28th day, 4th month, standard year 24934
This morning, I found myself picking up my comlink and calling Tahl.
"What is it?"
"You know what we found in that book?"
"Wha-oh, that. Why would you...ah." I had the feeling she was shaking her head. "You think the prophecy involves you in some way!"
Arghh! She's good at figuring things out- good at finding out things I wouldn't tell her!
"Well, I...I just think there's something more to it...."
"Typical male- spectacularly arrogant."
"Look, Tahl...I was just wondering if we could go back to the library and try to work out the rest of the verses."
"What makes you think I'd want to?"
"Please?"
"Well, it's not like I had anything better to do anyway."
So we hurried to the Archives, and went straight to the place where we thought the books had been. They weren't there.
"Maybe they've moved them somewhere else?"
So we started looking, poking about...and we practically crashed into to one of the other Archivests. Her name is Lewuli, and she is very short- I tower over her- but she could strike fear into the heart of a Sith Lord. The girl- the blonde one we saw yesterday- was standing behind her, and gave us one of those 'We are Archivests. FEAR US!" looks.
"Um, excuse me," I said. "But could you show us where the books are?"
Lewuli looked at us and shook her head, probably
thinking what stupid kids we were. "The books...we threw them all out."
she said. "Books are out of date...datapads are used now, they're far more
efficent. Besides, those books took up space."
She nodded curtly and turned away. The girl said
to Tahl "If you want to try and look for them, you could try raiding the
bins..." Then Lewuli called her away.
"I just realised- I know that girl." Tahl mused. "Jocasta. She and Nela used to be good friends...."
"They threw the books away?" I said, dumbstruck. "But thats....I mean...now how are we.....?"
"There's nothing we can do about it." Tahl said. "Come on,"
We stayed in the library and did some studying.
"Do you suppose they knew....that one of those books had a prophecey?"
"Well, Qui-Gon, not everyone has their head in the clouds like you." she said, half-teaseingly. "There's only a few prophecies that the Council takes seriously, and I don't think they're very reliable, either."
"But...."
"What do you want with propheceies anyway? In meditation, you're the one who's always muttering to himself 'focus on the moment, don't think about the past, don't think about the future...."
"Well..."
I want to find the Temple bins (has anyone ever seen the bins?) but I don't think Master will let me.
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