A/N: This is currently a WIP – pre-KOTOR. I'm primarily focussing on Bastila's character and it is going to be written in first-person simply because I haven't seen too many of them around, though it is probably going to deviate from the games...and may or may not deviate from the Star Wars canon. I haven't decided yet.
Apologies for making it a short prologue – I shall try to avoid short chapters in the future/try to make regular updates.
Prologue
My eyes swept one last time over the Spartan furnishings of my quarters. A small room with a single bunk, a metal desk and a chair, there were very few signs that this place was ever used, except for a tiny device that was haphazardly balanced at the edge of the desk. Just as the device was about to lose in its struggle against gravity, I reached down and caught it between my fingers.
My datapad.
Once again, I wondered why I had left it here, this record of my life, of happy memories, and more recently, some painful ones. I should have stowed it away with the rest of my belongings that were currently being transported to the Endar Spire. Still, something held me back – a part of me wished to keep it close. Maybe the Force had willed it so.
Whatever the reason, I activated it and began reading the records of my life, up to this point. This always invoked bittersweet memories from me; and in my current state they were all the more potent. My father, my friends, and the Jedi who I came to call family were all in this device, hidden away from outsiders, a secret part of my heart, locked away as the Jedi teachings dictated. Here lived the imprint of my raw emotions that sometimes threatened to burst from within me. I felt a bitter smile spread across my mouth as I recited in my mind:
"There is no emotion, there is peace."
I glanced around once more, blinking away tears, and taking comfort in my sterile surroundings. I focused again on the datapad which now displayed a record of my life with my parents. Having nothing better to do, I began reading and so, reliving that part of my life.