Ben turned back with a grin on his face. "This is my favorite place in the temple. It's good for just relaxing, and not worrying about too much."

Rena looked around, obviously not very impressed. "It's a bunch of flowers." She looked at Ben for confirmation to that.

He rolled his eyes. "These aren't just ordinary flowers. They're…" Ben trailed off as he realized that he had no idea what kind of flowers they were. Well, he knew they were special, but he couldn't remember exactly what Luke had told him they were called. He cleared his throat. "They're special flowers." He looked proud of himself for figuring out something logical to say.

Rena shrugged. "You do know I come from a farming planet, right? I have seen flowers before." She walked over, and squatted down next to a little purple plant that looked like a little bell. She narrowed her eyes at it. "I hope you guys don't eat from this garden."

Ben now looked at the plant nervously. "Why?"

Rena stood up and turned around, a mischievous grin on her face. "No idea. It's not like I know anything about flowers."

Ben frowned, but when Rena just waggled her eyebrows at him, he couldn't help the laughter that came out. He let himself laugh, and Rena joined in. After their stomachs hurt too much to laugh anymore, Rena sat down on the dirt, and patted the spot next to her. Ben sat down. He glanced at her, and saw that she was staring straight ahead. "I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that you act older than five."

Rena turned to look at him, and shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe having my Mommy and Daddy be jedi makes me, uh, better? at being a jedi?"

Ben shrugged. "I dunno either." He leaned back, resting his head on his hands, and stared up at the sky. "You know, the stars look beautiful when they come out. You should be able to see them in a few hours."

"Shouldn't you finish giving me the grand tour of the place first?"

Ben sighed, and stood up, then reached down to grab Rena's hand and yank her to her feet. "Alright, then let's go. There's still a lot more left for you to see."

Rena followed him as he led her through the hallways. He made sure to walk at a leisurely pace so that Rena could keep up, even with her short legs. After a few minutes, he stopped in front of a plain door. Rena peered up at him when he made no move to open it. "What's in there?"

"This is Luke's room. You should come here if there's anything that you ever need, okay? He likes to help in anyway that he can."

Rena nodded. "Okay. Next thing."

Ben smiled. He grabbed Rena's hand and pulled her back down to the first floor. They burst into the training room together, startling Ieyyah, who had been in there cleaning up. She looked up in surprise, then raised one eyebrow. "You know, I think that you may be a bad influence on Ben, Rena. He never ran around like this before you got here."

Rena raised one eyebrow as well. "So you mean… yesterday?" She giggled. Ieyyah marched over, and picked up the little girl like she weighed nothing, and began to tickle her.

When Ben heard the shrieks coming from Rena's mouth, he was half afraid that his new friend was under attack, but then he realized that she was laughing. She was laughing so hard that tears were trickling out of her eyes, but she was laughing.

There was the sound of someone clearing his throat after that. The three quickly turned towards the door, guilty looks on all of their faces. Luke chuckled at that. "Why do you all look so serious? You don't really think that I'd punish you for having fun, do you?"

Ben crossed his arms over his chest. "Of course you'd punish us for having fun. We're not allowed to have fun when Mom and Dad are visiting soon."

Ieyyah nodded, backing up the boy. "It is true, Luke. You do have a tendency to be a bit hard on him when you know your sister is going to be coming around."

Luke sighed, and shook his head. "Well, alright. Just for this week, you don't have to do any of your normal training exercises. But that's only because you need to show Rena around, and let her get to know the place. You understand that, right? I'm absolutely not giving you a break just so you'll tell your parents that I'm being awesome, understand?"

Ben nodded eagerly. "Sure thing, Master." He grabbed Rena's wrist, and tugged her away. "Come on, let's go. The temple is huge, it's got plenty of space. But don't worry, I'll make sure you don't get lost." The kids scrambled away.

Luke glanced at Ieyyah. "You have a strange look on your face."

The gran shrugged. "I've just been thinking. I mean, what are the odds that you would come across the one planet in the galaxy that happens to have a little force user on it? Does this not all strike you as weird?"

Luke shrugged. "Is there something specific that you don't like about her?"

Ieyyah shook her head. "No, it's not that. I mean, I've only known the girl for a few hours, but I can already tell that we're going to get along. And she seems to be able to keep up with the pace of the temple as far as I can tell, which is definitely a good thing. But Ben seems to be getting close to her awfully quick. Aren't you jedi type supposed to be all against attachment?"

Luke scoffed and brushed aside the concern. "The Jedi Council was already long gone by the time I was trained, and that was nearly twenty years ago at this point. I'm not concerned with attachments. If I was, I would never be able to spend any time with my sister."

Ieyyah rolled her eyes. "If you weren't forced into it, I doubt you would ever spend any time with her. I'm not saying you don't care about her, I'm just saying that when you have a lot on your mind, you tend to forget about important things."

Luke crossed his arms over his chest. "I would not forget about my own sister," he protested weakly. Ieyyah raised one eyebrow. Luke sighed. "Okay, fine. If you weren't around, I would be taken by complete surprise whenever anything happens. Happy?"

The gran nodded. "Yes, that does actually make me happy." There was a loud crash out in the hallway, and Luke hurried out.

Rena was on the floor, an antique vase shattered around her head. She sat up, grinning. "That was great!"

Ben knelt down next to her, a guilty look on his face. "I am so sorry. Are you okay?"

Luke bent down next to Rena, and his eyes widened with concern when she pressed a hand to the back of her head, winced, and pulled it away with blood on it. She looked up at Luke with wide eyes. "Yikes."

Luke looked back and forth between the two children. "What happened?"

Ben opened his mouth and began babbling at a speed that Luke couldn't understand. Rena shushed the older boy, then crossed her arms over her chest, and stared at Luke stubbornly. "I asked Ben to demonstrate how he can make stuff fly all over the place, like some kind of wizard you know, and then I couldn't help thinking about how fun it would be for me to be the one flying through the air. So I asked him to use the force on me, but then I accidentally bumped into this big cup, and Ben got nervous, so he dropped me. It's not really a big deal."

Luke picked up Rena despite her insistence that she was alright. He looked over at Ben sternly. "We'll talk as soon as I've got Rena all sorted out."

Rena looked upset at that prospect. "But it wasn't even his fault. I told him to do it, and then I knocked over your big cup. Ben shouldn't get into any trouble at all!"

Luke frowned. "I would give you an equal punishment, but you're little, and you're still very new to the temple. You had no way of knowing that the force is not something to be recklessly used for frivolous games. And it makes matters even worse that it resulted in an injury."

The jedi proceeded to carry the five year old to the infirmary section of the temple, and laid her out on one of the beds. She just pouted the whole time, and didn't help Luke at all as he tried to dress her injury and change her into an outfit that didn't have blotches of blood in the back.

Then, once he had wrapped a bandage around her head, Rena looked up at him curiously. "Why didn't you just force-heal me the way you did when I got shot?"

Luke shrugged. "This is something not likely to kill you, and you don't seem to be in too much pain. Unless that assessment is wrong?"

Rena shook her head. "No, you're right. It doesn't really hurt. If it did, I'd probably be bawling my eyes out." She reached back to gingerly press her hands against the bandage. "How long do I have to wear this stupid thing for?"

Luke raised one eyebrow. "You're still young now, but now's a good a time as any to learn that there are consequences to your actions. Jumping in front of a blaster will get you shot. Playing around with the force will get you wearing a big bandage for as long as it takes for that wound to heal." He tilted his head thoughtfully. "Though it may scar over, and you'd have another scar to add to your list. At the rate you're going at, you're going to have more scars than me by the time you're my age, and I'm missing an entire hand."

Rena looked interested at that bit of information. "You're missing a hand?" She

glanced down at where Luke's hands were hanging by his sides, and frowned. "You look like you've got two."

Luke smiled. "Luckily for me, when I lost it there was already the technology around to replace it with an exact replica. But if you try, you could feel that it's not made of flesh and blood." Luke turned towards the door that would lead back to the rest of the temple. "It's probably best if you stay in here for the night. Ieyyah will watch over you to make sure you keep yourself from getting hurt any further."

He started to walk away, and Rena's hand shot out and grabbed onto the back of Luke's robe. He looked back over his shoulder expectantly. "Don't be too hard on Ben. Please. I mean, we were just trying to have fun. And it's really more my fault than it is his."

Luke gently pried himself away from Rena's grasp, and walked away. He left and

went to go track down Ben. It wasn't too difficult, since it only took a moment of concentration to locate Ben's force signature. It was still so bizarre that Rena didn't have one. Normally, even people who weren't force-sensitive had a unique force signature, but where Rena was, there was just nothing.

Luke found Ben in his bedroom, curled up under the bed. Luke walked over and flopped onto the bed, stretching his arms up so he could rest his head on his hands. Luke let out an over exaggerated sigh. "Why you hiding under there? I haven't seen you hide under your bed since you were six and still terrified of thunder and lightening."

Ben's voice came out sounding a little shaky. "I hurt Rena. I wanted us to be friends, but instead I got her hurt. Now she probably hates me."

Luke chuckled softly. "You are like the exact opposite of correct right now. Rena doesn't hate you. I think that she wants to be friends, too. She told me to not go too hard on you, and she wouldn't do that if she hated you, or even if she were mad at you."

Ben sighed. "But even I'm mad at me right now. How can I be okay with the fact that I hurt someone that I want to be friends with?"

Luke shrugged, even though Ben couldn't see the motion from where he was hiding under the bed. "It was just an accident, Ben. Accidents do happen all of the time. No one's mad at you, I promise."

"Then why am I in trouble?"

Luke sighed. "Because, even if it was an accident, it was one caused by you ignoring the rules. If I did nothing, then it would encourage you to believe that that behavior is okay, and it's not. Do you understand that?"

Ben nodded. "Yeah. Yeah, I get it. It's not okay to do things that will get people

hurt, right?"

Luke nodded. "Good enough for now. Now why don't you come up from under there before I decide that I like your pillow enough to just take it for myself?"

Ben scrambled up from his hiding spot and jumped onto the bed, landing on top of Luke's legs. "No way! I love that pillow! Mom made it for me!"

Luke snickered at that. "Come on, we both know your mom pretty well. Do you honestly believe that she made that for you?"

Ben crossed his arms over his chest. "Well her and Dad put in a lot of effort to find it, then. They went to a whole bunch of different planets."

Luke raised one eyebrow. "Are you sure they didn't just send Chewie out to go and find you something nice?" There was a teasing tone to his voice so Ben knew his uncle wasn't being mean.

Ben snorted. "Yeah right. Chewie wouldn't know what to get for me even if I sent him a list."

Luke shrugged. "Well, someone had to go out and fetch it last minute when your

parents forgot your birthday."

Ben got up, and began jumping up and down on Luke's legs. Ben didn't weigh very much, so it didn't hurt, but Luke made over exaggerated looks of pain, so much so that it was more amusing than anything. Then he jumped up in one smooth motion, and grabbed Ben by the waist. He began to wiggle his fingers as he tickled the kid.

Ben was too busy laughing to escape, and finally, Luke let him go, and they both plopped back down onto the bed. Ben glanced at his uncle. "So how much trouble am I in?"

Luke tilted his head. "How about, just to change things up a little bit, you'll have to accept any reasonable punishment that Rena finds fitting in the situation."

Ben's eyes widened. "You don't think that that's an absolutely terrible idea? I'd rather take a punishment from Ieyyah."

Luke stroked his beard. "Really? That's interesting." He grinned. "So then you wouldn't mind if I go see Ieyyah right now to see what she has to say on the subject?"

Ben quickly shook his head, looking defeated. "Fine, I'll take Rena's punishment."

Luke laughed to himself at that. Rena had already said that she didn't believe Ben deserved any punishment, but he was genuinely curious to see what her reaction would be to Ben's new punishment.

He slowly got up, and straightened out his robes. It was Ben's turn to laugh. "You always act extra formal after fooling around. Afraid that your reputation as a serious guy is going to get ruined?"

Luke quirked up the side of his mouth. "Always." Then he left the bedroom, and headed for his own room, which was at the other end of the hallway. He changed into his sleep clothes, and pulled his blankets up so he was tucked in properly. Hopefully having two children around wouldn't make this place too much crazier. He wasn't sure he'd be able to handle that.