Aria frowned at Yerbol as he started asking something about a bond forming between them, but took his hand and let him pull her back to her feet regardless. Now that he mentioned it, when they had fought she could have sworn that she felt a strange kind of shift in the Force; and suddenly it seemed so much easier to work alongside him, like she could predict his intended movements and adjust her own in kind to mirror or compliment them. At first she had chalked it up to adrenaline and her nerves messing with her, but now Yerbol appeared to be telling her that he had felt it, too, so perhaps it HADN'T been her imagination after all? She trailed up the winding staircase after the Knight, maintaining a white-knuckled grip on her lightsabers as they ascended. "Something was definitely different." she admitted at length so as not to leave him hanging, but her thoughts were still racing and she found it hard to organise them in any way. "I thought I was losing my mind, if I'm honest." a short laugh escaped her and she shook her head, finally meeting his gaze again despite the tense atmosphere that hovered between them since the fight had ended. "I'm glad it's not just me, but....what does it mean?" she wasn't sure if Yerbol could provide such an answer, or whether she wanted to hear it for fear of the implications it would place on them. "I mean, what little I do know about Force bonds would suggest that it might have...though they usually form between Master and Padawan, and rarely between others. I mean R-Revan and Bastila shared one but....you and I?" Aria didn't know much, but she had glanced over a few old texts a while ago, her father had been interested in studying Force bonds and she'd sat in on one of his research sessions in the hopes of learning something useful. Not that she'd needed any of it, until now apparently. "That's insane...we're not even supposed to BE a team, we're enemies, for Force sake!" Aria shook her head as if it would do anything to shake away this new discovery, but it did nothing to get rid of this new presence in the Force that she could feel, like an invisible anchor tethering her and Yerbol together, whether they wanted it or not it would seem the Force had joined them together. The acolyte growled angrily under her breath. This was bad. If they hadn't been in big trouble already by being sent all the way out here into Wild Space to do a Jedi Master's job, they were SO dead now. "Shit, my father's going to KILL me when he finds out." she couldn't imagine Yerbol's Masters in the Council being all too thrilled at the thoguht of him being tethered to a Sith acolyte, either. Aria paused as they neared the top of the stairway, tilting her head to the side as if she had heard the noise as well, and frowned. In their concern over the possibility of a bond forming between them they had almost forgotten where they were or what it was they were supposed to be doing. "I don't suppose now is the best time to be talking about this, is it?"