Qui-Gon took a breath and hesitated. It wasn't simple to speak to master Yoda. It was a man (well if you can apply man to green E.T.) of few words. But Jinn decides to carry one anyway. He has been Yoda's padawan since Dooku has left the order, all ready two years now and some questions has been burning his lips for way too long.
« Master, I have a question for you, it's quite important »
Yoda didn't answer. He just look at his padawan, quietly waiting (and secretly hoping this talk would not be about a injuried rancor or an other thing of this kind).
« Where do you come from? »
Master Jedi since five hundreds years, councilor since four hundred year, Master Yoda finds himself a bit out of balance, which was not a usual feeling in his day to day life. Well, maybe, this was not a usual question. Lot of people usually prefer to see him like the image of the perfect Jedi and forget a bit his youth. The other, the one who know tend to not raise the subject, as they were afraid to wake up bad memories. They were wrong, there has been a long time since Yoda makes peace with his past. So, he begun the story:
« My story? A important story it is not. Only shooting star we are, little spark of the force, but I'd love to tell it to you and to everybody who would like to heard it. »
« But sorry I am, a nice story this is not »
He let a silence there, he needed to be clear with his padawan than a story can be heavy, especially this story. He closed their eyes and say:
« hurt the truth can, are you sure you want to know? »
It was the turn of Qui-Gon to find himself off balance. Usually the life of an jedi initiate was between boring and very boring. It was not the kind of life that you begin by an apologize apart , maybe, if you were afraid of that your audience might fall asleep.
Qui-Gon let pass a moment, thinking about that. Yes, it was true, truth can hurt but ignorance can be dangerous too... and now his master have made him too curious to stop there. So, he insisted.
« Your choice, you've done, my padawan. This way, we will discover together. »
Yoda stopped there and lets the memories flood.
Suddenly, he was himself back in Telnann, his birth planet. Without much thinking, he finds back the smell and noises which used to be his surrounding. As he said to his padawan, Telnann was not a « Coruscant » kind of planet, it was more a big jungle but all the planet was burstling with life. There was thousand and thousand of species and plants living in harmony even if, like in every jungle of the universe, some inhabitants was known to eat other from time to time.
Yoda borns in this jungle, he forgot exactly when, but he know this was a long time ago and that was enough.
"Keeping a close track on the number of days you spend on this world; a lack of humility this is", he said to his padawan.
But what he knows was how he born: alone. The individual of his specie used to grow up in the root of a big green plant until they were around five. After that, a really young and dirty "yoda" get out of the soil. But, from time to time, it did not happened like that. Memory of this time was not really clear even in Yoda's mind, but he remember the smell of fire and the feeling of panic. He did not understand anything on the moment he just fights to reach the surface before he stifles. His plant was dead so he was mean to die with her.
