Juniper Canyon • Theme: Song of the Lonely Mountain
Outside, the noise had started the die down.For many weeks, since the siege of Commenor, the enclave had been crowded with people fleeing from the destruction of Munto, the fighting around Chastin City, or were displaced by the occupational government of the Sith evicting them from their homes so that their officers might have accommodations and living quarters.
With the Sith having been pushed off of the planet by the Commenori, the disenfranchised and disaffected were starting to leave the enclave in pursuit of the lives that had been upended by the tyranny of the Sith. The tent-cities erected in the open air courtyard of the enclave, surrounding the shores of the reflecting pool, were starting to come down as people shuffled out in search of their livelihood or the families broken apart by the siege.
One place where the enclave was still overcrowded was the infirmary. That much would likely not be changing any time soon, so the Jedi adapted as best they could with the resources that they had at hand. There were more infirm and wounded than there were beds, pushing the infirmary out into the halls and corridors to find space so that people were not just littering the floor. It stretched the healers of the enclave to the limits of what succor they could give, which had in turn pressed more responsibilities on the shoulders of the younglings who ordinarily attended to the healers and their apprentices.
The young Nautolan laid a hand on the forehead of a woman who was lying on a cot placed out in one the nondescript halls of the enclave's mountain temple. The fever had not yet broken. Her skin was clammy to the touch.
As he meditated there, he could feel the Light Side of the Force pass through him to wash over the afflicted woman. He could feel her pains ease, the fever tempered. Retracting his arm, he boy stood and moved on through the halls of the temple.
He emerged out into the sunlight. A cloudless sky shone overhead, reflected off the walls of stone that encompassed the Jedi temple that had been carved out in the Commenori valley.
Despite everything that had happened in recent days, it was a new day. One that saw that life finds a way.