Ahsoka rolled her eyes at his antics, a smile breaking across her face especially after the serious conversation they just had.
"No really! I can be!" Harry protested. He put up his hands next to his head and curled his fingers to look like claws, "RAWR! Rawr … rawr! See… Scary! You should be afraid."
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"Harry… I've known you for two weeks. Thus far, the only thing you've made me truly fear for … is my virtue..." Ahsoka snorted sarcastically as she rolled her eyes. "And with that face you're making, that's in no danger."
Harry, who was still making a growly face and had his hands up in claws froze and stared at her for several moment before breaking out into a full belly laugh. His hands fell to his sides as he curled up slightly from the laughter.
His laugh caused Ahsoka to break out in giggles of her own. It was almost half a minute later when their laughter eased. However, Harry had a wide grin on his face when he spoke, "You are learning fast, my Apprentice,"
She grinned and responded cheekily, "I have to keep up don't I, Master?"
"You don't seem to be having a problem with that," he finally allowed, a gentle smile still on his face. A few moments later, his expression turned serious once more, "Are you ready?"
When Ahsoka nodded, Harry didn't say anything, just locked onto her eyes and dived into her mind without a word and without moving a muscle.
Ahsoka stared at him, expecting him to do something. But he just met her eyes and didn't move.
She almost opened her mouth to see if he had slipped into one of his zone outs when suddenly her vision went black.
She was completely unaware as two other presences that had heard the bulk of their conversation waited as silence fell. Harry was well aware they were there, he just didn't particularly care.
He certainly didn't think they'd attack him while he was out of his body. And if they did, well … Dobby would be mightily offended. That usually meant bad things.
Ahsoka gasped and stumbled as she tried to find her footing. One moment she was sitting on a bed facing Harry and the next she was suddenly standing. It was sort of like being apparated, without the sensation of being sucked through a straw. It was just as disorienting to her senses though, especially as her montrals completely failed to provide her any information on what surrounded her.
She regained her balance and looked around, her eyes widened in surprise. It was like she was back on Coruscant in the very familiar skyline.
Harry was standing there next to her with his arms crossed as he looked around, a curious expression on his face.
Ahsoka took a breath and looked up at the Jedi Temple as it rose in front of her. She realized exactly where they were.
"We're in my head," She stated needlessly.
"Your mind," Harry corrected, "Though for the moment it amounts to the same thing."
At her inquiring look, Harry explained. "This is both your mind and your head. Though right now my mind is in yours, and my head is still out there." He gestured vaguely above their heads before he looked around at the familiar skyline while she processed that.
"I guess I can't be surprised that you used the Jedi Temple as your safe space in your own mind," he mused thoughtfully.
Ahsoka looked down as a blush filled her cheeks. She couldn't detect disapproval in his voice but she felt embarrassed and explained, "You said to create a place I knew really well. It's… really the only place I know really well and was my home … even after what happened."
Harry set his hand gently on her shoulder and squeezed reassuringly, "Hey, it's just a place that you're familiar with. I can totally relate to using a place that once felt like home but in the end also held a lot of bad memories,"
Ahsoka smiled a little bit and looked up at him. She not only heard the words and felt his hand on her shoulder but also felt the genuine emotion behind the words.
"I have to admit, this is pretty damn detailed. You've come a long way in a very short amount of time. I'm not sure I've met anyone who picked this up faster than you have," Harry's voice had clear admiration in it, that he made no attempt to hide. He knew that even if he had received competent instruction from the start that he never would have gotten this far so quickly. But it was also a testament to how much focus Ahsoka had been putting into her mind in the two weeks since they'd met. "I've been working pretty hard on it," Ahsoka admitted. Truth be told she had been spending pretty much every spare moment working on it.
Harry nodded slowly and chuckled, "I can tell. This is mastery level detail,"
Ahsoka blushed at the obvious praise and smiled but didn't reply, looking around at the skyline. It was one thing to picture it in her mind, it was another thing to actually seem to be standing there looking up at it.
"Are you still sure you want me to try and figure out how well defended it is?" Harry asked, "I can't quite be completely gentle and do so…"
Ahsoka swallowed and nodded, "If it's not going to work or I did something wrong, I'd rather know from you than from someone else."
"Okay, Then I'm going to go looking for your worst memories," Harry said. His voice solemn.
When Ahsoka nodded once more, Harry immediately disappeared without sound.
Ahsoka looked around wildly for him.
Then a look of surprise crossed her face. She could feel him inside of her mental construction of the Jedi Temple. As if her thought took her there Ahsoka found herself suddenly inside. She found herself inside one of the dueling rooms. The area felt somewhat odd to her without anyone there. Usually within the temple there were people practicing and training all times of the day. The detail was down to every stone and mat laid down and against walls for enthusiastic or beginning duelers.
She looked around wildly and felt rather than saw Harry's presence leaving the area. Clearly he was searching the Temple as he promised.
She once more tried to follow him only to end up at the top of the temple in the High Council meeting room, once more it was empty without any sight of him. He had already left the area.
She took a moment to concentrate as she tried to sense where he was once more. It only took her a moment to figure out where she was this time and she had a quick indrawn breath.
Harry was already in the Jedi Archives.
She suddenly appeared there and saw him sitting in a chair in front of a monitor.
She felt a sinking sensation in her stomach as Harry touched the screen of the monitor, as she would have accessed any file in the Jedi temple. She opened her mouth to call out in protest and once more felt herself being sucked to someplace else.
Suddenly she was in a completely different area. This was much darker than the brightly lit archives. It only took a moment for a gasp to escape as she recognized exactly where she was.
Ahsoka's hand went to her mouth as she looked around. It was the Chamber of Judgment precisely as she remembered it.
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