The Force Betrayed: Cal Kestis x OC

4.

Eleven Months Before Present-Day

A month had now passed since the death of Sakana's mother. She barely noticed, as time had seemed to come to a standstill. She never felt fully awake, as if she was just going through the motions as each day passed.

Truthfully, she was. She spent most of her time sitting in silence amongst the Wroshyr trees, sitting in a different one each day. She much preferred the air higher up, and it was easier to hide from the Empire like that. They spread farther and farther across the planet each day.

When she wasn't sitting in silence, she was listening to the old holocron her mother had left behind. She still couldn't believe that her mother had been friends with Obi-Wan Kenobi. She almost wondered if she had just imagined it.

She knew her mother had once been in the Order, but she didn't know the extent of it. Eryyyn was very good at keeping secrets.

Sakana pulled the old journal out of her robe's pocket and stared at it, letting her hand trace over the worn leather. It had remained closed since she had opened it for the first time, and she couldn't quite figure out how to open it back up.

It was a Force  journal of some sort; she remembered having seen some words on the pages, but she could not read them. She could only hear and see what seemed like bits and pieces of entries her mother had left.

She kept staring at the journal, lost in thought. She was incredibly curious about the rest of the contents of the journal, but she could not seem to become connected enough to the Force to open it.

She should have been somewhat happy at the fact that her mother had left a journal. Her mother was gone, but there was something alive that she had left behind, pieces of her past that could enlighten Sakana. But perhaps it was for that exact reason that she could not bear to open it, because when it reached its end there would be nothing left. The knowledge that there was an extension of her mother gave her some kind of hope and she was afraid of what would happen when she reached the point where the entries stopped.

But she longed to know what her mother had written in the journal. She barely knew anything about her mother; she was always very loving towards Sakana, but she felt like she had to keep her at arms length to keep her safe.

She closed her eyes and tried to reach out to the Force. She did her absolute best to concentrate and focus on the feeling, but it just wasn't there. She hadn't been able to meditate since her mother died either, though that was a given....

How could she meditate again when the last time she did it, she woke up to her planet on fire?

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"I wish Cordova had given me a little more information to go off of," sighed Cal, looking around. "I have no idea what we're trying to find."

Sakana's eyes travelled curiously around before landing on Cal. "Maybe you can try to sense it with the Force?"

"I feel like I would've sensed it already if that were the case," he said, shaking his head.

"The Force works in weird ways sometimes," she shrugged. "Maybe we should just keep going forward."

"Maybe..." Cal trailed off.

Sakana walked ahead anyways, her eyes scanning the trees. A thin pathway between two branches opened up in front of her, and she followed it curiously until she reached the other side.

"Hey, Cal!?" She shouted. She heard his footsteps approach her as he jogged through the path.

"Did you find something—?" He was cut off by BD-1 as he jumped off of Cal's shoulder and landed on the ground in front of a small structure she'd noticed.