The Nexu And The Wolf Prologue

First comes the day. Then comes the night. After the darkness. Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right. By the resolving of gray. Through refined Jedi sight. ― Journal of the Whills, 7:477
==PROLOGUE==
"All hands to the escape pods!"
Diruno. Arek Diruno stayed behind. "Admiral. . .?!"
My voice was eerily calm. "That's an order, Mister Diruno. I want you to live." 
Diruno's eyes went wide as he realized I had no intention of leaving the bridge. "ADMIRAL!"
I closed my eyes and began reciting the manta my father had honored, lived by and exemplified all his life. 
"There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no dea-" A fist punching me in the jaw and knocking me flat cut me off. Before I lost consciousness, I felt someone pulling me up over their shoulder and heard Diruno screaming at the top of his voice. "I'm sorry, Admiral, you can throw me in the brig and demote me later!"
My life begins on Tattooine. My mother and father were originally from Coruscant, my mother's family were from Axxila. Though born on Coruscant, my mother considered herself an Axxilan, like my maternal grandfather. Beings know me most by the name I adopted, my mother's maiden name. But my birth name, the name on my birth certificate, is Firmus Apollo Jinn.
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