Last chapter, I think.
This ties into my fic A step to the left (for a Jedi).
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I open my eyes and discover that I am someplace else. I am not sure where I am but I do know that it is calm and beautiful.
I can feel my son's pain and something building, bringing him close to the breaking point. I fear that he will break down and cry, alerting the Raiders that he is there.
I feel my son finally break under the pressure and he is consumed by his pain, grief and something else.
Someone approaches me. I turn and see a Falleen female standing there. "Your presence is requested." She says. "Follow me."
I follow her through the building to a room. She stands aside allowing me to enter.
I examine the room. A loom of some type sits in the middle of the room with two beings in front of it. I know who they are. The two people that let me care for the baby all those years ago. The same ones that asked me if I wanted him for my own.
They look up at me and the woman smiles. "Welcome, Shmi," she says softly. I stare at her. She hasn't changed since the day I last saw her and her friend.
"As you have probably guessed we are not your average beings." The woman says as she weaves a pattern on the loom.
"What are you?" I ask, curious and a bit afraid. My father told me once that there were very powerful creatures that could destroy or create in the blink of an eye. And I believed that these two fell into the category.
"We have been around since the creation of the universe and maybe before that." The man says thoughtfully.
"We have many names but we are known by the Jedi as the Force." The woman says.
I feel the urge to kneel but I am too shocked to bend my knees.
"Your ancestors called us Ashla and Bogden." The woman says. "I am Ashla and he is Bogden."
There is silence for several heartbeats.
"A little over a thousand years ago two of your ancestors stood in their home; everyone either dead or sold into slavery. In their pain and anger they asked us to allow the people that destroyed their people to destroy their ally who ignored their people's plea for help. They also asked that one of their descendants destroy the attackers."
Ashla looks at me.
"Do you know how many of your relatives I asked wanted to be the mother of the Balancer?" She asks.
I shake my head.
"Thirty, they all said no." Ashla informs me. "You were the only one to say yes."
"Is Ani going to be alright?" I ask.
"It depends on your point of view." Bogden says.
"Come, we will show you what is happening to him." Ashla says standing with Bogden.
I follow and see that my son is consumed with guilt for not only being too late to save me but for his slaughter of the Tusken village.
I pray that he will be alright.
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I might write another chapter, if my Muse gives me some inspiration.
