They walked back towards the cargo hold of the ship; "I actually stumbled across this ship one day. You would never know it was here. Because of the growth around it. It actually juts out of the ground in
sections. Here." Luke pointed at a closed door.   

"What's in there?" Evie questioned.   

"Well, like I said I use this place to store odds and ends of things. Things that I don't want found." He opened the door and cool air seeped out. A dim light cast shadows over the contents of the room. "Watch your step," he said to Evie as she followed him into the
room.   

Evie stared around at the various items in the room,
"Do you come here often?"   

"Not as much as I used to. Every few months or so." Luke looked around in thought, "Now where did I put it. Ah!" He scratched his chin in thought and motioned to the far corner, as he walked around the assortment of what looked like junk and antiques. Luke finally made his way to the far corner of the hold. "Here it is."    

Evie followed behind Luke, the floor creaking with each step, "What.... What is it?"   

Picking up a box, Luke blew dust off the top and turned around to her, "You probably have no idea what it is."  On each side smoothed off hieroglyphics were hardly noticeable. He handed it to her. She took it looking in wonderment.     "Before you open it. Let me tell you what I know about the box." Luke said. She nodded back to him not taking her eyes off it.    "While Lando was on Cloud City and Bespin, one of his people was doing some excavating on the planet. They came across this box. Lando had his people decipher the wording on the sides. On one side it says, 'Lady Evadne' and the other says, 'Jedi.' Since Lando knew I collected Jedi artifacts and he had no clue as to who 'Lady Evadne' was, he gave it to me for safekeeping. So that's how it came into my possession."  

 Evadne stared in amazement back at Luke.  Evie looked curiously at the box. She held it up to her eyes so that she could see it better. She had long forgotten how to read the hieroglyphs, so she trusted Luke that that is what it said.    She pressed her fingers into a tiny opening in the box and it popped open revealing what looked to be some sort of key...on a necklace.

"Strange..." Evie said as she picked up the necklace and ran her fingers along the key that was shaped like a star. The key had more of these strange engravings on it. "Do you think that we can find
someone who can read this?" Evie looked back over at Luke. 

"Ah... there is someone that I know who could tell you..." Luke said. "Let's head back to the Temple and we'll contact them from there."   

Evadne, with a hopeful gleam in her eyes, smiled.    They
turned and left the storage room and headed back to the
surface.  Evie wore the necklace around her neck for safekeeping.  They reached the temple.  Luke introduced her to Mara Jade. She looked over at Mara Jade.  "Is there anywhere I can stay here?" Evie asked. "It looks like I may be here for awhile."

Mara smiled.  "Sure...let me see where can we put you up?" Mara said as she looked over at Luke.  

"There's a room at the far edge of the temple..." Luke said.

"What room Luke? You mean the storage closet?" Mara said. "Let me see if I can find someone who will share a bedroom."  Mara said as she walked out of the room.

Luke wondered if Mara was implying that he thought Evadne should stay in the storage closet. A funny thought then entered his mind as he thought that staying with the droids would be better.

    "Evie, why don't you go with Mara. I'll see if I can't get a hold of the person who can help us with deciphering that message." Luke said.   

Evie smiled, "It would be nice to see the place a bit. I'll catch up to you later." She looked back to where Mara had gone, "Hey Mara, wait for me." she called jogging after her.   

Luke walked out of the room and headed to his private chamber, "Time to call in a favor."  In his room, not much different than the rooms of the rest of the students at the temple, Luke sat down at a table where he had set up communications equipment. It was his backup system in case the main units went out. Also, it was his own link to the galaxy.    He first checked for any personal messages. None. Then he fired up the personal COM frequency of an old friend, "Hello, old friend. This is Luke." He waited for a response.   

Then it came, "Well, hey there Luke. How have you been?" Lando's voice sounded out of the box.

"I've been good. Battling Sith and all. Not much else. And you?"

"I haven't been better in years. The operation is going well. Business is booming. But I'm guessing this isn't just a social call, right?" Lando replied.   

Luke grinned, "You would be correct. I need just a small favor actually. Do you remember you gave me an item once, a small box, with hieroglyphics? That said something about Jedi."   

There was a pause, and then Calrissian came back, "Vaguely. Why? Something wrong?"

    "No. I have found the owner of the box. Rather, she found me. But there is a key inside that has the same writing. I was wondering if the person who deciphered it originally could give us a hand with this." Luke said.

    "I don't see why that would be a problem. I remember finding that box now. And I've still got Xander employed with us, I believe he was the one who did the deciphering. Ummm.... Just come on over whenever you'd like, and we'll see what we can do." Lando said.

    "Well, we'll be doing that shortly. Keep an eye out for us.
Thanks for your help. See you shortly. Luke
out."

    "Calrissian out."

Luke placed the unit on standby and walked out of his quarters.