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Nar Shadda Salek ran back through the main sewer tunnel, mind scanning out for anything to help. The sewers weren't well maintained, but they weren't completely decrepit either. Between his bad vision and his rush, he couldn't spot any nooks or rubble piles that would realistically hide him...

Nar Shadda The flashbang grenade exploded a bare meter from Salek's face, having been launched from his outstretched hand. Fortunately for him, it didn't create a concussive blast, only a loud noise with an ultra-bright flash. Given that he had been congenitally blind from birth, he was...

Salek followed his master through the bustling streets of the ship's interior. Many of the walls had been ripped down inside to create broad alleyways with tall ceilings, and shops lined them. He felt like he was back on the Ithorian herdships with his mother, listening to the trades and chatter...

Nar Shadda So be it, Salek thought with deep sorrow. He hadn't expected to go out so young. But if took these monsters out, and saved the lives of beings throughout the galaxy for years to come, then it was a worthy price. He was at peace. But his training had been thorough, and he knew not to...

Salek's mouth worked silently for a moment. He had always expected that the Sith's arrogance would be their downfall, but if Salek himself got killed because their hubris caused them to make a silly mistake, that would just be...sad. "Five meters? Maybe for the tiny little balls the Sector...

Nar Shadda "You won't think it's funny for long if I sense an intent to move," the blind Jedi said calmly. He paused for a moment to think, his mind reeling and spinning through possibilities and potential outcomes. Salek thought back to his training. He had practiced physical fighting, sure...

The moment the door cracked, dark side energy flooded through into Salek's senses. It overwhelmed the sewer smell and made him force down a gag. Stronger and fouler than anything he had ever experienced, it tasted like corruption and decay and fear and arrogance. But it didn't make him quail...

Salek ran a hand through his muck-splattered hair, then wiped it off on the wall next to the door. Of course he would get the puzzle. He tried to sense through the door to see what was on the other side, but nothing. More wards. He lowered his head and focused, flexing all of the Force sense he...

The Errant Venture had a long and storied history, if not a particularly glorious one. Originally the Virulence, it was one of tne of the few Star Destroyers to escape the rebel victory over Endor. It had subsequently spent some years in the service of Imperial warlords trying to claim the...

“So where are we going, Master?” Salek asked. He hoped it sounded deferential rather than strained, but the sensation of being out in space was not kind to his nerves. Every time before this, had had simply been blind. But now he could feel around their small ship, and it was all…empty. The...

Nar Shadda "You can leave if you like, but we are trying to find the source of this outbreak. We're not going anywhere." Salek nodded to the Vratix in agreement, but his words were cut off by a flurry of threatens and weapons being drawn. He stepped quickly back out of the line of fire with a...

Thudthudthudthudthudthudthudthudthudthudthud What had originally sounded like a piece of distant machinery or the clattering of far-off monsters approached rapidly - too rapidly to be anything natural. As Izel looked back at her companions, the outer rim of her compound eyes caught a flicker of...

The bar of incandescent destruction snapped out and intercepted the final pebble, swatting it out of its wobbling, erratic path in a flash. Master Lentus had gradually ramped up the difficulty of the precision drills, but as Salek's sight grew ever-sharper and he learned to time his reactions...

One day, a couple of months into their dueling practice, Lentus lowered his stun stick with a thoughtful expression on his face. "How's your sight doing?" he asked. "You're holding up three fingers," Salek replied. Lentus only grunted in reply, a sign that he got the joke but wasn't in the...

Telekinesis class, it turned out, was far less strenuous than saber fighting. Salek, with his natural view of the Force's connections through things, had gotten quite good at the skill in the Jedi Temple, and his Master decided to skip the basics and move right in to practical applications...

Salek and Lentus stood across from one another in the stone courtyard, lightweight stun sticks held ready. They were fuzzy and hard to see, but the energy crackling through their lengths gave them a definite shape in his Force sense. Salek's mind still reeled with all of the techniques and...

Some time later, Salek awoke in his small bed. Master Lentus was sitting next to it, reading a datapad. He looked up as Salek opened his eyes. "I know Teras Kasi," he said in an awed whisper. Lentus gazed at him steadily. "Show me."

This time, Salek was better prepared for the experience to come. He accepted the bond readily and drank in the vision of plants and stars while Lentus prepared himself for the next steps. As minutes ticked by, even stranger sensations began rising from the depths of his consciousness. He felt...

The master and pupil sat cross-legged on the stone courtyard in the center of the beautiful garden. Insects with big, flappy wings fluttered around Salek's head, and one landed on his ear. He left it there, enjoying the little tickle. Master Lentus took a drink of the hot tea and set the cup...

Lentus Tavano shuffled down the shuttle platform, the purposeful spring in his step reduced to a shuffling trudge. He felt weary and full of pain. Though living things were still vague blurs to Salek's senses, he could feel the sharp red agony of a blaster burn through the Jedi's shoulder, and...