"Was it just me or did the stump leave quicker than usual?" Neal asked his group of friends after the training master was out of view.

"He left quicker than usual." Merric said.

"Keladry, may I have a word with you after dinner?" Jaina asked.

"Of course." Keladry said.

They went to dinner, and ate. Jaina put up a good face about not noticing the stares she got. The fact that she and Roald were mesmerized by the other person for a lot of the dinner didn't hurt either.

After dinner Jaina led Kel to her room. She closed the door. "Listen, Kel, I think I was dropped here for a purpose. No one has come to explain to me what that purpose is, so until someone does I make my own judgment. My judgment says it is to engrain the idea of female knights on this society. To close the gender gap, but this is your arena. I would like you to be my partner at this quest."

Kel gave Jaina one of her rare smiles. "That would my honor."

"Now, the physical aspect… I am not the best Jedi-in-training, but I have a hunch that I am good enough. As to keeping up with the work, I used to have Threepio for a tutor, I think I can keep up."

Kel nodded. "I am decently good at both."

"All right, we are set then." Jaina and Kel shook on it.

Jaina heard Neal and Roald walk up to the door. But she pretended not to until Neal knocked. "Come on in." Jaina called.

"Here it is rude to leave your page-sponsor without informing him." Neal told Kel.

"My apologies, Roald."

"It is ok, Jaina."

"Does anyone here want to finish their work for tomorrow, or are they determined to get a whole lot of punishment work?" Neal asked. "Jaina is the only one who doesn't have work."

"You are right." Kel gasped. "Come on, Neal, let's go."

"I'll join you in a bit." Roald said. "I will give Jaina company for awhile."

"Ok." Neal and Kel said, they left.

Jaina felt really awkward alone with Roald. She tried to calm herself, but she could not, her heart was beating triple time. She was anxious that she couldn't even feel the fact that Roald was feeling the same way.

"Jaina." Roald started, his voice wavering a bit.

"Yes, Roald." Jaina asked, slightly breathlessly.

"Tell me about yourself." Roald winced at his question. It had just popped out.

Jaina was relieved though. She, like Roald, believed that love should happen with respect and trust. There was the attraction, now the respect and trust. She told Roald about her life, the unabridged version, Roald was a prince, the heir to a powerful kingdom. He could understand better than anyone, except her brothers of course, what it was like having everyone watch you, expect something of you. So she told him about being a Skywalker, how everyone watched her force potential and the reporters followed her around.

As Jaina guessed, Roald could relate, and he told her about being a prince. How he was expected to behave. He told her about how he hated how his father was villianafied by people when he had just been looking at the whole picture. He told her his secret fear about now being able to further his father's legacy.

Jaina and Roald were really connection. They talked through the night, even though that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, luckily, they both were excused from the next day's classes so Roald could help Jaina get her stuff.

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Luke was startled out of his force mediation. He was feeling the weirdest thing. He was feeling Jaina's sense go farther and farther away from him until he could barely sense her, then finally when he couldn't sense her at all. He got up and ran to Jaina's room. "Jaina!" he called, even though he could sense that she wasn't there. He threw open the door.

As he did Jacen came running up, as did Anakin, Tenel ka, and Lowbacca. These were the people closest to Jaina at the academy, so of the trainees they'd be the only people who could sense it. And outside of Yavin, none of the Jedi would sense it, as they weren't close to Jaina except for Leia. LEIA, Luke thought, knowing her, she'll be going crazy right now, because of the thing she sensed. She watches her kids' force sense too carefully not to have noticed. Luke reached out for his sister, and found that she was getting agitated. Luke decided to save his force energies on finding Jaina. "Jacen, search the temple for Jaina." Luke said, even though he knew such a search would be in vain.

"I will be right back. I need to call Leia." Luke said, he knew this made it sound like Jaina was dead so he changed his words. "Leia felt what we did, and I need to reassure her. I… I am pretty sure Jaina isn't dead."

Anakin, Tenel Ka, Jacen, and Lowbacca looked at each other. They all knew how powerful Luke was, and they trusted him. If he thought Jaina wasn't dead, she wasn't and that thought heartened them. But if she wasn't here and wasn't dead, where was she.

She was sleeping soundly in her bed at the Palace in Tortall dreaming of Roald. She was thinking of how nice he was, and in her dreams, she admitted he was handsome. He was regal. He was everything she'd wanted. But soon her dreams changed from Roald. She was on Tatooine and there was another man with her. "Jaina. I am Obi-Wan Kenobi."

"Hello, Obi-Wan. Am I right in thinking you brought me here to explain why I am in Tortall."

"Yes, Jaina, you have guessed part of the reason the force wants Tortall to accept female knights, so you must prove it to Wyldon and this realm. That is what countries are called here by the way. Also, you are here because once you are here, your mother and uncle must come here, then relations between the two galaxies will start. The two places can help each other a lot."

"Ah." Jaina said.

"Jaina, remember, you have it in you to pass their tests. You are right; Jedi Knight training is harder than there training is here, except for a few things. They overload you with work so you will have to work into the night. But use the stamina your uncle taught you to keep going. Finish the work. Prove to them that girls can do it. Only use the force, though, when people are being unfair to you, which will happen. Otherwise fulfill the training as everyone else does, without the aid of special powers. Well, here some have a gift, so you can use your healing powers, but I recommend that if you can work with your injury, do so to prove that girls are hardy."

"I will do so." Jaina said.

"All right, then go back to bed." He said starting to fade away. "And Jaina, May the Force Be With You."

"Thank you." Jaina whispered as he faded away.

Jaina found herself back in bed in the Palace in Tortall. She looked around for a second before sleep overtook her.

The next morning, she awoke when she felt everyone else in the palace awaken. She got dressed as quickly as she could. Jaina was apprehensive about using the appliances, as she had never used them or anything like them before. But she found that they were decently easy to use. It took awhile for her to get acclimated, and she almost broke a few things, but her force powers saved her they told her right before something was going to break and she stopped whatever she was doing.

While Jaina was trying to figure out how to close the drapes a knock came on the door, it was Keladry. "Who is it?" Jaina asked, keeping up the guise.

"Kel, may I come in."

"Of course."

Kel stepped in, a bit shyly. "Roald wasn't sure if you knew how to use everything, and he asked if I would come and help you."

"Tell Roald that was very kind, and I could use some help figuring things out a bit." Jaina again decided to pretend to be a little more helpless then she was, also, she admitted to herself, she could use help also.

Keladry went through and showed Jaina how to use everything. "I have got to go." Keladry said, right as Jaina understood how to use everything. "I need to complete morning exercises. Are you okay here."

"Perfectly." Jaina said, giving Keladry a smile. "Thank you, Kel."

"It was my pleasure." Keladry said as she left.

Jaina quickly finished getting ready. Then she did her own morning exercises. She exercises until Roald knocked on the door and told her it was time for breakfast.

They went to breakfast. The entire hall went silent again when she entered. With her Jedi senses she felt the large amounts of hostility in the room. That discouraged Jaina. She was supposed to change the views of a society so engrained in their views. Then Jaina redirected her Jedi senses to as far as she could, and felt that some people were happy with her presence in the kingdom.

Jaina sat down with Roald. She could feel the people next to her wanted to move away, but they didn't because of Roald. They didn't want to be rude to the heir of the kingdom.

Jaina blocked out all the other people's emotions from her mind. She wanted to stay positive, and feeling all their negative emotions wouldn't help her at all. She noted that Roald wasn't eating yet, so she waited. She was happy when Roald's friends came, the other people next to her, gladly relinquished their seats on the excuse of being polite.

"Hey, Jaina, don't worry about it, they did it to me on my first meal here too." Keladry said, knowing from experience what had happened.

Jaina smiled at the girl. "Yea, it isn't bothering me too much though, I should concentrate on my positive energies, not their negative ones." Jaina said, quoting her uncle.

"But doesn't not getting angry tire you out sometimes. Kel, here does the same thing, and I don't know how and why." Merric said. "I mean, it gets her more punishments, because I think when the teachers see her calm face when she has done something they get angrier and blow."

Jaina smiled wryly, there were so many times when she'd just wanted to blow her top, throw a tantrum and/or just yell, but being the granddaughter of Darth-Anakin Skywalker she couldn't through a tantrum, if she did everyone would say, she is going dark. She exchanged a look with Roald, she'd told Roald about that the night before. "Getting angry is against the way of Jedi." She said, simply.

Nealan shook his head. "You and Keladry are so alike, before we had to worry about one person getting into trouble over her calm ways, now there are two." He said in his usual blunt way.

Jaina laughed, but before she could retort everyone got up, and Jaina got up with everyone just a beat later. "Lord Wyldon is here." Roald whispered.

"Ah." Jaina said, pretending, again, to be surprised.

"May Mithros guide us through these uncertain times, and keep our land sacred and our own. May no enemy destroy us from within, may nothing alter what is time-honored and true. So mote it be."

"So mote it be." Everyone said.

"What is his problem." Jaina said, under her breath in Corellian.

"What did you say." Roald asked.

"Nothing important." Jaina said, smiling at him sweetly.

That smile, Roald thought, is the most beautiful smile I have ever seen. It looks like a dozen rainbows, the shine off of a fresh stream that is complimented by eyes like the most beautiful diamonds. Like the stream calls to you to bath in it, that smile draws me on. By Mithros, I can't resist that smile.

Jaina could sense and see Roald's mood change with her smile; he gave her the most intense look she'd seen. And Jaina found she was being drawn into his look. Gosh, she thought, those eyes are more beautiful than all the ships in the galaxy.

"Uh oh." Neal whispered to Kel. "Those lovebirds are on cloud nine, but if Lord Wyldon notices…"

"Ok, let's break the spell." Kel said.

She waved her hands between their faces. Jaina came back to reality. "Wha-?" She asked.

"Don't talk about it, or the Stump will have a cow. Eat your meal then go to your rooms." Neal said in an undertone.