‘About half an hour ter, we have reached the coordinates for the exge. There was a ship already waiting for our arrival. Our ship slowly encroached towards the much rger ship that was waiting silently, the vast space surrounding it.’

  ‘We tried to open unication with the ship, but we failed.’

  ‘Ayelfita was deeply frowning at this moment. The others didn’t have better expressioher.’

  ‘Suddenly, Ayelfita asked Seldibo tain with the unication for the third time in a row.’

  “Try it again. I ’t believe that their unication device is out of order. They ’t be that stupid to e to meet with business partners without a unication device...” — The woman joked trying to lighten the mood, but her posture was stiff just as the rest of the crew’s.

  “I find it hard to believe too, but maybe they just left the bridge for some reason.” — Answered Seldibo hesitantly.

  “They khat we were ing to meet with them. They ’t be that stupid.” — Reacted Ayelfita.

  “So what will we do now?” — ‘Asked another weequay that I didn’t know personally.’

  “We will board the ship, obviously.” — Said Ayelfita in a tohat left no pce for obje.

  ‘In the meantime, I reached out with the force, searg for possible dangers. Strangely, I felt nothing, only silence, but this silence was too eery, even abnormal. There was something clearly wrong here, a dahat could hide from my senses.’

  ‘Aside from that, I couldn’t sense a single living being on that ship. Wait... Not a single living being?’

  ‘While I was lost in my thoughts, the others were about to begin the b process.’

  ‘As we got closer, I could sense something even more arming. There was a carefully hidden miasma lingering around the ship.’

  ‘When we closed the distance, I finally se.’

  ‘Along with a series of pictures… a bloodbath, corridors painted in crimson, disembodied body parts spread out in a blood freezing manner, screams filled with terror and… ah.’

  ‘I was not ready for su intense force revetion.’

  ‘The terror and fear of the people. The hopeless cries of children, women and men flowing into a sierrifying amalgamation of suffering… before the final… suffog silence.’

  ‘I was unprepared to feel such terror, and such darkness, so suddenly. Therefore, I was momentarily swallowed by this vortex of blinding terror.’

  ‘A few seds passed when I finally mao pull away from this dark void. I opened my eyes as I felt a sudden thirst for air. I began to breathe, feeling strangely out of breath...’

  “What happened?” — ‘I asked as I looked around the bridge. Everyone seemed to be unnaturally tense, and they were aiming their ons at me.’

  ‘Ayelfita looked me in the eye, then she sighed... She waved to the others to lower their ons. The pirates hesitantly followed the order after a few seds. Then she marched towards me with the zeal of an angered mother wookiee.’

  “The fuean by what happened? If someone is allowed to ask that question, that someone is me! So tell me what happehat made you start screaming like a ba of nowhere?!”

  ‘I blinked.’

  “Did I scream?”

  “Yeah.” — ‘Said practically every pirate in the room. Oh, and there were quite many right now, as many more ran to this location because of my presumed screaming.’

  ‘Then the force vision I just saw came to my mind...’

  ‘It was much more drowsy now, as if something wao erase it to make me fet... no... that is exactly what was happening!’

  ‘My eyes widened as the cruel realization hit me. This, this is a darkside teique, a very powerful one, much more powerful than the weakened version that was used on the Jedi Temple.’

  ‘The dead bodies, clearly butchered by lightsabers, blinked into my eyes as I sprang into a, surprising the surrounding pirates.’

  ‘I sehat more thaer gun oiowards my undefended back at the moment, but I didn’t care. I ran to the trol panel and looked around in a panic. Luckily, the ship had standard trols, snized most of it easily. I pushed a few buttons, setting the ship in reverse, then reached for the right lever and pushed the speed trol lever to maximum acceleration.’

  ‘I felt a hand grab my shoulder thaa forcefully pulled me from the trols, even more so, as the sudden quiing made her stumble backwards pullio a bearhug that soon ended with me pushed face first into the floor while she was holding my arms behind my back quite painfully.’

  “What the hack is wrong with you!?” — She screamed. — “Why would you try to run away now, after we gave you all those ces in the space station? Did you hit your head since we came here? This is why I hate children!”

  ‘She ractically shouting into my ear protrusions and for my ented sehat was unfortunate. She then turned away from me and tinued her shouting. Also, those ces she mentioned were clearly traps to make me try to run away... I could see through it from a mile away...’

  “Seldibo, get to the trols and go back to the ship! We have to board it!”

  “Okay dear I am...” — ‘The man began his answer but is cut it short.’

  “NO!” — ‘I shouted.’ — “We ’t go back, it is a trap! Everyone is dead!”

  ‘There were a few tense seds after that, and I felt a cold bster gun barrel toug the backside of my head right between my two lekku. I shook from the terrible feeling like a dry fig.’

  “Good, I see that you still fear for your life. That means you didn’t pletely go crazy, did you?” — The red woman asked in a no nonseone.

  “N-N-no...”

  “Splendid, since I don’t like killing children, and you were quite co-operating until now. I will ask it only once, why do you think that it is a trap, and everyone is dead on that ship? Did you know something that I did not? Maybe that is the reason why you were so calm in our custody. Usually people are not half as rexed, or even grateful, to be kidnapped as you were, sweety.”

  “W-well... I saw a force vision... I saw the people, the twi’leks... even the children. They were massacred.”

  ‘I felt as though the on barrel that was being pushed to my head rexed a bit, but it was still pointing to my head non-the less.’

  “Hmmm... your jedi powers have been verified already. Yet I find it hard to believe in some so-called visions... Lifting up things without toug it is already strange. Now you are g to see the past? What ? Will you blow up a whole p with a few waves of your hands?”

  “Ugh... only if you know...”

  “What did you say?” — She demanded.

  “No-nothing...”

  ‘It was at this time the other twi’lek interrupted us, and I was gd for it.’

  “Ayel, my love, should we go back to the ship, then, or what? We are quite far already...”

  “Wait a minute. I am still talking with...” — ‘She began her answer when suddenly our ship started shaking violently.’

  ‘Each of the pirates that were standing and not sitting in a seat fell to the floor. Luckily, I was already on the floor, so I was saved from new bruises. I still didn’t pletely heal from my injuries from that battle. I couldn’t use force heal all the time, and the pirates didn’t have a fresh bacta supply to fill a full body healing tube. Even if they had, they wouldn’t use it on me...‘

  “What was that?” — Shouted someone from the pirates, as the ship began to stabilize and the lights turned on again.

  “The ship we were about to board just blew up.” — ‘Said Seldiba, with shocked realization.’ — “If we did board it, then now we had been turned into stardust... The girl saved our asses...”

  ‘There were many surprised, thankful and even fearful gnces sent towards me, who was still being pushed to the ground by a shocked Ayelfita... She soon caught on, too, and finally pulled away the gun from my head. It was a genuine relief. I was clearly too young to die...’

  ‘I felt as she pulled me up from the ground and she shamelessly hugged me and kissed me on my forehead at least three times in a row.’

  “That is my little kitten. I believed in you from the very beginning. Seldiba!”

  “What is it, my love?”

  “I have decided we will seriously adopt her. She is our lucky star! And since she is big enough, you don’t have to worry about her g all night!”

  “Hmmm... If that is what you want, I agree.”

  “Good. We will tell it to Hondo whe back to the space station!”

  He agreed silently.

  “What if I don’t want to be adopted!?” — ‘I asked relutly. While w what was wrong with this gaxy?’

  “Sssshhhh... Just shut up. You are a kid. You obviously don’t know what is good for you. Have some faith in your parents. We just want to guide you into a better future.” — ‘The woman said, having a hard time to stay serious while spouting so muonsense.’

  “But..”

  ‘She narrowed her eyes dangerously... I gulped... I wasn’t really afraid of her... I had my lightsaber oer all... I reached towards my bde just for reassurance...’

  ‘It was missing... I checked it again... Still missing...’

  ‘I looked up to Ayelfita questioningly... Oh damn, she has it on her belt... I should have known.. She must have taken it out of my bag while she pushed me to the ground. Her mood seemed to deteriorate while she watched me looking for my... on...’

  “Bad-bad girl... You should not let my praise go to your head. You tried to defy your mother, so brazenly, in front of everyone. No lightsaber for you, for aire week!”

  “But!?”

  “Silence, before I make that into two! Go to your room and think over your as, young dy.” — ‘She stated it with so much emotion that I actually turned around and took a step towards the corridor before I realized something.’

  ‘I swirled around, infuriated by being pyed so easily.’

  “I don’t even have a room!”

  “Well, then wait until we reach the space station. Now, sit down and be silent while I call Hondo, and tell him what happened.”

  “…” — ‘I wao protest realizing that it wasn’t even the main issue that I didn’t have a room, but she was not my mother to begin with. It was supposed to be an act which has no meaning anymore… so she should have stopped bossing me around…’

  ‘I watched as she walked away towards the holo unicator.’

  ‘I was still standing in the same pce, feeling shell-shocked, with a somewhat sck jaw... Seeing the woman’s impudend shamelessness.’

  ‘I felt strange, and I mean awkwardly strange... As if I was actually just scolded by my mother a few minutes ago.’

  ‘It was a really weird feeling, as if my current body and mind , to be scolded and sheltered by a parent figure, as if I was wishing for this my whole life. Yet oher hand, the memories I ied were screaming at me that this was so awkward and creepy that nothing good could e out of it ever, and that I should run away as fast as possible.’

  ‘It was a good feeling and a terribly unfortable ooo. In truth, I was fused, even when she held the gun to my head. I didn’t feel her will to actually kill me. he less, it was still damn scary to physically feel a gun barrel toug my skin and pointing towards my brain.’

  ‘In the end, I decided to y mouth, walk to ay seat in a dark er of the bridge, and sit down. This woman had the aura of a mother wookiee indeed.’

  ‘It’s not like I ’t take my lightsaber from her. But I was still injured, and I didn’t want to fight with these pirates. They saved my life, and in the end, if you could speak in their nguage, they were not that bad. I mean, they are killers and scum, but they still have their own honor. You find much worse criminals in the gaxy, and you don’t even have to search for long.’

  ‘I will also tell you a secret, that time when I told the Jedi cil and Obi-Wan that I favhting with in one hand a lightsaber, while with the other using force powers.’

  ‘Well, you see, it was not pletely true. Only partly.’

  ‘My childish body ’t el the force as freely as an adult body would. Therefore, out of y, this is indeed my favored fighting style right now.’

  ‘Then what is my normal battle style, you may ask? It is very straightforward, I assure you. I simply use the force with my favorite move. It is called force crush.’

  ‘To use it, you either have to have an incredible amount of raw force power, or just as incredibly fine trol over your force abilities.’

  ‘Or both, like Revan had. I smirked at the thought. Yet again, you should not envy someone who had a giant hat was so big that wheood uhe shower, it practically funed as an umbrel.’

  ‘I snorted silently.’

  ‘I have to agree with the old sith saying... The dark side of the force is indeed a pathway to many abilities some sider to be unnatural.’

  ‘Anyway, force crush owerful teique that immobilises and one shots people without powerful enough force shields. I usually use it in a simple but effective way.’

  ‘I pick up my enemy with the force, effectively paralyzing its movements and stopping it from retaliating. Then I crush their hearth, quite literally, mind you.’

  ‘You crush their whole body too, but there is no reason to do that, to and you will drain yourself quickly... Sadly, against, well-designed droids, like my nemesis, you had no other choice than crashing the whole.’

  ‘The only weakness of the teique is that you ’t focus on anything else while doing it.’

  ‘That means you will be a sitting duck for the five to ten seds. Depending on the resistance your victim throws against you. This is why I never use it in open battle... I would be killed by a sniper immediately...’

  ‘I o my internal clusion as Cire sat down by my side, already asking me a plethora of questions. She wasn’t in the room when the whole situation happened... I sighed... Well, time to eain her curiosity... I guess...’