"Reach out," Abeloth instructed. She paused as Nellith stretched her hand out, then swatted at it. "Not physically!"

Nellith's eyes flew open to glare at her dark new mentor. "I know that. Gestures help with control."

"Just reach out, find the place that calls to you," Abeloth crooned, sounding like a mother trying to send her child to bed. "It should feel primal and familiar."

"Shut up and let me think," Nellith said as she prepped flight switches. There were so many other worlds that called to her. There was Jakku's desolation surrounding her. There was the home Anch-To had become. There was Tatooine's strong, fateful history. There was the outcry and slightest relief of Corellia, a world brought to its knees by the Empire so long ago. She could feel Aquilae as a faint memory, one tinged by her experience of Kiernan Solsaur and his rogue Jedi. Nellith could even feel echoes of Alderaan, screaming out for someone to listen.

Nellith closed her eyes, working through the weaving patterns of life. That was when she found it. The ancient light lurking at the edge of the galaxy. The coordinates flew effortlessly from her mind to the screen, even though she couldn't process it viscerally enough to remember. She began the liftoff procedures. Tallis sat in the co-pilot's seat of the Imperial shuttle, instinctively helping with the process.

Even now, when Nellith felt like she was mentally so far apart from him, they were still linked. He had thrown up walls and protections around his mind in the Force, and his previously telling expressions had become indecipherable.

The shuttle hovered before lifting off, leaving behind the observatory. Yet Nellith could feel that the light, the only spot of it on an entire planet that reeked of death, was somehow important.

But it wasn't important now.

Once they had left the atmosphere of Jakku, it was to Mortis. Nellith punched it into hyperspace, and saw the estimate for time. "Four standard hours till Mortis."

Abeloth shook her head disapprovingly, sending Andromeda's red braid tumbling down her shoulder. She leaned back in her chair. "Hyperspace is so slow."

Nellith stonily glared at the blue-streaked sky in front of her.

"She did what?" Jaina blinked, then shifted her weight to her other leg. "I shouldn't be surprised, you did the same thing, Rey."

Rey's cheeks turned red. "Now is not the time—"

"You wanted to Chewbacca to trust you," Jaina said. "And he did. I'm guessing that's why he helped now. He knows it'll work out." She glanced at her brother and her confidence faltered a little. "Eventually."

Ben and Rey shared a longing glance before looking back to Jaina. "We're going to save her. But I need a favor from you."

"Name it." In that moment, Jaina resembled Han Solo so much.

"Rally all the Jedi, Kyp, Rowley, all of them that aren't on the tribunal for the Jedi Civil War," Rey said. "Ben's already alerted Kaydel as to what's about to happen."

"We're going to fight Snoke, Abeloth, whatever," Jaina realized aloud.

"And we're going to make sure the spirit stays dead," Ben said.

"Luke said you couldn't kill a Force Ghost," Jaina said with a frown.

"There's a way," Rey said in a mystic, vague tone. "Nellith will be key, if the visions are all true."

Jaina's eyes widened. "The Throne of Balance, when she decides the balance of the Force. . . "

Rey nodded. "We need you to rally the troops, be the Sword of the Jedi. So Snoke can never hurt anyone again like she's hurt us."

Jaina nodded again.

The first indication that they had reached Mortis was the light. It filled the entire cockpit, blinding Nellith and turning the entire cockpit white. Then they were falling. Nellith hit switches and pulled throttles frantically, trying to pull up, barely doing so before they hit the ground.

"There." Abeloth pointed to a marvelous palace that stood out against the gorgeous landscape. "That is where I'll find my children."

Nellith glanced over her shoulder. Abeloth smiled widely, an eerie expression that made her feel cold and dead inside. She looked to Tallis, who was still expressionless, even looking at all of the wonders below.

That hit her harder. What had happened to him since he was captured to cause him to become so unrecognizable?

She landed on a pavilion with a mural upon it. It resembled the symbol in the pool in the temple on Anch-To. Nellith undid her restraints and stood up, regretting her choice of the dress more and more.

"Let's find your children."