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As she ran her hand across his shoulder, he closed his eyes for a moment and actually enjoyed it before brushing her hand off.

"Don't think you can just start rubbing me without my permission." Darth Talon said as she walked back in front of him.

"It is a good start, but never enough. I do not know much of Tutaminis so you can actually help me there. There is still much for you to learn, as well as I."

"Then your master was a fool. Why should I learn Basic if I have not mastered math yet? I should forget math altogether, I'm still learning geography. You limit yourself by limiting what you learn. Learning one technique can carry over into understanding of another. That doesn't mean become jack of all trades master of none. Continue studying what you already know, but that can be done anytime. Absorb what you can when you can from those you meet and you will live a thousand lifetimes."

He cracked his neck and hopped onto one of the islands in the water after he finished speaking.

"No I understood perfectly but took it to an extreme to make a point. If those I offend are dead then they messed up and should have took more care to be alive and able to defend."

He could tell with certainty now that she had alot of baggage regarding her old master. But he did not care what the dead thought of him only what he could learn from them.

"Okay so you can defend yourself well with your tutmaninis, your force drain. And you can move quickly. So other than some extra power to bring to a fight what else could you be efficiient at? Speed alone will not help you in spying and assasination. Which you could do quite well at if you were able to melt into the shadows. I can help you with such techniques."

"I do not know yet, but it will be clear soon enough. What areas of the darkside are you drawn towards?, other than the ones you already know so much about."

Darth Talon wrapped the Darkside around his body and and stepped out from the rock onto the water. He lifted himself as he stepped forward and held himself up as his foot met with the water. It gave the appearence that he was walking on water as he moved towards another little island.

"As I thought." Talon said as he walked onto another small island and released the darkside from around himself. He closed his eyes and focused on the area surrounding his body, using the darkness to bend the light around his body to create a mirror-like effect. It seemed as if he suddenly just dissipated into thin air. His voice carried out from the spot where he still stood.

"There are many ways to conceal yourself with the force, it all depends on what comes most naturally to you. If one is good with mental techniques they can hide themselves from the very minds of other beings and creatures. The Twilight technique known as Shadow Armor bends the light and darkness around oneself to make yourself indistinguishable from darkness. That technique is easier for Sith to learn but is not usefull in a brightly lit room."

Talon hopped to another rock letting his darkside presence be easily felt.

"But this alone is not always enough. Maybe on non force users or droids, but with others you can still be seen, through the force. The other half is hiding your presence through the force, there is more than one way to do this but it is a harder technique regardless. On top of that maintaing both at once requires much practice and focus. But the results can hide you from Death itself."

Turlon finished saying as he stopped speaking and closed his eyes. He grit his teeth and called upon the darkside, trying to create a zen state that was fueled with power and passion. It was very difficult to create and took a few moments to make any progress. His hands clenched into fists as he continued focusing on the force cloak as well as the Quey'tek meditation that would hide his presence from the force.

Turlon thought about her question and broke his concentration, once again appearing visible to her eyes as well as the force.

"That seems like more of a mind affecting type of technique. Which would be useful but not effective against droids or cameras. Feel free to use the grand library it will have scrolls, tomes, holo videos and books, as well as holocrons. And that is good to know, it warms my heart, I wouldn't be very effective at creating Sith if they all liked me."

"Yes but Sidious mostly would conceal himself only from the force, although that is still a hard feat to keep up for so long. And many have clamored for my heart, I say let them try."

He said as he jumped to another island.

"So tell me the basics and how you started learning Force Drain, Tutaminis."

"No no it's fine, continue."

He said before springing forth from the island he was on and landing next to her. 'Sense the energy and guide it back using the force.' Talon thought, easier said than done. He reached out with the force and felt Nyra's signature in the darkside. He tried calling out to her energy to guide it towards him, calling out to it like he did when he touched the force. When that didn't work he tried ripping her energy from her, but it was like trying to pull a horn out of a bantha with an oily hand. He continued to try to wrench energy from her but all that did was cause him to accidentally pull Nyra towards him. He did not apologize for this however and without missing a beat he continued as if it was what he meant to do.

He reached out to take each of her hands in his.

"Try it on me, now that I understand it mechanically it will help to have it demonstrated, and what better candidate than myself?"

With the sting of her slap fresh on his cheek Darth Talon smiled, using the slap to spike his connection even closer to the darkside. He stood proud and closed his eyes as she began to leech off of him. Wanting to show how powerful he was and how vast the contrast was between the dark lord that stood before her and the shirtless tree hugger she had thought him to originally be. As he felt the effects of the drain begin he payed close attention to how it felt. It was similar as to when he transferred some of his power to others, but it felt more as if he had been violated rather than consciously giving. It didn't seem so much as the power was being forcefully taken from him, but as if it was being...stolen, sneakily rather than ferociously. It became much clearer to him now and Talon grinned, basking in his ability to figure things out and further connecting himself to the darkness.

By the time he had made this connection in his head about half of his power had been taken away. His eyes snapped open as he had just come up with an idea. He began to use his remaining energies to bend the light around his body. Using the darkness to mold and in some cases devour the light and render him invisible to the naked eye. He hoped that she would sense what he was doing to the force as it was stripped away from him.

He was now at about a quarter strength and sat down cross legged as he fought to maintain his cloak. The energy was rushing out of him at a much faster rate than the darkside could replenish.

"Feel out for the ways in which I bend the force to my will. It may help..in your training."

He said as his breathing began to grow heavy, but still not asking her to cease. He also hoped that the massive amount of energy she was receiving would help guide her and make it easier to grasp the technique.