Ascending Legend
Iandre listened intently to Tatiana's explanation of how her people manipulated energy and matter, her eyes shimmering with a quiet curiosity at the intersection of their two worlds. When the woman finished, Iandre took a slow, deliberate sip from her glass, allowing the amber liquid to settle before she attempted to frame an answer for something so vast.
"It is a difficult question to answer simply," she admitted, her fingers resting lightly against the rim of the glass as she leaned back. "Not because the Force is a secret, but because the answer changes the longer you live with it."
She tilted her head, a soft, nostalgic warmth softening her features as she recalled the quiet meditation rooms of her youth.
"My earliest lessons weren't of power, but of patience. We were taught that the Force was not a tool to be owned or a weapon to be wielded; we were taught to listen to it first. As children, we sat for hours just learning awareness—feeling the life moving around us and the quiet currents beneath everything."
A faint hint of amusement touched her lips before her expression turned toward a more grounded humility.
"Only after we learned to listen did we learn to move stones or sense emotions. But the most important lesson was humility. No Jedi knows everything about the Force, and no one ever will. It is older and larger than any philosophy we could build around it. Even now, I am still a student, constantly unlearning and discovering."
She gave a small, graceful shrug, regarding Tatiana with genuine interest.
"We begin by admitting we do not fully understand it. Your people approaching it through the lens of science is a perspective the Jedi rarely consider in such mechanical terms."
She tilted her head again, a stray lock of dark hair shifting to reveal the graceful line of her neck.
"Do your people believe that through measurement and science, you will eventually achieve total precision over it?"
Tatiana Sah
"It is a difficult question to answer simply," she admitted, her fingers resting lightly against the rim of the glass as she leaned back. "Not because the Force is a secret, but because the answer changes the longer you live with it."
She tilted her head, a soft, nostalgic warmth softening her features as she recalled the quiet meditation rooms of her youth.
"My earliest lessons weren't of power, but of patience. We were taught that the Force was not a tool to be owned or a weapon to be wielded; we were taught to listen to it first. As children, we sat for hours just learning awareness—feeling the life moving around us and the quiet currents beneath everything."
A faint hint of amusement touched her lips before her expression turned toward a more grounded humility.
"Only after we learned to listen did we learn to move stones or sense emotions. But the most important lesson was humility. No Jedi knows everything about the Force, and no one ever will. It is older and larger than any philosophy we could build around it. Even now, I am still a student, constantly unlearning and discovering."
She gave a small, graceful shrug, regarding Tatiana with genuine interest.
"We begin by admitting we do not fully understand it. Your people approaching it through the lens of science is a perspective the Jedi rarely consider in such mechanical terms."
She tilted her head again, a stray lock of dark hair shifting to reveal the graceful line of her neck.
"Do your people believe that through measurement and science, you will eventually achieve total precision over it?"
Tatiana Sah
