Sorry for the wait! School is back and running so I have much less time to write. Because I wanted to get an update up, I broke this chapter in two. I plan to have the second half up by the end of this weekend. Sorry for any mistakes! I kind of rushed this… (I don't own Star Wars).

It was late at night. Most of the Temple was sleeping. A certain cloaked figure was an exception as was the small green life form it spoke to.

"I had the dream again, Master. I am certain of it now. A warning from the force. There is a youngling in danger."

"Hmm. Right you are. To Shili, you must go. There, the child will be. Leave at once, you must." Replied the small green figure.

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Ahsoka played happily in front her house. Her father and two brothers were a short distance away chopping fire wood. Ahsoka was happy. She had recently turned three, and was excited to be a 'big girl'. Kido no longer got mad when she made Tali or her other toys fly. In fact, he now seemed to find it amusing.

Despite this and her young age, Ahsoka was beginning to recognize that she was different. In the past few months, she began to understand that she heard and felt things that others couldn't. Not even her family. As much as she tried, she couldn't help the lingering feeling that she was simply out of place.

For her birthday, her father and brothers had made her beautifully carved toy blocks. They all had carvings of different flowers that grew in the meadows behind their house. One of the blocks even had Ahsoka flowers carved into it. That block was her favorite. Now, she sat contentedly, stacking the various blocks with her mind into towers. Tali sat on her lap. A loud crash broke her from her peaceful play.

"Ouch!" Kido yelled, clutching his foot. As Khan chopped the wood, Ty and Kido had been stacking it into a large pile. Said pile had just collapsed, causing a log to fall onto his foot. Ty groaned in annoyance. "It's going to take forever to restack these!"

"I can help!" Ahsoka volunteered eagerly.

"No, Ahsoka. Remember what I said? I don't want you to get hurt, so you need to stay back there," Khan called to her.

Ahsoka gave a huff and crossed her arms. She had tried earlier to make the logs fly to help her brothers stack them, but they were too heavy. She had learned some time ago that she could only make little things fly. Like her doll and blocks.

With a pout, Ahsoka sat back down. Her blocks were stacked in an impressive tower. She saw a few kids around her age playing a few houses down, but she didn't want to join them. She didn't exactly dislike the other kids, but whenever she was with anyone but her immediate family, she always felt shy and out of place. She knew she was different than them and preferred to play by herself.

Turning back to her blocks, Ahsoka decided on a new design for another tower. At first she just had the blocks hover around her in the air before they came together into the new design which was even more intricate than the last. Smiling, Ahsoka placed the last block on the top.

Suddenly, she felt it. She didn't know what it was, but it made her blood run cold. It was coming from behind her. Slowly, Ahsoka risked a glance over her shoulder. She knew before looking that something bad was going to be there, but actually seeing it was no less terrifying. Clutching up her doll, Ahsoka gave a frightened gasp and took off running to the safety of her father and brothers.

"Ahsoka! I thought I told you…" Khan's words died in his mouth when he saw how white his daughter's face was from fright. He picked her up and she immediately wrapped her arms around his neck while barring her face into his chest.

He looked around in confusion for whatever had frightened his daughter when he heard a voice speak from around far corner of his house. It was smooth and feminine.

"I apologize. I fear that I have frightened the youngling."

Before Khan could ask who was there, the owner of the voice stepped out. The person wore an elaborate and flowing robe. The hood covered most of the strange woman's face. Still, it was evident she was not Togrutan.

Khan, Ty, an Kido all straightened in slight alarm.

"Who are you?" demanded Khan, still holding a whimpering Ahsoka.

In response, the woman gracefully pulled back her hood, revealing herself to be a Zygerian. "My name is Jedi Master La Tranz. I come here all the way from Coruscant." She smiled.

Khan felt his heart drop. She was a Jedi. She was here for Ahsoka.

"Well you can go back to Coruscant!" Kido stated with a glare. No one was taking his baby sister away from him. Ty shifted nervously beside him.

"Kido," Khan reprimanded his son for the rude comment. "Go get Sha'an, Kido. Ty, please take Ahsoka inside the house." Ty took the still silent toddler and walked into the house, holding her tightly.

When all three of his children were absent, Khan turned back to La Tranz. "Please forgive my youngest son for his rudeness. May I ask what brings you all the way to our village from Coruscant?" He decided to play innocent.

The woman smiled again. "I hoped to speak to you, actually. I hear that your daughter is a very special child. You said her name was 'Ahsoka'"?

"Yes…" He answered wearily.

"It is a very beautiful name. It suits such a beautiful child," she said grandly.

The Jedi seemed nice enough, but Khan was afraid to tell her outright that he was not going to hand his daughter over to her. Besides, he was still shocked that a Jedi was standing before him. No one from the Tano tribe had ever met a Jedi before.

At that point, Kido returned with Sha'an in tow. A few other tribesmen had come too. They had overheard Kido tell their leader that a Jedi had come and wanted to see her for themselves.

La Tranz bowed majestically before them.

"Cousin," Sha'an said to Khan. "Let us take our visitor to the Village center, and see what she has to say." It was no secret that he and most of the town still hoped for Ahsoka to become a Jedi, even though Khan had declared to everyone before that he was not going to allow it. Most in the village had accepted this, feeling compassionate after Lilac's death. The presence of the Jedi Master before them however, seemed to renew their hopes in the possibility of one of their own becoming a Jedi Knight.

Khan agreed reluctantly. He ordered Kido into the house where Ahsoka and Ty were. After a protest that was silenced by a stern warning glare, he obeyed. Sha'an sent a few of the other villagers to go and gather their fellow tribesmen to meet in the village center, as was custom for important meetings.

With the arrival of a Jedi, no one wondered what the importance of the impending meeting was about, but excitement bubbled from everyone in excited whispers. Khan did his best to keep a neutral face despite the rinsing feeling of dread and anxiety rising within him. What if the Jedi would not take no for an answer? Would she take his daughter by force?

Silently, Khan took a seat in the village's meeting place. The Jedi sat next to him and sent him a friendly smile. Sha'an clasped an encouraging hand on his younger cousin's shoulder, before taking the seat in between him and the Jedi visitor. Still, Khan found no comfort or sympathy in the action. He knew how much Sha'an wanted Ahsoka to go with the Jedi.

"Let us begin our meeting, and hear what the Jedi master has to say," Sha'an declared to the surrounding Togrutans.

Khan took a deep breath, as he prepared for what was to come.