Unfinished frozen business

[Cathul Thuku]

After aiding the survivors to rebuild a destroyed settlement, Cathul decided that her business is still unfinished. As such, she also took part in the construction of a hospital inside a cave, nested inside the mountains. Perhaps building the hospital in a cave was the best solution she found to allow IGR to contribute to the reconstruction of the devastated world, still trying to clean up the bodies strewn all over the place on the snowy planet. [member="Claire Ouron"], like Tyluko before her, was also a battle veteran. As before, she would use battle meditation to motivate the workers stationed inside the cave. Perhaps she would like to learn something new while the cave hospital is being built? Cathul could feel that Claire was a little behind the curve when it comes to Force-powers. Lately she seemed to have been active in teaching and empowering other Jedi using a variety of new skills.

"Welcome, your apprentice. What is it that you would like to learn today?"

 

[Claire Ouron]

The events of that day wouldn't leave her mind. She made a horrible mistake that almost got her killed. She saw one of the sith cross the wall and was going to attack the town. She was right to try and stop him, she was wrong to do it by herself and it was even worse that she hesitated in her attack. Her swift defeat shortly afterwards taught her a lesson. She was not ready to stand on her own. She wasn't skilled enough. So when she was offered the chance to train with [member="Cathul Thuku"], she jumped at the chance.

"Thank you miss Thuku." Claire nodded to the woman. "As a matter of fact. I do have something in mind...something I desperately needed yesterday. The person I fought moved like lightning. I couldn't keep up with his movement even with the force supporting me. Is there anything I could learn that could help me keep up with somebody like that?"

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"You're referring to Force-speed, but to be frank, what's behind Force-speed may also be used to make huge jumps: together these two things are called Art of Movement or Force-agility"

While the construction crews began to build a homeless shelter with a medical center tacked on it by flattening the lowermost level of what will become the cave complex, well inside the cave, she could tell that [member="Claire Ouron"] had one desire: Art of Movement. Of course, Claire actually using Force-speed would make her body generate so much heat that she wouldn't need to use tapas with what she student currently wore. Of course, Cathul wasn't the best with Art of Movement but she will try what she can to help out with that specific request. No need to bother her with the medical details unless asked. It will increase her metabolism, but that will make her exhausted faster, and make her need to sleep for longer after the fact, she thought, while pondering the limitations of Art of Movement. Also, she stood ready to use Force-speed once again, if her student needed a demonstration or otherwise needed to make it to the cave's mouth.

"Here, feel the Force flowing through your body, your arms and even more so your legs, and picture it aiding you increase the impulse you can get from your limbs. But because it drains your body's energy faster, Force-speed or Force-jump is to be used in a burst. Now, try to run up to the cave's mouth"

 

[Claire Ouron]

"Ok.." Claire said as she closed her eyes and relaxed. Channeling the force was getting easier for her but it still took effort when it came to using new abilities like this. She focused on the force inside herself and channeled it to her legs. She then took off running as fast as she could. She could instantly tell she was faster then before, not to the same level the man she fought the other day was but more then she was expecting. As she approached the mouth she slowed down before stopping at the opening. She was panting heavily by the time she got there.

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

Seeing [member="Claire Ouron"] run off in the distance, Cathul prayed that she did not collide with construction equipment in her run to the cave mouth, especially not at the cave proper. Also, she realized that there was some lingering thought about somebody Claire fought just a few days ago, when the invasion of Midvinter took place. Said invasion left countless homeless Valkyri out in the frozen wilderness, so the refuge being built inside on several levels inside the cave was a welcome sight: already in the cave the flooring work began in earnest on the lowermost floor of that homeless refuge, with the hospital being built on the upper levels at a later stage. Plus, while the Silver Jedi successfully mounted a defense of the planet, Claire was not so lucky. But her own use of battle meditation to help out the workers inside the cave ended as quickly as it began, when she did a Force-dash all of her own across the frozen plains leading up to the cave mouth, sensing that she would also need to practice a little bit. Sure she might be a little faster than Claire, but that's more of a function of having more power to go around than any real difference in skill.

"I could tell that whoever you fought that day was much more experienced in Force-speed than you were: what I saw from you was consistent with what I'd expect from beginners"

 

[Claire Ouron]

"Really...?" Claire asked as she tried to catch her breath. Claire reflected on the experience she just had, "But.. even at that speed I thought I was going too fast, Something had gotten in my way I don't think I could have reacted in time." She explained. Claire was aware that the jedi were capable of letting their mind and body 'react differently from eachother' as Matsu explained it, allowing jedi to react faster then usual but that took years to learn, even Matsu was a self pro-calmed novice at it, so that couldn't have been the trick too it, So how were jedi able to move at that speed and even faster without getting themselves hurt?

[member="Cathul Thuku"]

 

[Cathul Thuku]

"Even though I know Jedi can let their mind and body react differently from each other, I do realize that it can get more taxing on one's Force-energy to be able to both enhance perception and speed with the Force at the same time. That's why it's so tricky to master both stuff at once, but using several powers simultaneously means that these powers will be less efficient than if one fully focused on one power individually. Force-reflex is often used in combination with Force-speed, which results in heightened perception and reflexes; several training exercises in Force-speed will also make you use Force-reflex simultaneously"

[member="Claire Ouron"] ran into an issue so many beginners in Art of Movement asked about when they were at the early stages of learning that power. That, even though Cathul stayed away from training FUs in Art of Movement until today. With that in mind, the blonde human should probably lie down for a bit to catch her breath, but the noise of construction equipment behind them may well disrupt any rest anyone could have in this cave. And soon, perhaps too soon, Claire will have her first patient to cure, and hopefully suffering from a construction accident that will result in stuff that can be cureable by a beginner in Force-healing. More advanced stuff would have to be left in Cathul's hands, just that Force-healing is more than just "put the Force into the patient's body". But until that time comes, some injured soldiers from the battlefields on Midvinter were herded back into the caves because the medical units deployed on Midvinter weren't nearly enough to treat all the wounded, civilian or military.

"I think you might need to rest for a bit before the next lesson, which has nothing to do with Force-speed. Before you actually use the Force for healing patients, however, there is one warning that I have to make with respect to Force-healing: do not expect near-instant healing every single time"

She could actually talk about the more intensive Force-procedures she had to perform, like that one big Force-chemotherapy treatment that took over seven hours. Also, she feels such lessons are best learned when one doesn't have a whole lot of power to go around. And she heard tales of Force-healing-induced cancers where the practitioner was a Force-healer that had a lot of power but little skill (the one requiring the seven-hour Force-chemo was actually caused by cortosis poisoning, however) regardless of whether the practitioner was a light-sider or a dark-sider, even though she suspected such cancers to be more common from dark-sided practitioners.