"You have to help me." Matsu was looking at this woman, she had no idea who she was and standing there the jedi master really only had a couple of ideas. She had just really been mastered, fresh faced and youthful while standing there in the traditional robes before she was thinking of what best to say to the woman. "I... I suppose I could but what did you say your name was again?"
She asked it while looking her over with some questioning looks on her face. She wanted to build it all up. To try things out and slowly the woman turned to her speaking as the short atrisian woman spoke. "Saia... My name is Saia Ike and please you just have to help me." That chance that this woman and her shared the last name and it was just happenstance was astronomical... No she had to learn more about this stranger.
"Alright, tell me everything and start from the beginning please." Matsu stood there wanting to get the clearest picture of it all while she was joined by her former master. The emerald skinned, white haired falleen Chora. A dear friend and master who could understand the situation better offering a solution she hoped. "Twenty years ago, my father was killed, my mother sent to prison for killing the people that killed him and my little brother."
Okay now this woman was screwing with her as she looked at her and she knew this story. The old woman in the temple when she had been being trained as an imperial knight told it to her before bed each knight. "I was with my grandmother on Atrisian visiting our family. SOmething happened and wicked men killed my father and brother kidnapping my mother. The news came to use and my grandmother sent out people to search."
This was starting to get freaky as the jedi master listened and Chora being the senior spoke finally. Her voice coming out but the bond the two shared let her know she had noticed it as well. There was something to the story that rang to perfectly and just by chance this woman found Matsu. "We will handle it, send us the information if you please and we shall handle it." Chora offered a smile when the information was being sent to them.
It gave matsu some thoughts while she learned they were going through the hallways. "Master who was that woman?" She said it while standing there in the hallway and looking at the taller woman. "I am not certain but her story is either very good to get your attention or it is fact and this woman knows more about your mother and family. Either way we shall need to investigate and I think padawan where we are headed will be to dangerous to sen you alone."
"Matsu was looking at her as she protested it.... or at least wanted to and clenched her fist for a moment in frustration at the thoughts. She was one of the smartest and one of the few shadows within the order. She knew what she was doing and her master had taught her well. "But master I can handle it." She was certain of it and standing there she felt a hand on her shoulder while they were heading off into the room.
"That you still regard me as your master when you have passed the trials to become my equal shows you are still young and in need of experience. Do not worry Matsu, your time will come and you will be glorious my old padawan. The knowledge you have worked to memorize, the skills with a saber and force techniques. All of it makes you a much stronger jedi then me, now all you need is the experience."
She could feel it, the warmth and smile on her cheeks as the pale scar was flawless and like porcelain on an artisian doll. She could do this and giving into her masters accompanying her while she was getting the gear they would need. A blue issue prison outfit and some shackles while the jedi masters were sent to the transport. Matsu standing there ghostly pale next to the others as one of the guards put a bit in her mouth to prevent her from biting.
Their mission had been approved, to help this woman and her family a noble family from Atrisia who supported the Republic they were going into the prison to make sure her friend survived. She was in protective custody to begin prep work for making a deal and there was a chance the ones she was testifying against had people in the prison. So jed undercover would be able to serve a purpose in protecting her.
It had been all of the things Matsu thought it would be sitting there in the transport while they were heading to the Kessel prison colony. Years of mining spice and down deeper into a few things before she felt the transport jerk to the left and smack her against the wall while she felt the coldness of the steel against her skin. Transparasteel viewport not made for comfort before her breathing left a trail of saliva when one of the guards slammed her against it again.
The pain in her jaw and in her cheek was there with a bruise while they were being processed through the prison. Stripped down and searched, sent through scanners and given full medical scans for anything that might be dangerous or a concern. They didn't have any gear or equipment aside from their wits and the force as Matsu was led down towards her cell with the sound of prisoners chanting 'New Meat'
