x. Apothecary

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"Perhaps Kalna, you should just be going back to the ship." Sol gently spoke as Kalna was looking back to normal. Or at least, no longer having a complete emotional breakdown anyway, as she was standing up straight between Osha and Yord.

"Permission to speak freely, Master?" Jecki spoke up, reverting back to her old habits as Sol looked over at her with a nod. "I believe that Knight Ornago should stay with us, here. Her skills with emotions, both manipulative and simply sensing, they could soon prove invaluable to our investigation and eventual interrogation." Jecki explained as Sol looked at his Padawan.

"Yord?" Sol questioned and Yord swiftly blinked at the question, before he looked over at Kalna silently and she said nothing to defend either of the points, she didn't seem to think that her opinion mattered at the moment. "What do you think?" He asked and Yord nodded.

"I agree with the Padawan." Yord stated simply as Sol looked surprised by the quick admission. "And surely if she was to stay with us from now on, Kalna will not have another... er, episode." They did not quite have a word for it yet. "And while I don't imagine that Kalna will have another one of these episodes while on a ship, on her own... I personally do not wish to be simply stranded on Olega, because of a chance that the ship could end up being destroyed." Yord finished.

Sol looked between his Padawan, Yord and back to Kalna who was just watching him, a word not spoken and Sol nodded. "Very well. But Kalna... Please try not to tear down the Jedi Temple with us in it." He said and then, Kalna inclined her head in a swift nod of understanding.

Jecki looked at Kalna, who was silently watching the crowd as she was looking back and forth, scanning the area.

"Are you all right now?" Jecki asked as she was looking at Kalna, who nodded slightly.

"Thank you both." Kalna murmured and Jecki glanced at Yord, before they were both nodding. "You were right, who knows what I would have ended up crippling if I was alone on the ship." She muttered.

"Can somebody write that down for me?" At the words, Jecki elbowed him. "Hey!!" Yord's eyes flashed.

"Only I'm allowed to elbow him." Kalna noted out of the side of her mouth with an almost smile on her face.

Then swiftly at the words, Jecki was very quickly moving to stand on her other side so that Yord didn't have the chance for a clear shot at her in return.

"Can we combine them?" Kalna spoke up suddenly and everybody jumped, most of them having forgotten that she was standing silently watching, what were essentially the two sides of the same coin. Or uniquely in this case, two sides of the same plan.

"What?" Sol questioned.

"We can set up a perimeter of a certain distance around the apothecary, while we still send Osha into the building to impersonate Mae." Kalna explained as she looked at them. "That way, Yord can be the one in charge of the perimeter of the town and the building itself. Using my skill with emotions, I can help with monitoring it." She was drawing a rather shaky map in the dust on the railing.

"I will have Krilponnia on solid ground and watching the entrance from a distance, after all, he is the most intimidating presence in his own right." Kalna stated as she was looking down at it. "I haven't sensed anything suspicious yet, but as we all know that could change at the drop of a coin." She said as she nodded. "Any objections?" Kalna questioned.

"I've got one." Jecki spoke up, raising her hand in the air and Kalna glanced over at her. "How did you manage to come up with that, in all of one minute?" Jecki asked plainly and Kalna shrugged.

"I took the best of both plans, put them together and then... I just added a few of my own ideas to the mix." Kalna explained and Jecki nodded. "It kind of helped that I have plenty of experience in dealing with Mr. All Too Impulsive on the regular." She said and Yord stared at her, with his jaw dropping at the insult. "Yord? Close your mouth before something flies in." She suggested and Yord grumbled.

"Here." Kalna was holding out her communicator to Osha, who glanced at it before she took it. "It is already set to the broadcast mode, all you have to do is get a confession out of the guy." She said and Osha put the communicator in her pouch next to the PIP droid, before she was swiftly giving her a hug.

Kalna smiled faintly as she was returning the hug. "If you use your emotions to sound the alarm, I will come running." She said as Osha smiled, before she nodded. "I promise, okay? We are, with you." She murmured and Osha agreed silently.

"Kal?" Osha asked as Kalna was walking back to the temple and Kalna turned back around to look at her. "I am really, truly sorry old friend, if I hurt you. When I left the Order, I mean." Osha admitted and Kalna blinked, before she shook her head.

"It was your choice. I respected you for knowing within yourself, that you honestly felt like you had no other choice." Kalna explained. "And honestly? I'm proud of you for making that choice, just knowing that your life could change so drastically." She said and Osha smiled at her. "Now, go get him, Meknek." Osha nodded at the title as she was disappearing into the apothecary.

"Did you really mean what you said to her about leaving?" Jecki asked and they were all headed down to circle the apothecary.

"Of course I did." Kalna said and she was looking down at her full-sized lightsaber as it was hanging off of her belt. "If I didn't mean what I said to her, then why would I have said it?" She wondered out loud.

"Right, right. Of course." Jecki mumbled quietly, unsure of why she was so uncertain about the Jedi Knight's response.


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