Disclaimer: I am not George Lucas or Rick Riordan.

Enter Jacen, awaking on the Falcon.

Jacen. Wookiee.

Enter Danni and Ben, also on the Falcon.

Danni. Bloah, there.

Jacen looks around, confused.

Jacen. Nar Shaddaa. Didn't we crash-land? I thought . . .

Ben. It's okay. We got away. But you got a nasty concussion. How are you feeling?

Jacen. How did you . . . ? The Wookiee . . .

Danni. Ben ripped them apart. He was amazing. He can summon fire . . .

Ben. It was nothing.

Danni. Shut up, Skywalker. I'm going to tell him. Get over it.

Danni describes how Ben singlehandedly destroyed Krayn, Rashtah, and Mezhan Kwaad, and how they began to reform rather quickly. She also adds the mention Mezhan gave to an Imperial demigod she had killed.

Jacen. I'm not alone, then. There are others like me.

Danni. Jacen. You were never alone. You've got us.

Jacen. I . . . I know. But something Shira said . . . I was having a dream of Shira's prison. In there, she mentioned how she took my memory and brought me to the Praxeum as some sort of exchange.

Danni. An exchange? What does that mean?

Jacen. [shakes his head] But Shira's gamble is me. Just by sending me to the Praxeum, I have a feeling she broke some kind of rule, something that could blow up in a big way . . .

Danni. Or save us. That bit about the sleeping enemy . . . That sounds like the lady Ben told us about.

Ben. About that . . . She kind of appeared to me back on Nar Shaddaa. I don't know if she's completely unkillable. But she cannot be defeated by hydrospanners. I can vouch for that. She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, "Yeah, right. I'm gonna listen to some scary Force demon."

Danni. She's trying to divide us.

Jacen senses something in Danni's mood.

Jacen. What's wrong?

Danni. I just . . . Why are they toying with us? Who is this lady, and how is she connected to Onimi?

Jacen. Onimi?

Danni. I mean, that's one of the Yuuzhan Vong. Just one of the names I could remember.

Ben. Well, I dunno about Onimi, but the lady in the mists mentioned another name: Chimaera, I think?

Danni. Shimrra. He was the Yuuzhan Vong Supreme Overlord, I think.

Jacen. I'm going to take wild guess. In the old stories, Shimrra kidnapped Lumiya. That was the first shot in the war between the Vong and the Je'daii.

Danni. I think so. But those myths are really garbled and conflicted. It's almost like nobody wanted that story to survive. I just remember there was a war, and the Vong were almost impossible to kill.

Jacen. Demigods and Je'daii had to work together. That's what Shira told me.

Ben. Kind of hard to do if the Je'daii won't even talk to us.

The Falcon enters the atmosphere of Alsakan.

Jacen. Alsakan.

Ben. One problem down. We got here alive. Now how do we find the Force spirits?

Jacen notices a Force spirit.

Jacen. How about we follow that one and see where it goes?

Driving the Falcon, Ben flies after the Force spirits, but they move too quickly.

Speed up.

Ben. If I get any closer, he'll spot us. The Falcon ain't exactly a stealth plane.

Danni. Slow down.

The Falcon crashes into the buildings as it tries to follow after the much quicker Force spirits.

Jacen. Get above the buildings. We'll track him from there.

Ben. You want to drive this thing?

As Ben ascends above the buildings, they notice the Force spirits again, only now there are two of them.

Danni. Oh, great. There are two.

The Force spirits swerve around Alsakan, making it impossible for them to catch them.

Ben. Those guys do not need any more caffeine.

Danni. I guess Alsakan's a good place to hang out. Nobody's going to question a couple more evil winds.

Jacen. More than a couple. Look.

The Falcon comes across a crowd of Force spirits.

Ben. Which one do you think is Welk? I want to throw something at him.

As the Falcon flies too close to an ominous fountain, Abeloth's face materializes in one of the large vidscreens.

Jacen. Ben . . .

Ben. I see her. I don't like her, but I see her.

The Force spirits fly down the drain of the fountain, and Abeloth's image vanishes.

Danni. Did they just go down a drain? How are we supposed to follow them?

Ben. Maybe we shouldn't. That fountain thing is giving me seriously bad vibes. And aren't we supposed to, like, beware the ground?

Jacen. Put us down in that park. We'll check it out on foot.

Once the Falcon lands at the Alsakan Mosaics, Jacen, Ben, and Danni dismount. The droid's sensor flickers.

Is that normal?

Ben hits the Falcon, and its sensors go back to normal.

Ben. Yes. The Falcon can't hang around here, though, in the middle of the park. They'll arrest him for loitering. Maybe if I had a whistle. . . .

Ben retrieves a whistle from his belt.

Captain Terrik would be jealous! Okay, Falcon, listen.

Ben blows his whistle.

You hear that, come find me, okay? Until then, you fly wherever you want. Just try not to barbecue any pedestrians.

Exit the Falcon.

Danni takes a step forward and stumbles.

Danni. O!

Jacen. Your ankle? That bacta we gave you might be wearing off.

Danni. It's fine.

Jacen. Let's get out of the wind.

Danni. Down a drain? Sounds cozy.

Together, Jacen, Ben, and Danni slip down into the sewers of Alsakan.

Exit all.