14 Somebodys Watching Me (1/2)

Valad who had chosen to save two Jedi from a fate which would lead to many other Jedi and Civilian deaths, had taken care of the rest of the Handmaidens Indoctrination within a night's work. Narec only arrived shortly after, yet everyone was rather clueless of what he was talking about.

He began asking anyone if they saw anything strange. He had sensed the force being used, yet shortly after it was used, the presence completely disappeared. Not even a trace which was strange, since even when using Force Cloak it was extensively hard to hide one's presence to this level.

However during this time, he didn't think of looking for familiar presences, he stopped reaching out when he couldn't find the perpetrator. Why couldn't he identify the person?

Meanwhile Valad would be Padmé's room, seated with his legs crossed as he was on her sofa. Watching her as she was resting on her bed. She was still rather bothered by the whole introduction to Plagueis. Why did he show her the person who was behind the scenes that would possibly be a threat to her people? Was it so she knew who not to trust? The problem is, she didn't know who was connected to this man and she needed to think, hard.

With the Faction Management tab open, he had various lists of information pertaining to troop loadouts, to political agendas, membership and the diverse statuses available. There was even a button for recruitment and starship commissions which he didn't really understand. However since the Naboo didn't have a military power and didn't seem to have any naval power other than their security forces, these options were greyed out.

Though after scrolling through the open tab, he found that there was a secondary recruitment option which allowed for direct recruitment of Royal Security Officers, Royal Pilots and even Handmaidens. There were also options for commissioning more Naboo Starfighters with varied color choices, the default being yellow.

He liked the idea, but he wanted to wait a little longer before he started testing these options. He didn't know if it was going to work like the vouchers and just spawn things in. That would be rather awkward for a random human officer to appear in the Queen's chambers.

That was when all of a sudden the communicator buzzed. ”Yes, what is it?”

”Your Highness, the young Asajj Ventress is here to see you and your Guardian.” The handmaiden guarding the door said with a respectful and dutiful tone.

The other handmaidens in the room glanced over towards Valad before looking to the Queen awaiting her command. ”Let her in.” Padmé's voice held a simple tone. While she was indeed relaxing, she was currently in her guise as the Queen of Naboo. There was no problem with letting the child into the room.

”Understood, Your Highness.” The handmaiden at the door nodded to Ventress and allowed the door to slide open.

Ventress walked in with a soft smile on her face as she looked around the Queen's chambers before narrowing her eyes on Padmé. ”Your Highness,” she gave her a light bow before looking to Valad in the corner of the room on the sofa.

”How can we help you, Little one?” Valad casually addressed Asajj with Narec's nickname for her.

She reacted with a light pouty face before composing herself. ”I was wondering if you could help me.” She said with a reserved almost monotone voice, though he could see her pleading under this facade.

”With what exactly?” Valad leaned forward as he folded his hands beneath his chin, his elbows resting on his knees.

Ventress paused for a moment before letting out a slow exhale, as if trying to keep herself composed. ”I want to become stronger, to be of use to my Master.”

He understood where she was coming from, her Loyalty and love for her master had turned her down the dark side of the Path when he had been taken from her. He gestured for the Padawan to come closer to him, and once she was within arm's reach, he grasped her arm and pulled her over onto his lap.

At first she was rather shocked by the sudden action, but relaxed relatively quickly. ”Is this suppose..” She voice literally died when a her sight rested upon a milky jade green cube in the man's hand. ”When… did that get there?”

Ventress recalled how he pulled three puddings out of his sleeves, as if it was some sort of magic trick. She didn't exactly understand how he did that either, and now he was pulling a Holocron out of his sleeve?

”What is this?”

Padmé was also surprised by Valad's actions, but even more surprised by the appearance of a milky jade colored cube with strange markings on it.

”A replica of the Tedryn Holocron, it possesses knowledge from various people dating as far back as the Great Hyperspace War. It was thought to have been lost a couple hundred years ago. It holds many secretive teachings of the Jedi,” Valad said with a small smirk forming over his lips as he heard the little humanoid in his lap gasp, mainly in surprise that he had something like this in his possession.

There would be no way in hell that Narec would be relaxed should he ever figure out he had one of these things in his possession. Especially since the contents were mainly things only Jedi could access.

”How does it work?” Ventress asked, watching as Valad's grasp moved to her wrist and he moved to press her fingers against the symbols on one of the faces of the cube. Suddenly it began to glow and green ghostly smoke would be released from the front.

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