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A long, slow sigh of frustration escaped the weary Jedi's body. He didn't feel well. And he had an immense distaste for feeling unwell. But this was his decision, and he reminded himself of that for the hundredth time as he sipped on hot binoberry tea - so the berry had been called for the botanical...

The heavy weight in Erril's chest lightened just slightly as the other Jedi handed the proverbial reins of the conversation back to him. He wasn't afraid to have his beliefs challenged, generally speaking, but this particular conversation cut like an especially sharp knife, and he didn't like feelin...

The alarm was very quiet when it went off, just a soft clicking sound akin to a deck of cards being shuffled slowly. It hardly even registered in Erril's conscious mind anymore when it went off, which left the entirety of his mental facilities free to process the unfolding event in increments as he ...

Whatever the reptilian creature was, they appeared to be a slightly more frequent occurrence closer to the mountains. Which wasn’t to say that they become a wholly common occurrence, merely than over the next hour, Erril saw two more of them fighting over the carcass of some other wretched looking c...

There were few things more primally intimidating that facing down an angry beast. There was however a spot on that list reserved for facing down the same beast without a weapon. For just a second – one single second – when Erril brushed his hands across his thighs and found nothing, he felt that pri...

Swamp X had turned out to be a rather trepidatious place for barefooted individuals. Erril sat on a twisted tree bough some 8 feet over the boggy floor of the swamp – sitting in fact right where he’d landed when for the third time in the last two hours, something sharp in the ankle-deep bogwater had...

Form I: Shii-Cho – Way of the Sarlacc It is well known among Jedi and those who study their martial arts that Shii-Cho was developed initially simply to help both newcomers and skilled swordsmen alike rediscipline their muscle memory to compensate for the unusual properties of the emerging technolo...

Preamble The martial traditions of the Jedi have evolved much over the generations of our order. The tools have changed, the intent has changed, and over time our very understanding of the Force as it applies to combat, and the types of discipline we pursue in our cultivation of the warrior spirit ...

It only took a few moments for Erril to realize he may have chose in err when he opted to assume his instructional tone. It was a very easy thing for him to do after nearly four decades of studying and teaching swordsmanship, but on this particular occasion he wondered if he’d failed to read the roo...

Certain things were just better when enjoyed while hot and dirty. Cold water, hot food, cool breeze, cold beer; Erril grinned to himself as the water from the showerhead washed over him – there was certainly a consistent theme among those things. But above them all, the best thing to enjoy when hot ...

The duel unfolding in the middle of the small atrium in the temple on Tynna – though in truth it was more of a cloister, by that terminology – had begun as a reminiscing discussion of how things had been on Nexus, and then expanded into more general storytelling. Upon arrival at the small temple and...

All around the firepit, light in hues of red, orange and yellow rippled in comforting asymmetry. They wandered over the soft green grass of the valley, the clothes and faces of the three individuals who encircled it, and also across the hull of the YT-1930 a little further away, which stood watch ov...

“Yeah, they clearly know what's best, don’t they.” Erril regretted the bitter words almost as soon as he’d spoken them. At that moment he had more mixed feelings about the Uvena council than not, and he was immediately more than a little surprised that Kaytren would appeal to their authority as a b...

Of all the… the seasoned master was about to open his mouth and say something about the regrettable things people say when concussed, but Nomi offered a much more satisfying comeback, and as the two younglings stifled their giggling, Erril decided to let the matter be. Jarik was old enough to learn ...

She keeps her coffee kit in her pockets. That’s dedication. They’d both politely turned down each other’s beverage of choice, which might have been a faux-pas in some other situation, but just then it felt like a resolute agreement, and Erril carried the barest hint of a lefthanded smile as he went...

The seasoned Jedi examined Nomi's posture and body language with a critic expression as she spoke - she surely had her mother's threshold for pain. At last Erril motioned upward with his hands and mimed the spreading of arms. "There you go. Now take a deep breath for me - use your diaphram, go until...

As the pair of them strode down the hallway to the galley, Erril chuckled and ran a hand across the panels of the Corellian freighter’s utilitarian wall frame. “I can hardly argue the ships. I’m still making my mind up on the people of course, but… I have my own nationalism to consider – Thustra pro...

Erril stood with the two younglings and listened, casually draping an arm around the crossguard of his sword like the shoulder of a friend while the newly knighted Jedi whose trials he had taken part in blundered on about some interaction that sounded more like a quarrel than a duel. He glanced at N...

”…so as you can see here it only receives blood from one side. It’s one of only a few bones in the whole body that enjoy that distinction, and of course being one of the larger bones in the wrist it’s very important that it gets attention quickly when…” Erril paused with his finger still pressed to...

The younger Jedi smiled softly as he reached out to accept the book again. He thumbed through the pages and absently smoothed a dog-eared page. ”A lot happened in the first seven hours.” Reaching up, Erril placed the book back on top of the navi-computer console. ”I remember the medical camp between...

Harder, Erril thought, glancing around the cabin. Everything around them was a reminder of the times he’d spent doing this sort of thing with his master, and any other thing. It wasn’t awful to remember, it’s just that it… wasn’t anymore. Erril had hoped that one day he could stand with Jray and ta...

Settling back into the pilot seat, Erril grinned wryly at the control console. Over the last few years, the ship had rarely completed a pre-flight auto-check before takeoff, which meant the inertial dampeners didn’t come on immediately, which meant takeoff could be a little rough. Erril and Jray had...

Kaytren’s words, whether or not she could have known, cut right through the screen Erril had tried to put up to protect himself from… everything maybe? His eyes lost a bit of their keen edge as she mentioned he and Gillan’s common lineage, and he glanced down at the ramp closing at their feet just f...

The young sephi nodded his agreement while Kaytren slipped into her ship. He was just pondering whether or not he cared to tune into the sounds around him when something about Kaytren’s words struck him oddly. Stay Here ? Did she think he was going to follow her into her ship? He felt so baffled by ...

”I actually have… oh you probably have your own clothes, yeah that’s fine.” without a backward glance, Erril strode past Kaytren in the direction of the vessel she’d arrived on. ”Don’t worry about too much else though, unless you’ve got equipment you just prefer to have –“ the part-sephi poked a th...