Now he took a deep breath, in doing so rising himself once more above the simple statis of warrior, allowing his stature to be as it should, letting his pressence reflect the strength of the dark lord of warriors.

He then took Lord Aelvedaars wrist, holding tightly about the marking of the dark lord of sorcerer's, which the sorcerer returned upon his own wrist, as was traditional clasp between dark lords, as there arms locked in that manor, Recinis smiled and diped his head slightly before the clasp was released.

Turning he cast his gaze stickingly upon Shayla and Erik, letting matters fall through his mind, sifting through possibilities.

"You are once more among the ranks of sith... I welcome you again... Hopefuly you will find your stay upon Kori'sian less numbing, as we found the stay beneath the shield had become... Be warned though, it is a simplier life you will go to, in comparison to the one you found within these walls...

His form shifted, his arms wrapping about the waist of his lady, nodding but once to her, to which she returned the nod, she smiled briefly as she opened the portal which would return them home, and then they both stepped back, allowing Shayla and Erik to be first to step through, before they too dissapeared into the ethereal depths which floated before them...

Soon they were within the walls of the temple upon the other planet, Recinis cast his gaze out a window, before he turned and smiled at the sight before him, Shayla and her husband were sitting comfortably upon a couch, and jharmeen was conversing with them both, catching up on things which had happened...

He frowned for but a moment as he stepped forth the interupt there conversation. "Take now some time to rest, and be revitalized, take a bit longer to renew your friendships completly, and send away the time which has passed in eachothers absence... But soon we must put our minds to a more productive use... Whether Lord Aelvedaar will join us later in time, or not, we must make plans... we must find something to do, which will further our quest..."

he then sat down beside his lady, and placed an arm about her, giving her a breif kiss upon the cheek. "Soon Jharmeen... Our son will return, ready as a warrior... Are do you believe he will be ready then to take upon him the knowledge that you may teach him? For my lessons have gone as far as they will, and his destiny will indeed require more then a sword..."

He smiled and gave her another little kiss before continuing "Enjoy your free time with your sister... I go now to find the... Other member to this party.."

He smiled once more before standing and walking off into the hallway's... Hoping that Jasyn would be able to put something on the table when that moment came...

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Shayla wondered where she should begin. They had already discussed lighter matters; Graysith had already confirmed she knew of both Shayla's marriage to Erik and her pregnancy. And now, via Terrin Danner, Shayla knew what lay on the road ahead of them...

...but yet was there something else as well?

Shayla raised a finger to her lip, chewing the nail a bit as the answer to that question became crystal clear. After she had left Prinn'chatka she had encountered not one, but two other beings, both seemingly...interested in Sith affairs. The first of those two, Master Tyberius, Graysith was already aware of. But Lord Alcron...

Shayla turned to Graysith, and as briefly as possible related her two encounters with these beings. She made sure to highlight Tyberius's revelation that he was seeking Galen Jhin'Dar Danner, as well as Alcron's mention of his "ultimate design" for the Universe, including the rise of his own Empire, and his insistence that the design required the return of the Sith as well. She also noted Alcron's claim that he had been able to ascertain everything that she knew, a claim that she didn't truly believe because by all that had just occurred in Prinn'chatka at that time, one would most likely conclude that the Sith were in jepordy of returning at all.

Something that, with the return of all the allies, could indeed happen yet...

With the relation of this news Shayla fell silent, waiting to see what, if anything, Graysith might have to say in response.

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You always pay for drinking too much, you idiot.

Jasyn figured he'd deal with that particular issue later. For the moment, however, he wanted to know to whom the bootsteps belonged; the last time he was aware of anything, he was here alone...

Forcing himself upright, causing the room to spin and blur as he did so, Jasyn moved forward, albeit rather slowly. He made it into the hallways in time to see the back of Lord Recinis. Jasyn opened his mouth, realizing how dry it was, and pushed words out. "Is Captain Danner about here somewhere?" he queried. "Seems to be about time we should start talking about what we should do to get Darra back safely to Galen," Jasyn pointed out, leaning against the doorframe to keep from swaying.

He waited, and swallowed to get some sort of moisture going in his mouth. Something to drink would be nice...

...and for once, that something wouldn't be Sith brandy.

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Recinis then spun and headed once more to the hallways, stoping only momentarily to cast his gaze out a window upon the vast jungle without...

He took in a deep breath before turning again and coming into the little room where he had previously left the others, having found Erik on the way to his destination.

He nodded as erik took a seat beside shayla before he began to speak. "We must now put our efforts towards the future... We have had time to pursue random personal matters in the reacent past, But now such pursuits must be put away, for a time of better circumstance..."

He took a deep breath, looking at them as if to assure himself he held the attention of all present, though that number was not great in size.
"In order to bring forth the sith once more, as has been the quest of graysith for sometime, we will require darra's return to galen... How can we accomplish this?"

Having disclosed the albiet obvious agenda, recinis took a seat beside jharmeen...

"Now... Roan has Darra... And if his plans are to be recognized, it would be obvious for him to advance her age to a more stable level, as was his actions towards his own daughter... But, darra, unlike ShaRhylla, holds no loyalty with roan... So rather then going to kamino to stop him, for he has already held ample time to do so, we need to see how he might convert her to serve him... Perhaps she will be taken to the eternal flame of Korriban, roan would not know of the shield placed about that area, and so he might strive to use its effects, of rising the darkness in even the lightest of beings, to accustome darra to evil, and therin make her his own...

These are my own thoughts... But if any others may be presented, they truly would be appriciated."

Recinis unconciously tapped into the slight link he shared with aelvedaar, so he might know there plans and idea's even though he was not present.

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She trailed, her eyes defocusing, then considered what they had done so that Freedon Naad could have a body. "Could he clone her, advance the age, and have other genetic modifications done to make her more docile, thus easier to control?" Shayla queried, then fell silent for a moment. "I suppose the concern, however, is not what he plans to do, but how we plan to stop him from doing it, period. We've done this once already with ShaRhylla, and could do again in much the same manner. I still think his most likely destination is Kamino," Shayla ended.

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"I lost my daughter to this creature's insidious evil," she stated in a quiet but penetrating voice. "I shall not lose my niece in the same manner.

"I shall hunt him down and destroy him myself before that happens."

Then she fell silent, her mouth working voicelessly, leaning her head against her husband even while her eyes grew vague and dark and unyielding.

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Rest? Who the hell needed rest when there was Sith brandy? Besides, there was no time for that.

And where was Terrin?

The scowl on his face only deepening further, Jasyn marched out towards the voices he was hearing, heedless to the fact that his brain seemed to be swimming in brandy, jostling around back and forth in his skull and impacting it every so often.

Owwww...

But that wouldn't stop him. Something was going down, and Jasyn wanted to know what. And he could hold his liquor...

As he stepped into the room where everyone was seated discussing things, he heard Graysith's last words. Strolling over to the Dining Hall table, he first grabbed a goblet of something he sure as hell hoped was pale-water and then turned and proceeded to join the others, ignoring the buzz in his ears for a moment, not entirely certain if the words he was about to speak were loud or not.

Sure as kriffing hell sounded loud to him...

“Why don’t you just follow Darra’s Force-essence, All-essence...whatever...and find her that way?” he queried then fell silent, leaning against the wall and taking a sip of his drink.

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He paused, hesitating. "It's not that easy for a Force-user. With the Force you have to have some prior knowledge of the person you are tracking, which we do, but you also have to have a general idea of where that person might be. Also, the stronger the relationship is between the person being tracked and the "tracker"...say for instance mother and daughter...the easier it is to find someone that way. I'll admit, I don't know specifically how this may be different for an All-user," he commented, looking over to Shayla then to Graysith. "I know it's possible for someone to be blocked from the All via a chronotic shield, which will probably be the case with JhinDarra. I don't think Roan would miss such an important detail as that...

...but I could be wrong, I suppose. It couldn't hurt to try it, at the very least..."

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When she straightened, her demeanor was anything but.

"It is not as simple as that, Mr. Kartan," she began somewhat sternly, the Glyph on her forehead flashing in affirmation of her words. "The All is not a magick solution to the woes of the universe, able to miraculously defeat any enemy, or resolve any discord."

She pursed her lips in thought, then continued.

"It is true that the Living Force is merely a part of the All, but what seems to have been forgotten... or perhaps is not understood; indeed how can you understand this? -- is that it is indeed a part of the All, but a full portion unto itself in being that.

"The All merely encompasses forces other than just the Living Force, and it is by the Living Force that links between loved ones are created and minds and souls reach out to others. I have no link established with my niece... nor, surprisingly enough, do I with Ankrist Roan, even though I--"

Abruptly, she cut herself off at those words, her slender fingers digging into Lord Recinis's shoulders as the remainder of that statement continued clearly across their own shared link. Her violet eyes closed as a sudden stab of pain coursed through her, but when they opened it was to present the group with their usual wide-eyed calmness. She remained silent, and in her silence quite clearly got across to the others that another method must be used if her niece was to ever be found and reconciled to them at all.

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But if it works, use it. And this should most DEFINITELY work...

She directed a pair of shining greeny-blue eyes to each party present, then stated her idea simply. "The Eternal Flame."

She left the statement at that for a moment, then added, "We found ShaRhylla in this manner; we could do the same to find JhinDarra."

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Jharu shuddered suddenly, falling to his knees... his lounges expanded suddenly as he found it encrediably difficult to find air... something within him wished to help him... It was as if it took hold of the magicks and forced them to take hold of him, forced them to deny his sith heritage, and grant him his desire, to go to the aid of his aunt... his last thought before he felt that strange force die out within him was a message... to the one person he loved more then life itself... "Mother... Aunt Galen is in trouble... Im going..."

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If this was pale water, it was the worst damn pale-water he had tasted in his life...

He looked back up with a jerk, realizing something that he still didn't know anything about. "Speaking of finding Darra..." he started. "Has Terrin gone to look for Galen or something? Cause I know they'd both wanna be here discussing this as well..."

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"Jharu, NO!" she suddenly burst out, reacting to a vision only she could see... but one which her husband could clearly feel.

"You have not the ability yet to face this!"

With that she turned away from Recinis in one quick and despairing movement, one hand reaching out as if to somehow grasp her son and wrench him physically back into her arms, while the other in an almost identical motion reached forward as well...

...only it was to rip a portal opening to the Dark Realms, that hopeless place of death and demon and undying and indestructable evil.

She didn't give her husband a chance to respond; he scarcely had the time to note something awful was in progress. That hand which opened the portal then swung off to the side... and clenched as from seeming nowhere her blade Rora'Kessh came flying from its hiding place into her hand, melding there as though uniting permanently with her palm.

Sword in hand, Tooth of S'slan at her waist, armed with the Claw she sprang forward with a great valkyrie cry, to go to the aid of her son.

((OOC: Follow Graysith into The Darker Side of Midnight in the "Jedi Praxeum/Sith Temple" forums, thank you.))

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He then turned to jasyn. "Mr. Danner is with my son, Graysith has just gone to check up on them..."

He finaly sat down again, turnign his gaze upon them all. "Any more idea's? let us get everything upon the table, before we begin eliminating, or judging..."

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Graysith stood for the longest time in one spot, reaching out with her talents, seeing after the safety of her son from a distance. Not that she would step in from afar; no. Rather, she kept a watchful eye on his progress just in case she needed to give chase herself, should events balloon beyond his capability to deal with them.

But she had little to worry about. She smiled to herself, seeing her son's resourcefulness as he dealt with the problem presented to him and thus successfully completed his Quest.

Nodding in satisfaction, she waited until he had taken Galen and Captain Danner into the little Sith fighter and had taken off for Koris'ian. Then she raised a graceful hand, opened a portal through the All, and proceeded to return home herself. The Gateway closed behind her with a silent little "snick," and the silence of the ages descended once again upon the Temple of S'slan, a silence disturbed only by the sith shadows ever sobbing in the dark recesses, sorry to see their momentary visitors elude them.

Stepping forth from the portal, she nodded quietly, then returned to seat herself at the side of her Lord and love. A slim hand laid lightly upon his knee, and she smiled.

"They are en route, Recinis," she said softly. "He has succeeded as we knew he would. He is returning even as I speak with my sister and--" She paused just the slightest, her brow creasing in a little frown.

"--her husband," she finally finished, then falling silent with a nod of apology for the interruption.

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Sure as hell was no pale-water. Wasn't even alcohol. Who knew what it was, in a Sith city such as this...

He scowled at his only partially empty goblet, then looked up as Graysith spoke, sensing the barest of hesitations in her voice.

His scowl shifted to a look of concern. "Is everyone allright? Galen was found safely?"

At that he fell silent, his brooding brown eyes meeting the violet gaze of Graysith as he waited.

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Jharu smiled to himself as his home came into view... Quickly he put the ship into course, and had it zooming towards the little city in which his parants resided...
Soon he had brought the craft to a soft touch down beside the larger sith warship...

opening the hatch he looked to galen, leaning down he assisted her in standing, and slowly walked out, looking to terrin for a moment as if unsure what the man would do...

Soon they had exited the ship and begun the journy to the temple... As they turned a corner he smiled seeing the faces of his parants, close behind were a few others...

as his mother approuched he looked to galen "she was hurt mother...Can...Can you help her?"

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Perhaps he is lingering at the ship for some reason, or is dragging his steps because of his action toward me in the Temple, she thought to herself as she forced the frown from her visage.

"You can ascertain the answer to your question yourself, Mr. Lancaster," she said smoothly as she now approached Jharu and Galen and, after a slight hesitation, placed a gentle and supportive arm about her shoulders.

"Yes son, I believe I can mend her," she smiled, then winced in sympathy at the obvious pain her touch caused Galen, even though her touch was as light as she could make it. Grimacing a little, she extricated Galen from her son's hold and led her to the couch on which she had been sitting, smiling to see Recinis vacating his portion of it as she came up with the injured woman and made her lie down.

Then she drew back, cocking her head in consideration, letting her violet gaze sweep over Galen's form even as the soft glow of her Glyph bathed it in a radiance equally as gentle. On the couch, Galen moaned a little, then fell still, her brown eyes darting past the form of Graysith as if searching for something, and then turning back to meet her eyes with her own.

Graysith remained silent and merely gazed calmly into Galen's face. For a long moment nothing was spoken, then Galen nodded once, rather curtly, and turned her head to the back of the couch. A wry sort of smile came over Graysith then as, now given the go-ahead she reached out with what her Sire had taught her, letting a tendril of the All seep insidiously into her sister's body where it melded with her very cells and shot, electric-swift, through her body, poking and prodding, searching, seeking... and finally finding.

And where it found it reached forth in its enigmatic splendor, grasping building blocks stored within Galen's own body, altering their forms, plastering them where bone was shattered and tendon ripped. In such a manner it knitted the broken bones of Galen's shoulder and arm and rib; then it backed quietly out of her body, almost as an afterthought.

On the couch Galen jerked her head back to her sister, almost in surprise, and sat up. She flexed her arm and made a fist, loosened it, took a deep breath. Everything appeared to be in its original working order; she nodded shortly, but remained quiet, her eyes growing somehow distant.

Graysith nodded in turn, and turned back to Jasyn.

"As you can see, Mr. Lancaster, Galen is safe... and now, quite sound. I do not know if I can say the same for Captain Danner; Jharu!"

Now she turned to her son, who looked into her eyes in an obedient manner.

"Where is Captain Danner, son?" she asked gently. "I do not see him here; did he not depart the ship with you upon your arrival?"

Yet even as she voiced the question, she sought out actively... and soon found his essence. She couldn't help but frown again, turning her gaze into her husband's wonderfully supportive one, and through their eternal link sharing with him her rising concern and trepidation concerning Galen's husband, letting him clearly see how the man had raised a blaster into her own face back on K'eel Doba, even though he did not shoot.

"We seem to have lost his trust, my love," she communicated with him along that Link, that none other could listen in and worry.

Aloud she merely said, "Indeed, there is much we have to discuss."

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...absolutely everyone.

But there was just one problem with that: people were everywhere. Try as he might to avoid them, at some point he'd just have to deal with them. Sighing at that, he finally departed the ship, still taking his time, his eyes occasionally darting everywhere with suspicion. Yet, for the most part, the look he maintained was completely inscrutable.

At length he finally did make it into the Temple and then near the Dining Hall where the others were. Everyone seemed to be waiting about...expectantly; Terrin didn't much pay them any mind. Instead he eyeballed the bar full of food somewhere nearby, ambled over, and started to nourish himself. But he did this with the most peculiar care; he picked up several things and examined them with a very careful eye, then actually put most things back without eating a bite.

After all, it was Sith food. Heavens knew the Sith had somehow gotten him to trust them once before; maybe it was something about the meal they had been dining on at the time...

Terrin finally settled on a fruit of some sort to eat; after all, if it was natural, there might be less of a chance of it being muddled with. With strange care he began to eat, taking small bites and eyeing the fruit after each as if to ascertain if anything was in it. He didn't note Jasyn, who had stepped in near a distant-looking Galen and patted her on the knee reassuringly, and he'd probably only taken a few bites when the man approached him and shook him by the arm. Terrin looked up momentarily to meet Jasyn's brooding brown eyes; they radiated nothing but concern and confusion.

Jasyn started to say something, but before he could get so much as a word out Terrin jerked away. "Don't touch me!" he seethed, then returned to his attentions to the fruit in his hand, once again eating with the greatest care. All the while Jasyn turned and cocked a puzzled brow at the others in the room as if to say, What the hell is the matter with him?

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"Alas, I fear that something dire indeed has befallen the Captain, love," she whispered to him along their shared Link. "His actions certainly do not bear out his former declarations to us, even though his trust of us was won hard. But now... it is as if someone has meddled with his mind, and the only power I know of which has the strength to do this is the All."

She paused a moment, still not saying anything aloud, for she knew her next words would only serve to bring on despair to those who were now with them. In fact, it was all she could do to keep that same emotion at bay, when she realized just who it was indeed who had probably been the culprit in regards to Captain Danner. Her eyes squeezed shut in pain, and remained closed.

"I feel ShaRhylla has affected the good Captain much in the same manner I once did to my own Adept," she cried out in silent anguish. "Our allies will be expecting me to heal him as easily as I healed my sister; my Lord, they do not realize that I have not this power. I am not a goddess. The physicality of matter is one thing, quite easily manipulated. But this--"

She paused once more, drawing in a figurative breath before continuing on in privately, her thoughts flowing directly into her husband's heart.

"This is something I cannot revoke. I did not implant this within him; how do I know what to reinstate? I could wipe his mind clean, or at least take his emotions from him, but that is something I feel he would not wish.

"Oh my love, I stand in failure before even having been asked to accomplish this. Only the one who altered him may return him to normal.

"What am I to do?"

During the entirety of her plea to Recinis, the Lady Q'utaro stood silent, the epitome of calmness, that none other would sense her distress and begin to feel they were losing a battle ere it had even begun. She merely cast her gaze about the room, watching the others for their reactions, if they would indeed show any.

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Allright, this was just WRONG. Why weren't either of them asking about finding Darra, since they were now both here? For that matter, why weren't either of them paying attention to anyone in the room?

What had happened to Jharu and the group that had triggered Graysith to depart as she had moments before? Did these strange reactions have something to do with that?

Shayla didn't say a word. She simply remained calm, however she knew that her questions had been clearly heard and understood.

If they were going to go find Darra, they certainly couldn't do it with Terrin...not if he was acting this way.

And they couldn't do it with Galen acting so passively either...

Though remaining mostly calm, Shayla's look darkened ever the slightest...

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--and just couldn't take the looks anymore. Without a word--in fact, without really seeing a soul in the room but only feeling their eyes--he shot off and out of the Temple altogether and back towards the Sith fighter they'd come in. He entered, for the hatch had been left open, and slammed the door in the manner he'd seen Jharu do so.

Then he sat at the controls, eyeing them, pondering.

He'd seen people pilot this thing before. Maybe if he could figure out how to run this baby he could get the hell off this planet before someone did something to him...

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"Jharu," she said softly but with meaning, nodding her head toward the door through which Captain Danner had disappeared.

Then she turned back to the others, finally speaking aloud.

"I believe we were debating as to how best determine where Roan has fled with my niece," she said into the somehow frozen silence. "Perhaps the Book of the Sith still in the possession of my Sire would provide us with this information? For although Roan may have been stripped of his magicks by his own hand, he is still Sith. The Book should reveal his presence, should it not?

"How think you, my love?"

With that she turned back to Recinis, hoping her suggestion had some merit. For during her brief time in the Dark Realm, she had become aware of another something she did not wish to reveal to the others at this time, and that being the presence of the Valley of the Lords, and more importantly, the Eternal Flame of the Sith. And she really did not wish to re-enter that dark and dismal place again, not if there was another option available to them.

Not even for the sake of her niece.

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He followed terrin right into the sith ship, speaking sternly.

"Terrin! come back! what are you doing?"

His eyes narrowed as the man seemed to be trying to figure out how to start the ship up...

he walked over slowly, putting a hand on the mans shoulder. "come on terrin... Its ok, just come back with me, whats wrong?"

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His eyes opened slowly and he cast his gaze upon her once more...

his loungs drew forth a slow breath, before finaly he cast his gaze to the window.

"Is it at all possible lord aelvedaar would know where roan is?"

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