Confronting Fear

Mysteries

And everything I can remember
As fucked up as it all may seem
The consequences that I've rendered
Have gone and fucked things up again

It's Been Awhile -Staind

A loud thud sent Ben tearing from his office and into his bedroom. Rey was still on the bed where he'd left her, her face white, the heavy book she'd been reading on the floor. "Maker, Rey. What's wrong?"

She pointed to the book. "I, I found it."

"Found what?" he picked the book up and handed it to her.

She quickly flipped through the ancient pages. "The dagger. I found it!"

Ben's heart froze in his chest at her words. Finally.

She settled on a page, flipping the book so he could see it. Sure enough, there on the page was an illustration of the dagger, Sith runes and all. It did look a little different, like someone had tried to disguise the real thing with the strange hilt, but i was definitely the same dagger. No doubt Sidious had disguised it when giving it to Ochi. The writing around it however, was gibberish. On the page opposite was a drawing of what looked like a valley.

"What's it say?" he asked.

"I don't know. We were never able to translate this book. Threepio says it's a cipher. It's why I never really did anything with this one. From the illustrations, I think its a list of artifacts or instructions or something." She flipped a few pages back. "See?" it was an illustration of a Jedi holocron opposite an illustration of a cave.

He'd noticed she'd skipped another illustration, one that looked vaguely familiar. "What's on that page?"

"This one?" She flipped to the page in question.

For the second time in five minutes, his heart stopped. "That's a Sith holocron."

"A what?"

"The Sith made holocrons too, like the Jedi. They were a little different."

"So... right in a row, we have a Jedi holocron, a Sith holocron, and a Sith dagger.... Ben, I think this is some sort of guide... to what or where I'm not sure." she spit out excitedly.

"I think you're right." Ben grabbed his data pad. "What else is in there?"

They spent several hours at Ben's desk sorting through the pages of the book, scanning the fragile paper with the data pad so as to not risk the pages. Ben set the data pad to search the archives for some translation or a hit on the images but didn't expect to find anything. So they worked with what they already knew and had, creating a list of it all.

"So far, we've identified a Sith holocron, a Jedi holocron, and the dagger we already have." Rey recited.

"We think we've identified a different dagger, but nothing about where it is or why it's important." Ben added, projecting the image of a sleek dagger so unlike the jagged one they already had.

"We have no clue what this is." Rey pointed to a strange illustration of a double sided pyramid that was slightly open. "Looks like a box of some kind."

"Then we have these." he projected out images of what appeared to be four different landmarks.

"The landmarks were on the opposite page of each artifact, except for the box we can't identify. Maybe where they are, or were?"

Ben nodded, rearranging the images in order, matching the object to it's possible location. "We already have the Jedi holocron that appeared to be in a cave but apparently Sidious already had."