He'd never said that it would be easy. Just that she should try. He listened as Scherezade would list every reason why she apparently could not. Sure, it didn't sound easy, but she was selling herself short too quickly.
"Everything is stopping me,"
Of course "everything" was. They all said that. His eyelids lowered as he just stared at her, almost seeming unamused at the words he'd heard already. "Both my grandmother and my brother are not alive. Not dead either, at least, my grandma isn't dead. I don't now which realm or pocket realm they're in. I don't know what shape my brother is in, if he's grown, if he's in another pebble, if he already lived and had died of old age... Nothing. And if I attack my grandmother now she'll be able to kill me with the snap of her fingers. She probably will, considering that I have every intention of killing her if I'm ever strong enough."
"Alright, so they're either suspended in animation in some form, or dead" Josh would respond calmly. "Stranded somewhere, odds are. So perhaps to find out where they are... You need to find what stuck them in there to begin with" Josh would suggest. "You find the source, you get the information on where they are and how to get there and get them out. Even if you gotta poke someone with knives to do it. You got no problem with that, I've already seen. As far as your grandmother is concerned... Sounds like she might be a source. If you think she's that powerful though... Then you need to get stronger, and more knowledgeable. Yes, more knowledgeable. Too many Sith these days ignore the values of knowledge while pursuing the idea of more power. It's clear that this sorceress isn't someone you can beat with power and pure might alone. You need something up your sleeve to be able to outmatch her."
"You can't come to my ancestral home planet with me," she started off as she would talk about how everyone was a dack. "It sounds like they're not even worth visiting" He spoke honestly. She might not like that, but the Jedi stared into her eyes as he said it. He wasn't lying. And not being lied to was something an un-trusting person could appreciate.
"My ancestral home planet's culture is very rooted int he dichotomy between Warriors and Sorcerers. The entire culture is based around it and the Force. I can't... I can't be both. I can pick up a few powers of the path I don't tread, but that's more or less it. To try to do both equally would be to both surrender myself to lack of mastery in either path and to make myself inferior. My father was... is... I'm not sure. But he's the Warrior King. My mother is the Sorceress Queen."
He shrugged. "Eh" He spoke. "You're the daughter of one and the other. Maybe I've read too much fiction but in most of the stories, the offspring tries to go for both. Maybe your home planet clan's just too narrow minded."
"How do I destroy the Darkness if I don't entirely understand what it even is?"
"Good question" He responded. "So here's what I propose. I was thinking of doing this anyway, since the Silver Jedi and the Confederacy need a liaison regardless and I've wanted to help strengthen ties as both sides have been wanting... I'm going to offer my services to the CIS" Josh would reveal. "With them wanting to do joint missions anyway, this is the best time. And if they allow me, I'd like you to be my mission partner when possible. Not only because I think you'd be a viable mission partner and I've seen what you can do when you're actually trying... But because it buys us time in hyperspace on the way to, and on the way back from missions to do part of what Jedi do to prepare for this kind of thing. Things like this Darkness, things like your grandmother... And that is pursue knowledge. Do research. Our heads are as important as our power, and I like to fire on both when I can.
Perhaps if we can find out what it is, it can be destroyed. What I can at least do is offer my help."
[member="Scherezade deWinter"]
