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Khan Sainen-On a bunk in the prison[/b][/center]

Khan was laughing just as much as Koren had been at his own jokes, finding the whole experience to be a big relief after the boredom, fear and tension that had filled his time for the most part since his arrival on the prison ship. Still, he was using as much of his training as he could to make sure that even when he would have been practically falling over laughing he was staying in a relatively fixed position. To anyone not in the know, it would probably look like he was still just making sure that Xid wasn't going to keel over dead as he fixed some medical equipment. The reality of it was the young Echani was doing his best to run interference between Xid and the cameras while the Jedi Knight modified the training saber into something more useful.

In fact, Khan had been doing a lot of 'helping' for the injured Jedi that was actually more subversive than it looked. They had spent some time along with a female he still didn't know well learning how to covertly open and operate the lifts in case the need ever arose for them to be used in speed or secrecy until Khan was sure he could do so himself if necessary. Converting the training saber into a more useful weapon was just another step in what Khan hoped would be an eventual escape from this place, not that he could manage it on his own. For now just being here with others who were not Sith-aligned, laughing and listening to entertaining stories was enough. It was a little bit of light in the darkness and as his Master might have said, all those little lights can add up.

Then, the laughter and joking changed.

Khan noticed it in Koren first, could read the sudden seriousness his posture took on, the alertness to an approaching danger the Echani did not yet feel even though the older Jedi continued with his storytelling. Nevertheless he altered his positioning slightly, to appear neutrally posed yet combat ready regardless in an attempt to prepare for whatever was coming, give himself an edge if they had to react. Xid was still too injured to fight, but many if not all of them were gathered there. If it came down to it Khan was prepared for a fight. In the next few moments he heard the turbolift engage and tried to keep his posture fluid and relaxed.

Two troopers walked in with what was obviously a Sith in tow and moved to seize Xid. Instantly every muscle in Khan's body prepared for violent action, though to an individual not skilled in body-reading it would hardly be noticeable. The scenario was already running through his mind at the speed of thought, not a Jedi's precognition but an Echani warrior's tactical training though hardly as flawless as one properly trained: 

[i]A quick hard impact to snap the helmeted head back followed by a spear-like jab into the throat to disrupt breathing and blood-flow to the brain as soon as the first trooper moved in range, spring up and maneuver the now disoriented and gasping if not unconscious first trooper between himself and the second to absorb possible retaliation, follow through by tossing them into each other, finish off the second as he tried to steady himself from the impact of the first. Two of them down in a few moments time. The Sith would be harder, Khan would have to use what little talent in Force Speed he had and the dark warrior's own arrogance and the lack of martial arts training that were both obvious from his stance to overwhelm him before he could draw his weapons or bring the Force to bear, a gamble but a necessary one to protect his new friend.[/i]

As he was just about to strike, Koren stepped up between the troopers and the Sith, his body radiating caution like crazy as if he was shouting at Khan to stay still along with everyone else in the room. Khan stopped almost by reflex, having been conditioned from earliest childhood to obey in these sorts of situation. So instead Khan watched everyone for signs of hostility but otherwise sat helpless and frustrated as the older Jedi volunteered in Xid's place. If he moved now Khan was confident he could still take the troopers, but with Koren in the way he couldn't get a clear path to the Sith and that would needlessly expose his comrades to danger.

It killed him almost as much as abandoning his Master had, but for now he would just have to wait.