Shifting Sands: The Pain of Living
Chapter 21: Whills
Obi-wan opened his eyes just in time to see Larn step into his small hut. She was flushed but not breathing heavily. As she turned to move to the small kitchenette, he noted her stiff movement. "Run into a little trouble out there?" He asked as he stood from his meditative position.
"Nothing that I couldn't handle on my own." She shrugged. "How about you? You seem to have calmed a measure since I left."
"Yes. But I guess I have just one question left, where do I find the Whills?"
He noted that she stiffened slightly at the mention of the Whills. But after a few quiet moments she turned to face him. "There is but one Whill left Obi-wan and you already know him. Whether or not he chooses to share what he remembers of his earliest teachings will be up to him."
"It is always so frustrating when everyone speaks in riddles." Obi-wan huffed. But searching his memories with the help of the Force figured it out in a few moments. "I'm not sure that he even remembers that far back now."
"He may pretend otherwise but he most assuredly does. Why he never chose to entertain the younglings with the oldest tales is beyond me."
"Perhaps he found the lessons contained in them to be unfit for the times." Obi-wan countered.
She gave him a sour look. "That is probably why the Galaxy is in the state it is now. Lessons learned and lost only beg to be repeated time and again."
"You would know, seer." He pointed out.
"Yes I would. Especially if I were complete, but that is neither here nor there now." She gave him an almost pained expression. Then she clasped her hands in front of her. "I am going to have to leave this place soon Obi-wan."
He blinked momentarily at the abrupt change of subject. "Leave?"
"Yes. I have already revealed too much of things that are best left long buried."
"But didn't you just say that there is too much that has been lost? Is that not why history is bound to repeat itself."
"But you must realize Obi-wan, the shards of my soul were not meant to piece back together here and now. But there is something that I this much of me was brought back together to attend to, I know that the rest of my business is not to be conducted here."