“I’m not sure. Hopefully,” Jax replied to An-Lok before they were getting up to dress. He got the feeling that she was reluctant to tell them too much, so he didn’t know what exactly to expect. He guessed that she must be willing to share something if she was calling a meeting, but what it was, he didn’t know. He could guess that she disagreed with his decision to agree to help this girl, although whether and the rest of them just thought it was foolish to agree to help a random person with so little information or if she had a deeper reason, he couldn’t say.<br/><br/>As he finished dressing and sat on the bed, he watched An, chuckling when she asked if he saw something he liked. “Always,” he grinned, complying easily when she pulled on his shirt to pull him down into a kiss. When the kiss broke, he stood and took her hand, heading out of their quarters and towards the lift.<br/><br/>It wasn’t long before they were in the hanger, where Jek met them on the ramp of Aeris’s ship. He offered the other man a small smile as he and An-Lok headed up the ramp, following him into the conference room. Once inside, he took a seat next to An, taking her offered hand in his and turning his attention to Aeris, indicating that he, too, was ready.<br/><br/>Aeris had spent most of her time in the conference room considering what to tell the others, and then a little time meditating before they had arrived. Yet, even now, as she felt Jax and An-Lok enter the hanger, she still felt some uncertainty. She knew, though, that she would just have to trust in herself, in the Force, and in her friends.<br/><br/>When the others had all joined her in the conference room, she opened her eyes. She looked across the table at An-Lok and Jax before looking towards Jek, who had taken a seat next to her. She gave a small smile when his arm moved around the back of her seat and he placed a kiss on her cheek, telling her without words that he was there to support her and whatever she decided to tell the others.<br/><br/>“The main things I wanted to talk to everyone about were this rescue mission and the visions I’ve been having,” Aeris began, pausing only a moment before continuing. “I haven’t told anyone everything, and I still don’t intend to,” she continued, pausing once more when Jax spoke up. “I realize it might be uncomfortable to talk about but is there a reason why you can’t or won’t tell us everything?” he asked, “Do you not trust us?”<br/><br/>Aeris pursed her lips slightly and shook her head, “That’s not it. I don’t want to tell you for a few reasons. To start with, there is no guarantee that my visions will come true. The future is always in motion, always changing; these visions are just possible futures, paths we might take, they are not set in stone,” she explained.<br/><br/>“That might be true, but isn’t it better if we know what to expect? So that we can prepare ourselves?” Jax asked. “I don’t think so. At least that is not true for every situation. Each of my visions has the same overarching scene and the same setting, so I can gather that it will most likely come to pass. Nothing else is stable, though. Everything else is always changing. So I don’t think knowing the details of what might happen will do us any good,” she explained.<br/><br/>“Besides, visions don’t exactly give a clear picture of what will happen even in the future you are presented with. You get only moments out of what could be hours, days, weeks. There is no way to know if the moments you get are connected, but our minds tend to try to connect them, nonetheless, and in doing so, we may avoid that which we believe is the cause of some undesirable outcome, only to cause that very thing,” she sighed, rubbing the back of her head.<br/><br/>“So, you’re saying it is best if we don’t know? But then how do we prevent something bad from happening?” Jax asked. Aeris chuckled bitterly, “We don’t. At least not in the way you are thinking. We just have to be cautious, just like we would do anyways,” she answered with a light shrug. “But...” Jax began, but he was cut off by Aeris shaking her head. “Tell me. If I showed you a vision in which you fell into a trap, and another where An, distraught and angry, ended up getting hurt, what would you think? That you falling into this trap and being put in danger caused her condition and led to her being hurt?” she asked, getting her answer when his blue eyes shifted downward.<br/><br/>“Do, if you thought, then, that you would ultimately hurt her by falling into this trap, can you honestly tell me that you wouldn’t act differently?” she asked, watching as Jax’s mouth opened and then closed without a word. “Exactly. You would likely focus on that perceived cause and try to avoid it, perhaps even at the expense of remaining vigilant to other possible dangers. Yet those two scenes may not have been connected at all. Her pain and anger, her suffering might have occurred hours or even days before, or perhaps it was the cause of your entrapment rather than the other way around. There is no way to know,” she explained, her voice just a little weary as she did.<br/><br/>“Do you see my point?” she asked, getting a reluctant nod from Jax. She shifted her gaze up to look at An-Lok, and then Jek, wondering if they had anything to add. She wanted to talk about this rescue mission, but she didn’t want to just keep rambling on without giving anyone else the chance to speak, so she paused briefly to allow them that chance.