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Chapter 17. Testing of younglings

Understanding is respect for the truth that does not lie on the surface.

An ancient Jedi tradition: six Younglings are sent to the caves of the planet Ilum, where a gathering takes place — a ritual, according to the results of which everyone gets the crystal necessary to create their own lightsaber. During the trip, the guys overcome great difficulties, the most difficult is self-knowledge. After passing this test, they enter a huge new world for themselves. Including Santal.

The exciting moment didn't last long. Santal heard footsteps and ducked back into bed. Her fellow clansmen came.

— How are you feeling? Max asked.

— Much better. I collected the sword. And you?

— Us too! — the guys showed their blades.

Max and Trilla have blue, Landa has green, or rather, emerald, Dasha has pink, and Green has orange.

— You have turquoise! - Green was surprised. — Cool!

— Hurrah! We are full-fledged Jedi now! - Max shouted with joy.

"They're not full—fledged yet," Landa said. — We still have to learn and learn.

— Soon the others will also go for swords, — Dasha said. — I wonder what kind of swords others will get.

— We'll see.

The guys hugged. After chatting a little more about everything and telling all the news, the clan members left, promising to come back tomorrow.

And they came. Early in the morning. The full composition. So Santal was not bored. Although she had no books and was not allowed to leave the room, she was constantly thinking about something. And she never parted with her sword for a minute, like a child who received a new toy. She could look at the hilt for a long time. Delight and awe did not come off his face.

Soon Santal was discharged. And the girl happily hurried to class.

After the trip to Ilum, the lives of six guys from the Santal group changed. Much more attention was now paid to fencing in the classroom. Even more than before. For hours, the children practiced the racks, the techniques of Form 1. It wasn't easy. After all, it is much more difficult to fence with a real sword than with a training one. To hold such a weapon in your hands is both exciting, but at the same time scary. The realization that you can accidentally harm, and maybe even kill. In the future, when everyone learns more and more stands and techniques, and everyone will have real weapons, the first sparring with real swords will begin. But it won't be soon. In the meantime, sparring continued to take place only in training.

— It's too early for you with the real ones, — said their curator.

Otherwise, life flowed on the same course. Santal spent all her free time reading holobooks. She especially loved to study the book "The Way of the Jedi". For a huge amount of interesting information, presented clearly and accessible. Even the beloved librarian Jocasta Nu was surprised by such a desire for knowledge.

The girl did not forget the physical training, the love for which Dooku instilled in her. It's amazing: what she was afraid of has become almost her favorite. When the extra classes had just begun, Santal could not imagine that the old master would be able to interest her. But it happened. She even started reading educational literature on martial arts and was very surprised when she found out how many fighting styles there are. She wanted to learn everything!

And with a lightsaber, there was something in between. When they just started practicing stands and techniques on real swords, Santal involuntarily remembered her first fight with training swords. How everyone was worried then, including her. She was afraid that it would not work out again. However, to her surprise, fencing was a little easier for her than acrobatics. But not so much that it was just too easy.