Blurred Sides (COMPLETE)

7.9.3

Shaak Ti, once she snapped out of her shocked trance, herded the children out of the training room down to the Halls of Healing. She helped the Jedi who were manning the ward settle the Younglings, then sat on a bench next to the wall, not moving, not speaking. She held herself as if she was chilled, but it was not the cool temperature of the ward that gave her goosebumps. The cold was coming from inside her.

She had felt it since she had watched the children freeze and fall to the floor. It spread from her head, all the way to the tips of her montrals to the tips of her toes. Her hands were shaking, even as she clenched her arms and held them close to her body. As the Younglings were attended to, she seemed to retreat into her mind, and slowly she lost the ability to string together a coherent sentence in her head.

One of the Jedi on duty, Sko Denver, had finished taking the pulses and the oxygen levels of the last of the Younglings when he noticed Shaak Ti sitting in the corner. He nearly fell over when he saw how pale she had become. His expert eye saw Shaak shaking immediately, and he went over to talk to her.

"Master Ti, Master, would you look up at me for a second?"

Shaak looked up at him but did not say anything. Sko stared into her eyes, looking for tell-tale signs that something was wrong.

"Master, can you tell me what happened? The Younglings do not seem to be injured or hurt in any way. Master?"

She looked around as if searching for the words to say. She saw Petro, lying on one of the beds, talking to another Jedi, and she pointed at him. "Vision." She said. "Vision."

"A vision? Did he have a vision?"

"All."

"All of them?" Sko looked concerned, but he no longer was as worried for the Younglings as he was for her. He hadn't talked with Master Ti often, but he knew that she was capable of saying sentences that contained more than one word.

"Memory." She suddenly seemed very agitated and scared. "Memory. Memory!!!" She grabbed Sko's shoulders and shook them as if she was trying to tell him something important.

Sko took note of what she said, but he needed to take care of her first. "Come, Master, you need to lie down." He led her to another bed, all the while, Shaak was repeating the word 'memory', mixed with a look of sorrow, and fear.

He laid her down and instructed that her vitals be taken. He then turned to the Younglings. Vision, all, and memory. That's all he had to go on from Shaak.

"Do you remember exactly what you were doing before you fell unconscious?" He asked them collectively.

They turned to each other, and Zatt spoke up first. "We were...meditating, with Master Ti."

"And do you remember what you saw, in your vision?"

Zatt lifted a finger, opening his mouth to speak, but no sound came out. He lowered it, then whispered a soft and broken "No."

Sko took a sharp breath. Whatever Shaak Ti was trying to say was right. "None of you remember it?"

"We should," Katooni said. "We've been talking about it all week," she looked to her friends. "Haven't we?"

"We were," said Byph, "but every time I try to think about it, all I can remember is..."

"Dark," Gungi growled, filling in the blank. "But that's never happened before."

Ganodi fidgeted with his hands. "It was important. We had figured out something important."

"If it was important," questioned Sko, "then why did you forget it so much?"