Irman traveled on through the curtain of darkness that had fallen on the land. Noghri eyes adjusting the the lowlight environment with exceptional acuity. The pair had made a good distance before stopping. Looking about he found signs of a childs passing.
A scent of fallen skin, of the sweat of fascination at the speed of his flight. Such was the wonder of a child. He chose his way with care. He needed to steal the child with all due care in the world. His first exposure to the darkside being one of them.
Yet again he chooses a place to stop falling to a meditative cross legged position yet again. He fell away from the flesh of his mortal body and surrendered to the force. Floating like a wraith he saw his body as a blue emanation in the force. He sees the force as an ocean depth that he swims through with swirls of light and dark intermixing and meeting turning into all shades of white, grey and black.
He looks for the innocent signature the unique being near him that knows nothing of light or dark. Only the happy bliss inbetween that is a result of being so young. He finds it in the force. Using the connection that he forged earlier he enters the mind of the child.
This time he sees a bit more in the childs mind. Old games where the child had put him self into the very storys of the heroes of the storys putting himself in the place of the heroes that he fought beside.
Irman Read the lips of one of the images as it talked to him. A twik that was defending him from giants that resembled a cross between a Rancor and a Gammoronian.
-Lono- Were the words mouthed.
Lono is his name. From there he took the form of the ewok familiar in the childs old storys as a constant companion. Lono along with his trusted friend, the Ewok warrior Chibila.
The memory begins like a story book.
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Once upon a time on the moon of endor there lived a clan of happy Ewoks. They passed their time in the treetops playing their Ewok games. Ewok Mothers and fathers Keeping their families happy and feed. And Ewok elders ruled and healed all with the power of the Great trees of the enchanted Endorian forest in witch they lived.
In the forest of enchanted Endor the plants were alive with energy they were the friends of all living creatures. Large and small. All lived in harmony. Including the Ewoks. The Ewoks in turn cared for and protected the trees.
The trees, so grateful for the service used their enchanted powers to make it so no ewok was ever sick and so that there was always food so that no Ewok ever went hungry.
So Beautiful were these trees that they were on of the best keep secrets of the entire world of Endor.
But one day strangers appeared in flying craft. (Ships of course but the Ewoks had never seen such ships.) The Ewoks found later that they were settlers come to find peace in this green world. So the Human settlers came and had peace with the enchanted forest and its native ewoks. The tribe welcomed the new people as friends and taught them how to live in the trees to tend them and help them along. And how in return the trees gave them good lives.
But some of the settlers saw only the power of the trees. A power that they had never seen before they learned ways to get power from the trees cut off a living peace grind it up and eat it and it gave them great strength and other abilities the ability to fly, to read minds to control the forest itself.
Chief among the Humans that tried this was Kibler Knee.
The Ewoks know of this power it was out lawed by them because of the greed that it inspired in all. The ewoks saw it as the highest crime any that did it would be banished or worse. Kebler saw it as an opportunity that he could not waste. He went to the other colonist seeing if he had their support. But he found that the colonist liked the life that they had. Most had come to respect the life around them and did not wish to upset the balance that the Ewoks taught.
Kebler knew that he needed to act so he sent all of the colonist against him into a deepsleep a sleep that no one could wake from. In the meeting place they lay. The Ewoks knew nothing of this. Kebler and his followers ate the potion of the trees that gave them power. And with the tribes tree top homes before them they Put the ewoks into the forever sleep as well. Now no one stood in their way.
They left for the rest of the planet to conquer it. The whole of Endor would be their's. But with out their knowing it they left some beings be. A pair of children. A son of the colonist and a grown Ewok teaching him the ways of the forest.
Lono and Chibila. (Lono using his own name in his mind's eye.)
The son of the leader of the colonist and a son of the Ewok enchanters that tended the trees. Both were devastated. Their homes where gone and their families were frozen in sleep.
Chibila had heard storys of such a sleep. That a bad Ewok had done the same thing at one time. Lono asked him through tears how it was countered. Chibila was slow to answer. There was a group of ewoks that went on a journey to the mountains to meet the wisest of all dragons. A keeper of knowledge that knew the cure. But the trail was treacherous and many failed to ever return from the journey. Lono was the first one to say that they had to at least try. for all of their families sakes.
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From there Irman retreated back to him self he was planting seeds of knowledge for now that was all that he could do. But the storys were a place for Lono to take a moral direction. So every bit helped. The child only saw this as a memory in his subconscious one that was already at the top ready to burst forth into consciousness. And in the subcouncious the memory only took moments to be remembered so the child bearly realizes how he came to rememer such things. Such was the conder of free thought.
He cursed himself that the technique was not more effective in locating a child. malice hide their force signatures well.
No matter. Irman stood again. He must continue. To the east was were the trail lead so to the east he continues.
