It was a tad difficult for Lass to focus on meditating, likely one part the cold, and likely one part... nah, it was the cold. Adapted as she was to the cold of the deep, this was something different. But focus she finally did, but unfocused was everything around her; the world itself seemed to be pulling in multiple directions, positive and negative, dark and light. The inkling impulses tugged at herself, and sure it was frustrating, but eventually - with the a strange, almost sentient air to it - the storm subsided, and Lass let out a held breath.<br/><br/>Opening her eyelids - both sets - she was greeted by light, one of the planet's suns peaking through, lighting the thing up. When her master announced that that had been a test...<br/><br/>...wait, that had been a test?<br/><br/>"Um... what test?" she grumbled, brow furrowed, but said no more, just letting it sit that there was apparently a 'test' before the test, or 'trial' as it was.<br/><br/>She watched as her master easily manipulated the large, unpowered mechanism before them, watching as telekinetically the gears turned and rotating the giant lens, aiming the lens over to the frozen waterfall, causing it to unceremoniously melt and drip to the ground. How it melted was strange; water did not usually melt so fast, but then again perhaps the ice here was something other than traditional water; certainly would explain the temperature. When it finally collapsed, and the liquid presumed to be not-water spilled out around them and pooled ankle-deep before them... nope, definitely water, which was delightful when you would eventually have to walk back out into the wind. At least the boots - as with most of her clothing - were waterproof...<br/><br/>Then it was the kicker:<br/><br/>"Until the light fades?" she parroted, sighing as she rubbed mechanical fingers across one of her lekku, before realizing that her fingertips were as cold as the pain in her shoulder-mounts. "Wonderful, we get to search through what's essentially an ancient strip-mined cave for a tiny colored crystal on a time-limit..."<br/><br/>She met Laera's look - adorable, short twi'lek was amusingly predictable sometimes - and she gave the gal her age a smirk, followed by a firm swat to her delightfully curvy rump.<br/><br/>"C'mon, better hurry before you turn even blue-er than you already are." she quipped, before taking the lead as she always did between the two, something neither of them seemed to mind much, and in fact in many situations rather enjoyed.<br/><br/>With a silent, short wave back at their mutual master, Lass lead the two of them into the cave past the rapidly re-freezing entrance... maybe her training-saber could melt through it in a pinch...<br/><br/>"Sooo... we're just trying to find a couple of crystals, then get on out of here..." she mused aloud, talking to her cute twi'lek friend, glancing back at her. "Something tells me we're going to go pretty deep in here; this thing's been around for millennia... you got an idea for how we're going to find them though? I doubt they'll just be sitting around out in the open..."