A New Home

[hadthehighground]

WHO: Obi-Wan Kenobi and YOU
WHERE: The Museum aka The New Jedi Temple
WHAT: Making a new temple for the Jedi!
WHEN: All of April
WARNINGS: None atm

The first days after they arrived back from Coruscant, Obi-Wan was busy. The Jedi essentially hitting the ground running now that he’s been energized by his vacation back home. The first priority was making sure Padme and the twins were comfortable. Then came the task of finding an appropriate place in Temba for a temple.

Before the impromptu trip to Coruscant someone had suggested the amphitheater. However upon looking it over the Jedi decided it didn’t suit the purposes that were needed. So he kept looking. Though he didn’t have to look far as he came across a cluster of buildings that seemed to be a museum complex. After looking over the overgrown and run down grounds he decided that it would be perfect. It would just need some cleaning up and repurposing.

Thus a call is put out on the network. Asking for help in setting up this new home for the Jedi if anyone is willing. Those with the engineering data points would be especially appreciated, as would the advice of those with agriculture for setting up a garden. But really any free hands would do with the promise of the favor being returned down the road.

The time didn’t matter as Obi-Wan will be working on it all month. Cleaning out the buildings and their exhibits. Pieces of artifacts carefully picked up and put away for later sorting and hopefully reassembly. One of the smaller buildings being converted into a holding place for animals and/or potential vehicles. The other intended for living spaces. The largest building was a grand hall and Obi-Wan intended this to be the main structure for learning, sparring, meeting, and whatever else they could use it for. Last but not least the smallest, yet very tall building with a large platform inside was to be made into a place of meditation.

There is a lot to be done and more hands make light work!

((OOC: Feel free to consider this a mingle thread! Obi-Wan isn’t the only Jedi around but I’ll throw him at anyone unless specified otherwise.))

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[hadthehighground]

It felt good, as if a bit of weight had been lifted from his shoulders. And the physical contact was comforting. Something, he realized, he hadn’t had access to since before the purge. Master Fae had offered him the same comfort, but he hadn’t been able to talk to her the way he had with Ezra just now. It made him feel a little less alone in this world. Not that he truly was, but with the memories he possessed, it still felt that way.

Ezra’s words drew a chuckle and the Jedi finally pulled back to offer the young man a smile. “I think I should be thanking you. It’s... been well over due.” He hadn’t really had anyone to talk to about it till now. Be it the fact that he had been in complete isolation on Tatooine or that there had been very few who would understand here, or that it wasn’t a topic he could easily speak to with some considering different timelines.

“As for the holocron. We all make mistakes, and I can see that you have learned from yours. That is what’s important.”

His brows lifted though as he looked at the young Jedi keenly. “Though I can’t promise I won’t freak out should you try something like that again.” So no lecture from him! Not unless Ezra decides to make stupid decisions while he’s here with Obi-Wan. Then he might very well get an earful.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Master Yoda told me it's a lifelong challenge to not bend fear into anger," he says, with a flicker of a grin because those words were not quite in that Order, as Obi-wan can surely guess.

"That was the conversation he told me to find Malachor. I'm not entirely sure why he did that, although maybe he got some hint from the Force there a path to me actually listening to that lesson, along the way. Application is a whole other thing, and I'll take his word for it that's never an effort you get to neglect. I am sure that...I don't like who was I becoming while I was listening to that holocron."

If he's seriously tempted by the Dark Side again, he doesn't think it'll be in quite the same guise.

[hadthehighground]

"And he's right," Obi-Wan says back, mirroring Ezra's grin a little because yes, he knows exactly how Master Yoda sounds. It's something you become quite used to in the Order.

"Though I'm afraid no one ever completely knows what Master Yoda is thinking. His ways were a mystery to even many of us. Sometimes you just have to trust he knows what he's doing. I can say with certainty that his advice never led anyone astray. In fact, quite the opposite. His clarity is far greater than anyone I know and I'm certain he told you what you needed in that moment, even if it led you down a difficult path. Sometimes that's what we need in order to grow, and judging from what you said, you did."

All Jedi struggle with the dark side at some point in their lives. It was just a matter of whether one could overcome it.