Enigma- A Star Wars FanFic

Chapter 13

        "She's over here!" Evander yelled across the snowy landscape to Flint and Alda. They were scattered around different points of the river looking for Jolie.

One by one, they dropped to their knees in the cold snow beside Jolie. She was clearly unconscious, laying perfectly idle beside the frozen river. Yet, oddly enough, she was dry.

"We need to get her back," Flint said, tapping her shoulder and getting no response.

Alda picked her up like she did back at the Temple and the three of them booked it back to the ship.

        What just happened?
What was all that?
Was it all fake?
Maybe that's why the figure has been saying the word "fake" over and over... But then why would this even be necessary? I need to wake up and make sense of this.

"Jolie?"

She woke up to see the three of them sitting in the small med bay. She was laying down on the cot, a machine monitoring her vitals.

"What happened?" She asked, sounding completely normal. As if she hadn't just magically washed up beside a frozen river.

They exchanged a worried look and Evander spoke first. "You jumped down a waterfall into frigid waters. Do you remember any of that?"

"Yeah. But how did I end up on land?" Jolie asked, sitting up.

"We don't know. Evander just found you laying there. Weird thing is, you were dry," Alda explained.

"I need to go to my room. We should probably start heading back to Corascaunt." Jolie took the monitors off her arm, stood, and rushed inside her room down the hall.

"Does she realize what just happened? She could have hypothermia!" Flint exclaimed, clearly shocked at her lackluster reaction.

Evander, at a loss for words, got up and headed for the cockpit. "I've had enough crazy for today."

Alda got up too and patted Flint's shoulder. "She seems medically fine to me. Someone should check on her later though."

Flint nodded in agreement stayed in the med bay for a while to think.

         Jolie's eyes closed and she held out the cubic object in front of her. She focused her mind in the inter workings of the crystalline relic. The knowledge and power it held. Hopefully it had answers too.

The holocron began to float and she opened it with ease, to her relief.

She opened her eyes and saw the individual, metallic pieces separating, floating in perfect harmony in front of her very eyes. She stared in awe at the object, having never seen one in person before.

Where are you Force tree?

She'd seen them hundreds of times at the Temple in the garden, but never thought to ask about them.

She remembered what it looked and felt like in her strange vision sequence. Her mind began to sift through the information being held in the device until an image appeared. A Force Tree, like the one she saw, revealed itself in shades of holographic blue. Then below it; everything she could ever need to know about one.

Force Trees are mystical trees made up of condensed energy from the Force. They are very rare and sacred.

The descriptions went on about healing properties, look, possible locations, etc. Then Jolie found what she came for.

These trees are also believed to indefinitely augment an individual's Force sensitivity if exposed to one for long periods of time.

She couldn't believe it. She wanted to find out that these trees meant nothing and only looked important, but if she was right, she'd been lied to her entire life. And it all traced back to a damned tree.