Nepharia

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That evening, Qui Gon increased her security, but still left her alone inside her apartment. Selera was getting ready for bed when she heard the guard on her balcony ignite his light saber. Selera went to the window to see the commotion: she saw her guard keeping Maul in his speeder and off the [...]

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“I need some time off,” Selera said putting her head down on her desk.
When would you like to go? came Qui Gon’s half-serious response.
I have too much to do to take a break right now, she responded. She got up and walked out to a small reception area where her personal assistant sat with [...]

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It took weeks to establish her routine. And Qui Gon was little help because he felt everything she did put herself at risk. Selera stuck to her guns when it came to doing what she felt was right, and the Jedi knight conceded in most things.
The only reason Selera got Qui Gon to back [...]

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Lunch was nothing fancy. It never was when Obiwan did the cooking; it was utilitarian, as everything with the Jedi. But it usually was enough to fill her up. The thing she enjoyed most about being with Obiwan was that she could be herself, something she hadn’t been able to do since leaving her [...]

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“Lady Selera, I strongly recommend you conduct all your meetings in your office,” Qui Gon advised, “Using your own apartment for this as you did last night makes it difficult…”
Selera interrupted. “And when someone makes a request to meet with me who, by nature, cannot come to these chambers, what am I supposed to [...]

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Qui Gon’s thoughts interrupted Selera’s conversation with her recently-acquired assistant: Lady Selera, you have a visitor. It’s your…Senator Palpatine.
Selera looked at the door momentarily and thought, Let him in.
“Rai, we’ll have to continue this later,” Selera stood from the table where she and her personal assistant had been talking and handed the woman back [...]

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Selera retrieved her own clothes and slipped into the bathroom to dress. After emerging from the bath, she could see Qui Gon was having quite a time getting Obiwan moving. She could hear his mental prodding directed to his apprentice.
“Exhausting evening he had looking after our guest, he did,” Yoda said. Windu hid a [...]

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Startled from sleep, Selera sat up and broke contact with Obiwan. She knew the close contact with him was causing strange dreams, but he also awoke with a start.
“Are you ok?” Obiwan sat up.
“Yes,” she gave a small shudder. “I had a strange vision.”
“Yes, you did,” Obiwan answered, but it was not the same [...]

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Because of Obiwan’s close proximity, Selera’s dreams were a strange mix of dreams and visions. They were so jumbled together that she could not tell what was real and what was from her own imagination. She kept finding her dreams drawn to a particular area outside the building, constantly interrupting the steady flow of [...]