Sometimes Family Is Important

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna couldn't believe it when she had been accepted. She didn't know what to say while standing there and straightening her hair into the ponytails before she finished. Her kama around her hips hugging the blue with her golden saber on her hip. THe jedi had been her home and her family had a reputation but this woman... this family it was two dynasties meeting and she could not believe it. The distilled teachings from some of the greatest masters within the order teaching someone who had the holocron from her family showing their secrets. Lorna was lucky though while she was running to meet her master in the training room of the temple while she grabbed her green cloak from Corellia. "Sorry I am late master."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade looked at her chronometer, She's late. Jade didn't really care that she was late though, as long as it wasn't going to be too late. Just as she was thinking that, her would be student finally rocked up, and promptly apologised for her being late. Jade cranked her head to the side so her hair could flick around, her usual gesture she had often reserved for men to show off her good looks, as she responded to her new padawan in a very high pitched posh accent.

"Your lateness is excused Lorna. I'm not so great myself many a time with punctuality."

Jade giggled a little as she spoke.

"One thing you'll find about me Lorna is that I'm really easy going. I like to laugh, joke, use sarcasm, but of course at the same time be serious, because after all Jedi training is serious business and if either of us screws it up, then we could all turn ourselves into little Sith dogs."

Jade continued saying half smiling trying to be serious but then laughing.

"But don't worry, that's not gonna happen on my watch."

Jade added as her facial expressions changed from one of laughter to all seriousness.

"Now my young padawan, what exactly would you like to start with today? Well I mean what preferences do you have? I've got a set criteria to run through so of course I'll still be running the show as you would expect by me being your Master, however what are your current strong and weak points? For example are you good with a sabre but say weak with mind control? Or vice versa. Just tell me what you think so I can start putting a schedule together. This will change of course as we begin training, but at the moment I'm just trying to gather an insight on your current abilities."

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Her strengths and weaknesses? Oh that was a tricky one as she stood there and had been listening about it. SHe liked jokes or at least something to break the tension and lighten the mood. It helped in stressful situations over everything being something to tiptoe through broken glass. Lorna moved her fingers reflexively while she was thinking about some of the things she had been taught. Mostly how not to screw up looking incompetent with most of the skills in the force... Yeah Aika had taught her how to fail hard with grace and style over just standing there an saying 'I don't know how to do that' or 'I can't use the force like that.' Made it all the more special before she rolled her shoulders and offered a nervous smile. "Well so far from training I have learned I am not that skilled with the force. I can use tutaminis like my parents and family but trying to lift rocks or people is beyond me... I can catch a saber though and the jedi researchers developed a glove I can use that can channel that energy into a crystal."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

"I see. I believe in your case we should probably start from the beginning. Well not quite the beginning as the beginning would be learning basic meditation which I assume you would know, otherwise you wouldn't have made it even this far."

This was Jade's initial response in regards to Lorna's response. Jade paced up and down the room with her hands behind her back as she spoke.

"Okay how about we start by trying to move some objects with the Force?"

Jade would pick up some containers that were in the room, and place them gently before her padawan.

"Sit with me in a meditative state. It will be easier to do this that way initially as you learn. What I want you to do is concentrate in the Force around me with the Force around you. I will then proceed to move these containers in the air and at random spots in this room. By joining with me, you will feel exactly how I'm doing it. Once done, I'll get you to take over. This will hopefully get you to understand how to move objects so you can then proceed to do it on your own and unassisted."

The two then sat down facing one another in meditative positions as Jade initialised her training exercise with her padawan.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Just the thought o moving objects made her leary, Aika had tried and tried but she hadn't been able to do it... Still nothing against trying and failing. It only means you learned another way not to do it right? Right? She was so boned and was guessing impressing her master with her skills would have to wait while Lorna blew out a breath before she pulled out the golden glove with the tips as she put it on with a small look. "Alright come on gods don't let me frak up." She said it under her breath raising her hand to her hair to keep the bangs out of her face with more attention going to her master as she sat down across from her. "Alright." She took in a sharp breath of air to fill her lungs and slowly keep the energies of the force within her body. "I am ready to begin."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

"Okay padawan, good, you are also relaxed. Now come concentrate on the Force, feel it flow around you. Breathe and concentrate on the Force. As you do that, you should feel all the living things that surround you including me. Once you have found me, push the Force that surrounds you into the Force surrounding me. Once you have done that, join with me. I will wait for you to do that padawan, and once you have achieved that, I will move the container in the air and you will feel exactly how I'm doing it through your bond to me."

Jade initiated and would then patiently wait for her padawan to do the same. Jade felt confident that her padawan could join with her. She felt that this technique, this method of learning would be key in teaching her padawan. Yes her padawan had failed to move objects with the Force on all previous attempts, but if she joined with her, she could feel it happening through her master and hopefully be able to replicate it on her own at a later stage. This was Jade's primary method of teaching.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

She sat there listening to her master breathing in and out with the force energies dancing around tingling her skin as she focused on her master. She Was trying to link and focus in on her master to meld almost it felt was the intent and work before she was reaching out with her senses trying to link and form. It wasn't working and her serene expression became a little tight and frustrated for a moment before she ground her teeth a little wanting to keep at it on the one hand but also give up in frustration. She didn't fully understand it but she wasn't going to question the force, it was something to be respected and followed over just trying to control and bend it to her whim. She was repeating the mantra in her head while trying to get her master and herself to connect to feel the force energies with and between them. I think I can I think I can

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade could sense the frustration in her padawan as she struggled to meld her Force energies with hers.

"Let go of your frustrations. If you continue to do that, you will continue to fail. Instead let go of your feelings. Let go of everything. Just concentrate on the Force around you. As you do that, even forget about your end goal. Just concentrate on the Force and as you do, all living things around you including me will stand out. Once you have done that, extend your energies forward and meld with me. Let's just do that for now. Concentrate and let go. You can do it padawan, there is no try."

Jade had now altered the exercise a little. She simply wanted her padawan to meld with her. If this could be achieved, Jade would then proceed to lift the containers in the air, which should then hopefully allow her padawan to get a feel of exactly how Jade would be doing it as she would be joined to her.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna could feel and hear her master as she changed the mantra in her head letting out a breath in a line of slight frustration as her body relaxed again. She was letting it go, letting it go, letting it go..... if she started singing a song then she was going to go crazy before she sat there relaxed. Her mind drifting and reaching out towards her master as she could feel her in the force and the energies of her master slowly while she connected. It wasn't great, she was certain there were padawans with more skills then her in connecting with the force and it wouldn't be slow like some molasses in being able to use the force in other ways. Slowly she could feel her master and her force energies while her body vibrated with force energy. "I can feel it master."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

"Yes I can feel you too padawan, the meld is working".

Jade could now feel the Force from Lorna connect with hers. It's wasn't quite a strong connection as yet, but it was definitely working. Now she needed her padawan to maintain the connection in that it could be strengthened, so it could become like one.

"You are doing well Lorna."

Jade would speak yo her padawan via telepathy.

"Don't break the concentration. In a moment you will feel the flow of energy that is yours and mine combining. When you do let it flow freely by letting go. Once you do that, we will be melded as one. This you'll unmistakably know has happened when it does. Once it happens, we need to hold that state so you mustn't break your concentration."

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna could feel her master now and it was a very strange sensation while she almost shook in concentration at generating and bringing the force to bare. "I am trying, I didn't know it was this hard to feel the force." She liked it but it was making her chest heave while she felt the force and could work to keep it going. while she just wanted to try igniting her blade and grabbing it to keep the force energies stronger while you used tutaminis to convert the energy. She could feel her master more and pulled at the energy to pull it through herself while bringing her hand up and the golden metal glowed a little with blue sweeping across it to gleam and help feel the force around herself.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade could feel the meld about to happen. Her life force and that of her padawan's about to join. Her's stretching out like invisible water, her padawan's doing the same and coming straight towards her. The two Force created energies then touched, they merged into one another like two rivers meeting each other. To Jade the sensation was ecstatic. It felt like a bright light had suddenly surrounded them as the currents of two rivers merged and had become one.

"It is done, the meld, I feel you fully padawan, your mind to my mind, your thoughts to mine, can you feel me Lorna?"

Jade would now need to ensure that her padawan had made the connection in full before proceeding to the next step. She patiently waited.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna breathed in and out now as she felt it, faint but there and then a surge from her master. Diminished returns likely coming from her but she could still offer some force energy while she spoke. "Yes I can feel it master." She wasn't fully experienced with this, almost alien sensation from the force as it went along her skin and she had only really felt it after practicing tutaminis and using it to absorb a large amount of energy to charge herself up.... Not the best example but her holocron had explained where they lacked in several areas they more then made up for with natural absorbing powers.... Plus her cousin selena had managed. She had a lot to prove.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

"Very good padawan, very good. Now I'm going to lift that container, because you are melded with me, you should feel it lift and move as if you are doing it, even though I'm doing it."

Jade proceeded to lift the container slowly in the air, moved it around slowly, feeling her bonded energy with her padawan at the same time.

"Do you sense it Lorna? Can you feel the container as it moves? You should feel as if it is also a part of you, thus why I'm manipulating it and moving it."

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

She could feel it... well she could feel her master feeling it while she was sitting there and focused trying to get the force energies to expand out her senses. She was watching her master she she shot her eyes opened and gave a nod of her head. "I can feel it somewhat but it is so small." She knew the idea that size mattered not but there was a need for it to be there and able to grasp. Pull and prod at that strand you could use while she pulled at hat force energy was in the air and heat to try and make her own senses stronger before she finally could feel it and shifted to reach out to it with her breath coming out before she doubled her focus.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

"Okay Lorna, good so far, good. You've gotten a lot further than you ever have before so you're doing well."

Jade left the container hovering above them and between them.

"Now slowly try and move the container yourself higher, and then to the left or right, and then back to the centre again, before slowly lowering it back down to the floor. Don't worry too much as my Force connection will remain on the container so you can't drop it. Essentially just now when I lifted it, you felt exactly how I did it because you are currently joined to me. All you need to do is copy that experience or feeling on your own. Remember I'm still here assisting you, but I believe you can do it Lorna."

Jade now remained fully concentrated, feeling her padawan's energies in full. The connection was there. It wasn't mega strong, but it was there, and at this stage strong enough for her padawan to hopefully achieve her goal.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna was a little panicked at the thought of lifting it by herself while she looked towards her master and nodded that she was ready trying to feel the crate fully instead of just her master. She wanted to grasp it and raised both hands towards it without breaking eye contact with it while she slowly moved. to shift it and turn it just enough but unlike some of the others she had seen she was maintaining it to be controlled with more energy. "I can feel it." Her body was straining as her muscles twitched and wanted to shake throughout her entire body blowing out her frustration and tension with sweat beading on her forehead.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade could feel Lorna's body strain under the stress of it all. Yet she was slowly succeeding. She was now moving the container on her own. The tiring part was normal, especially the mental aspect of it.

"I know this is tiring you mentally Lorna. It is normal. The more you do it and practice it, the easier it will get and less tired you will get. Now slowly lower the container on your own. Gently place it on the ground. You can do it."

What Jade would do next is let go of her Force hold on the container that was assisting her padawan but not tell her. Lorna would hopefully succeed as she was doing so well. After she was done she would tell her that she had let go and that it was all her. That would hopefully increase her padawan's confidence, knowing that she had finally moved an object using telekinesis on her own.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

The container felt heavier as her master was talking and she was remaining there with all of the force energy while she wanted to answe4r her master but she was trying to keep the container moving and up without losing her connection or concentration. She was trying and slowly started reaching while she was moving to put it down on the floor while she was breathing in and out with her chest panting. She finally slowly set it down in heavy heaves while she crouched over feeling her stomach want to release everything she had eaten. "Oh that hurt, I don't know if I want to try that again soon."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

As Lorna completed the task with success, Jade broke the Force meld she had had on her padawan completely.

"Very good Lorna, very good. You actually ended up doing that on your own in the end. Now that you have seen me do it by being joined to me, you were then able to understand and do it alone. That's a big achievement in itself. I'm proud of your achievements today Lorna. Once again well done."

Jade could see that her padawan was extremely exhausted as a result of this exercise and in some pain.

"I know you hurt now. I could feel it while we had the bond through the Force. It's normal to feel pain from over working out. You pushed your body and mind well beyond its limits today. However you proved to yourself that you can do this. With practice it will get easier, you'll get better at it, and best of all it won't hurt anymore."

As Jade finished speaking, she got up and extended her arm and hand out to help Lorna up too.

"Tomorrow I'm going to get you to try this again on your own. You now know how to do it because you did do it today in the end on your own."

Jade would again let her padawan know of her success for further encouragement.

"Now what would you like to do next? We could train something a little different, or just relax and get a drink and chat, or just call it quits for a day. You decide Lorna? I'm easy."

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]