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At that several of the other children, even those who had exhausted themselves and were slipping into unconsciousness looked at her. Many of them started to move toward her, trying to touch her, whimpering as they saw how dim she was, knowing it was wrong.
"I'm all right, I'm all right!" Lily said several times, trying to be heard over the sudden clamor of young voices while Yoda looked on, his head cocked to one side and a faint smile on his wrinkled face. "I exerted myself that is all. Unlike you flesh and blood folk, using the Force takes it out of one in this state."
That caused Yoda's eyes to widen slightly despite his habitual self-control. Force Ghosts could not exert the Force outside retaining their non-corporeal forms, their whole being concentrated on simply retaining their forms extant from the Unifying Force. If Lily could do more than that, she must have been an incredibly strong Force user.
Or, a simple Force Ghosts she is not, he thought to himself before moving into the throng around her, adding his voice to that of Fay as they tried to calm the children down once more. As they did, he noticed the children trying to push some Force power into the Ghost's body. But none of them seemed to have enough control or power left to do it. Still, the fact they had even tried, perhaps consciously or perhaps unconsciously, was again telling that 'Mistress Lily' had most definitely made an impression on the initiates.
Soon Fay's presence and the aura she and Yoda of them could generate of peace calmed the children down. As soon as that was done, they once again began to move the wounded and the children to toward the medical center.
They were met there by Masters Micah, Tholme, and Saa. The three Masters were accompanied by the two knights who made up the crew of the Consular class ship, and the one knight of the five that had been assigned to the Explorer who was still alive. Knight Laitha was an Echani, who Yoda remembered as being remarkably good, as all Echani tended to be, with her lightsaber work, but lacking in certain areas of Force use. Despite that Yoda had felt her join the gestalt, and she was still standing and alive which said a lot about her skills.
Tholme nodded to Yoda as the six of them moved to help the children along, all of them taking up portions of the burden of a few of the floating children or simply carrying them in their arms. Yoda noticed Tholme glance at Lily then at Harry and the young Rutian Twi'lek that had been at the forefront of the fight.
"Report," Yoda said quietly to the taller human Master pulling his attention away from the three of them.
"Master Saa and I have scoured the rest of the ship Master," Tholme said softly, shaking his head. "Master Illuvael is dead, as are four of the five knights assigned to the Explorer. I have also spoken with my apprentice, who says that the master assigned to engineering will live, but will still be out of it for a while. Oxygen poisoning on top of a shattered elbow apparently. And on your end?"
Yoda glanced back the way they had come, then at the others as they continued forward. "Seven younglings dead, others injured, in shock, or Force exhausted." he said sorrowfully, shaking his head.
His face hardened noticeably. "Scour the ship you will with Knight Laitha, alive prisoners we must have."
"I have questions for them myself Master," Tholme replied with a nod.
With a gesture he gathered his padawan and the young knight, who moved towards him briskly, grateful to get away from the healing process going on all around them. Laitha knew where her strengthswere and they did not lie in this area. Leading the two out of the medical center Tholme glanced behind him, bowing once to Lily. She didn't even look up from where she was moving around the room helping to soothe the younglings, trying to help those who were still conscious recover from the shock of the battle and the deaths they had felt in the Force, though she didn't understand that last bit.
Fay and Lily both drew Micah's eye even while he too began to help with the children. He could feel Fay's power work even on himself, calming and taking away the aches and pains of the children as she moved around the room. It was an awe-inspiring show of Force power and ability, but the Force Ghost and her appearance grabbed his attention just as much. What the Force is she wearing? It looks like something I would see in the high-end brothels.
Despite that inattention however Micah quickly went to work on the children in his own way. Micah knelt down in front of the oldest students still awake, smiling slightly. "So young ones, how are you all feeling?"
He raised a hand when a boy made to open his mouth quickly. "Think it through initiate I want the truth, not a rote response. Your training thus far is good, but it certainly hasn't covered the feelings and shock of a battle like this. No one will question your mental abilities or toughness, nor will you be censured for it."
The boy, Alecto, nodded and looked towards the doorway. "I am a little in shock Master. I, I do not know what I felt through the Force during that battle, but I do know I killed people in it and I'm not certain what to think about that."
"I mean up here," he said gesturing towards his head, "I know it was us or them, but that doesn't really matter here," he said gesturing towards his heart. In the Duros, that was sharply to the right of his chest and lower down than it was in humans. There were some evolutionary reasons for that, but Micah didn't care about that right now.
"It is good that you already know that it was us or them young one," he said formally, resting his hand on the young shoulder. As he spoke others began to move towards him, the few boys and girls who had taken up weapons in that final moment to support the Force apparition and the Masters as they arrived.
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