Chapter 2
We take a seat outside the Council door and a minute later, they call us in. I check my wrist chrono. 8:00 sharp.
We enter the room and the 12 Jedi Masters watch us sharply. We stand in the middle of the room and bow. "Masters."
When I lift my head, I notice someone in the room who doesn't belong. Den Haght. A fellow Padawan. The apprentice of Plo Koon. My enemy.
He smirks at me and I scowl at him. What's HE doing here?
"Younglings, news, we have. Some of it, disturbing, it is," Master Yoda says. He turns to Ahsoka. "A Master, you now have. Picked you, he did not. Picked HIM for YOU, I have. Leave for him, you must. Master Windu, take you to your ship, he will."
Mace Windu rises from his seat and leads Ahsoka out of the room. Ahsoka casts me one last glance before following him. I turn back to Master Yoda-and beside him, Dev.
"Spirit, disappointed, we are," Yoda says. Disappointed?
"Distressed, we are. Know much, you do. Too much, perhaps."
"Master, I don't understand," I say, confused.
He points at me. "A traitor, you are. Told us this, Dev has. Saw you with Count Dooku, he did. A holovideo of this, he has. Proof."
A blue hologram appears in the middle of the room. It shows me, in the underbelly of Coruscant, meeting Count Dooku. The leader of the Separatists. What?
The hologram ends then. I stare at the place it was in shock. "Master, I didn't do it. I didn't meet with Count Dooku, I swear!"
Yoda shakes his head sadly. "Proof, that was. A traitor to the Republic, you are." He motions to Master Plo Kloon and Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. "Take her away."
They stand up and start towards me. I cast a look at Dev. "Dev, this isn't funny! Stop this!" I order.
He stands silent, seemingly solemn. "Why, Spirit? Why did you do this?" He asks sadly. He's faking it. I know he is!
"Dev!" I yell. "Stop this!"
He remains by Yoda's side. "Dev!" I plead as the two Masters close in on me.
"Come on, Spirit. Don't make this hard on yourself," Master Kenobi tells me.
"But I didn't do it!" I cry.
"But you did," Master Kloon says. "There's video proof."
"Nooooo!!!!!" I scream and thrust out my hands in anger. Master Kloon and Master Kenobi cry out as they slam backwards into walls, hitting hard. I stare at my hands in disbelief.
"No," I whisper. Then without a look back, I run out of the room.
"Stop her!" Yoda yells as I flee the Council tower.
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