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Dooku now allowed his lips to form an actual smile, reaching out and pulling a glass of water towards him with the Force before handing it down to his lightsaber student. Legacy, legacy, this boy! "Indeed, well spotted, and defensively?"
Harry paused, looking at his the older man thoughtfully. "I was going to say Soresu because that is best, most well-rounded defense, but that doesn't feel right. Shien?"
"And why is that?"
Harry paused silently for a moment, thinking as he got to his feet. Gulping the last of the water down he gave Dooku a grateful bow before sending the glass back to where it had come from with his own Force power.
From the sidelines Lily watched on, smiling brightly. Dooku was harsh taskmaster, but he had despite his misgivings become something of a male role model for her teenage son. Lily could already see some of Dooku's mannerisms rubbing off on Harry, the way he stood and spoke, his unconscious attitude and charisma becoming more obvious. She looked down at Fay, smiling as Luminara and Komari went over the match they had just watched. "Our boys coming along quite well here I think."
"Our boy?" Fay asked, smiling up at her dearest friend. Lily simply nodded, and Fay felt her eyes soften for a moment before they went back to watching Harry and Master Dooku. "Yes, our boy. He has indeed. I could wish that the Force had a… less fraught plan for his life, but needs must when the Force drives."
Eventually Harry replied to Master Dooku's last question. "Soresu is not only a lightsaber form, but a combat mentality. It takes too much of your mental attention, imparting a sort of outline to your Force Precognition's abilities. I could not concentrate enough to use more than the bare minimum of my Force powers with Soresu without decades of training at it. Both sides of Form five, Shien and Djem-So are more adaptable to the use of Force techniques in combat situations, and while even Shien is physically demanding it doesn't impart the strain on your Force Precognition that Soresu does. Moreover, they can be used in tandem, it is easier to segue from one of the two to the other than it would be from Djem So to Soresu."
"Excellent!" Dooku said clapping his hand together once. "Well thought out. We will begin a series exercises for both. I expect you to be able to be able to shift quickly from Shien to Djem So by the time we are done. Only in so doing will the styles be truly one entity and a viable combat style, and I will have nothing less than the best from you. Is that understood padawan?"
"Yes Master Dooku," Harry quick said quickly, bowing once more.
"Good. In that case we are finished for now. I believe Master Fay wants to take you into town for a bit? Indeed, I have to go into town myself, there was another pirate attack last night, and they wish my input on it and the recent Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo."
Harry looked up at that, frowning and Dooku looked at him, his eyes narrowed. Harry had yet to fully remove himself from the pirate issue, and more than once Dooku had found him playing with a computer going over the pirate's attacks and their positions. "Have you decided what is bothering you about that Padawan?"
"No Master," Harry said sighing as they moved to join Lily and the others Vosa.
Vosa reached out to ruffle Harry's hair, having fallen into something of a friendly role with the young teen. A part of Vosa kind of resented how much attention her former Master was paying Harry, but most of Vosa knew that Dooku was not a good healer mentally or physically, and was grateful for his help anyway. "I'm sorry I haven't heard this before what exactly about the pirate attacks is bothering you?"
"It's not the attacks themselves," Harry said, as Lily reached out to touch his shoulder lightly wordlessly supporting him. "It's something about there not being a pattern. Something about that bothers me."
"There are multiple pirate bands operating Harry," Dooku said mildly, not reprovingly, he wanted to lead the boy on. Dooku too felt there was something off about the pirate attacks, but his Force senses had not been able to tell them anything nor his natural deductive skills. Fay hadn't had any insight either, and Luminara couldn't care less. She was to help Vosa heal, and that was all. She hadn't even been part of the discussion about forming a starfighter corps to go after the pirates.
"It isn't something that is there, but rather a lack of something," Harry scowled, his nose wrinkling as he tried to think up a better way to say it than that. "I can't describe it any better than that. Something isn't there that should be there, but I can't tell you what."
Dooku and Master Fay exchanged a glance at that. "Something in the data?" Master Fay mused.
Then Dooku got it. "There is no overlap," he said suddenly. All of the pirates are operating in specific areas, they're not competing. And there really isn't a pattern, there is no pattern of types of ship, route attacked, or kind of goods targeted, it's too chaotic, as if it was planned to be so. Interesting and definitely something for me to look into Padawan, well done."
As Harry, after a hug from his mother ran off to the showers, Dooku looked over at his former Padawan. "Are you well enough to do some research?"
"Of course Master," Vosa said quickly, then blushed slightly at addressing him in the way she had used when his padawan. As a Knight of course she could simply call him Dooku, but that sounded so wrong. "What would you need of me?"
"Harry's right, these pirates must be operating together somehow. There must be a link between the four sectors they are operating in, something that points the pirates towards their targets. It could be something completely random, but it will be there. I need you to go over all of the raw data we have from the attacks, everything the inspectors, sector defense navies, even the insurance groups came up with. There will be something there that we can use to find whoever is behind this operation."
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