*Adam surely didn't expect to feel what he felt when he arrived on Dantooine near what was once his family's home. He could feel thorns of pain, grief, and suffering poking his senses. These were feelings that the dark side of the Force offered. Something terrible had happened here.

The taint of the dark side that was born from the pain and suffering here chilled the normally warm air of Dantooine, and it made Adam shiver. No one lived inside the homestead. He guessed that whatever had transpired here scared people away.

Deciding to find out what had happened, Adam sat down and crossed his legs, then shut his eyes. While it was true he wasn't a Jedi anymore, that didn't mean he wouldn't use Force techniques anymore to find out what he needed to know. With his eyes shut and his focus completely on the living Force that still flowed through every muscle of his being, he began to see something develop underneath his eyelids. He can see a little girl with red hair weeping over the body of an old man. The man was dead, and the girl kept crying out 'Papa' over and over again. Then the vision transitioned to a different time and spot. The girl, who looked slightly older this time, was weeping and screaming at the sight of her momma poisoned to death by a kinrath. Then what happened next shocked Adam's eyes back open.

He saw the girl use a Force technique to rip the kinrath completely in half. He could still hear the body of the kinrath tear apart into two halves and the girl screaming in a rage when he opened his eyes.

Through the Force, he learned that the girl's name was Anna, his older sister. And the two adults that had been killed were their parents.

It was obvious from the gory act Anna had committed that she was strong in the Force. If only he could reach out through the Force to touch Anna's mind, wherever she was now. He decided to try. He thought about Anna, thought about that face of horror and rage on her soft face. Fear crept up Adam's spine like a centipede and gripped his throat. Anna was slipping dangerously close to the dark side. Now he understood why the Jedi wouldn't take Anna to be trained. She was too old, and had experienced pain. No matter how hard he tried concentrating, the howling winds of the dark side pushed him away from Anna's mind.

He probed further, trying to figure out where Anna's presence went after her parents' death. Finally, he found out. There was a home here on Dantooine where Anna had lived after her parents died.**

*Anna felt like she was choking on ashes. She saw only complete darkness with a faint trace of scarlet. She was weightless, hovering in the midst of a loud, black thunderstorm, though the noise didn't plunge pain through her eardrums like thunder normally did. She then felt something touch her shoulder. She whirled around. Nothing was there. Then a scratchy voice spoke:

"Anna, Anna," it said. Anna wrapped her arms around her chest as if trying to cover herself up even though she was fully clothed. She looked down at her clothes and realized she was wearing a dark robe, similar to the design of a Jedi's robe, but this one was the color of coal. Hanging on the belt was a lightsaber.

"Listen to me carefully and do as I say, do you understand Anna?" The voice calmly spoke.

Anna sat up in bed with a cry that sliced through the silence of her hotel room. Bezo woke up next to her and sat up.

"Anna, are you alright?" He asked. Anna looked at the window to see if there was a storm outside. The air was deathly silent.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm alright," Anna replied. She lied her head down on her pillow and realized it was wet. She flipped it over and lied back down. The words of the mysterious voice after it had told her to listen carefully remained etched in her brain and echoed through her mind over and over again.**

*Adam was sitting with his mug of tea untouched on the table in front of him. He was with Jake and Maya, Anna's foster parents. Their only biological child Bezo had moved out the same time that Anna did. Apparently, they had been kicked out when a romantic relationship between the two of them was beginning to become evident.

"They were getting lazy, rebellious, and we can tell they were getting awfully close to making out. I don't know what it is about your blasted sister, but when she turned seventeen, the hard-working son I used to know left," Jake complained. Maya had been silent the entire time Adam was there, sitting next to Jake with her fingers crossed in front of her.

"Why did you treat my sister the way you did?" Adam asked. He was becoming irritated with this man for his uncaring attitude. Sure Anna and Bezo made wrong decisions, but he felt that Jake didn't have the right to treat Anna the way he did.

Jake leaned forward in his seat with wary eyes. "I saw your sister tear that fracking kinrath in half. I knew what she was capable of, but we took her in because I couldn't stand to watch a girl all alone with no parents. Bezo had basically begged for us to take care of her."

Adam took a deep breath. "When you kicked them out, do you know where they went?"

Jake snorted. "How should I know? After they left with a ship I provided for them, neither of them ever contacted us again. That right there shows you exactly how ungrateful they felt for all those years me and my wife put up with them."

Adam had to restrain himself from reaching out and telekinetically flinging Jake across the room like a rag doll. It was obvious that Jake and Maya weren't going to be of any help to him. He was on his own. Hopelessness flooded up his chest, and for a moment, he wondered if he would ever find his sister and if throwing away his role as a Jedi Padawan was all for nothing. But he couldn't stop now. He needed to keep looking, because he believed Anna needed him now more than ever.**