Force Heretic II: Refugee by Sean Williams & Shane Dix

Author:Sean Williams & Shane Dix [Williams, Sean & Dix, Shane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, SciFi, Star Wars, New Jedi Order
ISBN: 9780345428714
Publisher: Del-Rey

The audience was not going well.

“Yu’shaa, your word spreads farther with every day, yet still we are reviled. We are beaten and killed as we have always been. How long until we will be free to be as we were?”

Nom Anor replied: “We will only be free when the un-Shamed accept us as their equals, as we are in the eyes of the gods. Our Message—the philosophy of the Jeedai—will persuade them if we spread it far enough. If it doesn’t convince them we then will make them accept it, and us with it. Only then will we achieve our goal.” He paused significantly. “It is a hard road, I know—but it is one that must be walked.”

“But if we do Yun-Yuuzhan’s work, then his will must become clear to the enemy, too. Surely they would come to see the truths the Jeedai bring?”

“You can show a blind person something a thousand times and he will never see it; you can speak a message to a deaf person until the universe turns cold and she will never hear it. So, too, it is with our enemies. Only those who are open to the truth will accept the truth that the Jeedai bring. Moreover, those who do not, those who continue to espouse a perverted philosophy of pain and pointless sacrifice, these are the ones who must in turn be sacrificed. Redemption can only be achieved by those with the capacity to be redeemed.”

The questioning acolyte nodded slowly, unsurely, as though Nom Anor’s answer only partially satisfied her. Nom Anor studied the Shamed One closely, seeking anything that made her stand out from the rest of the congregation. The usual procession of the disabled and the sick was increasingly diluted by numbers of the hale and the higher-ranked, all dissatisfied with the status quo on the surface. But despite the mass of scars and failed bioimplants that marked this particular member of the congregation as a Shamed One, Nom Anor couldn’t help but feel there was something that set her apart from the others. Dressed in unadorned robes, she was slender without being skinny. Her eyes were filled with the furious intelligence of one consumed with doubt. She lacked the bent, cowed frame possessed by so many of the usual penitents.

“But, Master,” the acolyte went on, “what if one of the enemy was to question the ways he’d been taught? A lifetime of lies is difficult to fight—especially if the truth is hidden from him. The enemy you revile hears only that which he is told, filtered through many ears and mouths along the way. The message is distorted, clouded by those who are indeed your enemy, who will ascribe to you all manner of heresy simply in order to damn you. What of the one who wishes to hear the truth, but cannot obtain it? Is ignorance an excuse in Yun-Yuuzhan’s eyes?”

Nom Anor’s eyes narrowed behind his ooglith masquer. “Our mission should be to reach all Yuuzhan Vong, regardless of caste or rank, in order that they may have the chance to see the truth.

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