Chapter 1

Broken Wings

Tana sat in her quarters at the base of the New Republic in Coruscant, it had been three months since the fall of the empire, but she didn't care, her parents were dead, and she was sent to her only living relative, her uncle, General Crix Madine.

Tana sifted through a box of old things her father had brought back for her from his many travels. Ivan Madine was a very well known archeologist and explorer, he always brought Tana something from his many trips, always something strange or unusual, like a Silkthrower's Fang or a Spiketop's Horn, he always brought her something she could study, research or identify, Tana loved to study them and learn about all the places her father had been. Tana wanted to be just like her father and mother, Katrina, her father always called her Kitty, who was also an archeologist but stayed home most of the time.

"What in the world is that?" General Madine asked pointing to the Mustafarian Insect Mandible in the jar she was holding.

"A Mustafarian Insect Mandible, dad brought it home from his trip to Mustafar, when I was twelve." Tana says as she puts the jar on a shelf next to five other jars.

"I just wanted to see how you were coming along." Madine said as he left.

As Madine walked down the corridor, his thoughts wandered to his little brother's beloved only child. Tana looked just like her father in every way, but her green eyes and golden brown hair were purely her mother's. She was so much like her parents, she loved to learn and discover just like Ivan did, and she loved to explore and ask questions, just like Kitty. He remembered the day he was told that Ivan and Kitty had been killed, he was devastated.

A few weeks later Tana was in the hanger bay, it was empty thankfully, she pulled a small vile of reddish gold liquid from a hidden pouch in her bibbed overalls and snapped it into a medical infusion hypo-derm and pressed it into her neck, she hissed as it was injected into her bloodstream then sighed in relief as its effects began to kick in, she'd begun using the spice Crash 'n Burn three weeks after her parent's death, it helped her forget, helped keep the pain of her loss away, but mostly it helped keep the world away. When she was using it, everything went away, she felt at peace. Tana sighed as she blacked out.

Chewie walked into the hanger bay to work on the Falcon's hyper drive when he saw Tana's body and the hypo-derm next to her, he recognized the reddish gold liquid as liquid

Crash'n' Burn. Chewie gathered Tana gently into his massive arms and brought her to the

Medical lab.

"What happened to her!" Madine bellowed at Chewie.

( I found her on the ground in the hanger, with a hypo-derm of Crash'n' Burn. ) Chewie grunted at him.

"General Madine," a man said as he stepped out of the room Tana was in. "I'm Dr. Bailden, Tana is fine but she has a fairly large amount of Dextametaphine more commonly known as Crash'n' Burn, in her system. If Chewbacca hadn't found her when he did, she'd probably have been run over by a speeder."

"May I see her?" Madine asked.

"She's being looked over for injuries right now but if you'll have a seat I'll call you when you can see her." Bailden said as he re-entered the room.

An hour later Dr. Bailden comes back out.

"She's been sedated, she's all right, but she currently weighs around 110 pounds, that's a little underweight for someone her age. From what I got her to tell me, she's been using for about two months, I think it would be best for her to get treatment, she's not quite hooked on it so it should be easy to break her from it." Bailden says.

"Alright, begin treatment on her as soon as possible." Madine said as he went into Tana's room and sat down next to her. He didn't want to do this to her but whether she liked it or not she was going to do it.