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As the craft begins to ascend, the wings slowly fold out from their upright position to a splayed, lateral configuration. As buttons begin to blink and light up, Cole was entranced until the girl walked inside. With his hands steadily on the controls, Cole looked over his shoulder and smiled at the stranger. "Hi Triskal, I'm Cole. I've only been here for a few months. It's nice to finally meet you." Cole said, although he noticed her eyes were rather puffy, he opted to keep comments to himself.

"How am I doing?" Dante repeated, a little shocked as he pulled on his right boot with one hand. "Lets see, I have a dead arm, which inthe past wouldnt bother me, In the past I would have gone out on a flight to deal with my anger or stress, somehow a quick flight around the planet allways made it feel better... but now I just lie in my room... or sit in the archives, trying with all my energy to find a way to return what your little buddy 'Z' crafted onto me to the way it was."

Dante sighed and began pulling on his other boot. "on the plus side I can use my shadow powers for greater combat efficiency. but back on the down side thats all I can use my arm for..."

"My Brother is the only person in the entire academy besides Yoda and the robots who even talk to me anymore, My best friend thinks Im a horrific monster or something, and wont even look at me until I covered up my Shadow inflicted limbs... oh and I stubbed my toe this morning." Dante began to wind down as he clipped the boot buckles.

"If you'd cared enough to stick around through my time of need like I've done through all of yours maybe you'd have known some of that." Dante stood up and started towards the door. "But the lowly problems of us mere jedi are not something you need concern yourself with, your highness," he turned and bowed, "We will be back to your kingdom soon enough."

Triskal quickly put her hair up ((Points to avie, thanks kida!)) and followed.

"Heh, you sound like you're all set then. It's been a while since I've been back. I'm not an official Jedi, but I used to train here."

"Heh... I wouldn't say I'm all set just yet. I still have yet to take the trials but the council has agreed to allow me to construct and use a lightsaber. Only for missions though, I still carry around that goofy training saber when I'm in the temple. What were you training to be? I mean, what Jedi class? I've been training to be a Consular, and I've been meaning to ask Kida for advice. What made you... um... leave?" Realizing that his mouth seems to be wandering off and running on it's own, Cole bowed profusely and excused himself. "I'm really sorry... I just tend to get excited before a mission, I think the talkativeness stems from the nerves so it's probably best that I meditate for a while." Cole bowed again once more before heading off to a secluded section. There, he folded his legs and focused on the Force.

((really sorry, but i gotta get rolling. we can pick this up tomorrow. i'll catch up in the morning. y'all have a pleasant evening.))

"It's hard on everyone else too... Nobody likes seeing me like this?" Dante repeated again, laughing slightly. "Nobody likes SEEING me like this? Well how the hell do you think I feel being like this? Im blind in one eye Im allways in pain and my left arm doesnt work, oh and if Im not at full strength I have a tendancy to accidentall phase out and in again at random locations."

Dante had stood back up and turned to leave again before she had spoken but when kida had started he had stopped again. Dante turned around, facing Kida.

"You'd do anything to help me? HOW ABOUT TALK TO ME ONCE IN A WHILE! I'm frigging dying of a never before seen thing and you run off because you dont like seeing me like this? How would it be if a medic said that?" Dante was letting out some of the frustration that he'd been building up since Kida first started avoiding him. it was a lot of anger that he had built up and Dante knew it... in fact his arm... his dead left arm, was quivering, the anger was allowing it movement, it was tense, ready for battle.

"You know I'll still be there to help you Kida even if your no longer there for me, so you can go... your not in danger of losing the person who fights your battles for you, kills your sith lords and protects you from sith assassins... you've just lost my friendship."

Kokushi was walking through the ship, he was waiting for Triskal to come talk to him about whatever she did, but when she hadn't come around he started to go over to Dante's room "Hey Dan-te...?" Kokushi stopped in puzzlement as he heard raised voices, noticing one was Kida's, Kokushi sighed and started the other way Sure is a great way to start a mission...this is going to be a loooong flight. he thought to himself as he walked away, he was looking for one of his satchels he had left in the ship with Kai and Dante "hey, Kai!" he called, maybe he knew where teh pack was?

Kida let him leave. Not that she could even have stopped him. He was just as stubborn as she could be, and if he wanted to leave she wouldn't have been able to stop him anyway.

She relaxed her arms, then sat down in one of the chairs. It wasn't his room anyway, though he probably did steal the ship. Still, she didn't feel like walking around and bumping into anyone else at the moment, so she decided to take the time to just rest. No, meditate. She needed more of that.

Kida slipped down off the chair and crossed her legs on the floor. Within a few moments, her eyes were closed and she had a full map of the room in her mind.