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Chapter 2 - 2 Chapter

I slowly open my eyes, I must have fallen asleep.

Letting out a small breath I eye my beak. So it wasn't a dream. Looking around reveals that I'm in the same room as before, nothing seemed to have changed. The Droid is still standing by the instruments, pushing buttons.

I carefully push myself up on all six before pulling my hands from the ground to stay on just my legs as I work my beak, stretching it to its limit before relaxing as I ruffle my feathers and wings.

Moving over I look over the droids shoulder. Most of what's on the screen is in the oddly flowing script you always seen in star wars, the only thing I recognize is a medical scan of my body. It matches what I remember about Morrigi biology, both from my life as a human and my pure knowledge from the Morrigi life.

After taking a few moments trying to figure things out I give up and look around for something to occupy my time until Yoda returns. Finding nothing but medical equipment I likely shouldn't be playing with and a droid I don't understand anyway I head to the door to look over the control panel.

The droid makes noises behind me but I ignore him. The control panel looks simple enough. Two small buttons over a bigger one.

I try the big one and such enough the door whooshes open. Poking my head outside I look both ways down the corridor. No sign of anyone.

Carefully I exit through the doorway...while big for a human it's more than a bit cramped for me and once I have squeezed through I glance back at it, wondering how the hell they got me in there in the first place.

The droid makes more noise and I ignore it again as I look each way down the corridor. Marble floor and light brown walls with alcoves and decorations. Not having any idea where it goes in either way I start to make myself down it to the left.

It doesn't take long until I reach another door. Pressing the button doesn't cause it to open at once, causing me to assume it's locked.

As I turn to try heading in the other direction the door opens to reveal a tiny room and I turn back, poking my head inside. On the left, there is a panel with a large number of buttons on it with symbols on them.

An elevator then.

I hmm and head-tilt. It looks kind of small, but maybe I can...

Waiting until the doors start to close again I put a claw between them to see if it got a closing safety thing modern elevators got.

I trill happily as it touches the claw and immediately opens again.

Feeling confident it is safeish I then try to fit myself into the elevator. It takes quite a bit of work curling up in it and once I actually manage to get my long prehensile tail inside I fill almost the entire elevator.

Turning my attention back to the button panel I look at it closer. Still not recognizing any of the symbols I just press one at random, around the middle and top of the three rows of buttons.

The doors close and I fold my wings a bit tighter. Turns out Morrigi instincts protest about being squeezed into a tight space barely bigger than themselves. At least there is no gorram elevator music.

Half a minute later the doors open again to reveal four tiny humans and a bigger one, wearing some kind of brown and white robes. They all pretty much blink at the sight of an elevator looking like it's filled with scales and feathers with a beak and a pair of big eyes.

I blink back and then try pressing another button, closing the doors again. As the elevator starts to move again I trill in amusement at what must go through their minds at the moment.

Next time the doors open it's another corridor, this time it's empty so I slowly start to extract myself from the elevator. It takes a bit of work and I snort at it. Why cant these people make their rooms at a decent size?

I shake my head and then streeeetch, giving my wings a small shake before making my way down the corridor again. Only a few minutes later I reach a section with windows. Looking out confirms my suspicions.

Outside there is a field of massive buildings, swarms of small air vehicles and far, far below there are beings the size of ants moving around. I'm on Coruscant then.

Likely in the Jedi temple.

I stand there, looking out over the planetwide city for another few minutes before closing my eyes and shaking my head, tearing myself away from the sight to continue down the corridor, glancing out the window again from time to time.

On the way, I pass several doors before I reach the end of the corridor to find another door blocking my path. I frown slightly and, hoping it's not another elevator, I press the large button which causes it to open to reveal a rather large room filled with fountains and pillars with large windows showing the city far below.

I blink and squeeze myself through the door before looking around. The entire room has a peaceful feeling over it and the air is warm and moist from the fountains.

Hmming I head deeper inside, looking around before heading to look out the window again before turning back to the room. Those pillars look comfortable.

Now that's something I never thought as a human.

I make my way over to the pillar closest to the window and start to climb up it, digging my claws into the carved rock as I coil around it in a spiral, my tail wrapping around it and then tightening before I relax, my claws and position keeping me from falling and it's actually kind of comfortable.

As soon as I'm in the position I turn my head to look out the window again.

I'm not sure how long I was looking at the traffic and ships flying around but it ends when I hear the door to the chamber open.

I turn my attention back to the inside and spot Yoda once again walking inside, leaning on his cane.

He make noise at me and the hmmms?

I just blink at him "I still don't understand you, dustling. Am I not allowed to be here?"

He hmms and walks over to sit down on a small soft pillow before looking up at me before touching his chest "Yoda."

I blink and head-tilts before pointing at him "Yoda."

He makes small happy sounds before pointing at himself again "Yoda." before pointing at me.

Oh yeah...I need a name, don't I? Better make up something Morrigi like that I like...I'm likely going to be stuck with it so I might as well pick something sounding good.

I point at myself "Atreus." before pointing at him "Yoda."

He hmmms and nods "Atreus." while pointing at me before pulling out a small metal object and making noise at it.

Moment's later the door opens and a small human walks inside. He is wearing brown and white robes with hair cut short and a thin braid. The boy is carrying a big serving plate covered with a selection of fruits, vegetables, and meat, both cooked and raw selections of both.

The human put the huge plate down on the edge of a fountain close to my pillar while giving me a bit of a nervous look before backing out of easy pouncing distance.

Yoda gets up and walks over, pointing at the tray and then at me before taking a small fruit to eat.

He then points at himself "Yoda." and then at me "Atreus."

Turning he then points at the boy, maybe 14 years old at most "Dooku."