Somewhere in the temple, a barely visible figure skulked about a dark room.  He was completely alone, save for the droid that occupied the same room, though where it was exactly, the Padawan was still trying to extrapolate.  The simulation that was programmed for this exercise was meant for more advanced trainees; one in which the training droid actively suppressed it's emissions in order to make it harder to detect by even a Jedi.  The objective was simple; to find the droid before it found you.  Simple a task as it was, it was reserved for more experienced Padawans due to both the nature of the exercise, and the actual difficulty involved in making one's presence harder to detect.

The droid passed between a pair of pillars in the middle of the room, patrolling the confines of the chamber slowly and diligently.  Jenner made a leap between two support beams near the ceiling.  He had been pursuing the droid on and off, being able to detect it's presence for only a moment before it faded again.  After several minutes of trial and error, Jenner finally managed to find it without releasing his concentration on his force cloak, weak as it was.  He looked down and spotted the droid; a small orb with several slots and pits about it's surface where sensors and training blasters were fitted.  The droid still hadn't spotted him, however, giving Jenner a perfect opportunity to strike.  Jenner leapt down onto the droid, holding his cloak until the last second before activating his vibrant green lightsaber and bringing the blade within an inch of the droid.  "I win," he said, satisfied with his performance.

The lights came back up and the droid returned to it's starting position in the middle of the room, just as Jenner deactivated his weapon.  He released a sigh and realized that he had quite exhausted his strength while trying to hold the cloak as long as he had.  Still, he considered this a success, being the first time he had managed to maintain the technique long enough to complete the exercise.  That's not to say he hadn't done it before, but those were times in which he didn't rely on his force cloak at all, and was able to focus purely on physical stealth.  He figured it was best to work on each approach individually to the point of near perfection and combine them later.

Still, Jenner had tired himself concentrating as hard as he had on maintaining the force cloak, and now he felt the need for some peace.  He brushed a lock of his longish brown hair away from his eyes and headed out of the training room, entering one of the Jedi Temple's many hallways.  He walked down the cavernous hall in silence, making his way towards his room.  As tempting as it felt to meditate in the contemplation gardens, there was something innately comforting about being in one's room, and he found that the tranquility he experienced there was equal to, if not greater than what he felt while visiting the gardens.

Somewhere in the back of his mind, Jenner wondered where his de-facto Master had gotten to.  Being a Knight as opposed to a Master, Rayne was given several duties that went beyond what a Padawan could reasonably handle.  He was currently on another such assignment, and left Jenner to continue to master his control of the force, as well as to meditate and take some rest.  It had been some time in the last several months since he had a break, and given how close he was to attaining Knighthood, Rayne felt that Jenner deserved a rest.  Jenner was thankful for that, to say the least.

As he walked past one of the other training rooms, he heard the sounds of a duel, most likely between another Padawan and their Master.  He felt a familiar feeling coming from the room, and as the sounds of lightsabers cutting the air and clashing against one another reached a sudden stop, there was a pause, followed by laughter.  He recognized one of the voices as the Cathar he had seen a few times before, Charuri.  He cracked a small smile and continued down the hall.

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Jenner felt the force around him.  He felt it as he guided it to gently levitate himself above the floor.  He felt it's presence swirling about him in various ways.  He felt it pervade his being and everything around him.  It affected himself and everything around him as he and his surroundings did in turn.  He found it calming to immerse himself in it's flow, and to occasionally try to reach out and see what it would tell him.  He tried to do so this time... but he found it difficult to follow through.  He wanted to, but something was stopping him from doing it.  Nothing that directly affected his ability to do so, but something nonetheless.

Jenner decided to open his eyes and lower his feet to the ground, standing himself up as he released his immediate influence on the force.  There was something that had started bothering him not long ago, but he couldn't quite tell what.  There was an uncertainty that hung in the air, and whether it had to do with what would soon be his graduation to Knighthood or something else entirely that he could not hope to foresee, was a mystery to him.  He decided that letting such feelings fester was a bad idea, and sought out guidance from one of the Masters.