"oh, man what a head ache! I'm not going to let them know that I'm awake. What happened to me any way, and why are my feet cold?" SneMa thought to her self as she lay lifeless on a healers bed. She felt a cold wet cloth being put on her forehead. Opening her blind eyes instantly with out thought "Damn it SneMa! You had to open your eyes didn't you?! So much for letting them not know you're awake!" she screamed at her self in thought.

"Oh, good morning lass. I see yu'r awake now. Are yu hungry?"

groan

"Ah, I'll take that as a yes. Yu want some fruit?"

growl. "Why can't people leave me aloneI hurt." SneMa moved and rolled in to fetal position, bring the thin blankets up to her chin. By this time the annoying healer had returned with a small tray filled with all kinds of fruit.

"I didn't know what kind yu wanted so I" sees the curled up bundle of blankets. "gotare yu sleeping again miss?"

groans mixed with a growl "I want to go to my OWN quarters." she said in the most whinny and annoying voice she could muster.

"Ah, but yu not well enough to go to yur own quarters miss." SneMa heard the tray being put on the table by her bed. A chair was heard scraping the floor and stopped by SneMa's bed. A warm hand lightly stroked her feverish head. SneMa flinched at the warm, soft, loving hand. The slightest movement made her feel more pain than she wanted (true any pain was more than she wanted). "What's yur name, miss?"

"SneMa" her name came out as a mumble but the healer understood what she meant.

"SneMathat's a very pretty name. Where are yur parents, if yu don't mind me askin'"

"I don't know who my father was, and my mother died in birth with me." she said this with a quiver in her voice. "The Masters are the only family I have ever known"

"Oh, I'm sorry lass."

"Don't be" At this she had more confidence in her voice "you didn't do it, don't worry about it. It doesn't bother memuch." a few moments later SneMa points out that it's cold. shivers "I'm cold" shiver. The healer put her pale hand on SneMa's brow.

"Lass, yu have a high fever. Try to-" whatever she said SneMa never heard for she past-out.

SneMa ran down a long hallway. She was running from something, what she didn't know. She could "feel" whom ever or what ever gaining on her. She was suddenly knocked down all the wind left her lungs with a woosh. She grunted and coughed, trying to get her breath back. White hot pain raged through her ribs. Air burning as it entered and left her lungs.

SneMa woke up in anguish and screaming. Her ribs felt as if they were on fire. Pain was all she knew. Several healers came running to her to see what was wrong. Cool hands were felt by SneMa. As soon as the healers touched her skin she knew she was safe. Instantly she calmed down and began to shake violently. One of the healers wrapped SneMa in to her arms and slowly began to rock her back and forth, cooing softly to her.

"Ssshhhhhh.yu're alright, lass. No one will hurt yu. Ol' Nan'a is here to watch over yu. Ssshhhhhh.it's ok. calm down." Nan'a continued to coo as SneMa drifted in and out of fever dreams. She kept rocking SneMa in her lap as a mother would a frightened child.

True SneMa was no light weight, though she wasn't a heavy weight either. Nan'a didn't care. SneMa's body would shake violently from time to time. Her fever rose through out the night, scaring Nan'a for fear they might loose the blind pupil.

By the morning Nan'a was still holding SneMa and rocking back and forth absent-mindedly. SneMa stirred and groaned.

"Aaaaahhhhh." SneMa sighed and stretched in Nan'a's arms. "Mmmmm"

"How are yu feeling lass?"

"Hmm? Oh sore, cold, and lonely." Nan'a helped SneMa stand and get to her own bed. Once there SneMa guessed that Nan'a had walked off. Loneliness almost consumed her. A few hours later the sound of the doors wooshing open brought SneMa out of her day dream. Foot-steps were heard walking over to where SneMa lay.

"Probably some going to see the person next to me." But the steps stopped right by her head. Robes were heard making-the-sound-that-robes-make-when-one-sits-down.

"SneMa?" It was Master Ginn, the man made solely out of ice and stone. (Author's note: This is happening before Obi-Won was five) Master Ginn NEVER showed any one that he cared for them. Ever since his apprentice "died" he put up a wall to keep every one and every thing out. He never took another apprentice after that.

"Hhmmm?" SneMa was almost to the point of tears, this was her first visitor since the attack.

"How are you feeling?"

"Master, do you want me to be brutally honest?"

"Yes, that's how we raised you."

"I am lonely, in heaps of pain, I'm sick, AND have been having the worst nightmares in my whole life! Other than that I'm fine." If SneMa could only see the expression on his face she would have cheered up in no time. The Master was very shocked, he didn't expect her to burst out like that. SneMa fought with her self to keep her self from crying.

"Hmm" was all he could get out. SneMa lost the fight between herself and just burst out sobbing. Qui-Gon Ginn had never seen one of the pupils cry, let alone a young woman cry. His cheeks grew bright red.

"I-I'm so lonely! N-no one c-comes and sees m-me! F-forgive me M-M-Master Ginn!" After this was said and done SneMa rolled over and sobbed silently. Qui-Gon was shocked, he had always known SneMa to be non-emotional. Silently he got up and walked out, leaving SneMa sobbing to her self.

Half an hour later Tobias came to see his sick, injured, and lonely friend. Master Ginn had told him to go see her. Qui-Gon told no one about SneMa's out break of emotion. When Tobias came to see her, SneMa was fast asleep and curled in to a ball.

"SneMa?" he whispered. He shook her shoulder calling her name again this time a little louder.

"Mmmmm?" SneMa sounded content and happy.

"Wake up SneMa."

"Why?"

"Because your best friend in the world wants to talk with you and keep you company." At this her blind eyes flew open.

"Tobias?"

"Yes, it's me. I'm sorry I haven't seen you in the past few days. I, at first, came every day. But I haven't had time to come and see you because of the Jedi Knights coming for an apprentice."

"Oh, how long have I been in here?"

"A week, for the first three days I had come but every time you were sleeping. I didn't know if you were still out from the fight or just sleeping." Silence stretched for what seemed like hours.