Life is a journey, a path on itself...

Jedi seemed to like to do mind reading, but again I didn’t allow him to read my mind. I had my reasons and from his eyes I knew he was aware of that fact. The conclusion followed I was a suspect, because I didn’t cooperate. Doing his duty he dismissed me and soon I had left the room, he informed the admiral of his suspicion of me. The admiral was a little surprised, but informed what was possible to do against it. The answer that Anda gave back hang in the middle, he was not yet sure of what could be done. The Jedi could not interfere in Imperial problem; only assist merely to find the answers. The action was in the hands of the admiral himself. I did nothing and went on with my lessons as teacher.
A week later I was called up for a special body of inquisitors, where the Jedi master a part of it was. But before he had sent out his apprentice to find background material upon the incident on the exercise bridge. But a little was found, since all footage was destroyed and no backup recording had remained. Who had deleted it, had very high level clearance and had done it in secret. My ID card had only clearance going with my captaincy, no more. That card was taken from me and researched. I was interviewed, but except basic answers I gave nothing free of what I knew. Anda did his best to read me, but I kept my mind locked and dwelled on the Force to remain calm. The second half of the interview I felt at peace and was focused on more interesting things than my suspected involvement with the ghostly Vader. The suspicion faded away, when they concluded they had found no contradicting answers of me. I thanked them and returned back to my quarters.

But the watch of Master Anda Sulundar didn’t go away. I was forced to swallow my feelings of annoyance and anger toward the interrogation. I put away into a corner of my mind, where I had stuffed away all bad feelings. With Nerny I decided to take a wandering in the woods around the academy. It was my only hope to relax a little. The woods gave me a part of my rest back; I dwelt around without really a direction. I listened to the sounds of the woods and followed them. It must have been hours, before the sun went down and I was in the twilight of the day. Nerny beeped he had discovered something and went I stepped into a clearing inside the wood I found myself before an old abandoned and ancient building. It was not high, but that could be misleading if the rest laid undergrounds. There was one entrance and it was closed. I neared the entrance, but Nerny beeped a warning and I felt also a warning from the Force. So I turned back and withdrew to the forest. I changed myself into the suit Nerny had still with him. It was a survival suit and with it I could enter into all sorts of places. Nerny didn’t like it much what I did, but I wanted to find out what was inside the building. I needed to have something else on my mind. Entering the building was not a problem; I stuck my lightsaber in the door and cut a hole large enough to walk through. But inside it was dark, utterly dark and Nerny moved his light around to see what the large open space before out feet was. But except an empty floor there was nothing. Inside was the air old and almost without any oxygen. But now it didn’t matter on me. In the light of my lightsaber and with Nerny’s light I saw enough. I tapped here deep in the Force to know what was hidden here. Small whispers came back to me, that once children had played here, much innocence from around four year olds. My eyes studied the walls careful. There was no pain or hate around here, just innocence. Attuned fully to the Force I was not surprised when suddenly the spirit of an old Force adept appeared in front of me. I frowned because never I had seen one. Nerny tweeted he registered something and turned his light toward the presence. But it was not a Jedi, but something else. The ghostly presence spoke, but I heard nothing, neither in my head. I ignored the presence further and motioned to Nerny to follow me. Outside the building in the clearing the sky above had done dark. And with it a new world awoke, one I knew nothing off. The ghost in the building was not the only one, outside appeared ghosts now too. Inside the Force I could feel the lowering of the temperature and something was building. On feeling I withdrew to protection of the trees and waited there. Before I watched an ancient battle between Jedi and Sith followers. As it suddenly appeared, it also vanished into nothing. In the early light of the next morning I returned back to the academy. Inside it had been the Force at work. What the battle referred too I had no idea, but that secret could be unlocked by looking into the history records of the Empire.

When I got inside the gates I was confronted by open mouths of the guards. Not because of the clothes I wore, the armour was back inside Nerny, but because I returned from the wilds. I didn’t wonder about my return, but it seemed to be odd, just as a couple of years ago during my training when I returned alone through the gates. I grinned only and withdrew myself in my quarters, the door locked and an order not to be disturbed. But I was not for ten minutes inside or there was a knock at the door. I didn’t listen, and finished off my bath in the refresher. Dressed in clean clothes I appeared in the doorway, my hair still wet and hanging in shaggy curls around my head. The major behind my door was a moment quiet before he found his voice again. I was needed in the data room. With a sigh and having a bad feeling I followed him. Inside the data room a few computer slicers of security were busy to find out a trail, but had ended stuck upon a wall of clearance codes they couldn’t break. One of them had found a fingerprint that belonged to me. But with my captaincy clearance that was not possible. I said them I didn’t know what it was. With the Force I did some memory alteration on them. And I let them search into other less dangerous files. Then I said I would go back to my quarters. In my quarters behind my own terminal I search for the print and faded it away from the records. A second time would not happen to me.

Later on I saw Master Anda Sulundar back in the officer’s mess. I went there to get myself a decent lunch; I was hungry and needed nourishment. With a full plate and enough to drink I wandered back toward my chambers and locked myself in again. The rest of the day I was in meditation. A few days later the Jedi Master and his apprentice left the system and returned to the Republic. With no evidence the suspicion was lifted from me and I got my clearance card back for captaincy. It was a little of use, since I had now depended on the other one I had unbeknownst to them.