Understandably, the Padawans were nervous wrecks as soon as the ship touched the planet. The energies pulsating off every cliff and crevice would have that effect on younglings who had never been in contact with presences this strong in the Dark side before. Therefore, it made sense when Yerbol volunteered to accompany them, even if the thought of not being with him if something bad happened left a funny feeling in the pit of her stomach. Looking out of the viewing window, she observed the deep, reddish tinge to the sky that indicated night-time had indeed set in. Out in the distance, across the sand dunes, a large square building jutted out of the cliffside, two saber-wielding statues standing proudly on either side of a yawning entryway. Aria pointed towards it. "Academy's just across that way, the hangar's on the second floor next to the training room, just keep following the hallway round till you see the stairs and it'll be the door on the right. Watch out for old excavation sites that the sand hasn't filled in yet, they're all over the valley." she warned them, "And steer clear of any old bones, if you touch them you'll wake the Hssis and they'll be starving." She spent the hour it took for the sun to go down suiting up and offering any tips and tricks she could to the Padawans once they had finished meditating under Yerbol's guidance. She waited with them by the loading ramp to give Yerbol and Neta some privacy as the pilot slipped over to have a conversation with the young Knight before he joined them. "Just stick near to Yerbol and stay calm, I know you're afraid but a lot of the monsters here are Force sensitive and they'll pick up on your fear. Neta and I will start in the tombs and make our way back across to the Academy with anyone we find." The ramp touched the orange earth and Yerbol was beside them again, unfortunately they had to hurry and there wasn't time for them to talk properly though he did throw a glance over his shoulder at her as the little expidition descended the ramp towards the Academy. She chuckled softly at his joke, replying: [i]Hey, it'll be fine! I know how to deal with tomb beasts, remember? Don't you get beat up by any frightened acolytes either, okay?[/i] She wanted to add 'I'd hate it if anything bad happened to you', but for some reason kept the thought to herself. It probably wasn't an appropriate thing to say, especially in front of everyone else. Neta joined her a few moments later, the pilot's bright blue eyes boring into her knowingly for a moment before she shrugged and hopped off the ship. "Okay then, which way first?" she asked instead, though Aria had a nagging sense of dread that the mercenary had something else to say, there was something about the twinkle that glittered in her irises that just...gave Aria that impression. She tried to ignore it and keep things objective, gesturing towards Marka Ragnos' tomb. "We'll check Ragnos' tomb first. If anybody's still alive and they're sheltering out here, it'll be in Marka Ragnos or Ajunta Pall's tombs. The other ones are too far away, they'd never get that far along the valley while being chased." Aria only had to duck slightly to get underneath the small door into the burial ground, drawing one of her sabers from her belt to her hand and using it as a light to guide them in the gloomy darkness the tomb presented them with. "Keep your ear out for any noises, Neta. They could be acolytes, or worse, Tuk'ata or Shyrack. Either way, we wanna know what's coming before we walk into one of them." she warned the pilot, a smirk playing across her lips. "And if you're going to use a blaster, try not to miss, the wall's are close in here and you might hit me, which wouldn't be great."