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“For almost thirty years I have kept guard over this temple…”





“…I have protected its secrets…”





“…and fought long days against those who would harm this temple; my home.”





“Dark times have risen. I had foreseen it many years before its coming.”





“They’re dying; the trees. Their branches drying, their leaves fading as fast as they fall.”





“So much death…so much killing from the living…”





“…and as of recently the dead have also come to threaten my house of solitude.”





“Hello, there,” I said…





“Unresponsive as they all are. All they want is warm flesh, their cold forms aren’t enough for themselves.”





“And so we must survive in the name of the dead…and the dead that live.”





“That’s the last of them, Master Jay,” said Master Turban Nellore, his lips quivering with exhaustion against his gritted teeth.





“Thank you, Master Nellore, I am fortunate to have you three Knights of the Order in my midst.”





“Master,” Turban answered with a troubled heart, “There is something unusual happening to some of the dead we have encountered…”





“…they are evolving. We have seen some with eyes that do not glow like the others, and others who require lethal blows to the head in order to be…killed again.”





The dead corpse rolled over onto its back suddenly, but the black-robed Jedi Knight was calm,

“I got it.” Mano Or’ra responded,






With a flick of his wrist, the corpse was decapitated and dismembered.





“That does appear to be unusual.” Master Jay replied simply, “but it is not too much of a problem of which we cannot counter. Our aiming will thus from now on have to be a little higher than usual.”





“There’s something else, Master. It’s a little hard to explain.”





“What is it Master Nellore?”





Master Nellore froze…





“The Clone survivors are hunting down Jedi here on Bondo III…” Jedi Knight Lao Rataka stated.





“…Master?”





“And thus explains the dying trees.”





“Master Jay?” questioned the young Jedi Mano Or’ra,





The three Jedi Knights could only gather a few words from the mumbling old Bothan Master.





Suddenly he jerked his hood back and spun around facing the Jedi.





“Do you want to know how the trees work?”





“The trees are developed through the Force,” Master Jay stated pointing towards one of the trees,





“This Force hot spot was discovered nearly three hundred years after the establishment of the Jedi Order. Since then, this temple was built over it, and every Jedi was required to build an exact replica of their light sabers to place beside a tree.”





“But do you want to know what is more astonishing about these trees?” Master Jay asked,





“Each tree begins its growth when a Force sensitive being is born…”





“…When a Jedi comes with their light saber, the trees guide the Jedi to it, to place their weapon beside the trunk.”





“The tree is the embodiment of not just the Force, but of the Jedi as well.”





“When the child is born, the tree is born. When the Jedi dies…so does the tree.”





“What does any of this mean, Master?” Lao questioned,





“Master, what is going on?”





“What is going on? What is happening…is what is going on.”





“It is the reckoning of Bondo III, yet the Jedi are safer here than what is out there.”





“Not inside the temple, no. Outside the planet; yes.”





“These Jedi, these…children compared to me are forced to be here.”





“The Force…is with no one.” I said.































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