what your people are trying to accomplish, kid. Force alone knows I've never seen'em do more than try to perpetuate their own justification for existing, like any bureaucracy. If you're tellin' me that the people that call themselves Jedi are accomplishing things, making actual progress toward actual worthwhile goals, I'd love to hear about'em."
 

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