The Jedi Temple, Atton's Coruscant, Monday Evening

Atton hadn't been kidding when he'd told Sparkle he was busy-- he didn't even have the time to linger on the island after the end of his class. A portal back to Coruscant, then two briefings about the pirates - one to him, one by him - and the rest of the afternoon had been spent coordinating their next moves with the various Republic agencies that, at least hypothetically, were going to pitch in for their effort to clear out the major trade routes.

Tomorrow, he'd be making a quick scouting run to make sure everything was on the up and up. If he was lucky, and nothing terrible went wrong, maybe he'd have the 24 hours after that off. Then he'd be back on the trade lanes, trying to find connections to possible pirate headquarters on Coruscant and around the Mid Rim, and...

... basically, he should be sleeping, now that he had an hour or six to himself.

Instead, he was crossing lightsabers with Her Royal Jedi Highness Bastila Shan again.

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