Chapter 5 Written by Kiami Sinno
After I came back from the Council meeting, I was SO embarrassed. 'Feelings more than just professional.' Well, you want to know what my response is to that? The Masters can just stick their lightsabers…sorry, I won't finish that sentence. I heard a knock on my door. "Tian, if you came to apologize, you're a little late." "It isn't Tian, it's Kaisa," the voice said. I went over and opened the door.
Kaisa was standing there. She was wearing a traditional Jedi tunic and cloak, and her bracelet that she considers a good luck charm. I wear the same style of tunic and cloak, but I wear no jewelry. Tian also wears the same style of clothing, and she wears a necklace with a skinny oval shaped stone with swirled colors on it.
"Kiami?" Kaisa asked, waking me from my realm of thoughts. "What?" I replied. "Are you done packing?" She asked. "No." I said, looking at the empty bag on my bed. I quickly ran around my room, tossing clothing and other things into my bag as fast as I could. "That was kinda funny, when Tian started laughing in front of the Council, wasn't it?" Kaisa asked me. "Yeah." I agreed, "Alright, I'm done packing." As we were heading out the door, I remembered something. "Hold on for a sec," I said. I ran to my closet and pulled a medium sized black box from the top of it. I placed it into a small bag that was slung over my shoulder. "What's that?" Kaisa asked me. "I'll show you later." I said. We went out the door and went to the ship.
When Kaisa and I got there, Anakin and Master Obi-Wan were already there. As I walked past Obi-Wan, he smiled at me (sigh) and I think that I saw him blushing. I think I was, too. I put my bag down and then went outside to wait for Tian. Finally, she showed up, but she took the window seat. I looked around for somewhere to sit, but (just my luck) the only seat left was next to Master Kenobi. I carefully sat down next to him. I was afraid that he would hear my heart pounding. I took out my journal datapad out of the small bag that was slung over my shoulder. Good, at least I had something to take my mind off of the fact that I was sitting next to a man that knows that I have a major crush on him. No big deal.
Then our pilot, Ret Canzar, came in. "Everyone ready to go?" He asked. "Yes Ret," Master Kenobi replied. Ret then left to go back into the cockpit. Obi-Wan turned to me. "Ready for takeoff, Kiami?" He asked me. He was smiling wildly. (sigh) I nodded. Anakin turned to look at him and asked, "Why are you smiling, Master? You don't even like flying." "Nothing, Anakin." Master Kenobi told him. I looked over at Kaisa and Tian. They were staring at us and almost bursting into laughter. This was going to be a long, long flight.
The next thing I knew, I was waking up with my head on Master Obi-Wan's shoulder. "Wake up Kiami," he said. "Umm, sorry Master," I said, embarrassed. Without thinking, I stood up. The ship jolted violently and you would never guess who I fell on. Master Kenobi! I fell right on his lap. This really wasn't my day, was it? "Hoth!" Ret called from the cockpit.
As soon as the landing ramp unfolded, I felt a gust of freezing air on my face. I wrapped my cloak tighter around me, then looked over at Master Kenobi, Anakin, Kaisa, and Tian. They were all dressed in warm clothes. Because I fell asleep on the ship, I didn't have time to change. I shivered as we walked down the landing ramp. Master Obi-Wan must have seen me shiver, because he pulled out his comlink and said, "Ret, wait. Don't close the ramp yet," and then quickly ran into the ship. When he came out, he was holding his normal Jedi cloak. "Here, Kiami. You must be cold," he said as he handed it to me. "You think?" I snapped at him without even thinking. "Hey! Don't talk to my master like that!" Anakin yelled at me. "I didn't mean…" I started to say. "Just be quiet!" he yelled again. "Make me, Anakin!" I yelled back. I dropped my bags that I was carrying as Anakin lunged at me. He rammed into me, and I fell on the ground. "Stop it now, Anakin!" Obi-Wan yelled at his Padawan. He grabbed the back of his cloak and pulled Anakin off of me. Obi-Wan held out a hand to help me up. I was covered in snow and absolutely freezing. Obi-Wan helped brush the snow off of me. "Thank you, Master Kenobi." I said to him. I looked at Anakin. There was a fierce look of anger in his eyes.
Just then, we heard the "baah" of an animal cry. We all looked up as a person riding a large animal was coming towards us. I recognized the animal as a tauntaun, which was used often for transportation on Hoth. Its rider took off a scarf wrapped around its mouth and pulled off a pair of goggles. I then realized that the rider was Master Bant, a Mon Calamari female. Master Kenobi smiled. "Good to see you again, Obi-Wan." Master Bant said. "Hello, Bant." Master Obi-Wan replied. I was told at the Temple that Masters Kenobi and Bant were best friends when they were children. Their friendship obviously still existed today.
"Get a tauntaun and climb on," Master Bant told us. There were several trailing behind her. I walked over to one of them and noticed that it was two times taller than me, and that was saying something. "No, no, no, no, no. I am not getting on this thing." I said to no one in particular. The reason that I didn't want to ride it wasn't because I was afraid of it, it was the fact that I had a small (well, major) fear of heights. "Oh, fine." Master Kenobi said. "You can ride with me if it would help." I shrugged, walked over to his tauntaun and (reluctantly) climbed on behind him. "Let's go." Master Bant said. The tauntaun started walking fast. I wrapped my arms around Master Kenobi so I wouldn't fall. Kaisa and Tian rode by us, smiling wildly.