-Cassandra
Location-Room of a Thousand Fountains
Time- 11:50 PM
"I will see you in the light of a thousand suns I will hear you in the sound of the waves I will know you when I come, as we all will come Through the door beyond the grave
All alone I heal this heart of sorrow
All alone I raise this child
Flesh and bone, he's just bursting towards tomorrow
And his laughter fills my world and wears your smile"
-'Sand and Water' by Elton John
Anakin had waited for almost thirty minutes outside the Council room for his master. He was extremely astonished to see five of the masters storming out of the room. His own master came out after almost all the Council members were gone. Many of them were giving Anakin strange looks. Then his own master finally came out. Obi-Wan looked sad and worn-out. Anakin felt as rush of pity for his sullen master.
"Master Obi-Wan are you alright?" Anakin asked in a concerned voice. Obi-Wan was slow to respond.
"I'll be fine Anakin, I merely need time to sort things out" Obi-Wan was slowly regaining his grip on reality as if it was coming from a long distance, the first thing he noticed was that Anakin was still up "Anakin, why are you still up?" Anakin stopped and tried to think of a clever comeback.
"Well Master, I thought, uh,... I thought you could use some support." Obi-Wan looked at his Padawan and for the first time in hours laughed. Anakin grinned and shrugged his shoulders.
"Oh Anakin, that was rich, but if your trying to make up excuses your going to need a little more originality. Why when I was a Padawan I could think of loads original excuses for example one time I told Qui-Gon..." then Obi-Wan found himself unable to continue. The thought of his lost master tore at is heart and soul, causing a deep ripping pain. Anakin noticed his master's troubled face, not knowing what was wrong he decided to pry further.
"Master? Is something wrong?" Anakin noticed a tear forming in the edges of Obi-Wan's eyes. Obi-Wan blinked them back shaking hid head.
"Tis nothing Anakin" he said "I'm going to meditate in the Room of a Thousand fountains. Anakin, now listen closely, I have a very special mission for you" with that Anakin drew closer to hear "I want you to, go to bed. If your not asleep by the time I get back, big trouble." Anakin scowled nastily. But Obi-Wan was not with him anymore, he'd already gone.
Obi-Wan continued his trek through the now empty halls. Not a soul in sight. This made Obi-Wan glad. Right now he didn't want to talk with anyone. His heart ached terribly. His inside felt cold and empty. An emptiness that refused to be filled. As hot as it was on this warm Coruscant night he felt a chill in the back of his mind. His master, his confidant evil had left him in deep mental shock.
He finally entered the Room of a Thousand Fountains to find it completely empty. The only sign of life in the room was the ferns and water lilies that were growing in and around the fountains. The ceiling was a crystal glass dome which allowed the sun to shine in during the day and the stars to be seen in the night. The only sound was the constant spilling over of water. It was only here that the stars over Coruscant were completely visible and unobscured. It was on a rare evening that the stars were visible in any other part of Coruscant. The entire planet was one big city and the fuels from the large factories that doted the planet's surface almost constantly expelled fumes that over the centuries had begun to obscure the atmosphere. The very surface of the planet had been destroyed and covered up milleniums ago. No life that had existed on the planet's surface prior the big city boom was still in existence. These were thoughts that had crossed his mind many times and now such thoughts seemed unimportant.
He took a seat before the central fountain, the largest of them all. His head rested against his chest. His hands out in a meditative postion to center himself. He closed his eyes and the world around him died. All he knew was the constant drip drop slosh of the water.
Drip drop slosh, drip drop slosh reverberated in his skull. Silence.Peace. Everything seemed to shrink in importance and he felt everything around him disappear. No one was here. Nothing was here. It was in this center of nothingness Obi-Wan found peace and peace found him. A comet flew across the horizon and vanished below the skyline leaving a ripple in the Force as it disappeared.
From the starboard window of a large starship a claoked figure removed its hood, revealing greying brown hair. He reached out and placed a large hand on the glass window and rested his forehead against it. His ice blue eyes shut as he sighed.
"Obi-Wan, why?" A comet shot pass. Its trail leaving a ripple in the Force. He could sense it rush through the Force, a flash of purest light and then, it was gone.
TBC...