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"You sure you're going to be okay?" Trever asked Kale. He wanted to reach up and brush some hair from his twin's face... but that would have been wrong. They were trying to be separate.

"I'll be fine, promise. I'm not going to leave the house. Tobias and I'll be fine. I promise," Kale said, looking a bit wistful. He wanted to go too. But... he couldn't. Too dangerous. The last thing they needed was for something to trigger off Kale turning into something like Nihilus.

Trever hesitated and then gave Kale a hug. Hugs were safe. Kale hugged him back. "I'll miss you."

"Me too."

"Right, okay. I'll try and keep you updated as often as possible."

"Good. Now go on. Shoo."

Trever stuck his tongue out, but left to find Axis. It felt weird going to find their father body or alive. He didn't know which would be worse.

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He reaches over and puts a hand on Trever's head. "We'll find him. Start at your house, follow the trail to the city, and see if we can pick up the scent there, eh?"

He shakes his head from under the hand, but with a smile. Axis is acting very Daddish.

"Hopefully. It's been a while though. Haven't a clue how to pick up a trail so cold. Kale could ... or... well... before... he could have." He gives his head a shake.

Well, he's used to acting Daddish; he's Daddish to Revan and Dann, after all, and almost-Daddish to Tobias.

"We'll find it. The conventional way. The Sith couldn't have killed everyone that knew, now could they?"

Would that make him granddadish to Kale and Trever?

"I wouldn't think so... but they're not Sith, dark siders... but not Sith. Kree'sha said that there could only be two, the Master and Apprentice everyone else ... aren't." He stares out the window for a moment. "Mom's gonna be pissed."

He's never thought that far, since his line more or less ends with Revan.

"Only two? Hm. I think Revan mentioned that. Doesn't make sense, if you ask me. Dark Side's the Dark Side, and they'll squabble and backstab each other regardless." He looks over at him. "And why do you say that?"

He's already sort of acting that way.

"I think it's the... stuff they teach you that makes the difference. Different philosophies... you know, like there's all the different Force Using traditions. Kree'sha was teaching me Jedi ways." He gives Axis a look, "Because Kale and I haven't contacted her since we left home and Kale's not with us."

"It might matter to the Force User, yes, but to the rest of us, there's only ever been Jedi and Sith, and they've only ever been branches of the same religion to people not in those circles. But interesting, that Dark Siders are teaching Jedi philosophies. She using their code as well?"

He grins. "I'm almost glad I never had to deal with that. She'll be happy to see you're okay. Mad but relieved."

"No, not the code so much, just their methods." He finds it kinda weird talking about this. He's not talked about his time with the Kree'sha, even with Kale.

"She's gonna ground me." He doesn't seem to be too happy about the up-coming meeting. "Oh... we're going to have to land outside the farm and walk in. Unless you want my mom to shoot us."

"Curious. She throw in any other methods? Baran Do, Zeison Sha?" For a Jedi killer and a hard-ass, he can be surprisingly amiable and open. Not to mention he's obviously not going to judge him.

He chuckles. "You'll be fine." And he gives the top of the console an affectionate pat. "This baby's too pretty to get dinged up. Walking isn't a problem."

"Never heard of the first. A little of the second." It's highly unlikely that Kree'sha would be wanting Trever to figure what's going to happen to him in the future.

"Well, if I'm not. I'll just blame you," he says cheerfully.

"Hm. Always prefered the former." Most of the ones he'd met had put up less of a fight.

He snorts. "Gee, thanks. You're so kind to the only person who'd agree to do this."

He shrugs. "I couldn't say, dunno what the former is."

"It's my mother. She's scary." He's still being cheerful.

"They can see into the future, farther and with more accuracy than the Jedi. I've heard that Revan studied with them, and Tobias wears their robes."

"Mandalorian," he reminds him cooly. "And what's got you all perky?"

"Huh... interesting."

"Mmhmm..." And then, "I'm going home... I haven't been home in ages it seems like. I miss it."

"I know you two get along about as well as kath hounds and kinrath, but you could always talk to Revan about it. He might be willing to help with the meditation of it, at least."

He smiles. "See, it's not going to be that bad. You'll get to go back, for a while at least." Though you might find you've outgrown it, he doesn't say.

He doesn't ask 'why'. Instead he says, "Kale said that Tobias said that Revan said he might help Kale with his slicing."

"Yeah." He probably has. But that doesn't stop him from missing it.

Revan's just realized that a lot of the old teachings have been lost. And there isn't anything he hates more than the loss of knowledge. Besides, who doesn't want foresight? "That's a lot of saids. But he probably would, yes. He's an excellent slicer; no reason not to pass that on."

A talent for foresight does run in the family. It's how their father survived Order 66.

"I didn't hear it directly," he says with a slight smile. "The teacher might be willing... but the student is still hurt."

See, he can totally be helpful with that.

"No one ever required the student to like the teacher. I'm told that Malak disliked his Jedi teacher, Vrook, but he still learned from him."

But is that a good thing?

"It's not a matter of like or dislike ... so much as 'he tried to kill me and what if he does it again to prevent me from becoming like Nihilus?' that's bothering Kale." Trever thinks that's a perfectly reasonable worry.

Potentially. It means he'll know what and who to avoid, right?

"I can't say for certain, but did he consider that Rev'ika knew that that wasn't going to kill him? And I think if anyone would be worried about Kale turning into Nihilus, it'd be Tobias."

Like Trever'll actually listen to that one.

"How would he know it wouldn't have killed Kale? It killed those Jedi Masters."

"The Masters didn't have twins, now did they? Probably figured it'd either sever Kale from the Force, or, less likely, it'd kill you both." This comes from John, who's standing at the entrance to the cockpit and gazing out through the viewport.

"So you're saying that Revan figured that I'd keep Kale alive?" He asks, eyes never leaving the viewport. It made some sense to him. The way the two of them were -had been - connected they couldn't let the other go away. It would kill them.

"How much longer? D'you think?"

"You did, didn't you? He doesn't seem like he'd be so stupid as to not factor you into the equation."

They've already gotten through the portal. "Couple minutes," Axis replies as he puts the controls back on manual. "We aren't going to get shot of orbit, are we?"