Jedi Stories: episode #3 The Apprentice and a Friendship
Previously: A shadow has obtained a special book…it is the journal of the extinct Sith! Frey Corta caught him in action and the Shadow has confiscated something dear to Frey…his family. He also has gone and sold Frey to someone on Alderaan.
Now, two weeks later Frey is standing at the bottom of a large estate. The person who had purchased Frey was Alex Skywalker. Alex had decided to buy Frey because he knew that it would be the best thing for Frey. If someone else bought him, they might beat him and treat him horribly. He had no way of knowing that Frey had not previously been a slave and Alex wanted to set him free. He had given Frey the conditions: that Frey must stay and be a servant to the Skywalker family. Frey would receive good food, warm shelter, and good clothing…along with pay. Of course the pay wouldn’t be the greatest, but it would be enough to survive on. Another word about Frey’s family. Yes, Frey is 60 and Brax is about 20. Frey kind of had his son at a late age. Anyway, Frey was currently stacking boxes and crates for Alex when there is a large clatter. It’s Elliot, Alex’s older son. “Oh great,” thinks Frey. “Here he comes again.” Now even though Alex was taking care of Frey, he didn’t really consider Alex a friend, Frey technically had no friends now, and Elliot is brutally mean to Frey when Alex isn’t around. Frey didn’t really know Lowdun (Alex’s younger son) very well, in fact he’d only caught a couple glimpses of the guy, but Frey assumed that he would be the same way. Frey wished that he had someone, a friend that he could trust to tell the Shadow’s secret to. But Frey knew no one the he could tell. Frey sighed as suddenly Elliot ran at him. He knocked over a couple of piles that Frey had so carefully arranged. “Watch out Slave! Oops, I forgot…servant I mean. You just watch yourself around here and stay out of my way! I don’t want a lice-infested scum (servant) in the same room with me. Now move so I can get to my tools.” Frey makes an effort, but isn’t quite fast enough and ends up tripping over the pile that Elliot knocked over. Frey grabs Elliot for balance. Elliot glares at him angrily and punches Frey so hard that he falls to the ground. “Apologize for touching me!” “I’m sorry for touching you,” says Frey. “You better be, old man! In fact, I am a gentleman…get down on your knees and say it.” “What?” exclaims Frey. “Get down on your knees, Sewer Rat.” Frey sees no other way out of it, so he does as was asked of him. “I’m sorry, Apprentice Elliot for touching you.” “My correct title is Apprentice Elliot.” “I’m sorry, Apprentice Elliot, for touching you.” Elliot gets this smirk on his face and goes for the bucket of dirty water that’s used for cleaning animal stalls with and dumps it on the surprised Frey’s head. “And be thankful that I was lenient.” Elliot goes back through the door in which he came. Another person comes out from the opposite door. It’s Lowdun. Frey thinks, “No, not AGAIN! I can’t take another humiliation.” But to Frey’s surprise, Lowdun didn’t act like his brother at all. He rushed over to Frey to help him to his feet. Frey was not expecting this at all. “I’m sorry my brother did that to you! I’ve been trying to talk to you because you seem lonely and Elliot has no right to treat you that way! Here, I’ll help you clean off. You can use the shower at my time…I’m running kind of late as it is. I just wanted to let you know that I cared about you. I think it’s awful what my brother did to you. I overheard the whole thing. I could do nothing about it because he treats me the same way…well less brutal, but he’s still not nice to me. He’s a selfish hog.” Frey sees hope in this and says to Lowdun, “We will talk again sometime. I’ll need you to help me get my family back.” Lowdun looks at him quizzically, but Frey says no more. He knows he risked a lot by just saying that…if the Shadow were to find out…well let us not continue that thought. Lowdun glances at his watch and is alarmed that he only has about 15 minutes if he wants to see that Force card…. Until next time!
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