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[Sian Sestoi]

The knee-high grass of Arkinnea brushed against her boots, leaving light yellow marks on her pants as she walked through the fields. Noticing the sky above her was starting to darken with the rain that had yet to come. She paused for a moment to unbutton her collar, enjoying the fresh air around her with a pleased smile, eyes following the contours of the rolling hills as she watched wind sweep across the plains.

The silence here felt odd to her; on Dromund Kaas, the air had been filled with the sounds of artillery and the lingering corruption of the Dark Side, bombarding her mind with dark thoughts of surrender. Aboard the Prosperity, she could still hear the cries of Jedi being slain and the pleas of refugees trapped behind doors she could not open without risking her life. She would have gladly helped them, but the Force had other plans for her at that moment.

She reached into her side pocket to grab the data pad, reviewing the file again to remember where the Hidden Temple was located. She could hardly believe her ears when her fellow Jedi mentioned a place untouched by the Dark Side, where no Sith had ever set foot. It comforted her to know such a place existed, especially with the refugee population scattered across the plains.

Sian adjusted her pack strap, her thumb lightly brushing the cold hilts of her lightsabers on her belt. What now? she wondered as she continued along the trail. She had been a great warrior and still was, but was that all she was meant to be, just another pawn in the galaxy's endless war? She despised that feeling but recognized that the force sent her here for a reason and it was her responsibility to find out why.​

 

[Starlin Dinn]

By now, one would think Starlin was used to Leviathan having a mind of its own. He had woken up in completely different sectors of the Galaxy from where he had fallen asleep, half way across the map, with no recollection or understanding of how. Even Jasper Kai'el 's brief explanation on the unnamed desert world had not been enough to make sense of it, in fact the Jedi's solution had been for him to shelve the ship until he had a better understanding.​

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Of course, Starlin only had one ship; he needed it to get him back home.​

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Eloise Dinn had shared the coordinates to his homeworld, Zaathru she called it, but the journey there had been far from smooth sailing. He'd been well on his way though, deep within the Unknown Regions, when he woke up to the starmap informing him that he was "in the Axion Sector? What do you mean we're in the Axion Sector, Pluto?" He let out a long groan as the pilot droid confirmed it. "We're further from home now than we were a week ago!"

Starlin might not have known much about this Galaxy he had emerged into, but he understood that they were on the opposite side of the Galaxy from where they were supposed to be. "Find a breathable planet, I need to stretch my legs. Damn ship."​

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So it was that the young aspirant came upon Arkinnea and the ruins held within. He had not meant to find them, of course, he'd simply set off walking away from the treacherous ship and stumbled across them. The swelling music he had come to associate with the guidance of the Force was leading him on, and against his better judgement he decided this time to follow it.​

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That was how he came across the hidden temple, one foot in front of the other and the will of the Force. The would-be-Jedi wandered the ruins in search of any indication as to why the Force had urged him that way. Something inside was calling out to him, he just had to find out what.​

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Sian Sestoi ​