Eleven
We wondered where to put the tree, and he said that small people get protected by big people, so small trees would need big trees. The biggest trees ever grow on Kashyk - Kasshyyk - Kashyyyyk ach bugger, Wookie-planet. They are so stompin big, you never see the ground when you are up there. I saw pictures with Yani. I want to see those trees for real. Nothing can happen to Tiny Tree there.
"We cannot go to Kash- Wookiee-planet," I say to Yani. I am right, too.
"We cannot go anywhere just like that," he says. "We must plan and get infos."
Yani is always thinking like that. I just go and then I get in trouble, but Yani is thinking and then nobody says a thing. So he plans. We have project weeks coming up. I like project weeks. A lot of classes are not done and instead we get to do projects about stuff that is really interesting.
But this time Yani says, "we want to see what political work is like. Visit embassies and talk to politicians."
I want to kill him. Politics is boring. Real! And ambassadors are guys in funny clothes that walk around like they are important. I see them in the temple sometimes.
"We can go to the Wookiee embassy," Yani explains later. "There we can find a way to get the tree away." Yani is so clever. Swear!
Master Tharen is happy with the plan, too. He knows nothing about the tree, but he likes us interested in politics. He gives us loads of advice, and keeps talking at us. I just want to get away. Yani and I need to plan. And we need a supervisor, because we want to go outside the temple and we cannot go alone.
I think Master Tharen wants to come with us, but we don't want him. I say, we better ask Sian. He's okay for being grown up. Yani says yes, and we visit Sian. He looks sad, but he says it's okay, just memories. I wonder how it is, being so old and having so much to remember. The head must feel like bursting or something.
Sian has cookies and he thinks the idea is good. He looks at us funny, I think he thinks there is something we don't tell him. There is, but I am not even sure what exactly it is. I don't know what Yani wants to do in the embassy.
But we get to go. First we must visit the Corellian people, because - I don't know. Maybe so nobody sees what we really want to do. We go to the embassy and talk to a lot of people and take notes. They talk about making requests and getting stuff for their people. And about getting stuff by giving it to others, but that is not making sense. They talk about the war and troops and how important it is to keep everybody happy.
I get that, but I don't know how moving troops can keep people happy. Maybe the troops like to wander? I like to wander, especially in the night, but we seldom do that. Maybe becoming a soldier would be fun, but by the time I am old enough to be a knight, this war will be long over. And even I know it is bad manners to hope for more war, just so I get to wander at night.
Then we get cookies and they show us the embassy. It's just like the temple, only smaller. Many rooms and people going places and looking important. The cookies are very crumbly and leave a trail on the ground. I cannot see the small cleaning droids. That's bad, they are fun to chase along the corridors.
When we get back, we're all tired. Sian says he has not been so bored in a long time and I nod. All that talking. Only Yani looks happy. I think, he really likes this. That's fine, he had enough trouble lately.
The next day we make a report. Yani has tons of notes, it is not difficult to write nice long blah with them. Teacher like it when you ramble in reports. So we tell about all the stuff and it's not even interesting. But I am sure Master Thaten will like it. Then Yani opens another file. There is a lot of stuff about ships coming and going from the embassy.
"Where did you get that?" I want to know.
"I asked a worker about going home and contact and sending parcels and such," Yani says. I wonder if he tried some mind trick, because he has schedules and all. "We can get the same information from the Wookiee embassy," he says.
Now that is clever. We can get the tree onto a ship. Maybe we can put a message at it and then the Wookiees will put it into a safe place on their planet.
"Stompin good plan," I tell Yani. We make some more stuff for the project, and then we play Wookiee attack. It's the best game ever if you don't get caught. But in those high trees, nobody ever gets us. Sometimes, they call up to us and say to come down, but we don't. We look at Tiny Tree in his bucket and he looks fine. The flower around does not look fine. I hope it lasts until we can get the tree away, there are squigglies in all other flower-buckets I have seen. I don't want to put the tree on the squigglies.