/Author's note: Fire and Ice is a songfic between this and Prelude to Another Time. I suggest you read it from my DeviantArt account ( windysilver dot deviantart dot com) before this.
Star Wars (c) Lucasfilm, any characters you cannot find on Wookieepedia, Veledos, Veledosians and their language (c) Me/
Daa-Rei Chio was in the Jedi Council Chamber. He and Findio had promised to celebrate his 400th birthday. 400 years was the line drawn between untimely and timely death of a Veledosian. It was an important milestone for every Veledosian. Most of their folk had a big feast to celebrate that. Many from their tribe and sometimes from other tribes were called to celebrate.
He had planned a small fete. The VeledosJedi were told to not make any feasts. Every Jedi was. Most of the VeledosJedi didn't obey this order. They withheld the information. Even Daa-Rei, the Grand Master, would do this.
But then The Poisoning of Veledos had occurred. 61 years had passed. Every VeledosJedi had suffered. Many of them had died or left.
Findio was one of the latter. He had left. He had become unreachable. Daa-Rei was alone. Findio was alone.
Daa-Rei reminisced. Their actions had been vain. Nothing had stopped the poison. Nothing had stopped the death. Veledos was lost. Veledosians were lost. The VeledosJedi disappeared. They were becoming mere entries in the archives.
Sacrifices had been made. They had led to this. They had been pointless.
Daa-Rei Chio thought so. He was broken. His brethren were broken. His life was broken. His folk was broken. His world was broken.
They were irreparable.
Daa-Rei raised his lightsaber and struck through himself. Chirika Whirien came to the Chamber and saw the dying Grand Master.
"You will pay for what you did, Findio. You will pay, Shi-Sha," Daa-Rei hissed and died.
Chirika ran away.