Earthian fiction was truly quite fascinating, once you got past their...unique presentation. It took some getting used to the delicate wood-pulp pages, which struck Qui-Gon as quaint and hardly very lasting, but once you got past that, they did indeed offer valuable insights into this planet's cultures and their values, what they deemed important and worth writing about, over and over. For all their differences, Earthians as a whole seemed preoccupied with travel, often over long distances: the current book he had open, Journey to the Center of the Earth, was no different.

Qui-Gon didn't expect to actually finish all these books, but at the very least he wanted to learn more about Earth - and while this book in particular was clearly fictional, it still served its purpose. Holding it in one hand, and wondering just who this Jules Verne was, the Jedi Master browsed the stacks of other books, skimming through the titles before he would sit down to read.

Perhaps he would find an insight about the Force. Many civilizations seemed to have their own version of it - "spirit", as Renji had called it - and he hoped that Earth would be the case as well. His meditations into the Force, and trying to reconnect, hadn't been as fruitful as he would have liked. Trying to shake off decades of Jedi doctrine was a bit more difficult than he anticipated...