<strong>Alest</strong><br/><br/>The master shrugged, "To be honest, I'm not sure.  I've had better days."  Alest looked over the proprietor.  Another Twi'lek.  They seemed to be all over the place these days.  He clamped down on any emotional reaction he might have.  This was neither the time nor the place.  His power was limited, not enough to deal with the whole Council, factional as it was.  Patience, that was the key which the idiot Palpatine and his predecessors never learned.  They'd been ruled by their passions, rather than using, channelling them.