Chapter III: A Soothsayer’s Reliance

Location: The forests of Yavin 4
Directive: A story that is supposedly conversed to another individual
Regard Inception: Perception is shown from within the mind as well as outside world

Within a group of forests, a robed vagabond wonders desperately in search of a myth. As he ponders to what he is searching for, he realizes that he does not ascertain nor understand what the search is endeavoring. His senses conduct him along an unseen path, and though he seems to be running away in loss, ironically he searches to discover an unknown quest, a hope of illumination and explanation.

Time passes, until he decides to recline on a nearby stump. While contemplating the answers to the eccentric puzzle, he marvels over what he seeks. Life? Truth? Peace? His submission is majestic with the Force, and as he thunders yet another silent yell to that which he is part of, an omen is granted in recapitulation of his awesome faith.

A soul appears.

"Jale..."

The wanderer suddenly staggers in shock from the break of tranquility.

"Jale..."

He gazes upon the icy blue toned figure. "Who are you..."

The spirit treads past a few trees in order to obtain a preferable visage for his overseer. As the vagabond gapes through the specter’s nearly clear pigmentation, he realizes that the Force has brought a sagacious oracle to meet him.

"I am Jedi Master Taku-Lan Raije. I come to acknowledge the affliction upon your soul."

Jale gives a puzzled look. "What affliction? What is it that I seek?"

"Realization. Realization to which that you pursue. To which a dream is worth dreaming, to which a life is worth living. An enigma that crevices your mind in which you seek a truth. A truth of what was, what is, and what will be. The purpose of endurance. Of being. Of morality and of principle. And as the solitude of your life creeps upon you like a slumber in a field of fantasies, you rhapsodize the past. The profane acts that have heavily stained your vitality. Your heart bleeds for transfiguration. For motivation and encouragement."

Jale nods in concordance. "I am afraid of what is to come."

The spirit smiles a little to Jale’s recognition to the precept. "You have much to fear, Jedi Windcatcher. And though you know how to control this fear, you do not know why you should do so, for it echoes an obscure and lecherous call to your name. You seek confidence in someone else who is confident themselves, and though you rely on those you feel homage to, the backbone of your own confidence becomes lacking and endangered."

Jale begins to relax a little, appeasing himself as he leans towards the stump. "I do not know how and when the matter of right is justified from the wrong. I find that it is not so tolerant to let oneself be cultivated upon the ways commonly fashioned by another. Because it seems so overbearing to accept what is and to grasp those who has already manufactured their minds unto the breath of falsehood, I seek for reliance."

"Reliance," declares the spirit of a Jedi Master. "Reliance. What a distinctive word. A word in which someone in need is abetted by another. Yet you must realize that it is the one who contends those that burden the few who receives the reliance of the many. You must understand to rely upon the Force that exist within yourself. You have the power of one, an energy flow that moves you towards the clarified path of virtue."

Jale scratches his head slightly. "I do not understand. I do not discern the value of my soul, and not perceive who I am or what it is which I must do."

"You know," exclaims the spirit. "Yet you do not yearn to. You don’t want to go over the barriers of the intellect enough to do it on your own. You want to ride on someone’s back, and never pay the toll...the recompensation your debt. And so you sit there, in wonder, and wait patiently for something, when in fact nothing will happen at all. For it is you who must act the first shift."

"Yet I must stand patient...for that is the virtue of the Jedi."

Raije sighs as he notices the reasoning of the wonderer. "You must fathom the full meaning of the word ‘patience,’ that it is for those who endure within an illusionary world that holds no merit and has no way of escaping deceit. Yet you hold the key and you must realize that it is your time. The moment in which your lifetime clarifies who you are, and what you must do. That is the fallacy of today--those who are so much wanting to be free yet believe that someone else will always do it for them. And you never find that importance, that crucial part inside of you, the significant voice of truth and not of fallacy. There is a voice of truth that is instructing you to forgive your past transgressions, right the wrongs, and to break the silence of falsehood. It is the reliance of one in which right and wrong will finally be uncovered. You hold your own answer to what is."

"What is my answer? Please, tell me. I yearn for the truth. I wish so much to be of greatness."

"We all pursue to be someone Jedi Windcatcher."

Suddenly, the setting is altered. They stand amongst a crowd, awaiting a main spectacle.

"Where are we?"

Jedi Taku-Lan is now in a physical being, acting as one with the crowd. "The question you might need to ask yourself is why are we here."

Jale peers at the groups cheering in contentedness. "Why then?"

"It is for you to realize one thing. The reliance of one."

"I do not understand."

The Jedi Master stares uniquely in his eyes. "When you perceive how much cruelty has been inflicted upon those who deserve finer treatment, and when you comprehend how terrible and how gruesome something can be, as with the corruption of a bitter world who holds a immense burden, you realize that you are their savior. That it is in your hands. It’s when you start to see those who are losing their religion that you urge to vindicate the purpose of good and provide reliance to those in a world who craves for it. It is when you do not only give what a person needs, you teach them how to provide that need for them self as well."

Immediately the crowd is hushed as a figure upon a podium stands to give his words of expression, finding the words to articulate to the outside public.

"It is the esteemed warmth of a cherished people who deserve the right to be free which gives me the motivation to do what is right," the speaker vocalizes to the crowd. "When I see so many contented people so full of light and joy, it fills your heart of void with a heart of plenty..."

Jale whispers into the ears of the Jedi Master. "Taku-Lan Raije, that is me up there..."

"Yes it is. The being you see up there on the podium is a semi-deity of willingness, willing to defend those who seek justice from a cruel world in order to create a free one. A Jedi who will further succeed his greatness by insuring upon his original ideals that he has strongly believed in all his life. The trust to maintain a balance within his self and others. One who has composed to the upright and faithful."

Raije then becomes silent, wanting Jale to hear the words from his other self.

"Today, I realize the truth," continues the speaker, "the abundance of a unique idiom of creed conveyed by the populace. I realize the truth in every one of you, those who will stand up and boycott against the misconceptions of today in which fraudulent hoodlums will never overcome its chosen victims of tomorrow.

"You have the power my friends. You have the power of being. That is why I believe in the Jedi, the guardians of peace and justice of the Republic to prevail over the malevolence within the galaxy. It is because you, the people, have spoken out, pledging and banning together connected as one. That is what has created the new world in which you now live in. It is you who believed in us, and in our humbleness and bravery to do what is right, we will show that we also believe in you, the people.

"I am so appreciative to know that there are those who cheer us on through the heartaches and struggles for freedom. From the deepest of my soul, I welcome you into an atmosphere full of radiance and truth. I thank you all."

The scene has changed again, this time, the two Jedi are within the Jedi Council main chamber. Taku-Lan is once again as spirit, as he wonders around the seats in which great leaders have sat.

"We all yearn to be someone," voices the spirit. "You must understand, Jedi Windcatcher, that people are searching to find a true leader. One who has enforceability, prototype, and doctrine of the commonality. One who is interacting, contesting and striving for a cause with others who believe in something. A lifetime that is willing to give and not receive."

Jale walks to the center of the chamber. "You mean to say that you believe me?"

Raije eyes the Jedi as he stops by one of the smaller seats. "Do you in believe yourself?"

The wonder lowers his head unknowingly, not grasping what to say.

"You constantly are looking through the hourglass of time...watching the mounds of sand sink down into oblivion. You, Jedi, must realize the truth, that you hold the solution to unlocking the falsehood of the past, the present, and the future. That you are the your own soothsayer, and that you control your own destiny."

The Jedi nods silently.

"Now," says the spirit, "wake up to the living and end this dream."

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...Jedi Relan

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