Star Wars: See the Sights

While Ian was experiencing his first lesson in the force, elsewhere; under the fall of ash, Jent had been all but buried. Critical, his breaths drew as shallow gasps; devoid of air, and he slowly slipped deeper into a coma.

Nearby, someone trudged through the ash.

They paused for a moment, before walking up to where Jent had collapsed, crouching down and dusting him off. This mysterious figure then checked Jent's vital signs.

"Hmmm, still alive, good, and carrying a trace of the vergence too... Interesting," the voice was deep, gravelly, and muffled by some sort of mask.

The masked man then pulled out a stim pack from within the folds of his robes and injected it into Jent. He waited for Jent to stabilized, and once he had, the figure hoisted him onto his back and walked off, disappearing into the ash storm.

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Back near the village outskirts, Ian had finished experiencing the Force Sense memory. He sat legs crossed in the snow; focusing, trying to duplicate the feeling he had experienced in the memory.

At first, he tried searching inside himself, letting his conscious focus on specific parts of his body; looking for that threaded ball that was in the memory. Was it inside his head, his stomach? But no, this method didn't feel right at all, so Ian stopped.

"It was more, freeing, effortless... I guess." Ian spoke to himself, affirming his ideas.

Ian cleared his mind, and instead of focusing, he did the opposite; remembering memory Illus's instructions, he disseminated his consciousness through his body, as if breathing out his very being. It started at his centre, not his physical centre but a spiritual one, and it slowly spread outwards. Tangled cords unfurling; floating, receiving, and relaying as if communicating. It felt illusory yet palpable. Like he was a living part; the beating heart, of the world around him.

This was the feeling that he had in the memory.

Ian opened his eyes and the intake of visual information made his mental state waver; so as that it was harder to retain the previously achieved state. The threads seemed to struggle; as if wanting to return to their previous form, and Ian quickly figured out why.

It was as if he had spent his whole life reading in braille, by touch; as a blind person. Now, although he had gained sight and was able to see the world more vividly, he habitually felt the need to fall back on his lesser senses to interpret reality; or to read, so to speak.

So Ian sublimated his need for visual sight or more accurately lessened it, letting his Force Sense become the main lens from that which he now viewed the world.

Illus had been watching her disciple, quietly; not wanting to break his concentration, and spoil any potential epiphanies he might have. Sure enough, as she expected, the system had chosen right, Ian had barely stumbled for a moment before grasping an ability that took most Je'daii years as a youngling to learn.

Illus clapped her hands together, ready to applauded Ian. "Congratulations, as expected of the one to -Beep- and inherit the m-Beep- for the love of God, let me posture... I mean congratulate my disciple please," Illus begged, as the system interrupted her repeatedly.

"He-he there's no need to be mad master Illus... But it seems like you were wrong, I do have some 'sense' after all" Ian chuckled, knowing full well that he had just learned Force Sense at a protagonist level speed.

"Humph, its nothing to be proud of... every Je'daii learns it that quick, in-fact you were a little slow... I'm... I'm... disappointed," Illus pouted, irked by Ian's cockiness.

Ian said nothing, he just stared at her with a knowing smile, before calling out the system interface. His eyes scanned down until they laid on the Force Sense Skill:

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|<-Force Skills: Click To Open: [∨]--(1)-->|

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(Core) - Force Sense: (Current Level: 117) The Practitioner's Ability To Sense Through The Force.

Tier 0 (Learnt) Force Consumption - (Variable)

Tier 1 (Capable) Force Consumption - (Recovery -0.5% of Skill Level )

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<(Further Abilities Sealed, Reach The Rank: Padawan, To Unlock Tier's 2 and 3)>

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He had skipped straight passed Tier 0.