Hands and claws reached for me. I felt them cut through my skin. I couldn't move. I could see only black and a pair of red eyes-

"Wake up!" Luminara said. My eyes jerked open. I had been dreaming.

"Good morning, Lumi," I said, rubbing my eyes. "I was having a bad dream."

"We have found the coordinates of Xiam!" My wife said, as close to jumping up and down as I had ever seen her. "Shaak had a dream!" I was awake in an instant.

"So what's going on?" I pulled off my nightshirt and changed into my robes.

"There's a meeting going on in ten minutes. Hurry up!" It was unlike Luminara to rush anything. She must have been really excited. Lucky for us, the triplets were with Irka tonight.

We ran to the meeting room and found that almost everyone was already there. We took our seats in a rush and the meeting commenced.

The Maixans were doubtful of Shaak's truthfulness at first, until I reminded them that her quick thinking had saved their lives. The Mandalorians trusted us with their lives.

"We should send a scout first," the Maixan representative said.

"I agree," I said.

"All in favor of sending a scout to the coordinates Master Ti has provided us, say I. All against, say nay." Master Saa sat at the front of Jedi and rested her chin in her hand as she spoke. A chorus of 'I's and 'Nay's rose up.

"It appears that a scout will be sent," Master Saa said. "The Mandalorians, The Maixans, The Others, and the Jedi will all send two representatives. We will now split into groups and confer."

Master Saa swiveled her chair to face the circle of Jedi.

"I can go," I offered. Growing up in a time of war, this peace felt strange to me. Action would be welcome.

"No. You still have your children to look after. That rules out Luminara as well." I sighed, but saw the truth in her words. I did have to care for my children.

"I will go," Bultar Swan said.

"That sounds fine to me," Shaak said. "Anyone else?"

"I'll go," Wone said. He had been appointed a knight just a few weeks ago, and already thought himself invincible. "Master Ha can take my job as security while I'm gone." He shot a glance at the stoic Kaminoan who eventually admitted to being a Jedi and joined us in our conversations. She shrugged.

"Fine."

"So we will send Master Swan and Knight Parak," Master Saa said. She turned her chair back around and lifted her hands.

"Has everyone come to a decision?"

"Yes," Satine and the Maixan governor answered.

"We will send Akai Rishi and Jerenny Hej," the Maixans announced. The two in question stood up. A tall red-headed woman who wielded a vibroblade, and a small but determined looking man who was probably barely twenty years old, gazed out at the crowd.

"We will send Maki Avril and Lorn Ka," Satine said.

"And we will send Jedi master Bultar Swan and Jedi knight Wone Parak," Shaak said, and looked to her left. The group of 'others', who did not fall into the category of Maixans, Mandalorians, or Jedi, met over there. They were led jointly by Riyo Chuchi and Boba Fett. They consisted of the bounty hunters that had chosen to remain on Teth and the odd pirate and lost, war-torn merchant that had stumbled across the planet or had been picked up by Satine's group after the destruction of Mandalore.

"We will send Lieias'ecura and Boba Fett," Riyo said. Lieia was a twi'lek who had been kidnapped by pirates that crash landed on Teth not long after we had arrived here. She had joined us happily and proved loyalty to us many times. She was also related to Aayla, bearing the same family name, for when you separated her name from one into two, you got Lieia Secura.

"We will prepare for departure as soon as possible," Master Choi said.

"If there is nothing else to discuss, this meeting is adjourned," Master Saa said. No hands went up and no one said anything.

"Adjourned," Master Saa said and stood up.

"This will take you far from Coruscant, even farther than Maix," Shaak warned Master Choi. "Time will be moving shockingly slow."

The aleen nodded. "I understand. But it needs to be done." He and Bultar left to go prepare. I looked at Luminara.

"How do you feel about this?" I asked. She shrugged.

"I am glad it is not you or me going. It seems dangerous. You could be gone for what feels like a month, and then you return, and we are all dead of old age." She grabbed my hand.

"Let's go back and relieve Irka. She missed the meeting because of the trio, and she deserves a break."

I nodded, and we left the meeting room. Irka was feeding Fay, bouncing the brown haired infant in her arms gently.

"We're here to give you a break," I announced. She smiled.

"I appreciate it. They've been nonstop noise and need." She handed Fay to me. I pulled my youngest child close to me. Luminara took Eve in one arm and Jiam in the other.

"Get some rest," I said to Irka. The healer smiled and said,

"I will. Count on it. But first, I want to get Boba to fill me in on what happened during the meeting." She slipped past us out into the hallway.

"She has a thing for him, doesn't she?" I asked as I sat Fay in my lap and settled on our bed.

"Who has a thing for who?" She asked, filling a bottle and proceeding to feed Jiam.

"Irka has a thing for Boba."

"She certainly does. He is completely oblivious. It is almost cute." She smiled down at Jiam, who crinkled his olive skinned face back at her.

"Does he return her feelings? I can't read him."

"Neither can I. He is very carefully guarded." She frowned. "I'd like to know his thoughts, but he is not very good at expressing himself."

I chuckled. "That's an understatement."

"Maybe a little," she responded. Fay finished her bottle and I moved on to Eve. I was getting used to her yellow eyes and white skin. When I looked past that, she was actually very beautiful.

"What should we do while we wait for Bultar and the others to come back?" I asked after a moment of silence.

"We should continue with life," Luminara answered. Jiam finished the bottle and spat it out with a grunt. The mirailian giggled. "That is all we can do."