Following the Antivesuvians was easy work. There was plenty of cool, clean water to drink, though food was limited to the occasional tree that dispensed sugary berries, devoid of nutritional value. Nothing ever seemed to break the unrelenting pleasantness of the place (to the degree that all those rolling hills and weirdly abandoned but still ( Read more... )

 Luke had never been to the library here - not because he hadn't wanted to, but simply because he'd never gotten around to it. It seemed more like the antique shops in Mos Eisley or Anchorhead, though, packed full of the most random assortment of things, from datacards that looked halfway familiar to actual treepaper books, to things that were ( Read more... )

The green-white blade hummed as it sliced through the air, leaving red afterimages in the vision of anyone who happened to look at it.  Luke had stripped to the waist, and sweat glistened on skin still tanned from years and years running about in the sands of Tatooine as he opened his mind to the Force and let it guide him through the lightsaber ( Read more... )

Genius: The capacity to see and express what is simple, simply.
-Bruce Lee, from the Bene Gesserit archives

After a fruitful first hour as teacher (she had taught him the basic postures and assigned him another muscle grouping to work on), Sheeana felt ready to do. Theory was wonderful, but she had never been one to refrain from getting her hands ( Read more... )

Slobo had followed Luke to the White Room, the pair gladly finding it empty. On the way, the two had filled conversation gaps with Slobo describing his abilities and world. He had related tales of men with the powers of gods trying to save the universe or doom it, madmen with obsessive hatreds against the protectors of the people, and people ( Read more... )

Osiris was pleased with how things had been going so far. So that night, as usual, as soon as he was sure the Jedi would be sound asleep, he slipped into the other's sleeping quarters. This was too easy ( Read more... )

( ...The vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep. )

The small, unhealthy-looking girl shuffling through the halls on trips to and from the cafeteria and medbay-a few times per day, in fact-stands out for more than just her age... there's the way she eats enough for three people on each of her trips, all without seeming to gain any weight; and her odd, particularly slow-shuffling walk; and her ( Read more... )

Shifting the emergency pack straps on his shoulders, Luke threaded his way through the crowded hallways around the lounge, all senses active.  The Force told him a lot of things about this place:  parts of it were very old, the people here were pulsing with life, and at the very fringe of his ability to sense, strange things that he'd never felt ( Read more... )

To say that Luke was overwhelmed wouldn't be entirely accurate.  A Jedi had to be flexible, adapt to new situations and strange circumstances.  If they couldn't adapt, they would be in trouble, and from his study of the history of the Order, Luke had determined that that was part of the problem.  The old masters had become hidebound, blind to the ( Read more... )