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He sighed heavly, his head still ponding and mind realign form the things he saw before being able to put up his own berriers. How oculd one mind be so twisted and far gone? For that matter, how one so young? She looked just barely out of her teens.... He sat back in his chair, anothe rlong puff. Times like these he wished he was tacking spice. He closed his eyes and opened his mind to the force, feelign out to it to clear his head.

The flowing feel was calming, like being in a gental river, the flow of which was easly directed. He moved it this way and that, twisting it and spinning it. Forming shapes in his mind as he did. Simple triangles and squares, and then a perfect circle. He calmed, mind clear once more and then searche dout for nini. Twas easy, the most chaotic feelign on the ship. He didn't dare pry into her mind again, not yet. He simply tugged at it.

He smiled, leaning forward out of the shadows and standing up to walk around the desk infront of her. "Your mind must be trained, yes...but I doubt once they're inside they'll find much...nor want to go back. You have an advantage in this Nini, you're mind itself can be used as a weapon...Hmmmm..."

He turned and looke dout the viewport, his mind was realing now. He knew it was madness, it had to be, to think such thing. Who could pass this up though? Who, knowing they had such a weapon at their disposal, would not try to use. it. "I have an idea Nini...I want to teach you how to lash out with your mind...how to force what you see into the mental eye of others..."

She hugged him. Stunned, he stood their with a blank look on his face. He was speechless. No one had ever touched him in a way that could come close to be considered friendly, let alone boardering near intimate. The way she affected him was frieghtining...what would the Green Woman say to somethign like this? He cleared his head with a quick force excersize then looked down at her.

"Nini...this excersize will be difficult. It will not be somehting you learn in a few weeks, it will take years before you can use it to the fullest potential. Between training your mind the way I want it, we'll focus on other aspects. You may not have the force, but its similer in properties and can be used the same way...do you understand?"

"My way?" He looked at her a bit perplexed, and then reminded himself he wasn't dealing with any regular force user. Nini did not consider the power in her to be what it trully was, so she had probbaly never actualy studdied to much on how the force works. He smiled softly at her.

"My way will teach you how to force your mind onto other, how to break their mental berriers if they have any, and how to project your thoughts into their minds. It is done through meditation, feeling out those around you, sensing their emotions. This technique will be somehting new, but at the same time it will be very similer to a technigue I use called Force Insanity" He sat down on the floor infront of her and crossed his legs. He removed his rob and folded it up, settign it beside him. "Join me, but keep your mind completly closed this time."

Aryx smirked. He was beginging to think she was a shy little girl and was very glad to see some fire in her. The darkest of sith may cower, but Aryx really no longer considered himself Sith. Still though, it was good to know one with such a fire could follow orders. His smirk moved to a soft smile. "And I'll have oyu know Nini that my training has given me a nearly unmatched speed in combat. I won't sugar coat it, I can cut both arms form your body before you even feel the pain of my saber."

He watched her slightly, waiitng as she moved into her meditative stance. "Good, so is mine. Now, try to establish a link wiht my mind."

The feelign was there, like a little thought that poked at you and just wouldn't go away no matter how hard you tried t think abotu any thing else...well...for Aryx it wasn't like that, if he wanted to he could have severed the link at will, even adding a small counter respounce, throwing in Insanity if he wanted to. He doubted it would do any good against Nini though, she was already, in every respect, insane.

He felt them, her thoughts trying to make it across the link. By the time they reache dhim though they were nothign more then flickers ot his own inner eye. "Concentrate harder Nini...I can just barley make it out." Needless to say what he could just barley make out was enough to frighten a normal person, but the trained mind of a Dark Jedi Master, they appeard as nothing more then flikerings. He didn't expect her to do any better on the first try.

The images grew stronger, once there they lingered a fe wmoments before vanishing. He saw them, but felt ntohgin form them. Nothign liek when he invaded her mind before. He could feel how she strained her self, how she forced her mind to open wider and concentrate the flow. He sighe dopenly. "Thats good for now Nini."

He broke th elink himself and stood up, pullin his robe back on and walking back behind the desk to sit down. "You did well your first time, once you began concentrating I felt them strengthen. I want you to practice this every free moment you have. For an hour when you wake up, and an hour before oyu fo to bed. I'll set aside sessions for doing just that as well. Now, though, we will start the more physical aspect of oyur training. I know you hate anythign to do with the jedi, but what of their weapons?"