Anakin continued to fly the ship in the direction the tooka doll was pointing, and it was almost as boring a trip as the one to Ryloth. Ahsoka had asked, again, why so many people were needed to find one missing boy, and Obi-Wan had simply replied "You never know what will happen.". When he said that, it was bluntly obvious to the others that Obi-Wan was keeping a large chunk of information secret.

After a couple of hours of trying to pry more information from Obi-Wan, who's lips remained firmly closed, they saw the outline of their apparent destination. Obi-Wan, grateful for the distraction since the others had stopped interrogating him for his secret once they saw the planet read the description of the ships computer over Ahsoka's shoulder.

"Tuyepov," he read aloud, "is a planet half civilized and half jungle. The jungles are inhabited by ten foot tall creatures called Nelesinari. Nelesinari only prey on moving targets, and will ignore those they presume to be dead."

"Well, I hope Homki's in the civilized portion." said Ahsoka. But, of course, nothing was ever that easy, and as they drew towards the planet, Numa's doll pointed to the middle of the jungle. "So much for that." Ahsoka sighed. Anakin spoke up, "The people on ship Homki stowed in must have dropped him off once they realized he was there. Maybe they're hoping he won't come out alive." The way Anakin said dropped him off made it sound as if he thought Homki had been tossed unceremoniously out of the ship as it flew over the jungle. That could very well be true, Anakin thought.

Anakin brought the ship down, and they landed. The five of them walked out of the ship and saw that the doll was pointing somewhere through the trees. "Looks like we have a bit of a hike ahead." Waxer stated. They set off. They appreciated the fact that, so far, the mission had been easy. Numa's doll helped a lot, since they weren't really searching for him, just following a path. Compared to almost every other assignment they'd had recently, this was almost a vacation. Well, thought Waxer, meeting Numa for the first time when helping Ryloth had been rather enjoyable.

They knew that the simplicity wouldn't last, though. As they rounded a corner, as instructed by the tooka doll, the almost walked strait into a Nelesinara. They all immediately feigned lifelessness, even going as far as to close their eyes. Actually, Rex and Waxer kept their eyes open, but their helmets concealed their faces anyway, so the beast didn't know the difference. It stayed for a while, lurking over them as if trying to decide if they were alive or not.

While the Nelesinara was doing this, Rex and Waxer conversed through the comm-links built into their helmets. Since they hadn't worked together before, they decided to get to know one another, and exchanged general information about themselves. As they were discussing some of their battle highlights, the Nelesinara finally went away.

Waxer informed the Jedi that it was gone, and then realized it was pointless saying it since they were already up. Of course, he thought, the force. It was hard for non force-sensitive beings, like Waxer himself, to remember how much the Jedi knew from the force.

They continued on their hike to find Homki. The Jedi now used the force to sense where the creatures were, so they only had to play dead for a minute or two at a time. Rex and Waxer continued to chat, and their conversation went unnoticed by the others. Their helmets offered the privilege of blocking their communication channel to anyone else. They took advantage of this, and the talking was private between the two brothers, as they could be called.

The walk went on for about an hour, occasionally stopping as they played dead, and none of them were remotely tired. Waxer and Rex had gone off their private channel for a bit to try to engage the others in conversation, but the three Jedi were deep in their own discussion. Oh well, thought Rex as he flipped back to his private channel with Waxer and started chatting again.

And then, about an hour and a half after they left their ship, they rounded a corner and they saw Homki.

Obi-Wan couldn't help feeling that finding him had been the easy part of the mission.