[center][b][h1][color=yellow]Jaslyn Dayne[/color][/h1][/b][/center][hr] [center][img]https://media.giphy.com/media/V5Qi3KQ8FOvLy/giphy.gif[/img][/center][hr][h2][center]Location: Tython; Silent Desert; Chamber of the Mind[/center][/h2][hr][center][h3] Interaction: Selene [@Ruby]; Tau & Shea Koda[/h3][/center][hr][center][h3] Mentions: Shea Koda and Tau[/h3][/center][hr][hr]Jaslyn stepped into the chamber holding Selene’s hand.[color=yellow][i] Something passed between us there. How odd that someone so beautiful could be so lonely?[/i][/color] Jaslyn let go to investigate more. There were those oddly familiar symbols. Walking toward one she touched it and heard that voice again. [color=dimgray]“There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.” “There is no fear; there is power.” “I am the heart of the Force.” “I am the revealing fire of light.” “I am the mystery of darkness...” “In balance with chaos and harmony, Immortal in the Force."[/color] Turning slowly she saw a man with blue eyes, black hair, fair skin with a light purple Xesh marking on his face. The mark started in the center of his forehead and angled down to just under his eyes in parallel lines that were connected across the middle of his nose. It resembled a rounded triangle with no point on top just a line. He held no weapon but was wearing deep charcoal colored armor. His coal black hair was about the length to just brush his shoulders. Jaslyn squared her shoulders and stood back from the symbol that she was touching. Which took her closer to the man. He wasn’t threatening her so she was leery but calm.[color=yellow] “Who are you? What do you keep repeating? It sounds like the code but it’s not quite right.”[/color] Suddenly there was a redheaded female next to him. Jade green eyes smiled at Jaslyn’s shock.[color=yellow][i] She wasn’t there a moment ago.[/i][/color] The woman’s mouth curved into a smile. [color=dimgray]“She reminds me of you. And not just the hair color or eye shape. She has your same stubbornness.”[/color] He turned to the woman and smirked. She smacked him lightly, playfully on his arm.[color=gray] “She has your eyes, but you haven’t introduced us to her. Diplomacy was never your forte.”[/color] [color=dimgray]“She’s still struggling with all the new information that she’s already been told Shea.”[/color] The redheaded woman, who looked suspiciously like Jaslyn except for the color of her eyes, stepped toward Jaslyn.[color=gray] “Jaslyn you are one of our descendants. I am Shea Koda.”[/color] She indicated the man.[color=gray] “This is Tau. You are the first one to be most like us. Balanced. Or as balanced as this world would allow you to be. The Code you were hearing is the true Je’daii way. Balance. No one believes this anymore so your way will be hard. I do not envy the path you are on.”[/color] Jaslyn looked around for Selene.[color=yellow] “This is an illusion. This…”[/color] [color=dimgray] “Can’t be true? You don’t really believe that deep down do you? Jaslyn you know what is truth and what is a lie deep down. You know the difference between something that is repeated till someone believes it is true, and the truth spoken once and heard.”[/color] [color=gray] “We will be with you if you have need of us.”[/color] The couple faded into nothingness. Jaslyn was suddenly left in the chamber with Selene.[color=yellow][i] Was that real? Is any of this real? Maybe I hit my head and I’m just dreaming. But Tau was right. Let me just clear my mind.[/i][/color] Jaslyn closed her eyes and began to put the puzzle pieces together. This meditation was different than what she normally did, moving through the forms losing herself in the movements. No this was the “normal” meditation that you expected of a Jedi. Closing her eyes she reached deep and held onto the Force. The utter stillness bothered her. She was one of those people constantly on the move. The words of the Jedi Code were not the comfort that they normally were. [i][color=lightblue]There is no emotion, there is peace.[/color][/i] Flashes of countless times that Jaslyn herself had been told this in the face of emotional situations as well as seeing others be told this.[color=yellow][i] Why? We’re not born that way.[/i][/color][i][color=lightblue] There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.[/color][/i][color=yellow][i] Knowledge to combat the evils in the universe.[/i][/color] [i][color=lightblue] There is no passion, there is serenity.[/color][/i] Jaslyn remembered how hard it was to curb her own nature. She had seen it firsthand in her Initiate Trials. The dark reflection of herself that had gone down a different path. She’d barely made it through destroying that part of herself.[color=yellow][i] No be honest with yourself. You didn’t destroy her you buried her. In some ways you have succeeded since you haven’t thought about it for years. But you know she waits on the other side of a locked door.[/i][/color][i][color=lightblue] There is no chaos, there is harmony.[/color][/i][color=yellow][i] Chaos exists in nature. Some of the most beautiful flowers are surrounded by sharp thorns. One can’t exist without the other. Don’t we create chaos when we take children from their families?[/i][/color][i][color=lightblue] There is no death, there is the Force.[/color][/i][color=yellow][i] So it sounds like the Order was plucking what most fit their beliefs to justify what they do. Which was so long ago that we could never really know.[/i][/color] Jaslyn shook her head. Her concentration broken by her introspection, which only left her with more questions than answers. She found that the new code, or rather older code, spoken by Shea and Tau resonated with her more. It rang truer and seemed to swell with the Force. Possibly due to where she was. Or maybe because it was the original one.[color=Gainsboro][i] There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no fear, there is power. I am the heart of the Force. I am the revealing fire of light. I am the mystery of darkness. In balance with chaos and harmony, Immortal in the Force.[/i][/color]