Sai'nu: Reflections of the Goddess.

Sai'nu

It is said that there is balance in the teachings of The Goddess. Ultimately the fundamental basics were for all of her children, the galaxy, to Love one another in harmony.

As with all balances there can be no good without evil. No light without the coming darkness.

Such is the tale of Ryloth and its people; such is the tale of the twins Sai’nu.

Looking back now it is said that The Gifted were often the ones that were most fanatical for the extremities of this balance. The Sai’nu twins were among the Gifted. They were no more special or important to the whole of the galaxy as even the Emperor himself was. The Goddess had labeled everyone brother and sister.

On one warm morning the twins, Vreese and Batak, lay awake in their opposite houses that spanned a sector apart from each other on Lok and Dantooine and gazed upon their respective beloved asleep next to them.

Vreese and Batak both had first come to Temple very tried and lost from their previous endeavors. They had escaped slavery and suffered the loss of their entire clan. They had joined the Rebel Alliance and learned of the war waged off their home world. They had found some solace with fellow twi’leks who were banding together on Tatooine. They had even managed to follow some of the fundamental basics of The Force from time to time. But nothing had land marked them more than achieving that which the Goddess desired; they had found their family within the Temple their clans of old has served with Love.

Batak struggled with many things. The one thing he did not struggle with was his love of Isleh and Weyune. He even felt that Rhian and Ryoo were similar in nature to him. He closed his eyes and breathed in the scent of Love. For him it was the smell of Isleh’s freshly washed topknot. The scent of both Weyune’s and Isleh’s perfume lingering together.

For Vreese this same love was reflected toward Dasumi. The love here was no more or less passionate than that of her brother’s; but she wagered even with the similarities the differences were staggering. She half smiled as she watched Dasumi stir. For some reason, even though she was physically taller, Dasumi made Vreese feel even taller somehow.

The Goddess likes to teach us that we must learn right and wrong in an attempt to reach more loving conclusions. Ah, but there can be no Love without Hate, can there? In case of the Sai’nu twins this was very directed at slavers. Especially one Espan Grieves that had enslaved and lead to the destruction of their clan so long ago. This is perhaps where the balance of the Sai’nu twins began. One forever on the edge of darkness as the other basked in light only to dance back and forth exchanging the positions; meeting every once in awhile at the same middle ground. Such occasions were rare though. But at least one of them had to remain level headed.

The tools of the Kika’Vati teaching, as thought by these twins, were the blaster and the blade. In the Sister’s case it was the lightsaber. Both had walked the path of Jedi and even learned and taught its code though neither would claim the title Jedi. They were simply the Gifted and knew that whatever it’s origins or nature that they had command of The Force.

The twins had a knack for trouble. Hot headed and thick skulled they both were indeed. In this aspect one would usually have to teach the other something and vice versa. Their growth did not really begin till their beloveds had entered into the fray; and a great deal in part due to the Kiva, Ekade, to whom they felt they had some hidden connection to. Children seeking their mother; Friend to friend; Teacher to their student... all these things the Kiva, Ekade, had helped to fill in some way.

The Mother is essentially the embodiment of The Goddess as a whole. Reflected in this was Batak’s and Vreese’s desire to want protection for their Temple, their brothers and sisters of the galaxy, and especially their beloved.

In all this time what they were finding were that they had to walk different paths sometimes. This simply made the time they did have more precious with their family. They both felt it from their loving partners. Batak would be the first to run headlong into or away from something; and all Isleh ultimately asked was to not be excluded. Weyune had only asked that he put worry away and accept her love. Vreese sweetly reminded herself time and again just how prudent Dasumi was in that she really only desired to be near her; and that was enough.

Now it is true that this does little to explain the dance between darkness and light that the twins often go through. However what was reflected in hope and dreams while with their family made The Goddess seem that much clearer and complete to the Sai’nu twins. They had their chaos; but their love balanced them. And the twins knew somewhere the Goddess smiled upon them with all three of her faces.

As the moment shifted the twins held onto their beloved waiting for the day they would be eternally bonded. A Sai’nu was stubborn about such things; And Love was one commitment that did not seem to let you run away from it. The Goddess works mysteriously sometimes; such as in the case of the Sai’nu twins.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ---Bilbo Baggins.