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Moonlight

    Bright golden sunlight beamed down upon a bustling world, their streams glimmered through the violet leaves of the maple trees nestled in the garden of the Jedi temple, as a young Padawan gazed upward at the sky. The twin moons of Coruscant were very distinct in their mannerisms. Aku no was the nearer and more visible of the two moons with a subtle burgundy glow emanating from its surface. It orbited the planet in a quick counter clockwise fashion being completely visible for every rotation. In stark contrast Yoi was much more distant, being only visible at night emitting a soft white light, and rotating the planet counter clockwise. As the Padawan pondered these strange divergent satellites orbiting the same world, she noticed a strong odor wafting over from what was supposed to be the ninth meditation site near the temple, but overtime had become the informal picnic area. She walked over towards the nearby fire and found her friend Barris roasting Meiloorun fruit over the flames, slowly levitating and rotating it with the power of the force.

    The Padawan didn't even notice Asoka approaching, with her brow furrowed in concentration on the task at hand. Asoka quickly snuck behind her, crept down, and abruptly clutched Barris's shoulders saying,"Hi Barris!"

    Barris shot up from her chair turning around quickly to meet Asoka's eyes tearing up in laughter. In a furry the Padawan said,"Asoka don't sneak up on me like that! Look, you made me drop the fruit." The Meiloorun had fallen into the charcoal, and now inedible Barris levitated it upwards and set it into a large pile of singed fruit set next to her chair.

    Still laughing, Asoka sat down at the seat beside her. Recognizing that her friend was still upset, she stretched out her hand and used the force to lift another fruit out of the orange bag seated beside herself, and now rotated it slowly over the flames as Barris had done. After several moments Barris had regained her normal level headed persona and with a swift hand motion brought another fruit to levitate over the flames beside Ashoka's. "How's training the younglings going,"Barris asked calmly.

    Asoka grinned at the other Padawans effort to defuse the tension,"Fine," she responded.

    "Oh come on it can't be that bad."

    "No, it wasn't bad at all, um quite the reverse actually, but you've probably already heard about what happened."

    "What do you mean, I haven't heard anything?"

    "Seriously", said Asoka somewhat doubtfully.

    "Seriously."

    A grin met Asoka's eyes, there were very few people she knew who weren't already sick of hearing this story, and with that she began. "Ok, I won't bore you with the details but in a nutshell, on the way back from making the younglings lightsabers we faced an army of pirates, a droid battalion, count Dooku, and General Grievous."

    Asoka paused for a moment waiting for some sort of reaction, but Barris's face remained calm until she simply responded, "Interesting."

    "Interesting!? I tell you that we face general Grievous and all I get is an, interesting?"

    Barris giggled, it was too easy to tease Asoka. "Tell me the rest."

    Somewhat annoyed Asoka situated herself comfortably in her chair and took a deep breath. When Ashoka begun telling her story the beaming orange sun was high in the sky, but as she got into every detail of her journey the light slowly sank until only two things illuminated her, the now shimmering coals of the fire, and the faint glow of Yoi causing Ahsoka's montrals to glisten in the moonlight. Barris secretly thought to herself how beautiful Ahsoka was, her eyes alive with the tales of her adventures, and her lips curling into a smile with every new detail that she could think of. Although Barris quickly dismissed these thoughts they would remain.