A gray cloud of endless mist surrounded a single small form, it was the form of a twi'lek. One whose skin color blended in with the mist almost naturally. The young girl in the middle of this mist, was sitting still as the surface of a clear pond. The mist, was tered around her, moving around the lithe figure stantly turning into one dire which followed the turning of the hour hand. Never going backwards, never. It was the mist of the ages, the all sensing all seeing eye belonging only to the oldest apostles of the Temple of the Grey.

  The meditation ability, that was simirly able to foresee future possibilities and look into the past. A teique with endless possibilities, culminating in every drop of knowledge of the st five millennia that the Grey athered about the ws of the force. It was nothing more, than a small drop of knowledge pared to the waste and endless mysteries of the universe and the force that seemed to sew it together so seamlessly eg all particles of ether to the same mysterious being, energy. Maybe some invisible hand of a greater power? The oldest of the apostles had no ao that question.

  She khat it was the curiosity to search for this knowledge and uand it in its ey, that propelled her to create this order, it was this purpose, which burned from the ihe thirst to solve seemingly unsolvable mysteries. Now many eohis thirst was still the same, if a bit more patient in its nature. Now she uood that all the time in the universe was at her hand, unless her memory liragically es to an end by unfortunate means.

  She shivered from the thought as she remembered a few particur moments, in the near past that were needlessly dangerous. The girl in the mist sighed heavily as she felt extremely self-aware about those careless mistakes and circumstances. In other words, she was embarrassed.

  As her thoughts wandered back to such events the mist suddenly began to forcefully flow backwards, back to the moments she was thinking about. Behind the mist in the hazy fade those exact memories began to py out like an old performance practiced a thousand times. However, she did not experie from her own perspective, she resent, as anhostly self, walking through those memories, looking at them as a simple observer, a judge of herself.

  Now she uood it at st. Her failure that almost cost her everything.

  The lips of the twi'lek moved hesitantly as she stated those observations matter of factly.

  -My ego doesn't match my body.

  She stated with a ghostly whisper, as the flow of the world, the time, the mist, began to whip forward back to the current time.

  She lowered her face even more looking at her feet with a stupid expression.

  -It is no wohe immortal cil tried to humble me with such extreme measures. I have lived for thousands of years, and most of those years I was at the peak of my power. But now...

  The girl looked at her body, with a twinkle in her eyes, a glinting uanding. It was the first time, she looked at herself with such crity and disillusioned acceptanbsp;

  -Now... I am little more than a child.

  Her shoulders fell as she still heard the lingering pride and refusal in her own words. She sighed deeply and said once more.

  -No... I am just a child.

  Stating those words with such hoy was much harder for an over four thousand years old being that prided itself with its knowledge and uanding than most may realize. Yet... with those statements something ged in the air around the girl. Something i was regained, a light reignited in those deep eyes. A twinkle in the pink eyes that wasn't there until noeared.

  The old fme of curiosity, the light that dimmed over the passing ages fred up again, with an iy that was believed to be lost.

  This scared the girl at first, she didn't know how to deal with suteions seemingly ing out of the gray. Yet the emotions stayed and with time, she began to remember, remember or maybe relearn to hahem properly. It had nothing to do with being a jedi, or a sith, ray lord. These emotions were simply dimmed by the years that went above one's head. The faces and friends fotten, lost in the mist of time. Friendships that we believed to st forever, broken so easily, fragile, fotten.

  One does not know, how it begins, it only realize the ge when it is dohose who see and experienuch, will eventually grow numb to it, pride and knowledge only reinforces the process. However, all those pride and knowledge were slowly scraped off of her soul irials she went through since her sed birth. On top of that, she was now in the body of a little girl, with weak force reserves. She was for on thousands of years, genuinely dependant on others' help and support.

  Now she was able to see that. With time she will accept it.

  As she uood this, a pyful fme reignited in her heart, a fme that came with the acceptance of one's weaknesses. It is nothing more than the desire to reinford elimihose weaknesses, which were always there, but never accepted and therefore never seen as such. The girl blinked as she realized this and looked into the fog once more.

  Her eyes this time looked at the present universe, glinting through the fade of the mist, but the mist seemed to clear almost disappear entirely, showing her a clear view that she had never experienced before.

  The girl was enamored with the sight of the shining spectacles in the gaxy. Beautiful, terrifying and breath-taking vieeared for her, showing worlds and ps with such amalgamation that she was falling into silent breathless awe. There was a world covered with growing crystals of many shades while magma levels were tinuously ging around the whole world as if they were giant waves of a never-ending tide. Another world, which was always covered with sandstorms jumped forward. There were giant worms swimming in the depths of the endless desert, yet even among such dreadful creatures there was life and water hidden from most. There were people living on the poo, some ri the foro, the whole p was ri it, strahought the girl. The vision ended with a pair of sharp eyes appearing in the sandstorm, blue eyes within blue eyes locked to her form as if seeing her, but the vision ged to another, not lettihink over the strange apparition.

  She focused on the flow of time and space as the course of the force brought her to the spectacle.

  She watched in stillness as worlds had burned and formed in front of her eyes, sometimes by the act of nature, sometimes by the act of intelligent beings. Stars, ps, moons, moved as a myriad of small pieces moving on an edgeless and ageless chess pte. All pieces of a greater whole, ohat was impossible to glimpse at.

  It was at that time; the girl had e to a revetion. Those pink eyes with a hauntih seemed to deepen even more, as a new level of uanding awakened in the girl.

  The thought was so obvious, but it was not easy to accept. The girl now was ready to accept it, she embraced the truth that was always there, but she refused to see it, blinding herself willingly as a result.

  The girl ughed, as a few drops of tears fell from her eyes. She ughed without reservation; in a way she might never have done before. Later, when she gained baeasure of ess, she stated with uionable finality, but the words had no such sour taste anymore. They felt to her like the released sigh of a long-lost child finding the right way leading home.

  -... I was always just a careless child, wasn't I?

  She ughed as tears still stained her face ready to break loose again, struggling to hold them back.

  -What is four thousand years of life experienpared to the universe? For what did I pride myself so much, to see a fragile picture of something that might never be. How petty one grow from holding onto but a morsel of insight and truth.

  A few more tears slipped down the weary face, as those words reverberated in the empty mist.

  There was a silence as the girl gazed into the mist while a haze seemed to e over her eyes. She tried to blink as she sehat something rig her eyes. At that moment, a part of the mist broke off and seeped into the unfocused pink eyes, after the mist passed, the eyes were pink no more. They were ged, turning into a physical maion of the mist of time, a bck, white yet mostly gray color was now filling the iris of the eyes. Ceaselessly reminding every onlooker of a calmly bellowing pair of whirlwinds tered around the depthless bck eye pupils.

  The girl blinked a few more times absentmindedly as the ge occurred, but she did not realize any of it. In the end, she said one more thing as genuiement leaked into her voibsp;

  -You wao humble me, grind away my pride that blinded me, break off the ego that refused to accept other ways and possibilities, all t out my childlike curiosity, and force me to embrace it.

  It was not a question; she stated those words with firmness and calm uanding.

  -Fine... you win, I will accept my role.

  She stated as an i, yet pyful smile appeared on the face of the girl, which for the first time genuinely weared an easy-going expression so much more fitting to a young girl of her age.

  With that, the mist dissipated, and she awoke in a fy bed covered by two to three yers of bs.

  She looked around the room while lying in the fortable soft warmth surrounding her body and soul.

  She smiled.

  -Not a bad start, eh?