Star Wars New Order - Volume 1 Chapter 22 Force Streaks

Arriving in his room Vaner slowly reached his bed before lying on it silently looking at the ceiling. As his empty gaze seemed lost on the ceiling the word of his master was playing back and back again in his head and even now he couldn’t make any sense of what he heard.

‘How could they be dead’ thought Vaner not willing to believe it. Soon Vaner was lost in his memory slowly seeing back his every interaction with his friends as tears start to silently run down his face.

Feeling his wet face Vaner frown. ‘What am I crying for, when did I become this close to them?’ Vaner asked himself not really understanding himself. Certainly, he was close to them when he was young but as it was after his rebirth he still kept a distance from the other even Raskta and Bhak. Yes, they were his friends but that was it nothing to cry over.

He had lost his family in his previous life, he did cry for his mother and sisters but from then on he didn’t cry when his other family member died, even for his friend he didn’t cry, only one died before him but there was one.

As his brain was thinking faster and faster Vaner sat on the bed with his back against the wall. Finally, a dozen minutes later Vaner remembers the last time he cried because of someone else and it was because of that s.l.u.t causing the frown on his face that hadn’t vanished to deepen.

‘Betrayal the last I cried for was betrayal before today’ with this new thought in mind Vaner start to remember what the scene with his master announcing him the news, trying to feel what he felt when he heard for the first time.

Pain and sadness that is what he felt nothing strange but then with his fresh memory on his interaction with his two childhood friends Vaner felt that something wasn’t right. The last time he saw them was already a few years back, he didn’t saw them since they left with their masters to train, heck he didn’t even know they became knight none of them came to tell him.

Finally nodding his head to himself Vaner seems to understand why he cried ‘so I was betrayed again huh yes, I was betrayed againYou can trust no one’ thought Vaner as he let out a mental sigh. This was the only conclusion Vaner could find as he refused to believe he would cry over their death however even with him convince with this conclusion he ignored the fact that he didn’t really know or find what was their betrayal beside the fact of coming to see him which was not something enough for him to cry over.

Having convinced himself the frown on his face disappeared as he relaxed as if glad he had found the true reason behind his tears before lying on his bed once again while falling soon asleep.

The next morning Vaner woke up early, as usual, cleaning himself up before heading to the meditation room. Entering the room Vaner keeled on the ground and closed his eyes entering meditation.

After a few minutes, Vaner was surprised to feel that his meditation was smoother than before as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulder. He could feel the Force more clearly and soon he entered deep meditation as the Force was being attracted to him and start to surround him.

Soon Vaner reached aa state he never reach before he came close to it once and that was after his trials but now he felt as if he had become one with the Force. Vaner opened his eyes but what he saw shocked him as if he saw himself in meditation before him.

After a moment Vaner calms down and understood that his consciousness was not in his body anymore but in the Force. Looking at his body from the Force side Vaner could see two streaks of Force coming out from his body heading somewhere else but also coming inside his body.

These two streaks seemed to be like a cable able to send some Force from a point to another making Vaner curious as he was receiving some Force from two-point while also giving some and so he was curious about where those Force streaks were heading.

Giving to his curiosity Vaner chose one of the two streaks and start to follow it. Contrary to what Vaner was expecting he didn’t go through any wall slowly heading to his destination but he made his decision his consciousness was pull toward the Force streak.

Having entered the Force pathway Vaner consciousness start to head toward his destination but soon Vaner realized that reaching the destination might be above his strength. While moving inside this pathway was relatively easy at the beginning it became more difficult as the distance increased.

Part of this increase in difficulty was due to distance between the consciousness and the body was increasing but Vaner could feel that this wasn’t really the problem. The main problem was that as the distance increased Vaner felt his consciousness being constricted more and more.

With his consciousness being constrict Vaner could only use the Force to resist however he could feel that he wouldn’t be able to resist all the way as he would soon reach his limits and once he couldn’t protect himself his consciousness would probably be crush by the pressure.

Finally, not being able to keep up anymore Vaner decides to head back but soon starts to curse as he didn’t really plan to keep energy for the return. After an all-out effort, Vaner succeeded in returning to the safe spot before he was crushed.

Having survived not by much Vaner decide to return to his body. Returning to himself Vaner felt his body was the exhaust. He felt exhausted like never before with his body covered in sweat part from the effort and part from the close dearth experience then a few moments after his return Vaner end up throwing up from exhaustion before lying down not able to move an inch as all of his muscle were paralyzed.

Thirty minutes later Vaner finally recovered and while he still felt a little exhausted he understood that his control of the Force had increased once again only a little but if he could train his mastery of the Force like this then his training speed would soon skyrocket.

Finishing his thought process Vaner nose was an attack by a foul smell causing him to frown and made him make a mental note for his future training to be more careful before using the Force to clean the ground.

With the room, clean Vaner left it heading toward his room to take his belongings before leaving the temple however Vaner could still feel that he was being observed from the moment he left the meditation room causing him to feel frustrated even a little angered forcing him to change his plan.

He wanted to leave the temple to be free and he wouldn’t have this freedom if he was permanently followed. Vaner decides to leave a few days later than he originally plans to make sure he would not be followed.

Walking while lost in his thought Vaner was stopped by someone putting a hand on his shoulder. Turning around a small smile could be seen appearing on Vaner face.

“Obi-Wan when did you come back? I thought you were out training with Anakin. Speaking of him where is our chosen one” said Vaner seeing that it was Obi-Wan while slightly taunting the not present padawan.

“You really should stop annoying him” said Obi-Wan with a sigh “It’s not you who needs to calm him after you make him want to tear you apart” followed Obi-Wan weakly clearly exhausted just thinking about these situations that happened to much for him already.

Returning to a more serious face Obi-Wan look at Vaner before inquiring “So are you alright I learn about Raskta and Bhak.”

Hearing Obi-Wan Vaner didn’t really know how to answer because while he had come to an understanding of his own feeling towards this, he didn’t feel he should say it. With a slightly sad smile Vaner said “Yeah I’m alright. I’m sad but you know I hadn’t seen them for a few years, I didn’t even know they had become knights”

Vaner answered was expected and not expected by Obi-Wan. Letting out a sigh Obi-Wan pat Vaner shoulder “Even if you didn’t see them for years you and I know that there one of the few you were close too. Tonight, you come with me we need to change your mind. I need to go to the council Master Windu seem to have a mission for me.” Said Obi-Wan before heading towards the closest elevator.

Following Obi-Wan with his eyes Vaner seemed more exhaust than before ‘Friends’ thought Vaner before heading to his room.