[quote=TheWanderingWraith]
I have a padawan-in-waiting. In other words any jedi without an apprentice can mentor her.
[/quote]

We have no Jedi without an apprentice. 

Also, why would Kess' force connection be hidden away? 13 years ago would have been during the waning years of the Old Republic, and Jedi were still being recruited at a very young age.