>>5656546>>5656550>>5656553>>5656555>>5656558>>5656565>>5656571>>5656748>>5656826>>5656832>>5656877>>5656913>>5657045>>5657182>>5657245>>5657251Training Ceyla is certainly a unique experience, in part due to her species’ hereditary “blindness”. But not an exercise in futility. While she can see more than what eyes could allow, there are still subtle clues and hidden contexts that are not immediately seen at first glance. And while space is limited in the <span class="mu-i">Albatross</span>, there are still plenty of exercises and teaching opportunities abound.
“…there’s something different about the air unit,” she eventually says during a lesson in the engine room. From behind her blindfold, you can see how her brow furrows in deep concentration. “It sounds…different?”
“Are you asking me?” you ask gently.
She shakes her head and corrects herself. “No, master. It does sound different. The sound it normally makes is higher-pitched…and the air tastes a little stale.”
“Which means?”
“The CO2 scrubber needs maintenance.”
Master Larid once used a combination of blindfolds and sensory deprivation to make you more aware of your surroundings. When sight fails, turn to another sense – the smell of the environment, the taste of the air, the sound of bodies in motion. Everything in the galaxy has a spatial presence, and feeling where that presence is relative to your location is a critical observational skill.
Perception goes beyond keeping track of people. It also means taking notice of subtle clues at what Master Larid often called “the scene”. Even the smallest detail might have some importance or relevance to the task at hand.
“…did you tilt all the objects in my room by exactly three degrees?”
But one shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees.
>>Celya now has 1 rank in Perception (Cun)Master Larid often said that the mark of a good Shadow was adapting to limitations. The restrictions or otherwise confining “box” that one could find themselves working in wasn’t a hindrance – it was an opportunity to be creative. Destroying the box is a valid enough tactic, but one that should only be held as a last resort or a truly dire emergency. Continuing with the analogy, a good Shadow could not only adapt, but <span class="mu-i">thrive</span> in the box.
And Force help those in Master Larid’s path whenever he got…<span class="mu-i">creative</span>.
But, you digress. One would think that the (relatively) cramped <span class="mu-i">Albatross</span> wouldn’t be ideal at all for stealth training. Even without the over-capacity of hyper-vigilant Jedi passengers, a spaceship of its size doesn’t theoretically facilitate training as easily as a building or a cityscape would.
And yet, you not only manage to make it work – Ceyla <span class="mu-i">thrives</span>.
“She damn near gave me a heart attack,” Darté grouses at the breakfast table one morning. “Sneaking down the hallway like some sort of thief in the night.”
(cont.)
