The Jedi Code

XIV : The Mysterious Dart

"I-I'm so sorry," I continued to stutter to Obi-Wan with the heat still pounding in my cheeks as I grabbed a handful of napkins and while I continued to fiercely apologize, I tried to clean him up by patting him down and whipping the juice from his face. The whole time Obi-Wan didn't say anything but just continued to shoot me confused glances. However, I couldn't help but notice the unmistakable humor lingering in his eyes.

As soon as I managed to clean up his face and, what I could, off his robes, he actually started to give a soft chuckle of humor as he raised an eyebrow at me. "You certainly are something else, Sere," he then told me while I just hid my face with my hands, still terribly embarrassed. Not so much ashamed, just feeling like a complete dumb ass.

Obi-Wan then continued to chuckle as we got out of the booth and gave our farewells to Dex. "The two of ya should come here more often together," Dex called out to us with a loud amused chuckle. "You two are pretty entertaining!"

The two of us practically rushed out of the diner with that comment before heading to the Jedi Archives to try and find out where this so called planet Kamino was that Dec had been telling us about. The Temple was bustling with activity now seeing as it was well into the afternoon now. As soon as we arrived in the library, we found a personal computer and sat down searching the archive charts in an effort to find this Kamino.

We spent the rest of the afternoon searching until we gave up to rest, and now we were back in the library the next day still continuously searching. I let out a long sigh as I bit my bottom lip in frustration. Neither one of us were having any luck and I was starting to come to the conclusion that perhaps Kamino didn't even exist. But then again, Dex had no reason to lie to us. I could feel Obi-Wan's eyes lingering on me as I continued flipping through paper charts while he was supposed to be looking at the computer archives. I'm not sure how long he was staring at me but it was becoming annoying pretty quick, let alone creepy.

"Can I help you," I asked him without even bothering to look at him. He jumped slightly at my comment before quickly turning his attention back to the archives as if nothing had happened.

"What's bothering you?" Obj-Wan then asked while I let out another long sigh and rubbed my cheek with my hand as I leaned back in my chair.

"There's nothing here. I've gone through all of these charts at least five times, and still absolutely nothing," I told him to which the Jedi just looked over at me with a raised eyebrow. "Are you finding anything?"

"No," he answered with a small sigh.

"Any sign of this wayward planet?" I asked desperately for any type of find he might have made.

"Nope," he answered stiffly again.

"Absolutely nothing?" I asked with a groan.

"Nothing," he answered.

"Should we ask for help?" I then asked to which he turned and gave me an irritated look.

"We don't need to ask for help," he responded flatly causing me to smirk at him.

"Such a man, never wanting to ask for help," I said with an eye roll. "Well, the two of us haven't found anything so don't you think some needed assistance would be worthwhile?"

"Must you ask so many questions?" He then asked me which caused me to frown at him becoming extremely annoyed.

"Must you give such vague answers?" I retaliated to which, this time, he was the one to roll his eyes at me. I then stood up from my chair in a very abrupt manner causing Obi-Wan to raise an eyebrow at me while I just sneered at him and crossed my arms. "I'm going to find the archivist for help since you clearly won't do it."