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pick up the bandana under which you’ve been hiding your face these last few months. It is made of a soft fabric that has never once irritated your face when your scars were still wounds, this is due to the specialised material it is woven from. It is a plain black sheet of cloth with no markings or identifiers. You tie the blank looking fabric around your ears covering everything below your eyes, still not all of the long Sith lettering is hidden by your apparel. The scars stretch from the bottom of your jaw, rising to the top of your forehead. During the recovery period, your hair has grown, and you have not had it cut to the short length you used to keep it at; now, your sandy blond fringe tickles the edges of your eyebrows, assisting your bandana in obfuscating your ruined visage.
Leaving your room for the hallway you are greeted with a view of a long corridor filled with doors all containing plaques displaying the names of the occupants. The walls are unadorned, and no painting or murals are used to break up the blank space. But the length of the passageway is not dull on the eyes by any stretch. Materials shaped to look like rough rock fight against the atmosphere created by the sheer multitude of doors, which could be borrowed from a prefabricated apartment block. Above, attached to the uneven ceiling like a limpet to an ancient wooden ship, is a row of smaller glowing rocks emulating the blue glow of the sister stars. You follow the twisting path; it mimics a winding route the sea would bore through a rock. The stone is a light sun-bleached white, tinged by the colouration of the lamps.
This place could not be more different to the massive temple on Coruscant. Where there was marble and gold being used in every inch, the Tion temple does away with the ostentatious grandeur and almost gaudy finery. Instead, it tries to imitate one of the few natural structures that sprout from the bare ocean world. There are many Jedi temples throughout the stars, all on an extremely loose leash on the design and practises going on within the walls. From what you’ve managed to glean from the few conversations you’ve had with the locals, primarily Jedi Knight Korra, and the Jedi you have observed, this place is much more relaxed and less dogmatic. A part of you isn’t comfortable with this meek adherence to the Jedi code, there have been so many Jedi in the past that have used their freedoms to explore different philosophies, which has led to the birth of many dark side users; another part of you, the one you are trying to embrace, is enjoying the slowness of life without the weight of expectations.
