Arrival of a Dragon(Wakanda/Open)

[Ira]

Wakanda shook her head and sighed. "To harm people for what they are es wrong. The people who say guardia, but follow such path, no know a thing. For that, I apologize. Espeshilly ef et caused alarm en me. I do not attack unless one es harming someone. Doing the wrong thing and no listen to the warning. No reason to fear or worry of me, unless you do those things." She chuckled softly as he explained not understanding the code. To be expected. She shook her head though at the term acolytes.

"We usually begin teaching at young age; call them younglings. Then Padawans, Knights, and then Masters. Acolytes es a term we, back home, know et to be Sith. Books and whatnot though. No here. There are only a couple of us here. But I no know where my Padawan es. We lost each other after a battle. Have no seen him since. But, I have no taken time to write or attempt to spread teachings. To do so alone es difficult. I have no temple or grounds to teach on either." Wakanda fell silent for a moment, and looked down to the ground. "I just wander now. Go to where Force lead me, find myself here for now. There es no reason to begin teaching here, for the Force will call me another way at some time.

I know things will even out. But at what costs. These things, people no think of much. I would much rather et just stay en middle, no too far to one or the other. To swing back from that, much happens. Much happens. I have watched et swing before, one side to other.

I know the way et flows. Just at times, I just want peace. At times, I tire of fighting to try to find balance."

[nightarcher]

“They are not allowed to know right or wrong. What they are taught is what they do is Noble. Doesn't help though that some of my people give them a reason to think that.” Yeah, those knights and Noble guardians are taught that all thinks that are not human or humanoid are evil. Shadow dragons, and those consumed by their own power and desire for more didn't help. Not something she needed to know.

The mention of the training levels, it was definitely different, very different. But while she was talking about it, she mentions something Called a Sith. What was that? Maybe a question for later. “I am sure your student is fine if he learned anything from you going off of what I have seen so far.” of course if her student was anything like the students he had, he wouldn't trust them alone without a way to track them if they got in trouble. “Shame about no books for learning. I have always preferred to acquire knowledge by that means.”

“Ah, so your force led you here. Me, just curiosity. I have only been on this world for less than a month yet. I am just exploring. Determining the balance of power in this world, and the position of the leaders of the cities and lands of this world. Determining where I should allow my own students to explore... not that they ever listen.” He has no idea if she could relate or not, there was a reason he had prepared those pendants, he could always locate where his students were. “If you are ever able to locate him, I can provide a pendant that will allow you to always know where he, or it at least is.”

“If you are so worried about the balance of good and evil, then maybe you should establish a temple, school, sanctuary or whatever your places of learning are called. Teach more Jedi to even the scales in your 'Light Side's' favor.” the way he said it made it sound that simple, he knew it wasn't anywhere near that close to easy. But mostly, he wanted to see her reaction to that idea. But the go with the flow type of attitude worked in quite a few situations.

“Though I do have another question. You mentioned something called the Sith. I am guessing they may be your opposite by the way you said their title. How accurate is my guess? Who are the Sith?”

[Ira]

Wakanda sighed; "Et es that reason I worry. He es bit of stubborn person. He learn from me, maybe. And I be envolved en many conflict. Often, alone. I worry he pick up my style. May be able to handle self en a physical fight, yes. But mental...No. He lose his way easily, I worry." She reached up and rubbed the back of her neck before shaking her head slowly. She needed to have a bit more faith in her padawan. It was just kind of hard to do honestly.

"I appreshiate the offer. But, you are right to degree. I need to leave room for him to grow. Leave room for him to make own choices. Separashin of student and teacher sometime es needed. Ef need be, I can find him en Force. Just will take time. No so familiar with places here. Will take time to know what I see and feel en Force.

Starting a temple and teaching though....Many hesitashins. I no know ef I am yet ready to take on such task. I serve as Grand Master before, but met with betrayal and distrust so I left posishin. I cling to padawans too much, much like mothers do to little ones. I worry I slow growth. Teach them, yes, I do. But, to let them grow and become own person es hard. To hold back so that sometime they do more than fall and hurt knee es difficult.

To become too attached to them es essue, I have. But death often awaits us. Torture, abuse, things far worse than death. Ef such were to happen to a padawan of mine, I no would forgive self. And such things lead to the Dark Side. I avoid et. Wrong? Yes. I should work at bettering myself on this. But, fighting that enstinct of a mother es hard." Her eyes danced over people who passed them by, moving back to the children running back and forth with their ball.

"They are endeed the opposite of the Jedi. They bend to emoshins and use them to empower themselves. Most people go to them with good entnshins, seeking power to do things that they feel es right. Along the way though, they lose themselves. Their purpose es lost. Twisted and lost to the Dark Side.

Most I encounter, are beyond talking. Are beyond working together. No peace to be found when conflict arise."

[nightarcher]

“May be good to leave him room to grow and make his own mistakes. But when you do, my offer still stands, I can create a pendant or something else to allow you to locate him much faster. Though to get to him as fast I would need to weave spells into a second item. If you can find me again of course after that.” He could guess the cause of her actions a bit. He didn't trust a single one of his students to do the smart things, even though most were considered adults.

“Even if you have hesitations, you may be the only one able to if you are the only qualified to teach your Force, and Jedi code to others. But if you know that you cling, you will be able to see when you are starting to, and stop yourself… though sometimes there are good reasons to keep such a close eye on them. Some students are more dangerous to themselves than others. Though, it may help if you don’t take as many young as your ‘padawans’. It is easier to not cling with students who are considered adults, or at least close to that. Mine all are.”

But then, the reason she gave next also had a point. Maybe not one that carried much weight with him, but he could see where she was coming from, or at least he could think about it and try to see it from her eyes. Dragons do still go into depression when they lose someone they care about. “Makes me glad I am what I am, and not a Jedi. If someone should kill one of my students, they forfeit their own lives. I have no qualms about ending the guilty party’s life.” Similar to any thieves who snuck into his lair and tried stealing from him… quick bite sized snacks. Ok, that thought made him grin a bit at an uncalled for time. But that did help him feel better. Sometimes Dragons were simpler creatures than other sentients in a good way.

When they got to the Sith themselves, and her description, Helios actually looked like he was thinking. “Well, their theory is right to a point it sounds like. Emotions are indeed a source to push you power beyond your current limits. Some stronger than others. But I am assuming that by the way you are describing is that they completely lose themselves to either their emotions or power. Both a strength and weakness in and of itself.” He was thinking about it though for a moment. “If you say they all crumble to this Dark Side’s control instead of using it, I wander if the fault would be in the person, the teachings, or the teachers.” The way he said that made it obvious this man was likely to go looking for a Sith eventually

[Ira]

"To take them to teach when older, es hard to do for multiple reasons; attachments being main reason. They have learned much to cling to with emoshins by time they are older. Then loss may happen, loss of something they hold close. Shake foundashins, lose their way, and... Et es mess. I am lucky they accepted me when they did. But I had lost things already, everything. And still, I followed this path. That was reason the Order accepted me.

Maybe I should. Maybe I should no. Ef the Force will me to, then et will tell me en own way. For now, et no guide me to do such thing. Perhaps, et bring me here to see. To learn, to motivate. Such es way of Force. Et works en mysterious ways.

And to losing a student. I have lost many of them. No to death etself. But lost them to the Dark. Some go too far, some are gone forever. That es failure on padawan and myself. Es more complicated than death. For et es as our Code says; Death, yet The Force." Wakanda let her gaze move away from people and upwards, looking towards the tops of buildings and watching the sky above. She debated for a moment before speaking.

"They use et, but the power es much. Twist. Corrupt. Talk to them en normal setting, they may seem...normal. Logical. But when talk about views on people, power, the philosophy, their...Madness? Et show." She sighed and shook her head though kept her gaze upwards.

"Please, use the caushin ef you go to find one. I think there es at least one here on this planet." There was a hint of depression which touched her voice. "One word wrong es all et may take."

[nightarcher]

Helios listened to why they would not accept older students than children. “Loss is a natural part of life. Those with any strength deal with it and move on are worth the effort…” a dragon’s way of dealing with it was usually violent, and ended up with more death like what he had done to the dragon’s who had Killed his parents. She did not need to know that. “… If they are not strong enough to deal with the loss and not be corrupted, then they would have likely fallen eventually. But children, you do not know how strong they are even if you teach them. You do not know if they could resist the temptation until it is too late. You are the type of person your Jedi should search for to add to their ranks.”

There was a roll of his eyes at her use of the words ’It works in mysterious ways.’ He hated that, religions used that to explain the unexplainable. “If it is something that needs done for the good of others, or it is something you wish to do, then do not let something like that stop you from doing it.” Plus it sounded like she was letting the force lead her around like a dog on a chain.

He had no argument to her statement about her own students and how they were lost. “That goes back to teaching them from children. You do not know how strong they are until it is too late. They could have been weaker willed than you had believed. When that is true, it matters not how good their teacher was.” Ok, maybe he could think of something to say.

They had a lot of power because of their emotions. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely… maybe not an exact accurate, but by your description, it fits a bit.” He said with a shrug. “Maybe Madness, but I will not know unless I meet one and talk to them. I can guarantee there would probably be some things that I have done that would make you think I am mad as well, but to me or my people were completely logical.” Dragons were brutal, and so was their justice at times.

If it wasn’t for the sounds of sadness in her voice, Helios would be grinning at the warning. “This one you know of. By the sounds of your voice, you know it. This Sith was once a close student, or someone special?” that would explain the depression. “I apologize for saying this, but if I do meet this Sith, and they make one wrong action against me… there would be one less Sith on this world.”

[Ira]

Wakanda shook her head slightly. "No, I no know much of him. Story has et, he was Sith Lord leading war against Republic. He came back to Jedi though then go disappearing - en very short story. But he felt of the Dark. However, he did work with me. Help me with plague though we no do much. I am just confused by him being here. He disappear long long ago." However, she paused for a moment. There was no reason to doubt that the other presence here was indeed who she felt it to be. She had tried to ignore their connection. Time and time again she had tried to shut it out, but there it lingered.

"There es another one. And with that one, can no say I can blame or stop you. I did no think of her at first, but speaking of Sith bring her to mind and talking of et has also made me realize I can no deny et to self longer that she es no here. For she es."

[nightarcher]

“Well, that is two possible then for the Sith. I may well go and try finding one of them eventually. But that first one sounds interesting, that he or she could be changed from evil to good or whatever.” though at her description of one of them, he shrugged a bit. “From what I am gathering, it is possible for anyone to show up here, no matter where or when they are from. It is very odd. The entire mountain range I lived within was torn here by one of the rifts. It dissipated before I could locate it to study. Me and my students are stuck here.”

This second one he listened as she described her. “I guess she is family, or something close? If you were finding it so hard to accept her being here. Shame that fruit sometimes falls so far from the tree. I will try giving her the benefit of the doubt if I ever meet her” though if this Sith was as violent as Wakanda claimed, then even that wouldn't save her if she got on Helios's bad side.

Not long after he finished that statement though, there was another growl from him, though this time not from his throat. “Um, before we continue this conversation, you wouldn't happen to know a place that serves good food... and a lot of it? And if this city accepts gold, silver and copper coins as currency?”

[Ira]

Wakanda made no further comment concerning the Sith once the growl was heard. She smirked for she knew that sound well and was often plagued by it herself. The growl of a hunger. Ever since eating with those kids though, she had not truly eaten within the city for the simple reason that she had no way to have the money to ever pay for such things.

"I fish. No have the money for the eating en places. I think et was the gold. Gold coins they take en the change of food. Kids take me to place while ago. Not too far from here. Down ways ef I remember right."

[nightarcher]

“Good, gold and precious metals are the only real thing I have to pay with.” And if the currency was something different in another land or city… then he was screwed because he wasn't willing to transfer much of his hoard to something else. Especially something that wasn't all that valuable to him at all. Paper money like he had heard about sounded like kindling to him. “That sounds fine then. I really haven’t known if any of the restaurants were any good, were worth my gold. Go ahead and lead the way. I’ll treat you to a meal if you wish.”

“Also, in all this time, I haven’t introduced myself. My name is Helios’Astras. May I have you name if you don’t mind?”

[Ira]

People offering her food was one thing she could hadly resist honestly. She had the build of an average near middle-aged togruta, but the hunger of a greater kryat dragon. But she still felt rather bad about eating on another's dime.

But she also disliked refusing another's offer as well. That coupled with food. It'd save her the trouble of pulling fish from rivers and shallow parts of the water surrounding Hallowton. Self control like last time. Fish cakes. Just fish cakes. Maybe some extra bread. Bread. It was so good. But not as good as steak. Bread with beef soup.

Just thinking about it caused her stomach to put in its own opinion with its own quiet growl. How embarassing. Wakanda bowed her head and sighed. She had been too spoiled with the other Jedi and her steaks.

"Are you sure? I no want to be bother.-" She stopped short. Had she seriously not given her own name during the conversation? Oh jeeze. That was just down right rude. There went those lessons Renon had been having with her it seemed. He seemingly gave his full name. She supposed she should return the favor likewise.

"Sorry I no give et before. I am Wakanda." Supposing and doing were different things though.

[nightarcher]

Helios grinned, a slight evil look to the grin, when he heard the stomach growl from the Jedi. “So apparently fishing isn't enough to feed a lone Jedi? At least it sounds that way.” He hadn't been embarrassed when his body told him it was hungry, but she was. So he was going to poke at that a little.

“Just lead the way, and you can order whatever you want. It is no bother at all. Think of it as payment if you’re willing to try teaching me about this Jedi code.” He said a bit. It was no bother at all, he doubted this little girl could eat more than he was thinking of eating. “Think nothing of how much the meal is going to cost. It would be nothing at all.” That was true; no meal he knew could even make the slightest fraction out of his hoard of gold.

“And it is fine, I didn't give mine either. We didn't exactly start the conversation in the right way to provide introductions. Water under the bridge. So where is this restaurant?”

[Ira]

"This lone Jedi gets hungry at thought of food. Fish es enough to sustain. Nothing more. Es the goal though." Wakanda slowly stood back up and stretched afterwards. The cracking of several joints could be heard as she stretched out her arms. She debated the offer. But she was not one to refuse people generally.

She waved for him to follow her as she started to lead the way towards the restaurant. His telling her to ignore the price and cost of things though would, in turn, be ignored. She was aware to a degree money of sorts was hard to get. The soft jingle of golden anklets accompanied each step she took forward, her bare feet lightly touching the ground.

It took a bit, but eventually, the building came into sight. She pointed towards it, glancing towards Helios. "That es place."

[nightarcher]

“Then you don’t eat enough… or you are a bottomless pit for food Wakanda.” Helios snorted out a short laugh before just following along behind the Jedi. She had no idea that he could by far eat more than any two legged being, so even her bottomless stomach if that was what she had wasn't anything in comparison.

The jingling with her footsteps drew Helios’s attention to her jewelry. It was impossible to stop the single thought in the back of his mind of ‘Ohh, Shiny’ at the appearance of the gold. Damn his race’s mother for that little flaw. That Goddess had a bad sense of humor sometimes. He shook his head hard once and averted his eyes again to try not seeing the shine of the sun on the jewelry.

When they finally came to the restaurant it didn’t seem like much to his eyes, not that great. “Ok then.” He said before going into the restaurant. “Table for two please.” He asked of the human waiter at the front desk of the place. The pair would be led to a small table at the side of the restaurant.

A young woman came over to the table after they were both finally seated. “Welcome. I am Tanya, and I will be your server tonight.” She said, setting a pair of menus down in front of them. “I’ll give you a moment to look through the menu.” Their waitress walked away to another table.

“You knew where a restaurant was and yet you said you had only mostly been fishing for food. How did you know where this place was?”

[Ira]

"I think that es words they use to describe it," Wakanda replied in response to the term bottomless bit. The phrase really had no meaning to the woman, but hey - people seemed to use it a good deal. She followed him into the restaurant, remaining quiet as she even went to the table. She took a seat.

"Oh. People pay for me while ago. I do no know why, but I appreshiated their kindess. Wish more people act like that." She fell quiet for a moment. "Since, I just fish. Do what I do, go the docks or river fish and back to work."