Jedi Saga: Sword of Light
Book 1:
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Two Millennia after A New Hope
Intro
Ade-Ja's padawan apprentice, Tibler Kay, looked at his crono. His master was late- again. At least Master Ade-Ja had a good humor about everything. Very few of the other Jedi Masters had any sense of humor whatsoever. Tibler smiled to himself. 'I guess I'm lucky,' he thought.
Being fairly young to start apprenticing at age 12, Tibler had a promising future ahead of him. He had the greatest Master any youngling could ever hope for, he had a multitude of friends, and he was very strong in the force- or so he was told. Truth be told, he was still learning, and had a long way to go.
After looking at his crono again, Tibler decided to sit on one of the benches on the landing platform. His master had been out on a 'very dangerous mission- too dangerous for any padawan to go on.' And you know what? Nothing had happened. Now Tibler was just waiting for master Ade-Ja to return.
Several times he thought that his master's shuttle was this one or that one, but he was always wrong. Then, for once, Tibler decided to practice using the force. He expanded his 'sphere of awareness,' as he called it and tried to pick out what ship his master was on.
That's when something very interesting caught his attention.
Hurtling at an incredibly fast speed towards the landing platform was an object- an escape pod of some sorts.
Tibler's green eyes snapped wide open when he realized that there was something alive inside the pod. The pod wasn't slowing down. Faster than you could blink, he had his comlink out and was already telling someone at the newly re-finished control tower about what was happening.
"Ok, I am on it," said the droid on the other end. Almost immediately, two small ships were dispatched from the tower to escort the pod to safety. Of course, it just had to be at the landing platform Tibler was at.
Within moments of the ship hitting the platform, armed guards were bustling around, trying to shoo Tibler and everyone else on the platform away. Tibler stayed, knowing he had authority over these guards. He was also very interested about what could be inside of that escape pod. Before he had any time to do anything else, two guards started to cut away at the door of the pod. Tibler watched them work, making up stories about what the being inside the pod would be like. Maybe he was an escaped convict on his way to the spice mines of Kessel. Or maybe it was some small-world dignitary whose ship had been attacked by pirates and had only just escaped being captured and sold as a slave.
But no- It wasn't either of those.
The guards had finished cutting through the door, and one was cautiously peering inside. Remarkably fast, he ran inside and came back out with something in his arms. He laid it down on the ground and shouted to another guard to call the nearest med station.
Tibler stood on his toes to peer over the soldier's shoulders. He really wanted to know what in the Skywalker's name was going on. And then he saw what it was.
She was a human girl, probably not much older than Tibler himself. She had plain brown hair, and save for the gash on her forehead, seemed to be in fairly good health. Her clothing was simple- a pair of pants and a grey tunic. They seemed to be a little bit on the dirty side, though. Perhaps she had been in the escape pod for a while. On that note, she did seem rather underweight and pale now that Tibler was getting a better look at her.
People in the crowd around him were muttering about the 'poor thing,' and 'little child,' and about how scared she would be when she woke up in a strange place. Well, maybe it's not a strange place said another. Perhaps she's been to Coruscant before. Maybe. I guess we'll know when she wakes up.
By now, a small speeder had arrived and was loading the girl into the back to transport her to the med center. Tibler really wanted to follow it, but he knew that although he had the best Master in the galaxy, that didn't mean he wouldn't be punished for being somewhere that he shouldn't be. So, rather upset at himself, Tibler opted to return to the new Jedi temple- the one that was over a thousand millennia old but still considered new because it was newer than the old Jedi temple which was much older than that (three or four millennia?). Anyway, he went home and told all of his friends about his adventure at the landing platform.