A Darkened Gathering - Part Eight

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Hesitantly, she reached out, focusing on the positive emotions and the lighter side of the Force. The rocks were indeed heavy, but she felt the one covering Traxos’s arm shift with her own Force strength.

The Darkness could help you.

“I’m not using the other side,” Katyra snapped, before ing she had an audience. Traxos stared at her in the darkness.

“Who are you talking to?” He asked. Katyra sighed, reluctantly releasing the rock.

“Myself,” she itted, shaking her head. “I… I can’t move them with the Light.”

“Yeah, you can,” Traxos reassured her. “Katyra, people are scared of you going Dark because you already use the Dark side. They aren’t scared of it being in you, they know that’s part of you and who you are. Most people who were exposed only to Dark side before the Jedi, usually stay Dark.”

Katyra looked at him, pursing her lips. “But I didn’t?”

“Yeah! I even heard Master Rakhana saying how strong you have to be to resist that kind of pull,” Traxos laid his free hand over his chest. “Honest, Katyra, I wouldn’t lie about that. You’re a lot stronger than you think you are.”

Katyra bit her lip as she looked at the rock under which Traxos’s arm was stuck. Maybe she couldn’t lift it, but if she could push it aside enough for him to get his arm free, they could both work at the rocks on his legs.

Use the Dark and you can do the lot.

Katyra sighed. “Traxos, promise me you won’t tell anybody about what I’m about to do.”

“Why?”

“Just promise me?”

He hesitated, eyeing her warily before nodding. “Okay, I promise. What are you gonna do?”

“I’m gonna use the dark side,” Katyra replied, closing her eyes. She heard Traxos gasp and felt herself smile. “Don’t worry – I can use it without giving myself over to it. That’s what people don’t understand; I don’t let it control me, I control it. Like a tool.”

She reached out, feeling that strange mix of Force surrounding her. She drew on the Light one more time, just to be certain, before drawing on the Dark. Slowly, she felt the large stones all moving, ri. She opened her eyes to see Traxos staring at her, the stones hovering in the air above him.

“Well, move!” She told him. He didn’t need to be told twice, scrambling away from the stones. Once he was clear, Katyra gently lowered the stones back to the ground, setting them down with a touch so light that any dancer would envy it.

“You didn’t even break a sweat,” Traxos said in awe, “How did you do that?”

Katyra looked back at him, mentally putting her “Force-tool” away once again. She shrugged. “Like I said, you use it as an ally; I use it as a tool. That’s why I’ll never go completely Dark, I think – because I can just put it away at any time.”

Traxos continued to stare at her, before something seemed to catch his eye and he turned his head to look. He raised his hand, pointing.

“Look! A crystal!”

For a moment, Katyra felt panic as she ed the red crystal in her pocket. But Traxos wasn’t looking at her – he was pointing at a patch of rocky ground. Katyra frowned, looking from Traxos to the spot he pointed at.

“I don’t see anything,” she stated. Traxos shook his head, pointing again.

“See? Right there! How can you not see it glowing, it’s so bright!”

“Traxos, I can’t see anything,” Katyra told him, looking between him and the spot again. He scrambled over to the patch and scooped up what looked like a rock, clasping it in his closed fist.

“It’s warm to the touch. Katyra, look!”

Katyra looked down as he opened his hand, and had to hold a hand up to her eye as the light almost blinded her. There, in the middle of Traxos’s palm, sat a brilliant blue crystal.

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