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You nod your head in agreement, trying to piece together the parts, “I agree that it, whatever it is, is located in the valley. The excavators likely stirred the being from full slumber. Of all the Jedi that have visited this planet over the thousands of years, there is no chance I would have been the first to detect this spot of darkness unless another source has provoked it.”
Leaving your part of the awakening unspoken, out of a growing embarrassment and shame, you continue, “We need to station ourselves outside the entrances of the two partially opened mausoleums. If there is something capable of moving, then we need to be close in case it attacks the guards and then escapes.”
“No, out of the question,” Master Porro snaps out with a vigour you’ve only just now seen him possess. “If there is something there that can be considered dangerous, we’d be putting ourselves into the jaws of the proverbial Rancor. We could have our throats slit in our sleep. And then it would be free to escape without challenge.”
“It would be able to escape without challenge if it killed the local police force guarding the area. There’s no way we could know what happened in time, and if it is something weakened by age and tries stealth, we would do a much better job of catching it. Anyway, Force guides us and would not punish us to a simple death in our sleep. Don’t worry, I’ll protect you.”
Porro’s face contorts, not seeing any humour in your joke but a challenge; with a firmer and more confident voice, he replies, “What you say makes sense. I will get the locals to construct a small overnight outpost for us and a couple of guards so there will always be an ample presence of support. In an hour, we will leave. Get prepared for the day while I make couple of calls.”
Master Porro picks up the bowl containing his food and slips his hand into his light brown robes to extract his commlink, all the while withdrawing to a more secluded spot of the ship. Your appetite has returned with full force now that the earlier nausea is long gone, you eat a hearty breakfast to make up for the missed dinner. After hungrily devouring the fried meat and stodgy vegetables at a record pace, you cleanse yourself with a long and warm shower, removing all the sweat and grime of yesterday. Finally, you dress yourself in a pair of new robes, it is a cream-white encapsulated in a long dark black cloak.
