{"id":226,"date":"2009-10-23T22:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T02:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auroraforce.org\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2009-10-23T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T02:36:32","slug":"vong-war-annals-predawn-10232009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.auroraforce.org\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Vong War Annals – “Predawn” 10.23.2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No more words came until he was in the speeder and she was behind the wheel, racing away from the house.\u00a0 Every time he even tried to speak she simply held up a hand to forestall commentary.\u00a0 Once they had turned safely onto the roadway outside of the Wyler\u2019s residence on Xenen, Tag cleared her throat, eyes intent on the road before them, her voice even\u2014but barely.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019re going to hate me for saying it, but it has to be said.\u00a0 You can not<\/em> play with forces like that until you understand how to control them.\u00a0 I will not<\/em> let you make the same mistakes I made and I sure as hell won\u2019t let you make the same mistakes over again\u2014not the deadly ones.\u00a0 The ones that might get you a little hurt, maybe.\u00a0 But the life-threatening, world-shattering mistakes?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Not again.\u00a0 Not on my watch.\u201d\u00a0 She paused a moment, as if measuring what came next.\u00a0 \u201cYou made a mistake tonight.\u00a0 I made one, too.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t have sent you home with your parents.\u00a0 I should have made you stay with Jaq and I tonight, so I could watch you, keep an eye on you.\u00a0 I trusted you further than I should have.\u00a0 That was my<\/em> fault.\u00a0 But betraying my trust was yours.\u201d\u00a0 She turned down the roadway that led toward the Kel-Solan home, near the rest of the Bridger\u2019s domiciles.\u00a0 \u201cDoing things like that have deadly consequences, Les.\u00a0 Maybe not this time, but the next time, they just might.\u201d
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The speeder slowed the nearer they drew to the Kel-Solan house, down a familiar roadway.\u00a0 \u201cJedi fear the Dark Side, yes.\u00a0 But in the best of us, it\u2019s a caution, not a fear\u2014a healthy respect for our own fears and our own limitations, a knowledge of what hell our touching the darker emotions that exist inside all of us can bring down upon those we love.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about us, it\u2019s about what we do and the price that those around us pay for what we do.\u00a0 Every action has a consequence.\u00a0 Use of what we call the Dark Side tends to cloud our perceptions of those consequences.\u201d\u00a0 She pulled the speeder up into the driveway and stopped, finally looking at him.\u00a0 \u201cIf you\u2019re going to do any of this safely, if you\u2019re determined to draw on all the emotions you have inside of you, you need to be prepared to unlearn everything<\/em> Jinx Katarn ever taught you.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you\u2019re prepared for that.\u00a0 I think you\u2019re too mired in the Old Ways of the Jedi.\u00a0 But there may be something we can do for that.\u201d\u00a0 She climbed out of the speeder.\u00a0 \u201cGet out.\u00a0 Come with me.\u201d\u00a0 She waited for a moment for him and then started walking down a bricked pathway from the driveway around to the garden gate, a shadow drifting in the predawn.\u00a0 It was suddenly very easy to see that she\u2019d been trained to be a spy, to be a shadow.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cToday, you learn to fight in a few way.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have many teachers along this path, Les, I promise you that, and I promise you that we\u2019re all going to give a damn and you will never<\/em> be alone like he left you.\u00a0 But you have to trust us, and to listen.\u201d\u00a0 She pushed open the gate, which creaked softly, and pointed down a shaded path.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s a door at the end of this pathway.\u00a0 Go to it.\u00a0 Knock.\u00a0 Someone will answer.\u00a0 I guarantee it.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ Erin<\/p>\n

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