First Reply Trading in Danger

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She nodded to him and was going as the passage opened into a chasm with an abyss between while she walked and didn't look down. her senses expanding to cover it... she was pressing herself closer and searching with her fingers for smaller groves in the rock that would allow her to hold on. Her feet moving and going from toe to heel so she could find the best places and test the footing first before moving. Ikki remained there as she looked and brought her hands up to touch her wrists and she adjusted her glove. Slipping from her belt the fiber cord along with a weight on the end. She threw it with the force to guide it and lash around a rock while securing it like a guide they could reach and grab onto.

The rock face itself letting her move around and towards the end of it and find a place they would be able to move. She didn't need to look down but there was the chance an entrance was down there or a means to open it up and check. "Careful." She offered it with a look on her face but she moved a little more and was making space so they could look. "We could try climbing up a little to find better purchase." SHe wanted to check on it as well and give them a place to not rest but it was easier to catch your breath or orient yourself when you weren't possibly going to fall backwards into a massive abyss.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Careful. That was the word determined to be better than any other for the pair’s situation.
They exchanged it with one another, encouraging the other person to pay extra attention.
Jedi could jump, could glide, but not exactly fly, and rocks were loose amid the high wind.
Either of them could leap, soar with the Force, but a sudden landing could suddenly shift.

Snow and ice might break under their weight; the last thing they needed was an avalanche.
We need to find our quarry. They weren’t simply here for sightseeing or merely adventuring.
Other adventurers had already come to this section of the mountain, or around it, exploring.
Searching, climbing; the latter was what Ikki offered. Yondir nodded, offering his own hand.

Her slicesaber rivaled a lightsaber, while her cord was what they needed to get off the floor.
Scale the wall. Keep our backs to the wind. Such a gust was becoming a rather pressing current.
It might even amplify to become enough to sweep them off their feet if they were too urgent.
No, they had to be careful, steady, not hasty. “You go first.” Smaller, lighter. “Just like before.”

It of course was not fear that kept Yondir back but the fact that his partner’s weight was less.
She could find solid footing, check the position at the ridge up ahead, and call for him next.
Assuming the Master would not argue, the Knight would watch and wait, keeping lookout.
Both for his companion while she climbed, but also for the wind, which just gave a shout.

Roaring, as if daring the pair of climbers, adventurers, treasure hunters, to venture further.
They were not here to hunt for treasure, however, so much as discover their predecessors.
Those who may have already stumbled upon a prize, and may not know its very own price.
His gaze to the sky, a stone broke to strike Ikki, but Yondir quickly caught it, guiding it aside.

“I’ve got you.”
He spoke truth.
Master Ike moved.
Their Force did too.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She listened to him and the plan for her to go up first wasn't a bad one she was the lighter one and could use her cybernetic fingers to make a groove if she needed to in the rock to get better grip. She moved and moved her hands along the rock to find the first grips when she was lifting herself up and good thing you don't skip arm day or leg day. Her smaller body scaling as she wasn't worried about scraps or bruises from the rock. Her eyes going up while she moved her hands along the wall to lift and pull herself up. The movement was slower to be sure but she was able to really make it work before she found a small groove she could grip with her hands and follow hand over hand up.

The focus on the force to adhere her to the surface more and more but she was making the movement up. She could make a joke about his intentions but Yondir was anything but a letch from what she had seen so a joke like that might be more insulting before she lifted her arm up and gripped the edge holding herself. HEr other hand going while she adjusted herself... moving one foot to the wall and holding her in place so she could lift herself up and scuff the rock with the metal to show where her hand holds were. Something that he would be able to follow kind of since it was for her size. She came over the edge and pulled herself into a sitting position so she could secure herself between the rocks and help him up when he came.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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His companion was managing her ascent rather well given the terrain the pair of them were in.
The woman was delicate in her mannerisms, yet not so fragile as she braved both rock and wind.
Her handling and footing took her up further, with Yondir watching closer for any more debris.
That odd rock had fallen away from Ikki, and fortunately it had been a rarity as she kept climbing.

Finally, she made it to the top, mounted the rock and secured her position at the edge.
Then it was his turn. Yondir followed after his partner’s handprints and footsteps she'd left.
A rush of air howled around him, battering eardrums, but he held firm as his cloak billowed.
Rippling in the wind, but the man was a stone against the rock, one that moved—steady, slow.

The wall was not so tall. This was not the rock that required finer forms of climbing gear.
They may face that down the road; however, it still took effort to maneuver and to steer.
Yondir focused his gaze above, with Ikki watching him, until he too reached for the ledge.
His hand did not find snow or stone, yet instead another hand that his companion had lent.

They made it to the top. The higher they went, the greater the drop, but they would not fall.
The shortcut was fruitful, having bypassed the majority of walking across the narrow path.
To the right, Yondir eyed the winding route leading back down, with an icy crag for a wall.
To the left, the path widened upward, curved away from the rockface, wind at their back.

Their map provided only a general area of where to search.
If others had come this way, footprints were long lost in snow.
No matter, for the Jedi had the Force, their wits and each other.
“Let’s see where it leads.” Yondir said simply, adjusting his cloak.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She nodded to him, the path was a little wider which helped moving and giving them a better stance against wind. She looked at the other but followed the pathway as they could use it and coming around stopped for a moment. Digging in her pouch for a beacon. "Markers." She said it and set it down lamenting mentally to herself that she should have placed a few more but it would allow them to have a path even if their footprints were buried in the snow. The dark energy cell would keep it working longer then they would be alive. She secured it to the rock with an anchor while checking it on her interface. The small tap by her earring glowing softly.

"Alright." To following the pathway and she moved keeping her footing while eyes went out to scan the area. The force guiding her for footing even in the snow covering it. Sensing the path that is there but she allowed herself to reach out more and searching. THe snow swept area gave way to bleaker looking rocks but she paused at a wider area and looked tracing in the snow with her fingers at the distance. "There maybe." She pointed and made it so Yondir could see her tracing the air itself to try and show curves of the rocks. "IT might be it in the snow but the local stone likely blends in if there is a temple."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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The trailmarkers were not placed in vain. The pair had only come a little way so far upon arriving.
However, the further they ventured and the more terrain changed, it would be harder to remember.
They traveled onward, snowflakes gliding in a rain of droplets, but the snow did not fall in a blizzard.
No hail of ice despite the biting wind, with the mountain reminding them of the difficulty in surviving.

Yondir’s contact back at the tavern conversed with him over these mountains being perilous.
So far, they proved to be no less, yet the Jedi went on ahead. It didn’t matter how dangerous.
Whether they found treasure, its hunters or Master Ikki Ike’s prospects to in turn become adepts.
Yondir was determined to not return empty-handed. Time passed, as both Jedi continued to step.

Ahead, he followed his partner’s fingers as they traced shapes in the air, further with his gaze.
Ikki’s senses had not failed her; with or without the Force was a keen pair of eyes upon the rock.
Jagged and sculpted by tectonic formation, before it then blended with a smoother surface face.
The Jedi stepped closer, toward the stone. This time Yondir traced the snow, fingers moving along.

A door? A gate? He began pulling powder away with his hand, revealing a dark granite exterior.
He retracted his hand, curled fingers through air, ripping away the mound of snow in an instant.
Looming over them was a column built into the mountain, constructed by hand, an orb at its tip.
On further inspection, a frozen eye of stone, lidless, gazing out; no, staring down at trespassers.

“It’s positioned in a corner,” Yondir observed. “Which means…” He trailed off, surmising further.
Hand gripped the air again, pushing against an opposite section, blasting snow into the wind.
An identical structure, a mirror image. Two eyes keeping watch. Over what? Flanking the center?
“There.” His turn to point, to the middle of the path they walked, upon rock buried in snowdrift.

Like both columns. Maybe from a great blizzard.
Perhaps a cascade from further up the rockface.
The Force in his hands, eyeing Ikki in a gesture.
Heaps of snow would break and reveal a cave.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She was looking and it opened... a cave being there while she brought her hand up to shield and keep the snow from her eyes... she was able to see more when she was walking forward and the cave swallowed her as she went in. She was looking around and brought out a glow rod as the orange light appeared and covered the walls. Her eyes adjusting for a moment before she went in further to find a place with no snow... then she turned back towards Yondir for him to join. her interface scanning and pinging the wall with a small sonic mapper to give her an idea of the distances and the directions that they would be able to go.

She looked up and around checking out all of it... allowing herself to breathe in the cooler air as her eyes flicked across the interface to check out many of the different areas. She crouched with the glowrod and set another marker for them to be able to move around. She looked towards the winding paths and motioned following the one as it seemed to go the furthest back with the sonic mapping on her interface. She went in deeper and stopped entering a cavern as it went up and down. Pillars of carved stone there she could see and the sound of wind going through it. She kicked a rock and listened to the sound of clatter but it was still going.

"Alright, can't go down easily." She looked up and around checking out the pillars as they were natural yes but also... "Those are carved, likely if there is a temple they would have them... maybe at the base?" She said it to herself looking up and around. The glowrod adjusting to project further and she could see more out towards the farthest end. She looked up and the cavern still reached up but the pillars gave a good view for them to be able to check out more of it. "We could climb up or over." She said it with a small look on her face though as this was getting exciting now.. and they were out of the snow... for now.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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The snow blasted away, but not in the manner in which it might have first fallen from above.
Rather, by hands less natural, if more living; the Force that wrapped the powder around it.
Drove it into the distance in instants, pushed and pulled, in a wave away from their faces.
Moments later, after white mass blasted past, a cavernous maw stood as loud as a drum.

Perhaps it was coincidence, or the Cosmic Force protecting them against that mountain.
Whatever it was, the wind picked up, a snowstorm blowing forth, so as to be surrounded.
The timing, then, was perfect. The cave would shelter them. Master Ikki stepped forward.
Knight Yondir followed her, toward the darkness, the mouth, armed with light and sword.

Yet again, Ikki proved to be well-equipped with her instruments. So much for a simple maid.
Yondir thought, didn’t convey; she would not see on his countenance his being impressed.
The map the man had acquired showed cavernous schematics, but Ikki showed the way.
Her device did, namely, unhindered by the uncharted terrain his map had so far trekked.

The majority of these mountains were unexplored, which did help explain this hidden door.
Glowrod upward, Yondir utilized his own light, igniting his lighsaber, bathing the cave green.
An emerald gleam combined with Ikki’s. Yondir kept watch each time she set a marker forth.
She had her interface, both had their senses, and furthermore they had Force sense between.

Pillars of carved stone. Yondir curved the thought in his head as if it were an echo.
One could see sound, hear sight, for the power that was their guide ever flowed.
Wrapped around them both, like arms, guiding them along—into the unknown.
A cave or temple. The Knight sighed. A sanctuary or monastery. Neither or both.

“It is best to take the safest route,” Yondir suggested in good sense.
Caves could be dangerous places, more prone to instability at best.
They had already tasted loose stones when climbing the mountain.
“The pillars may have aged as to betray.” He looked around them.

Even rock could decay, with shifting plates and earthquakes.
“I say we go around.” His light highlighted a path at the wall.
“And perhaps work our way down.” She could let her rod fall.
It would reveal more than that kicked rock. Just then, a shake.

A mere tremor, minor, if not an earthquake.
Yet it permeated with a sound in its place.
A shriek, and it bound around the cavern.
“Careful. We’re not alone...” Said Yondir.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

SHe listened to his plan and it wasn't the bad one... going around might take longer but it would give them a chance to work their scans and maybe see more of it. She looked around and was checking on many of the smaller areas. A tremor coming to her while she crouched lower moving her hands to her belt and the net launcher she had for such things. Just in case without killing it. She was allowing herself to search around as she acknowledged it. "We'll be careful." She said it before heading through and watching everything around herself... the hairs on the back of her neck raising up. She didn't see anything yet but she could hear it and she was prepared. "There." She pointed it out but didn't shout... her voice carrying as something swooped through the dark and she adjusted her hands. The glowrod in one and the net launcher in the other letting her aim and shine the glow rod while seeing everything around her.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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There. Yondir thought. Ikki voiced the word aloud. Just in time, something flew in from behind.
Swooping toward both of them, quick, springing out of the darkness and emitting a guttural cry.
His companion had a netlauncher; whether her intention was to capture a creature, his was not.
Yondir’s purpose was to ensure they survived, whatever it may take, and to that he wouldn’t stop.

This creature felt the same way as it flew past them. The Knight might have swung his blade high.
However, it seemed to miss them on purpose, disappearing into the darkness while he sensed for it.
Testing us. Or toying. A winged beast, brown grey, going for the ceiling, disappearing into a crevice.
“It’s coming back.” The Knight would stand in defense, blade raised, bathing the cave in emerald light.

This time the creature headed straight toward them, a direct path, illuminated in the dark.
In an instant, Yondir glimpsed a protruded snout, lined with a sea of sharp teeth all around.
It was a nimble thing, suited for caverns like these, whipping its tail as if to slash flesh apart.
“Now!” A moment later with launcher aimed, Ikki had the opportunity to see the beast bound.

If she missed, if it shifted, Yondir was ready for it, but his would be a lethal maneuver.
Predators like these tended to be hungry. Nowhere to go, it wouldn’t leave them alone.
So the Knight would swing blade high and would sever the creature in two if he had to.
Not a moment to lose as to not be slashed by claws or devoured between jaws as it flew.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

Her eyes were tracking and with practiced grace she moved... allowing the force to guide her movement whiel Yondir had his blade above and behind her. She didn't roll but she was crouched lower and lower to be avoid and watching the thing swoop down and go back up she allowed her eyes to track it and reached out for that small sense in the force. SHe tracked it and aimed as one came back down... the net launcher firing off and wrapping around as its wire clipped the wings and the wire sliced into the flesh wings as it tightened sending it careening down with no air under the wings. She popped out the cartridge and popped another in.

She had it ready for another as Yondir slashed and cut the first... she could hear more of the creatures and was moving with her attention and the force around them. Breathing in and then outwards with the force so she could move throwing her hand out as her slicesabers went and dug into the rock but she moved it with her mind. Creating a grate that one of them flew into for a moment as the other stopped and turned smashing into the rock and disorienting itself to drop down. Ikki retrieving her wires before she was moving along and jumped across one of the smaller chasms to the far side and was moving from there with the overhang to cover her head so there was only one side to be able to reach them.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Of course. Where there was one there was bound to be more. This creature was no lone hunter.
Just as suddenly as it had appeared, as it came near, there came another screech from others.
That was enough to convince Yondir to delay no longer but rather to give into haste, to swing.
His partner fired off a shot on one attacker as Yondir faced the first, swung high and cleaved.

The beast had split in two as emerald light whirred, burning off fractions of its limber figure.
Both halves flew past the Knight as he turned within the abyss that was bare of much light.
Lightsaber flashed, another slash, aiming to distract as many as was there for him to fight.
Yondir wanted to give Ikki a chance, buy her time to find a path, one for vantage in turn.

The beasts screamed; a wailing echo that permeated the cavern, filled with hunger and anger.
A small swarm had emerged from the very ceiling, whether they had awoken a whole colony.
Yondir, the Ranger, was doing his part to fight them off, as the creatures came in cautiously.
They seemed afraid of his blade, its green glow, which had already burned them in number.

Ikki found her footing. Meanwhile her companion was eyeing his own side of the chasm.
Seconds flashed by like his sword as it hummed forth, but he was quickly getting circled.
Moments more and the Knight would find himself surrounded. He struck. Death's spasm.
Another winged beast fell down to the depths with a screech. One flew. Its claws were full.

Now. Yondir told himself, casting the Force in a well as it swelled around his hand.
He blasted it forward in an instant, sending a wave that sent the creatures away.
Clear of them, he leapt for the narrow path at the wall, pressing it with his back.
Blade held to keep predators at bay as a roar stormed, and more then came.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She moved with the force, focusing on the path and her footing but also making sure that Yondir would be able to move around and join her quickly enough. She wanted to get them out of here and looked towards it... she was allowing the force to guide her and she fired another net into a pair of beasts coming at her. She cleared the way and fired from her free hand a robe that Yondir could use while she was clearing the pathway for him to be able to move behind her. The stone pillars were in the way and they had to navigate around them. She was moving and found an alcove as she slipped into it and looked around. Reloading her laauncher quickly enough and there was a small pathway up she could fit in.

"There is a way up... kind of. Looks more like a vent shaft." She said it and jumped to touch the sides as they were slick with moisture that was running down and if there was water coming down there was likely something that went up to the surface... surface was good and she had the glowrod in her hand as she could fit in there if she needed to. "I can start going up if you can make it to a pathway up." She was looking at more of it and waited for him to answer while she fired a third net that went out and wrapped around two and half of a third sending them into a pillar of rock with screeches.

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Caverns. Chasms. Alcoves. Space was tight, the cave confined, there on that narrow path.
However, with the wall at his back, Yondir had only to worry about those enemies at the front.
Enemies; creatures, really. They were just acting on survival instinct. Then again, he was also.
To defend himself, to protect Master Ike as well, his fellow Jedi, so again he swung in an attack.

The beast fell. Ikki was speaking of a way up, a vent shaft; potential avenue to make an escape.
Up, though, is the same way these predators had come from. Further, he came with a purpose.
Objective, a mission: to find those who came before them. Yet, had they even come this route?
Perhaps there was another avenue, or these creatures had since torn those adventurers in two.

“Drop the rod!” Yondir urged. “Into the depths!” He encouraged.
He had his backpack with his own equipment in it to use in turn.
Other rods, flashlights; he just liked using the light of a lightsaber.
A rod gone, they had others, but needed to see into the darkness.

How far down was down? There where fell beasts hit the ground.
Silenced screams. They would not eat the Jedi who made sound.
They had come too far to turn back now. “The bottom is our exit!”
He felt so certain of it. These pillars marked a part of an entrance.

Their attackers might have a nest higher than their heads as they flew below.
Yet, it looked like these creatures had no business with the depths beneath.
Either way, the Jedi had to move quickly. A whole swarm was coming close.
So Yondir deactivated his lightsaber, splaying his fingers while they sweep.

This was Ikki’s chance to swiftly survey the base of the cave.
As the creatures came like a volley of arrows, Yondir roared.
Rather, the Force did, with emerald lightning crackling forth.
Cast from his fingertips, electrocuting everything in its way.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn


She looked at him and down was just as fine maybe.. she was looking at it and shrugged to herself as she moved her thorn on her wrist and drove the prod into the stone extending it when it was inside and anchored. Fiber cord on her wrist equipment before she was moving and had the rod clipping it to her belt. She moved forward and jumped using her slicesaber with one hand and the wires cleaving itno stone to slow her descent down further and further. SHe looked at the rod of light Yondir had sent down to follow it and leaping might not have been the best but those things didn't follow down to far... they were escaping them after all and she landed on another ledge looking up.

"Well this is going to be interesting." SHe said it to herself but she was moving and found some of the creatures in the nets she had fired. THe constriction had cut into it as the thing bled out and the monofilament was well good at slicing into everything. She needed to work on it more and if it did well a more custom model from Sasori and the tech division would be useful... She debated the idea of them being able to incorporaate her slice sabers into the netting which would give it some better effects when dealing with beings like the HOuse Io biots. Yondir was above her and she was clearing the path around searching for a better way he could land and join her."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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Emerald lightning, electric judgment; biting, reckoning of vengeance. Yet it was not of darkness.
This was the electricity of the light. It wasn’t anger that fueled Yondir’s power. It was his justice.
Even against these creatures, merely beasts that acted on instinct, he was determined to defend.
That sense manifested from his hands, dropping a portion of the horde like flies into the depths.

Just as quickly, Yondir turned to search into them, glimpsing the glowrod where it landed below.
The light illuminated, not rock, but carved stone. A floor more than ground; handmade pavement.
That meant there weren’t stalagmites or spikes waiting for any Jedi who decided to take to them.
Instead, it meant there must indeed be a doorway, a hallway, something that would protect both.

Further, Yondir searched for Ikki, spotting her as she connected her fingers with her wired mesh.
A web of lattices to stretch. Any other moment and Yondir would find the time to be impressed.
He may have also looked for a stairway or even an elevator, but he saw all that he needed to.
The base of the cave wasn’t endless. Yet, above it could be a nest where more beasts flew.

Bereft of ladder, robbed of the luxury to climb and time, Yondir suddenly leapt downward.
And he fell. He flew. He dove. He heard the raging screeches of beasts regrouping upward.
A moment before the Jedi might have struck the floor and died, Yondir shot a hand forward.
The Force pushed off the floor; for an instant Yondir soared up, then he moved back toward.

The shifting physics both slowed and softened his landing as the Jedi’s feet found the ground.
He quickly turned around, reigniting his lightsaber, searching for enemies as much as a door.
“You’re clear!” He would shout for Ikki if she was not already moving. The bottom was sound.
Solid, safe, but only for a moment. Yondir observed further and found what he was looking for.

A pair of pillars flanked two doors that were twice the size of the man. They were no less solid.
Aged, ancient, but sturdy in their grey metal; ironbound, with rock wrapped around their ends.
If this wasn’t the image of intelligent design then the Jedi was not sure what was as he stepped.
Rushed. Even if the predators above didn’t venture downward, their meal was a walking promise.

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She watched up keeping visual on the saber as he was coming down and did have to grin.. he had style and some skill which was important in many cases like this. SHe waited for him to get down and she was looking up using her wire when a creature came down and she moved quickly. Following him as the rock showed metal that she could move around. Allowing the force to guide her and she moved her wires on a metal bar to open it and move it to the side. SHe was looking up though and maintaining the glow rod but bringing it back up and checking. "I am hoping if we leave their area they will stop trying to attack up.... hopefully."

She said it and was checking while brining the metal and gate open for him to get through and close it with a little cord to keep it secured but they would be able to properly reopen it if they needed to. This far into the cave at least it wasn't cold... if anything it was quite nice when she checked it out and slipped through a side passage using her mapping on the interface to see what she could. SHe moved into a large chamber and found a place to sit and check herself and everything. "That was fun... haven't run from things like that in a long time."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

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The grand iron doors looked like they had not been opened in years. An ancient gate.
Those words raced through Yondir’s mind as he flexed his hands and created the way.
His efforts were not in vain when combined with his companion’s, further in the Force.
The entrance would break open, the Jedi would venture in, and quickly shut both doors.

Behind them, the screeches ended. The beasts had no way in. The hall stretched before them.
It was as dark as expected. This time, Yondir did not ignite his weapon. He needed more focus.
Retrieving a flashlight from his pack, he let it shine. It was no less vibrant, yet it wasn’t as open.
Instead of casting the general area in a glow, the light honed in on details, features, in breadth.

Beyond the doors, they ventured forward, into the large chamber that served as a kind of hall.
More pillars, slimmer, with benches lining the perimeter. Yondir’s yellow light shone on the wall.
Rooms on either side, doors, of whose interiors one could only guess. Ikki then took to a bench.
It wasn’t without wisdom. Even Jedi needed to sense their direction, also to regain their strength.

“Fun?” The Ranger blinked. Master Ike held a map, though it was likely as unversed as his was.
Fun. The word was a string within his mind. Adventure. These ruins were likely yet undiscovered.
Maybe the way they came in really was just one entrance in a number amid other adventurers.
Nevertheless, a stoic that he was, and though he did not grin, Yondir couldn’t help but be blunt.

“It was exciting,” he offered simply, without any excitement in his tone. “I am glad we survived.”
Even the greatest of Jedi could quickly succumb to being surrounded by the simplest of beasts.
That, though, was understating the intelligence of the creatures they faced. Such fearless things.
Jedi had to be as well. Such beings couldn’t give into emotion, even when it came taking respite.

They would rest, but they would not waste time. “You are gifted, Master Ike.”
He wasn’t expressive with his statement, but he was sincere, eyes into eyes.
“I see why you were selected and sent on your mission,” admitted this Knight.
“Tell me…” Yondir trailed off for a heartbeat. “...What in life do you hope to find?”

He sought the hunters of treasure before they committed a blunder.
As much as he hunted the treasure itself, even if to turn it asunder.
No Shadow. A Guardian. Wanderer, loner, yet he was ever a Jedi.
Yondir’s here to protect. Ikki for prospects. Yet what’s in your eye?

Ikki Ike

 

[Ikki Ike]

Yondir Fenn

She looked at him and offered a grin. "COme on you aren't going to be one of those a jedi doesn't crave adventure types?" She raised an eyebrow with a smile that was wider. "Are you?" She said it and there was more humor... she knew the difference between rushing towards it headfirst and having it be the only thing and well if you were in the scenario to not languish and worry about it... just take it in stride. She sat there though as he asked what she hoped to find and well he complimented her that was worth some answers. "Well since you are all buttering me up with compliments." She said it and slid a hand to her belt taking out one of the ration packs.

"I suppose, my goal is simple enough... I want to protect my family." She held the ration pack and retrieved her canteen as the small sleek container slipped out and she opened it pouring some water into the pack to hydrate it and then sealed and shook the pack. "My family is well large... if you go with all of them and we have been around and involved with the jedi for a long time. So it is almost a tradition you could say to be part of the order or one of the orders or multiple... some have fallen but largely most are good and we have family that run a massive trade empire across the worlds.. it funds Sasori which does work to equip many of the jedi orders."

She took a swig of the water and smile as it was nice and cold before opening the pack and she took a bit of the food with a nod of her head. "Plus... being the temple maid means I get to see many others... you see my skills yes but many forget that we see everything... they do things around the help that they might not do around others... not bad things or questionable in standing... but they have conversations and don't worry about who is listening and among the order that can be beneficial with how many have their own agendas or suddenly decide to work with, date or other things with sith and darksiders."

 

[Yondir Fenn]

Spoiler: Music OOC

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Yondir was featureless as she mentioned butter and compliments. He understood the meaning.
Was that what he was doing? All such subtleties of conversation were often rather lost on him.
Buttering up. Ikki pulled out rations. Then Yondir’s thoughts were lost on a buttered sandwich.
He blinked, suddenly aware that he was hungry, thirsty, as he sat down on the bench to drink.

Sipping from his canteen of water while listening to Ikki speaking her answer to his question.
She wanted to protect her family. Family. The word burned in his head, branded as an imprint.
Ever a mark, but never a scar. To protect them was a simple if noble goal. Jedi Order in extension.
Yondir was thinking further of his family bound by blood back on Rhunor. Jedi, however, also fit.

Both the Knight and the Master had found a family with those who served beside them in light.
More her than him, perhaps, given her position. And my isolation. Never mind multiple orders.
His was the Silver Order, hers too, but only two were down here gazing into each other’s eyes.
Master Ike answered his question to satisfaction, though it was no test. Yondir’s gaze turned.

Looked away, digesting her words. Light. Dark. The Knight’s flashlight cast light in the great hall.
Even the Sith build temples. He reminded himself. So far it was difficult to tell who had built this.
His torch shifted, but there were no statues, symbols or signets to speak of the Jedi or the Sith.
“You seek to preserve life,” he told his companion but didn't look at her. “To answer light’s call.”

"Family and all." A gold beam circled the hall, floor to ceiling. “This temple was built in the rock.”
Might have been an obvious statement save for what he discovered. “Only the doors are steel.”
He observed as he told her, speaking more to himself, dwelling on her words and his thoughts.
“As if the builders wanted to preserve the mountain.” To keep its memory. Yondir could only feel.

He sighed, trying to dismiss the past and to focus on the present; on logic, not feeling.
He closed his eyes, ignored the light, reaching out, as a voice spoke. You know nothing.
A woman whispering within his mind. Then I will keep searching. Yondir opened his eyes.
His torch was roaming the whole time. “It’s this way.” He winked. “Always follow the light.”

Ikki Ike