Holy shit, we haven’t heard from Frozen Travel in forever!! What’s happening to Obi? Is he ok? What are Palps and Plagueis gonna do with him? Does Qui realize that something is wrong? Or what about Dooku and his detainment by the Pike Syndicate? So many questions!!
Hissing painfully as he limped towards
where he could see the path still, Yan summoned his saber to his hand
from the shallow water the pyke syndicate had thrown it in. It had
been clear from the sheer number and the way they had been fighting
that they were only there for distraction and Yan growled to himself
as it was clear that they had accomplished what they had been hired
for.
But what?
That was the question, what had they
been hired for?
What had been so important that they
needed to distract Yan?
Pulling his comm off his belt, Yan
commed Obi-Wan.
No one picked up.
Freezing, Yan stared at his comm with
narrowed eyes before retyping in the number and calling again, eyes
widening up in no small amount of horror as the reason for the pyke
syndicate to distract him was suddenly becoming apparent.
Distract Yan to be unable to provide
additional support to Obi-Wan.
Wheezing, Yan limped as fast as he
could towards his transport, needing to get into town and look for
Obi-Wan as quickly as he could.
Yet even as he reached the speeder, he
had a horrifying suspicion that Obi-Wan was gone. ‘Qui-Gon is never
going to forgive me.’ He thought with no small amount of mounting
horror even as he kicked the motor into function with his injured leg
to check on Obi-Wan’s last known location.
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Watching Micah and Tahl with some
amusement as they bickered in front of the display casing, Qui-Gon
tried to ignore the bad sensation curling around in his stomach as he
placed a hand on each of theirs shoulder. “Grateful as I am for
both of yours input, Obi-Wan does not really fancy much jewelry of
any kind.” He chuckled at them.
Whining, Micah spread his arms wide
while dislodging Qui-Gon’s hand and almost hitting Tahl in the face
if it wasn’t for her quick dodge. “Couldn’t you have told us
that at first Qui-Gon!?”
Crossing his arms over his chest,
Qui-Gon raised a brow. “I did when I dragged you two out of the
temple to help me look for proper bonding gifts. I told you both to
look for mostly silver, nothing too ornamental and no rings?” He
prompted at them to remember.
The two exchanged sheepish looks at
that.
“Okay…” Tahl rubbed her chin
slowly while glancing around the display cases. “I’d say a
necklace than as Obi-Wan is not really a bracelet kind of person.”
She grinned.
Following her towards the necklaces,
Qui-Gon rumbled. “You’re right, but I could also get him a
broach.”
Both Micah and Tahl gave him long looks
at that and he held up his hands in obvious surrender.
Obi-Wan wasn’t a broach kind of
person either.
So that meant a necklace with a pendant
of some kind.
“How about a medallion?” Micah
questioned, looking at the two. “I mean, than it doesn’t have to
be too ornamental but more sentimental with the insides engraved with
your names or something.” He grinned.
Stroking his beard slowly, Qui-Gon
mused over that.
He liked the idea.
It sounded like something Obi-Wan would
like too actually. Maybe he could even have a holo image logged into the
medallio-
His comm beeped and Qui-Gon blinked
down at his belt before looking at Tahl and Micah as moments later,
theirs beeped too.
His uneasy feeling grew as the three
friends exchanged looks even while pulling their comms off their
belts.
It was the recall code for all Jedi on
Coruscant to the temple.