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"Let's go over that way." She said to Mara and Jerik. They didn't seem to have any better ideas so they started heading toward the center of town. Then they saw it, it was Master Skywaker, he was with two women. One was tall and slender; she had brown hair and dark brown eyes. The other one had blonde hair, and looked familiar, it struck Chera as strange she hadn't felt the women, especially somebody as Force strong as Cray. The something clicked in Chera's mind, Cray was dead, then what was she doing here? Callista! Chera looked over to Mara, but Mara wasn't there anymore, she was walking ahead of Chera and Jerik, toward the other group.
Jerik noticed Mara walking ahead of them before Chera did, but unlike her he didn't know why she was so intent on reaching the small group ahead of them. He looked over at Chera questioningly but found her gaze riveted on the others. She was looking back and forth between Mara, the blonde man she was walking toward, and the blonde woman standing with him. He on the other hand noticed the woman with brown hair looking just as confused as he felt. She was very attractive, brown hair and eyes, she was very tall and very slender. He wondered if Chera noticed her too, he looked over to see but found her gaze still locked on the others. He found himself feeling slightly jealous, not like that, he didn't like her in that way, but he did feel like she could at least acknowledge him in some way. After all, he had taken her there; he was the one who...then he stopped. Couldn't the Jedi read thoughts? Grandfather had told him they could and he wouldn't lie to him, would he? He quickly quieted his mind and his doubts. He didn't want Chera to know of his relatives, yet. He looked over at her again and then back and the other woman. There was something about her he found very attractive, normally he wouldn't think of her as his "type" but there is a first time for everything. He looked over toward her again, but something about the blonde woman with her caught his eye. He had the feeling he knew her from somewhere. Then it hit him, CALLISTA!?!?!? What's she doing here? She?s not supposed to be here! Oh no, she's going to get us all killed and for what? It was then he realized that the blonde man looked familiar. It's Skywalker! He realized, So that's what she's up to, figures maybe she can stir things up to where Mara won't be a problem anymore and she can take Luke back. He knew Callista was like that, but he didn't think she would go so far as to get them both killed so she could steal somebody back!
Luke could sense that Mara had sensed him and she turned her head to see him walking with two females towards her. "Skywalker, what are you doing here?" Mara said. " I was about to ask you the same thing." Luke answered. "Hello Chera how are you?" "Good." Chera said looking in Luke?s direction. "Mara, how are you these days?" Callista asked. With shrug of the shoulders Mara responded with and almost icy tone. "I've seen better days." A sudden light-headedness came over Luke and he descended toward the ground. "Luke!" Mara cried. Mara summoned the Force and kept Luke from fall to the ground. "I'm all right, no need to panic. I think I'm coming down with something. Luke said shaking his head. "I think you need to get some thing to eat." Sydnee said. "Good idea." Callista agreed. Walking into the cantina Luke could tell this was going to be a good place to eat. With the past cantinas he had been to this one was like dinning at the Imperial Palace. It was clean, smelt nice, and didn't have the normal riffraff that you find in a place of this nature. Looking around the cantina searching for a table big enough to accommodate the whole group was going to be hard.
They separated into two groups of three, Chera somehow got stuck at a table with Jerik, who spent the entire time watching the woman with brown hair, Sydnee she thought she had heard somebody call her. And Callista who spent the entire time playing with her food and looking at Luke. Chera didn't mind the silence. She ordered a stew of some sort and began to eat it when something hit her; How are we going to get off this planet? She hadn't thought of it before, but they had no way off, Jerik's ship had had electrical problems and wasn't safe to fly, and surely Sydnee's ship couldn't take all of them, or maybe it could, but she doubted it seriously. She began to calm herself reminding herself that if they were stranded here it was the will of the Force, and nothing she could do would change it, so she decided to enjoy her meal and take it up with Master Skywalker later.
Luke peered at the holo menu to see what he wanted. Luke chose the Tatooine Dewback with Nubin gravy and a flask of the local ale. Mara went for the deep fried Mynock wings with extra mashed tapadoes and a cup of water. Sydnee ordered Yornkshir ribs with a blue leafed salad and mug of Corellian whiskey. Luke looked at Mara and then at Sydnee. "Are you old enough to have that?" Luke asked Sydnee. With a hurt look on her face she replied. "What do I look like? A two year old? Of course I am. Would you like to see my ID?"
"No, that's all right. I just wanted to make sure that you were going to be OK flying a ship."
"I'll be fine. By the way do you guys at the Academy like the present I sent you?" Sydnee said with a smile. With a confused look on his face wondering what she was talking about. "What present?"
"The holocron."
"That was from you?"
"Sure was. It was the Emperor's and my father stole it and hid it with me when I was sent to Hoth. That's what and how I learned about the Force and my place in the world."
"Why did you send it to us?"
"Because I learned all that I could learn from it. I thought that you and the students at the academy would make better use of it then it setting somewhere on a pedestal in my ship."
"Thank you. You don't know how much of a help having one of them around is."
"No problem."
"You were an ex-imp?" Mara said
"No. My parents were forced into the deal and when I was conceived my mom hid till I was born and they sent me away to Hoth."
"You were lucky you didn't get the same fate as I."
"But if you hadn't been taken by the Empire you would have never met me." Luke put in. Mara looked at Luke and smiled. "But that is a risk I would be willing to take." Sydnee noticed the guy with Chera and Callista. He was strikingly handsome and he had the most beautiful dark brown eyes. Sydnee gazed into them and smiled. With an embarrassed look them man looked away with a red face. The food final came. It smelled so good. Mara's food looked like it was made for a king. Luke looked down at his slab of well-done Dewback and sliced into it. Cutting him off a piece and putting it in his mouth. "What should we do after dinner?" Luke said chewing his food. "Look for a place to stay. I guess, I don't think we have enough room in the ships to house everyone." Mara said taking a bite of her food. "I think there is a hotel around the corner. It looked habitable." Sydnee said after taking a drink of her whiskey. |
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