Belonging. Star Wars story. Episode 10 X. Sequal to TROS.

8. Tuell

The jump to the lightspeed was smooth, and now Rey and Finn found themselves over the planet of Tuell. It really didn't looked so menacing from up above. It was green and blue, and brown, it seemed alive and peaceful.

-"The cocktail is ready! We can go down now. There should be enough of it for 6 trips, so we can go down 3 times together."

-"It doesn't look tasty at all. I will try not to think of Banthas.. bottoms up!", they both drank a portion of the liquid and attached the life measuring devices at their hands. On the other hands they put the com-links.

Rey steered the ship into the atmosphere of the Tuell. Coming down to the approximate location of Grey Jedi temple, they watched the landscape to open up below them. There was nothing really to see. There were greenish blue soil and brown rocky surface at every direction they looked. Even if it seemed that it was alive from the space, it really wasn't, it was kind of mirage- because around there was nothing at all, no vegetation, no water - nothing. There were only soil and rocks.

-"Well," Finn was thinking loudly "it could've been much worse. There could have been those crazy creatures that lived in the giant meteorites. I guess nothing more could survive here."

-"I think we should be careful nevertheless.
What's that up ahead?!"

In front of them they saw different landscape- it was huge open arena with many different obstacles. "Almost like training ground", Rey thought.

-"I will land the ship in front of arena. Will continue on foot from there."

They landed smoothly and walked first steps down the ramp.

-"We aren't dying, that is good for the start." Finn looked around. "This is weird, there's nothing around, and then here is the arena. Why the hell would you build arena on planet where nobody can survive?!"

-"We don't know yet, if nobody can survive. But it is clever if you want to test the strength and knowledge. Not that I would choose a place, in which your first mistake will cost you life." They slowly walked in the corridor that connected outside with the balcony in the arena. From the balcony they saw that inside really was ancient training grounds.

Finn didn't liked the idea of somebody sending padawans to place like this. "Weren't they afraid they would lose too many of them?"

-"Finn, I don't even know when this place was used. This was definitely very long time ago. But we should look for the hints for location of Grey Jedi temple."

They both went into the centre of arena. "There really are many great obstacles for the training. The ramps, the metal posts, those ropes.. it could come handy in training. I should update my own route back in base with some ideas from here."

Friends walked around for some time but didn't found any clues in the arena, there definitely were many obstacles, that looked smashed with lightsabers but nothing much else.

-"Rey, lets go there! There is something out there." Finn gestured to the opposite side than from which they've came from Falcon. Both of them stepped out of the arenas other side and walked further in the deserted landscape.

Both of them were walking for some 10 minutes now, but there seemed nothing around, only the rocks and green soil.

-"Maybe we should have taken the ship." Rey noted.

-"No, wait. There is something there." Finn continued moving and they both saw that they were getting closer to the huge opening in the ground.

They came to the edge of the valley. Not like all around here, there seemed no wind down there, and they started to move down sloped ledge, that had been made paralel the edge of the valley.

-"Do you see it? There are something in the ground down there!"

-"Finn, I think.. those are.. lightsabers."

-"No, why should anyone leave dozens of dozens of lightsabers here on this shitty planet?!"

They both were down the valley now and moved closer to small structures in the ground in front of them.

-"This is a graveyard." Rey said silently.

In front of them were about hundred of lightsabers in perfect rows about 3 meters from each other. Sabers looked different than Rey had seen. They looked more robust and simple, as if they haven't reached technological level of sabers that Rey knew.

-"I take my thoughts back. Tuell didn't look menacing from up above, but it sure is down here." Finn replayed.

Rey turned around and looked at the wall of the slope, where something was written.

In the end we become that,
what we make of our journey.

At the beginning and end of the text were star symbols. There was more text next to it, but it was written in dialect Rey didn't know.

-"Hell, it's depressing." Finn interupted the silence.

-"We should move over to the other side of the valley, maybe there's something there." Rey answered.

Both of them took slow and carefull steps through the graveyard to the other side. Valley really wasn't that wide, in 3 minutes they were on opposite side facing the wall with interesting markings. There were markings that reminded of sun and the moon, and there were many weird shaped markings, that didn't reminded of nothing at all.

-"Is this a sun? And this a moon? Maybe it's some kind of way finder? Could it be connected with the temple?" Finn was curious.

-"This!" Rey pointed out one of the markings, " I have seen it before somewhere."

-"Maybe in one of those Jedi texts?"

-"No, no.. it's from somewhere else. It.. wait! Yes!" Rey turned around and ran back to the other side of the valley.

-"Rey! REY! What the hell..!?" Finn ran after the girl.

-"Come on, Finn, I will show you where I've seen it." Rey ran through the Jedi graveyard and up to the slope. She turned slightly left and walked little bit more and stopped. Finn ran to her side.

-"What are you doing?!"

-"Don't you see? Look closely around." Rey replied and Finn tried to scan the surroundings.

-"I don't see anything but this shitty soil and rocks."

-"Let go of your consciousness, feel the Force and I think you will see it too."

Finn closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he slowly breathed out and opened his eyes.

-"I don't see it, Rey."

-"Look there! Does that rocks shape reminds you of something?"

-"Whoa! It's just like one of the markings! Wait, I think I see another one! Look a little bit to the right! There, wasn't that also on the wall of the valley?" Finn pointed out another rock.

-"Lets check them out." They went closer to the first one. Walked around it, touched it.

-"It's definitely different then all the others. Like it's different kind of mineral, just in the same colour." Finn poked it with his fingers.

Rey slowly turned 360 around. She tried to remember the shapes of the rocks around. "Lets go down again! Check if we can find other rocks."

Both of them moved back in front of the wall in the valley. Rey touched some of the markings and let out her breath.

-"I think I saw these ones up there too." She showed Finn which ones she thought she'd found.

-"Lets move up again!" Finn was exited now.

They moved up and down again for many times more. The sun was slowly going down and both of them thought that it would be good to move back to the ship for the night.

-"We've found every one, only not yet that star shaped one." Finn was happy for their success.

-"Yes, but what does all of it even mean?..
Go to the Falcon, I will take on last look and join you!" Rey walked down to the valley again and stood in front of the wall.

"It would be so much easier with the Force.
But it is not the time yet."