Amilthi Camlenn
Meditation Junkie
The journey she made along the Perlemian Trade route from Silver Jedi space to her ultimate destination of Kiribi led Amilthi past the planet on which she was not only born, but had spent the first half of her life, and on which her parents probably still lived. Amilthi was still a sufficiently normal human being for this fact to set in motion a thought process. She was insufficiently normal for this process to proceed along normal lines or reach a normal conclusion.
Amilthi had no complaints about her childhood. She had been provided all the security and stimulation she needed, and while her parents had been somewhat emotionally distant, this was not something she had ever minded. But she had no notion whatsoever that Ralltiir was her home; it was merely the place where she happened to have grown up. Since then, she had spent her life in a different world, the last years of solitude on Tatooine especially. She had become accustomed to different ways between people and different priorities than the affluent inhabitants of Ralltiir, to the point of losing to a certain extent the ability to relate to the concerns they found so pressing. Now she would be a stranger in their realm.
She had no idea whether her parents still lived on Ralltiir, or whether they were even still alive. Although as a matter of probability, this was so, it was also possible that they might have perished in the war. Amilthi experienced no desire to find out. She did not feel that her parents concerned her any more than any other people on the planet. And while they probably sometimes wondered about their daughter's fate, she didn't imagine that her absence caused them much anguish. They were free and independent spirits, much like herself, and it had always been understood that an individual pursued their own path. A life of failure might have embarrassed the high-achievers, but the knowledge that she was joining the Jedi order, together with the fact that she had never returned, had surely put any such worry to rest; not that it would really have mattered. There was thus no feeling of duty, either, that exhorted her to take the time to find them. She concluded that time should not be wasted in pursuit of an opportunity that would, in itself, most likely lead to a confusing and meaningless situation. She would not even have known what to say to her parents, or how to explain her entirely ephemeral return.
But this was by the way.
The Jedi Enclave on Kiribi had not been difficult to find, neither its existence nor its location being kept as a secret. It was, she gathered, located in a place that had recently seen much political turmoil and was now under the influence of a technocratic faction with curious-sounding and rather unclear motives. What Amilthi had been told so far made it impossible to decide whether they were idealists or cynics.
But politics was not her chief concern, although it might turn out to be interesting to hear the local Jedi's perspective on the matter. What had brought her here was, rather, the search for unusual knowledge. This was why, having, as a stranger, voiced her desire to be allowed access to the Enclave's archives, she was now standing with her hands folded in front of herself, patiently waiting for the head of this group of Jedi to receive her.
Amilthi had no complaints about her childhood. She had been provided all the security and stimulation she needed, and while her parents had been somewhat emotionally distant, this was not something she had ever minded. But she had no notion whatsoever that Ralltiir was her home; it was merely the place where she happened to have grown up. Since then, she had spent her life in a different world, the last years of solitude on Tatooine especially. She had become accustomed to different ways between people and different priorities than the affluent inhabitants of Ralltiir, to the point of losing to a certain extent the ability to relate to the concerns they found so pressing. Now she would be a stranger in their realm.
She had no idea whether her parents still lived on Ralltiir, or whether they were even still alive. Although as a matter of probability, this was so, it was also possible that they might have perished in the war. Amilthi experienced no desire to find out. She did not feel that her parents concerned her any more than any other people on the planet. And while they probably sometimes wondered about their daughter's fate, she didn't imagine that her absence caused them much anguish. They were free and independent spirits, much like herself, and it had always been understood that an individual pursued their own path. A life of failure might have embarrassed the high-achievers, but the knowledge that she was joining the Jedi order, together with the fact that she had never returned, had surely put any such worry to rest; not that it would really have mattered. There was thus no feeling of duty, either, that exhorted her to take the time to find them. She concluded that time should not be wasted in pursuit of an opportunity that would, in itself, most likely lead to a confusing and meaningless situation. She would not even have known what to say to her parents, or how to explain her entirely ephemeral return.
But this was by the way.
The Jedi Enclave on Kiribi had not been difficult to find, neither its existence nor its location being kept as a secret. It was, she gathered, located in a place that had recently seen much political turmoil and was now under the influence of a technocratic faction with curious-sounding and rather unclear motives. What Amilthi had been told so far made it impossible to decide whether they were idealists or cynics.
But politics was not her chief concern, although it might turn out to be interesting to hear the local Jedi's perspective on the matter. What had brought her here was, rather, the search for unusual knowledge. This was why, having, as a stranger, voiced her desire to be allowed access to the Enclave's archives, she was now standing with her hands folded in front of herself, patiently waiting for the head of this group of Jedi to receive her.
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