What if?: One Death

Relaxing

After Talzin has informed her new guest of what and what not to do, she had also told them that they had to be careful while amongst the Nightsisters, that most of the did not like the fact of more Jedi on Dathomir and that a single thing could possibly start a fight.

Viscus, Feral, and Savage had entered the room after being escorted in by a Nightsister.

"You asked for us, Talzin?" Viscus spoke after the Nightsister closed the door to the large room.

"Ah, Viscus, my sons, we will be hosting a few more Jedi here in the village for Maul and Kenobi's safety. However their presence on Dathomir has stirred the other Nightsisters. I am afraid I will require the presence of the Nightbrothers within the village to settle the Nightsisters nerves." Talzin explained quickly

"I will go and gather up my village, Talzin. Savage, Feral, you both may remain with your brother and Kenobi until I return." Viscus spoke and the two brother spoke in unison.

"Yes Viscus!"

After Viscus had left the room, a smile appeared on Feral's face as he approached Maul and Obi-wan.

"I'm glad both of you are alright, even though you can't see it, father was beginning to worry. We all could sense the huge dark presence. Father had started to think something bad had happened and was about to hurry over here until a Nightsister came for us." Feral began rambling off

"You could sense the dark presence?" Windu's curiously cut into Feral's words.

"Everyone in our village could sense it. We some had thought that it was Maul's temper." Savage spoke they would have laughed if it was joke, but Savage's voice was so monotonous and somber that it had reminded the Jedi of how much of a wild card Maul was.

"Come on, Savage, it was only you that thought that!" Feral chuckled Obi-wan had felt rapid shifts in Maul as Obi-wan leaned against Maul's shaking arm causing it to relax. To the Jedi the shifts felt like tremors in the Force. It had begun to give everyone, except Obi-wan and Talzin, a headache as their minds processed the a strong shift constantly beat down a weaker one that had fought back until Talzin's voice halted everything. Drawing absolutely everyone's attention.

"Come now, my sons, Kenobi, and Jedi. You all must be hungry. Please sit." As Talzin spoke she formed a large table with seats and she had waved her hand and a group of Nightsisters soon cake into the room with plates of food. Obi-wan could sense the childish excitement inside of Maul as he had watched Talzin form the table and seats out of thin air by using her magiks. Feral and Maul locked eyes as they had looked at the one seat next to Talzin. As the Jedi and Savage sat down, Obi-wan noticed the extra seat at the table. Clearing her throat as her oldest and youngest sons fought over the same seat Talzin gestured to the other seat next to her causing Feral to looked shocked. Obi-wan could guess why the other seat next to Talzin would put Feral in such a shock as Maul sat down in it. Obi-wan went to sit down in the seat next to Maul until Mother Talzin spoke up.

"Kenobi, I know this sounds odd, but would you please sit in the other seat?" Talzin lifted her hand to gesture at the empty seat that was right next to the seat he was going to sit in. Maul gave his mother a confused and nervous look as she formed cups with liquid for every seat except for the empty seat as Obi-wan had sat next to Qui-gon. Without another word spoken everyone began to eat in silence. If everyone was paying attention they could notice the nervousness of both Obi-wan and Maul as they say two seats apart. Their occasional glances to each other and at the empty seat left the each other waiting to see which of them would dare try and change their seat.

Their nervous fidgeting had stopped as they watched Viscus walk into the room. He didn't give a single surprised glance at how everyone was dinning. As he stopped besides Talzin's seat, she formed him a cup in her hand and held it out to him. He took the cup with one hand as he then glanced at Maul then back to Talzin. Both of their hands were still on the cup as Viscus placed his other hand on Talzin's shoulder and whispered something in her ear. She let an amused hum and chuckle in response to Viscus and he had took the cup and sat between Maul and Obi-wan.

Maul and Obi-wan kept glancing at each other, yet less often now that the seat was taken, to ensure the other as they were eating that they were still there at the table. Maul had often ignored the bond that they had made for Maul's comfort in the beginning since Maul was always there right by Obi-wan side. However, right now Obi-wan could sense a childish mischievousness thrum through their bond. It was like Maul had nudge or poked Obi-wan. Obi-wan has glance confused at Maul after the first time it had happened, then continued to eat. Ignoring the next few thrums through their bond, Obi-wan swore he could hear a childish laughter in his mind. As Obi-wan took another bite, he rolled his eyes and mimicked the thrum back to Maul. Maul and Obi-wan both had gained a silent smirk as they repeated the actions in their minds until Viscus had cleared his throat. Obi-wan and Maul quickly ceased their action and continued eating. Both of their eye scanned the others that were eating. No one seemed to of looked annoyed or like any of them could sense what they were doing. They noticed at how Viscus went to take a sip of his drink before continuing to eat. Maul had been the one who dared to pluck their bond again and quickly look around at everyone. If anyone else had sense it or knew what was going on both Maul and Obi-wan would bet that Feral or Savage would be the one to give it away. Seeing at how neither of them responded to it, Maul had done it again. Obi-wan could hear the laughter in his head again and Obi-wan guess that he would probably keep playing around if he could. But, Obi-wan had mentality told Maul that that was enough and that they should finish eating. Obi-wan rolled his eyes again as he could feel Maul's child persona mentally pout at Obi-wan and Obi-wan deemed that it would be best if he had temporarily ignored the child and continued to eat before the other personas in Maul's mind begun to get annoyed by the act as well. Obi-wan knew this was the only way for this persona to get his attention as the others were much more powerful. Obi-wan could bet that while they were eating one persona had complete control of Maul's body while the child had free reign to do what ever he pleased in this moment of relaxation. Obi-wan had happily welcomed the playful distraction after all that had happened earlier. This had made Obi-wan feel at peace again where he didn't need to worry about what Plagueis had done to him. Obi-wan doubted that the child could sense anything wrong with him right now. He wished he could let the cheerful act continue, but Obi-wan knew that after dinner Qui-gon would want to talk. Now was the time for Obi-wan to think about what to say now that he felt relaxed and balanced.