The Second Padawan

Visions

Visions
Chapter Ninety-Seven

The droids sterilized my eye wounds. "You're back already?" I asked as I felt Anatoli approach the bed I was sitting on.

"The droids said there wasn't anything medically or physically wrong with me." He said. He sat down next to me, "I got you this."

"Thanks, I love it." I said sarcastically, I couldn't see what he was holding.

"Oh, right." He said nervously. "It's a cane, to help you feel your way around."

I tilted my head feeling the metallic walking stick. "I think I'll pass." I handed it back to him.

"What? Master- Liyah, you're blind!"

"I know, but I have the force now." I smiled. "I think I should learn to fully use it."

I could feel his hesitation as he took the cane back and placed it on the bed. "If you insist..." he sighed. "I was going to ask you something."

"You want to know if I'll take you back." I said blankly.

"I...yes." He hesitated then answered straightforwardly.

"As a Master, I don't think I'll be much use to you, compared to Shaak Ti." I said.

"That's nonsense!" He blurted, "I mean, you've gotten me this far. You saved my life today."

"But Shaak Ti-"

"That doesn't matter. I want MY Master."

His determination was moving. I really had missed having him by my side, the last 8 months of the outer rim sieges were taxing, and I felt like I had nothing to fight for. With Anatoli with me, I'd have a reason to keep going, to get stronger, to grow, to learn.

"Fine." I smiled. "We can start tomorrow." I said, looking into the direction I knew he was in.  "And how does my face look?"

"Ugly, but that pretty much never changed."

"Funny." I rolled my blank eyes. I stood up and he did aswell. "Are you taller than me?" I asked.

"I've been taller for a few months now," he said, "I had a growth spurt while on Kamino."

"Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I won't knock you down a peg." I joked.

"I've been practicing like you always asked me to." He said as we began walking to the cafeteria.

"Are you hungry?" I asked.

"I could use something to eat.. and how do you know where to go?"

"Years of wandering the halls." I shrugged.

"Run, take the younglings to the main hanger and run!"

I heard a voice echo. I turned around instinctively. "Master? Are you alright?"

"I thought I heard something..."

"It's probably just the youngling class down the hall."

"Probably.."

That night Anatoli guided me to my dormitory, I hadn't had the blind walking down as much as I thought I did.

I sat in my bed facing where Ahsokas old bed was. Maybe, just maybe she would reclaim it. For the first time in a while, I felt childish excitement. Similar when Master showed me and Ahsoka his arm and we forced him to give us strength tests. The war would be ending soon. The Galaxy would slowly but surely be on the route to truly being a Republic. The force, would be balanced aswell.