[center][color=007236][u][b]Aria Saal[/b][/u][/color][/center]

Aria sidestepped around a disgruntled Aqualish as she moved to enter the cantina, eager to get off the dingy streets of Nar Shaddaa's Red Sector. She made similar trips once a month to meet with the Jedi that had once been her tutor, to keep up to date on the happenings within the galaxy...mostly because she wanted to make sure she wouldn't be caught off guard by the Sith suddenly making a re-appearance. The shift came out of nowhere and before she knew it, the Jedi guardian had lost her footing and stumbled face first towards the floor. 

The bright light all but blinded her vision as the laser-like beam swept across her vision in a swift flash, in its wake everything that it touched began to wither and die. The emptiness that was left behind as the beam faded back into the ship's open maw was stifling. This was not a simple death of a planet, no...the planet was still there. They were all still there but they were barren and desolate wastes not unsimilar to the deserts that swirled across the surface of the Sith planet Korriban. As the spacecraft disappeared once again into the darkness of space, Aria was wrenched back into reality.

It wasn't until she felt the stinging slap as someone hit her sharply on the cheek that Aria realised she had stopped breathing momentarily. Spluttering as she struggled to take in air to make up for the breath she had lost, Aria sat up to find the startled face of a Cathar peering at her through narrowed eyes.
[color=fff79a]"Force sake, Aria, if you've been using again I swear..."[/color] Qanarr hissed in annoyance, her tail lashing as she pulled the disgruntled woman back onto her feet.
[color=007236]"Piss off, Qan,"[/color] Aria quipped back at her former Master in response, [color=007236]"I haven't touched a stim in six months, I feel [i]awful [/i]and it's all your fault."[/color] she sniffed at the Cathar as they made their way into the cantina quickly to avoid drawing any more attention to the incident; a few of the passing locals had already stopped to gawk at them and the more they could pass it off for a drunken loss of balance the better it would be.

When they were seated at a booth and out of earshot of any prying bounty hunters and the like, Aria spoke up again. [color=007236]"And I'm not drunk either, I [i]saw[/i] something."[/color] for a moment the guardian was doubtful that Qanarr would believe her, but the Jedi Master leaned closer with a glint of interest in her dark eyes.
[color=fff79a]"What did you see?"[/color] she questioned in a hushed tone. Aria carefully began to re-tell the events that had unfolded in the vision, pausing every now and then to make sure she had gone over every important detail she could recall. Qanarr's grave mood had not improved, in fact it had only worsened, as Aria finished and folded her hands together on the table in front of her in an attempt to stop them from shaking uncontrollably. 
[color=007236]"I've never seen anything like it before."[/color] Aria admitted, fighting down the feeling of unease that settled in the pit of her stomach as she mulled over the vision again, [color=007236]"What do you think it could mean?"[/color]

Qanarr was unsure, shaking her head as her tail twitched from side to side, betraying the agitation that she masked so well. [color=fff79a]"I cannot say for certain...but it is clearly important, the Council should hear about this."[/color]
The suggestion put Aria's back up, she stiffened almost immediately, her lip curling upwards into a scornful sneer at the mere mention of having to see the Jedi Council again. She had come to Nar Shaddaa to avoid them, not to go strolling back because of some vision that made her former Master nervous. While she had agreed to keep things amicable between herself and the Council, that didn't mean she [i]wanted[/i] to see them any time in the near future.
[color=007236]"If you think I'm coming with you back to Coruscant then you can piss right off!"[/color]
[color=fff79a]"And if [i]YOU[/i] think you're going to stay here and just get drunk again, you've got another thing coming!"[/color] Qanarr retorted as she got to her feet sharply. 

Aria's protests would be all for naught in the end. Few could argue with a Cathar and win, after all...and so she would soon be co-erced into a small transport cruiser bound for Coruscant to report the vision to the Council.