<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/KUiedyp.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Elesei Rider (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2317841)<br/><strong>Hit Points :</strong>62 / 62<br/><strong>Condition :</strong>0 (Healthy)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Defenses</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Reflex :</strong> 20 (Flat Footed 16)<br/><strong>Fortitude :</strong> 17<br/><strong>Will :</strong> 19<br/></div></div><br/><strong>Noteworthy Features :</strong>Lithe and slight human female dressed in a tattered robe and hood showing battered boots and bright green eyes looking out on the world.<br/><strong>Tag :</strong>Speakeasy Introduction<br/><hr/><br/>The sudden attack of the clone troopers, those comrades of long years of war had devastated Elesei's world.  Jedi Master Kaku Adurk had sacrifice his life to hold off the rain of blaster fire as the small detachment of clone who had been traveling with the Jedi and his Padawan tried to kill them.  He'd ordered her off, told her to seek shelter and help at the Jedi temple and even used the Force to push her away and out of the line of fire.  Elesei had wept tears of frustration and fear but she'd run, pausing only slightly when she felt the tremor in the force that spoke of Master Kaku's passing.  The next hour or two had been lost as she fled deeper into the bowels of Corsucant, running and using her Force skills to speed away from the site of the tragedy.  It was only later that Elesei had mastered her emotions and centered herself on the Force.  That she had fled even though ordered by her master and had lost control of her emotions and thoughts were both disturbing and for a moment Elesei contemplated seeking out death in the squads of hunting clones that had covered the city-planet.  But life and hope and above all duty burned strong in Elesei and she shook off the depression and sought refuge in the calmness of the Force.<br/><br/>She knew that all hands were turned against her from watching the video's from the edge of the crowd.  Elesei had quickly acquired a cloak to hide her distinctive garb and Padawan's braid and moved steadily but carefully toward the Jedi temple.  It was when she heard Obi Wan Kenobi's order to disperse that Elesei knew that she was alone.  Yet, she recalled her talks with both her master and Mei who served as her master's scout and fixer that there was a place on Corsucant that she could head to in order to make possible contact and get off planet.  If Mei was still around she knew that they could meet there or word could be sent to her.  Now Elesei had a mission...<br/><br/>The next three days had been hellish as she'd dodged patrols of clones and police and even normal citizens.  Only her Force abilities had saved her as she covered her tracks and scrounged what she could.  She'd changed out of her Padawan garb although her well worn boots had been retained.  The light saber was concealed as she made her way to the cantina in the derelict factory district.  Elesei had again avoided patrols and skulked her way through a darkened city locked down under curfew.  Elesei had watched from the shadows as several strangers approached a soup cart outside the location.  They did not seem to be bounty hunters and when they moved toward the cantina's entrance she followed quietly.  It was only when she say Mei that Elesei hurried.<br/><br/>"Mei," she called out softly.  "Kaku... it's just me.  We need to get inside."  She glanced around at the others, green eyes considering.  As the eye turned to her she spoke the words that had been drilled into her by Master Kaku as the ultimate backup.  "I've come to see the clerk Bass.  Let him know that I am a comrade in spreading the dialectic."