While Luke is sleeping Ken turns the sphere in his hands and thinks to himself. I really don't have any clue what this means. I'll ask Luke in the morning if he has any-Ouch! Ken drops the sphere and looks at his thumb, it was bleeding. "What the?" he mumbles to himself and picks the ball up again and looks at it. His blood covers the ball and is slowly disappearing. It seemed as if it is absorbing his blood. One minute later a voice says, "DNA match complete, loading image." Ken quickly glances over at Luke who is still sleeping before looking back the sphere as an image appears hovering over it, completely life-like except for in size the image finally focusses clearly and Ken's mouth drops open as the image of Kendalina begins to talk.
"Ken. If things have gone as I foreseen than I did not return for you. And for that I am very sorry." The image stops talking as she takes a breath then continues, "I know things must have been difficult for you but…" The image looks downward and sighs, "I know that is no excuse. There is so much to tell you," she shakes her head slowly, "But so little time. The first thing, I suppose, I should tell you is that there are nine other spheres like this one scattered around the Lost City on Yavin 4. They must be opened in a certain order and each one has a different way to open it. You can reopen the sphere at any time by repeating what you did to open it. As for this one, it will only open for you." She looks up and appears to look straight into Ken's eyes, "A friend of mine is holding the next one. Go back to the river where you found this one and my friend will bring you the next one. No matter what happens Ken I will always love you."
With that the image disappears suddenly and leaves Ken to sit and ponder in silence until Luke slowly sits up, "Who was that Ken?" Ken jerks around to look at Luke then scows, "You saw the entire thing didn't you. You weren't even sleeping!" a smile slowly creeps across Luke's face, "Yes, I was, and no I wasn't. You still haven't answered my question." Ken sighs and looks back at the sphere, "It was my mom." Luke tilts his head, "I should have guessed that. You look a lot like her." Ken just nods as a tear runs down his face. He lays down and puts the sphere by his pillow, "I'm going to bed. Goodnight Luke."
The next morning Ken secretly sets out into the forest heading for the river where he had found the ball. Along the way however...
"Ken." A chiding voice says.
Ken turns and sees Triclops wearing a crooked grin."Let me guess." Ken says as he folds his arms over his chest. "I was making too much noise. Right?" Triclops shakes his head, "I've followed you since you left this morning."Ken's mouth drops, "And I haven't seen you till now?" Triclops snorts and shakes his head. "Where are you going?"
Ken pulls out the sphere, "Found a way to open it. So I'm doing what it said to do." he puts the sphere away "You want to come?" Triclops smiles, "I've been following you haven't I?" Ken grins and turns back around heading for the river.
The woman holds her hand over the ball and gently whispers some words and watches as slowly the ball reveals the two waiting and talking by the river untill Triclops jerks and quickly disappears into the bushes near the river. "Dad?" Ken says then turns as Luke appears behind him. Luke tilts his head, "Dad? Have you met Triclops here before?" Ken stares, "Oh yeah. You saw the message."
The image slowly fades and the woman frowns and pushes her brown hair away from her face. "Just a little longer my Prince."
(Sorry for the delay in getting this out. I had to study for a biology test. I'm going to be trying to post one a least once a month.)