Jaina Solo in Tortall

          Jaina Solo in Tortall.

  Authors-note. Sorry guys, I know I have been really bad about starting stories and then not finishing them. It's just the lack of good reviews has been discouraging me. But anyways, I will finish this one for sure.

          I take one liberty in this story, and that is that Roald's marriage has not been set with the Yamani's yet.  The second isn't a big liberty, and actually (if you interpret the scene the way I did) fits with the books, and that is that Jedi are physically fit, and even jedi in training are decently fit.

                Enjoy, and please review.

    "Oh, mi gosh I am late!!" Jaina exclaimed, looking at the chronometer. "I don't know why my jedi senses didn't wake me up this time. But why didn't Jacen wake me up? Did he want to see me get embarrassed." Jaina did a Jedi calming exercise and calmed herself down a bit. She reached out for Jacen and found that he was asleep too.

             Jaina felt ashamed instantly for accusing her brother of wanting to see her fall on her face. "Sorry, Jasa." She said, using his old-nickname.

               She then reached to wake up brother up, but instead of touching her brother, the force sense seemed to tug her into it, and take her somewhere else.

              As she 'flew' round and round Jaina felt herself panic. "Where are you taking me." She yelled. "Stop! Jacen! Uncle Luke! Mom, Dad, Anakin, somebody,  HELP ME!."

         Then she remembered Uncle Luke's lessons. "Always stay calm, when calm the force will provide a solution."

              Jaina had to do the calming exercise two or three times before it worked to her satisfaction. Soon, she came to the end and found herself deposited in a strange place. She could tell it was a palace; it was too spacious, and too ornate to be otherwise. Also, she could feel the awe of the people who walked around it, and Jaina knew from experience that the only place that you would feel that was in a palace.

          Jaina took a deep breath. She let the force flow through her, and then she walked, following it to the nearest person. "Excuse me." She said, "I am new here, I need to meet the leader here. Can you take me to them?"

           Jaina cringed as she heard herself speak, to her the words sounded ill-chosen. Her mother, the chief of state would've been ashamed.

          But the words were good enough for the person she met. "You are in luck, right now King Jonathan and Queen Thayet are holding audience. It is for someone else, but they might give you a word." The man pointed her down to the audience chamber.

            Jaina walked to the audience chamber. She stood at the back while the other person talked to the king. Jaina took a moment to look around, and read the force senses of the people there. She could tell, that this was a place that faced the constant threat of attack, even though they could deal with the attacks.

           Jaina came back when she heard the man move away from the king. Jaina stepped forward and curtsied. At least my curtsy came out right, she thought, please with her curtsy. "Your majesties, I am Jaina Solo, daughter of Leia Organa Solo chief of state of the New Republic, and Jedi-knight-in-training. I was brought to your palace through a vortex. I came here to ask your permission to stay in your kingdom peacefully until I find a way home. If I may not stay in your land, I ask for safe passage and transportation to another land."

            King Jonathan of Tortall had not been surprised in awhile, but this certainly surprised him, a girl being transported here from another land. He had used his Gift, so he knew she wasn't lying. But how, he couldn't help thinking, how could this happen, and he knew that the fact that she had landed in the palace showed that the gods, if they hadn't done this, were using it and she was supposed to stay here. But why, and what purpose does she have.

           While King Jonathan was thinking over these things Queen Thayet had already started answering the girl. "You shall not have to go anywhere, Princess," she said, addressing the girl by that title, because she guessed that chief of state meant head, and to her knowledge children of leaders were princesses. "You shall have a safe haven in Tortall and if going home is what you wish, we shall aid you. We have some of the best mages, and we have temples to ask the gods."

            Jaina curtsied. "I thank you, your majesty, forgive me for correcting you after your great kindness, but I am not a princess, just Jaina, where I come from we have a democracy."

            "A dem-ocracy? What is that?"

           "Where the people vote to pick their ruler, we still have monarchies, in planetary governments. In fact, my mother was the heir apparent to a monarchy." Jaina said, slightly simplifying Alderaan's governmental system for the queen. "But the planet was blown up."

          "People choosing their rulers." King Jonathan said, his eyes lighting up, "How… enlightened."

        Thayet saw the conservatives stiffen, so she hastily said. "Why don't we discuss governmental systems later. Jaina, is there anything else."

          "Yes, your majesties. If it please you, I would like to… help out a bit, so I am not a burden." Jaina took a look around, and seeing that the technology was really old-fashioned decided not to mention her mechanical skills, she didn't want to give these people all new technology, she was aware that in places people with such knowledge were considered demons. And she already could tell there were people in this throne room who would say so, she knew this because of people's reactions to the idea of democracy. "As I said, I am a Jedi-knight-in-training, which means I can help defend your kingdom's borders."

             Jaina, with her force sense, heard muffled snickering around the room at her comment. She sighed, she could not guess why they were snickering, but she could tell she'd slipped up.

              "Your Majesty," Lord Wyldon said, coming forward and bowing. "I object, a foreigner comes and asks to join border patrols? I think not. If she wants to help, she should join in a womanly art."

           "Lord Wyldon." Thayet said. "Jaina said she would like to help defend tortall, so we would like her to join a fighting outfit. And border patrols are what she asked to do, so we can not twist an offering."

           King Jonathan saw where his wife was going, he hoped the girl understood hand signals, he discreetly signaled her to stay quiet and wait.

           Jaina got the signal, and she could tell through her force sense, that these people were going to use her offer to do something to prove something to this man.

             Lord Wyldon sighed. "She herself said she was only in training." He said, arguing further, "And if we let someone who was in training go out, they might put other lives in danger. At least with the womanly arts everyone's lives would be safe."

          "If that is your objection, and Jaina doesn't object, she can join our training program, and become a knight, so if she is here for a long period of time she can get her wish of border patrols." Thayet said.

          Lord Wyldon said. "She is not of tortallan noble blood."

         "Nevertheless, if she doesn't object we wish her to become a knight." Jonathan said, cutting in.

         Wyldon ground his teeth; there was nothing he could say anymore. He bowed, and stepped back.

          "Jaina, would you be willing to go through Tortallan knight training?"

         Jaina curtsied. "Of course, your majesty."

        "Do you have any stuff with you?"

        "No, the vortex didn't provide me with any clothes." Jaina said, but then she felt a weight at her belt, and saw her lightsaber was hanging there. "But, it seems to have brought me my weapon, my lightsaber.

       "Then give your size to the tailor, he shall give you clothes. Keep your weapon with you. But before that, report to Lord Wyldon, who shall get you a page-sponsor and start your training."  Jonathan gave the dismissal sign.

       Jaina curtsied, and then walked backwards. She waited outside the door until she heard someone walked behind her. She tensed, until she felt that the person meant no harm. "Psst." The person said whispering in her ear. "Don't stop here, follow me. Trust me, I want to help you not hurt."

       The force told her he was not lying. He lead Jaina to a corridor. "Lord Wyldon is going to be in a mood for a bit, let him cool down before you report to him." The boy informed her. "Also, meet him formally in his office. Trust me on this one."

         Jaina felt she could trust this boy. "Thank you for the advice, I am Jaina Solo."

       "I am Nealan of Queenscove, fellow page. Would you like to meet the rest of us mad folk."

       Jaina had to smile at that. "Yes, I would."

     Nealan lead her to the library. "Please wait here, I will get everyone. We need to study today anyways."

           Jaina sat in the library and did a few exercises as she waited for Nealan to return. Nealan returned very soon, bringing with him a few others. "Friends, I would like you to meet Jaina Solo, who has decided to join the mad house. She has just arrived her from another galaxy. Jaina Solo, I would like you to meet Keladry of Mindelan, the first female page since the decree."

         "I am very pleased to meet you." Jaina said, shaking hands with her.

         "Jaina Solo, heir to the throne of Tortall, Prince Roald."

            A boy came forward, and as Jaina caught his eye, she felt… something. She shook it off. She curtsied.

        "Please don't." Roald said. "I am just a fellow page like you. Please just call me Roald."

      "All right, Roald."