Once again, Garric was alone. Circumstances seemed to repeatedly repeat themselves in a way which left him abandoned, in one fashion or another. Now, Gash Jiren, his cousin and foster father, had left him for Yavin 4, on some damn fool idealistic crusade.

Of course, it had really been Garric's choice to stay. He could have left, could have gone with Gash on his mission of justice, or whatever the hell it was, but what would that have proven? Garric didn't believe in what Gash was saying. Assault without provocation was against the Jedi code. On the other hand, Gash had called the Jedi Code nonsense-

No, he'd been there before. It was a never ending cycle that seemed to chase itself around Garric's head; when it came down to it, Gash was wrong.

He'd met Gash at the Hermes the day he'd left, and their meeting had errupted into a fight which ended in Gash's proclamation of his ungrateful nature, and Garric's storming off. So now, he found himself back in the Jedi Council building in the center of Theed. The city Gash had assaulted.

Organa Solo...

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Leia's immediate answer to Garric's Force carried question might have surprised him, might not have. Leia didn't know. She judged it hadn't as she opened up to find him, however. He apparently had been looking for her because he wasn't very far away, she felt no detectable surprise within him.

Garric seemed to have located her and was closing in on her position, so Leia did not stir from the plush chair she sat in next to a window, hidden in an alcove. Those non Jedi who had the unlucky task of hunting down the Jedi Master very often knew that she could usually be found here when she was escaping New Republic paperwork.

At the present she wasn't escaping New Republic paperwork, but she might as well have been. She had been immersed in deep thought, and Garric's sudden entrance into that thought didn't really deviate her from her train of thought.

Garric Jiren... he had come to Naboo with Gash when Gash had gone Jedi. She had never really figured out quite why he had chosen to follow Gash, and the fact that he had not joined the Rogue Jedi Order only furthered her puzzlement...