Freedom of the Stars
Chapter 2
"Dreams"
Obi-Wan
"Master, Can you please tell me why we are going to a planet we've never even hear of without even meeting with the council first?" I sighed with exasperation. Master, Qui-Gon, loved to keep his secrets. Just about as much as I hated being left out.
"We're not going without the permission of the council, young Padawan, if that is what you are worried about. I talked to Yoda about it before we left. And, by they way, the planet's name is Iosis. You better learn it because Iosans are pretty proud of their planet and the lifestyle that goes with living there. I have heard of it before, as well. You, very young Padawan, just haven't been around long enough to have heard of it before." Qui-Gon replied, turning to check some gauges while hiding the smile I was sure was on his face. If there was one thing he loved more than keeping a secret, it was teaching me patience and getting to keep the secret from me.
"Fine, Master, I will wait until we get there to pry the secret out of you. Until then I will go to the back and meditate and maybe take a nap. I didn't sleep so good last night, you know." I hadn't even begun to tense the necessary muscles to leave the chair when Qui-Gon stopped me with a probing question. Anyone else might think it was a casual comment, but I knew better.
"Why didn't you sleep well, Padawan?"
I knew I had to answer truthfully. It wasn't even worth my time to try and hide something from this trained Jedi master.
"I had a dream last night." He nodded for me to continue. I knew he wouldn't rest until He'd gotten the whole thing out of me. I sighed.
A family of four is taking a trip in their family vessel. There was a mother, father, and three girls; One in her lower teens, one a pre-teen, probably ten, and the other 2 ½-3. The girls' parents instruct her to hide her sisters away. As she does so a look of understanding crossed her face. She bids her mother and father to enter a closet, under false pretense. Once they've done so, she locks them in with a timed lock. As she's preparing to go hide herself, a bang resounds from the entryway. Slavers enter the room and stun her. She falls to the floor and they drag her out. The Slavers search for more family members, but finding none quickly they become impatient and leave.
I saw the Slaver ship depart and inter hyperspace.
"Is that it Padawan? Or is there more of this story?"
"I think this is only the beginning, Master. I think that I will continue to see more of the story as I sleep."
"Hm...." he frowned, thinking. Finally, he asked, "How do you think the dream is getting to you? Is it a vision of the force, perhaps? Or is someone deliberately sending you the dream? Or, possibly, a combination?"
"I don't know, Master. I suppose I'll have to sort it out after more dreams arrive." Then, on some random impulse I asked him, "Master? Have you been having dreams? Weird ones?"
He smiled and nodded slightly. "Actually, yes, Padawan I have been. In fact, they are the reason we are going where we are going." I waited expectantly, but he offered no more to the nature of these dreams or our visit. And, since it was Qui-Gon, I knew he wouldn't. So I stood and exited the compartment.
Chapter 2
"Dreams"
Obi-Wan
"Master, Can you please tell me why we are going to a planet we've never even hear of without even meeting with the council first?" I sighed with exasperation. Master, Qui-Gon, loved to keep his secrets. Just about as much as I hated being left out.
"We're not going without the permission of the council, young Padawan, if that is what you are worried about. I talked to Yoda about it before we left. And, by they way, the planet's name is Iosis. You better learn it because Iosans are pretty proud of their planet and the lifestyle that goes with living there. I have heard of it before, as well. You, very young Padawan, just haven't been around long enough to have heard of it before." Qui-Gon replied, turning to check some gauges while hiding the smile I was sure was on his face. If there was one thing he loved more than keeping a secret, it was teaching me patience and getting to keep the secret from me.
"Fine, Master, I will wait until we get there to pry the secret out of you. Until then I will go to the back and meditate and maybe take a nap. I didn't sleep so good last night, you know." I hadn't even begun to tense the necessary muscles to leave the chair when Qui-Gon stopped me with a probing question. Anyone else might think it was a casual comment, but I knew better.
"Why didn't you sleep well, Padawan?"
I knew I had to answer truthfully. It wasn't even worth my time to try and hide something from this trained Jedi master.
"I had a dream last night." He nodded for me to continue. I knew he wouldn't rest until He'd gotten the whole thing out of me. I sighed.
A family of four is taking a trip in their family vessel. There was a mother, father, and three girls; One in her lower teens, one a pre-teen, probably ten, and the other 2 ½-3. The girls' parents instruct her to hide her sisters away. As she does so a look of understanding crossed her face. She bids her mother and father to enter a closet, under false pretense. Once they've done so, she locks them in with a timed lock. As she's preparing to go hide herself, a bang resounds from the entryway. Slavers enter the room and stun her. She falls to the floor and they drag her out. The Slavers search for more family members, but finding none quickly they become impatient and leave.
I saw the Slaver ship depart and inter hyperspace.
"Is that it Padawan? Or is there more of this story?"
"I think this is only the beginning, Master. I think that I will continue to see more of the story as I sleep."
"Hm...." he frowned, thinking. Finally, he asked, "How do you think the dream is getting to you? Is it a vision of the force, perhaps? Or is someone deliberately sending you the dream? Or, possibly, a combination?"
"I don't know, Master. I suppose I'll have to sort it out after more dreams arrive." Then, on some random impulse I asked him, "Master? Have you been having dreams? Weird ones?"
He smiled and nodded slightly. "Actually, yes, Padawan I have been. In fact, they are the reason we are going where we are going." I waited expectantly, but he offered no more to the nature of these dreams or our visit. And, since it was Qui-Gon, I knew he wouldn't. So I stood and exited the compartment.