Ten

I don't know why, but Yani is back to normal. Just like that. He woke up in the morning and it was as if he was not like a vegetable the day before. I am still worried. I think some Masters worry, too. They watch Yani. He knows. He knows I know, too. We look at each other and he makes a gesture we are not allowed to use. I laugh.

Of course, Master Tharen sees it. Tells us to solve the next problem, but it's just maths. We're good at maths, even though Yani missed almost a week. He's so smart. Swear! He is faster than I am. But it was always like that.

It's good to have Yani back for lightsaber practice. We pretend to be famous Jedi or Sith and replay their battles. If we also practice the moves, we have to learn in the lesson, we always get away with it. I am Revan and he's Malak. One minute we just spar, and then I am good again and try to kill him, and he tries to kill me. For once we don't argue about who's who. It feels strange.

"Don't you want to be Revan, for a while?" I ask Yani.

But he shakes his head. "It's okay. They always win anyway."

I repeat the series of hits we learn that day. I am not sure who 'they' are. The good ones, I think, they always win, but that is right, isn't it?

Later we played bounty hunters in the gardens and I told him about those tiny trees. And That I could not show them to him, because of what I had done, but that there was one, I had kept for him. He was really interested in the small trees and I promised to ask Yantup to show them to him. Then we went to look at the one I kept.

I had hidden it really well. Nobody would ever find it. Swear! I was more clever than everybody when I have to hide something. There is a small wood in one of the gardens. Small, because there are not may trees, but the trees are huge. We like to climb them, but it is forbidden. We do it anyway. The first bit is difficult, because there are no branches, but we are two and can use the Force.

We climb all the way up, you can see nothing from the ground, there is leaves all around us. A very secret place. Some of the branches are big enough to lie on and not fall off, I cannot put my arms around them. And on some of those branches, there are bucket flowers. Huge like buckets, but made of flower. Real! Sometimes there are even squigglies living in there. I wonder if they grow wings when they want to go to other places? They can't live in a bucket all their live, can they? That'd be so boring!

So I put the tree up here. I took a real bucket and put it into a flower. You can't see nothing! Not until you are right in front of it. The perfect hiding place. Stompin bright idea I had there. So we go to the tiny tree. It takes some time longer because we get distracting playing Wookiee-Attack, but in the end we get there. I sit and dangle my legs.

"For you." I point at the tree. "We could make tiny Wookiees to put in it."

Yani stares at the small tree. "It cannot stay here," he finally says. "It will die."

I nod. "We can save it, we just need a place to put it where nobody can find it."

Ynai looks at ma all strange, but he agrees. "We must get it out of the temple; off the planet. This is not a planet for - trees."

He's right. Coruscant is just one big city. No tree could be happy here. "We will find a way," I say.

We play some more Wookiee-attack and almost miss dinner. But Yani says I showed him all the stuff from being a gardener and suddenly everything is fine. I will never understand grown-ups.