[There'd never been a chance to even think about a memorial, before.
Peculiar in itself, isn't it? In retrospect. Jedi funerals are brief things, a coffin set into the Temple monastery floor and an appeal to the Force spoken (they are not gone, they are with us and among us now, a part of us, luminous beings, merged with the living Force), a single line of light to mark the place of rest. But Jedi memorials, those rarely did disappoint--made with care, impossible to miss, everlasting. There is a bronzium sculpture of likeness in the Temple's Archives for every Jedi that has ever fallen to the Dark, departed and missed as one in death. There is an impossibly tall and incredibly luminous column of light, on New Holstice, filled to the brim with soft-lit memory moths that number in the thousands and thousands, one for every Jedi that has ever died since the formation of the Republic; capture one and tell it a name, and it will whisper that name over and over to the end of its immortal life.
There hadn't been anyone left, to travel to New Holstice. To travel anywhere. A memorial for whom--the most wanted criminals in the galaxy, sentenced to death if they are not dead already?
But he'd never even thought about it, the notion of it. And that hurts anyway.
A reply doesn't come for a long time.]
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org No, not dumb. Not at all. You're right.
There hasn't been one held yet.
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org I am not sure if there will ever be one, actually. Not at home.
[No, probably not. But--]
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org Jedi memorials are very involved. I don't
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org have the tools nor the right. Not really. And there are so many names...I don't know the half of them. There wasn't any time to learn them.
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org Do you think they would want one? In a place like this. A place like here. It's very far away. I do not know.
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Peculiar in itself, isn't it? In retrospect. Jedi funerals are brief things, a coffin set into the Temple monastery floor and an appeal to the Force spoken (they are not gone, they are with us and among us now, a part of us, luminous beings, merged with the living Force), a single line of light to mark the place of rest. But Jedi memorials, those rarely did disappoint--made with care, impossible to miss, everlasting. There is a bronzium sculpture of likeness in the Temple's Archives for every Jedi that has ever fallen to the Dark, departed and missed as one in death. There is an impossibly tall and incredibly luminous column of light, on New Holstice, filled to the brim with soft-lit memory moths that number in the thousands and thousands, one for every Jedi that has ever died since the formation of the Republic; capture one and tell it a name, and it will whisper that name over and over to the end of its immortal life.
There hadn't been anyone left, to travel to New Holstice. To travel anywhere. A memorial for whom--the most wanted criminals in the galaxy, sentenced to death if they are not dead already?
But he'd never even thought about it, the notion of it. And that hurts anyway.
A reply doesn't come for a long time.]
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
No, not dumb. Not at all. You're right.
There hasn't been one held yet.
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
I am not sure if there will ever be one, actually. Not at home.
[No, probably not. But--]
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
Jedi memorials are very involved. I don't
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
have the tools nor the right. Not really. And there are so many names...I don't know the half of them. There wasn't any time to learn them.
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
Do you think they would want one? In a place like this. A place like here. It's very far away. I do not know.