[Jedi Quest] - 05 by The School Of Fear (Jude Watson)

Author:The School Of Fear (Jude Watson) [Fear, The School Of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-10T13:36:22+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Frustration boiled inside Obi-Wan. He could not trace a connection between Sano Sauro and Rana Halion. He was working on it; Tyro was working on it. The best researchers at the Temple were working on it, including Jocasta Nu, the Jedi Archivist. Though she usually demanded that Jedi Knights do their own research, she agreed to help Obi-Wan since the matter was so pressing. A young boy’s life could be at stake. The image of Gillam still tore at Obi-Wan’s heart - the way he’d clutched the blanket around his shoulders, the courage he tried to convey.

None of these experts had come up with anything. And Obi-Wan was plagued by the feeling that he was missing something. Something obvious.

He retreated to his private quarters to think. He felt more in need of a Master than Anakin. He wished someone could give him the direction he was looking for.

In his reports from the Leadership School, Anakin had sounded self-sufficient, completely in charge of the situation. Obi-Wan didn’t know if the secret squad was involved in Gillam’s disappearance, but he was proud of his Padawan for infiltrating it so quickly. He just wished he hadn’t heard something in Anakin’s voice that reminded him of his own past. When he had been a Padawan, he had briefly left the Jedi after meeting a rebel group on Melida/Daan called The Young. To him, The Young had passion and commitment and an important cause. When Qui-Gon had forbidden him to stay and help them, he had turned his back on the Jedi. It had made complete sense to him then. He had felt so right - and he had been so wrong.

Inner balance. It took experience to know when the wrong instinct had made it careen off-kilter.

But Anakin was not the same. Being a Jedi meant everything to Anakin.

Obi-Wan returned to his more pressing problem. He stared down at the security report once again. What was he missing? He had a feeling that Qui-Gon would know. His Master was always able to combine emotion with logic to reach the correct conclusion. Find the emotion behind the logic - or the illogic, Qui-Gon would say. If you can’t see the solution, try to see the emotion. But if something seemed logical to Obi-Wan, it was difficult to see the illogical heart of it.

He heard Qui-Gon’s voice clearly in his head If something is not possible, then it did not happen.

Obi-Wan stood up so suddenly that the report slid off his lap. Security wasn’t breached. Gillam never left the academy campus!

He was still there. But was he alive… or dead? And who took him?

Ferus had reported that Reymet had hinted that he knew how to visit places he wasn’t supposed to go within the school campus. What if Reymet wasn’t just trying to impress Ferus? What if Reymet had seen something that night?

Obi-Wan shook his head. It didn’t seem logical that. Reymet would keep silent when the life of a fellow student was at stake. Reymet might be a sneak, but he had no reason to suppose he would support a kidnapper.

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