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As the human guards appeared at the stairs, Qui-Gon called, “Handle that door!” With that he stamped the platform control, sending it zooming toward the guards. Amid the fray, he called upon the deep quietness within, the soul of the universe that always listened, always answered.
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This earned Obi-Wan a look. “We were friends, my Padawan. I believe on some level, we still are—but that changes nothing. Never assume your friends are above wrongdoing. Even good people can make terrible mistakes. But I believe they should be helped to understand and account for those mistakes, a point of view the Council doesn’t share. At least, not when it comes to Rael Averross.”
“It looks almost exactly like kyber,” Qui-Gon said, turning the crystal back and forth. “The same heft. It even possesses some vibration with the Force. The differences are incredibly subtle. I see why you were fooled.”
But they had more than Rahara Wick’s word. Qui-Gon could feel the subtle flow of the Force around these two—the sense that they were people drawn to greater things. Despite Rahara’s past traumas and Pax’s bad attitude, there was very little darkness here. Some people, he thought, are drawn to the light as surely as flowers that bend toward a sun.
When the kyber that is not kyber shines forth, the time of prophecy will be at hand. It’s only a metaphor, he thought, as he always did. Even the ancient mystics probably never meant for it to be taken literally. It’s not as though some “time of prophecy” was meant to come around and make all their symbolic predictions become real.
Only through sacrifice of many Jedi will the Order cleanse the sin done to the nameless.
The danger of the past is not past, but sleeps in an egg. When the egg cracks, it will threaten the galaxy entire.
When the Force itself sickens, past and future must s...
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A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored.
“I’m not sure,” Qui-Gon said, “how much of a privilege it is to have one’s entire future predetermined—in this case, by an accident of birth.”
Ord Mantell.
