"Lenore! Prisa!"

Lee stirred by the fire. It was early in the morning in Tarkintown as he heard his mother and sister's names being called throughout the encampment. He turned and pulled the blanket over his head attempting to drown out the noise. He was exhausted from yesterday. The Tersus had been evicted from their family farm that had been in his mother's family for generations. The journey to encampment 43 was not easy. It had taken them half a day to make the trek on foot. But the hardship came from the heightened emotions of his parent's fighting. Plus it didn't help that his sister Lenore kept begging him to help her carry the radio she had chosen to bring.

"It's heavy," she whined, struggling to keep the device from falling.

"Then you shouldn't have brought it. You probably can't even get a signal where we're going."" Lee said, annoyed as he carefully watched his parents who weren't speaking to one another. He hated the tension between the two of them and wondered what their lives would be in their home called Tarkintown.

"Lee," it was his father Riv. He shook his son gently to wake him, "Have you seen your sister?"

"She's over there," Lee answered half asleep, motioning to the other side of the bonfire. Lenore had built it for them to spend the night under the stars and to stay away from their parents' arguing. Riv looked over and saw nothing but an empty pile of blankets.

"What about your mother?" Riv pressed.

"No, I've been asleep," Lee turned to find his sister was missing. Riv quickly stood and rushed over to the other residents who continued to call out for his wife and daughter.

"Prisa Tersu! Lenore Tersu! Where are you?!"

"I don't know where they would have gone. Lee hasn't seen them either," Riv worried.

"Riv," one of the neighbors called from the blurrg pen. "We're missing a blurrg."

"She wouldn't," he said in disbelief. He noticed her things were gone this morning but hadn't completely panicked.

"Perhaps she's gone for a ride," suggested another neighbor. "Maybe took your daughter along to show her the sights?"

"What sights? There's nothing out here but grassland and us," another neighbor said pessimistically.

"What's going on?" Lee approached the group of adults rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

Riv sighed. He knew in his heart that Prisa was gone. He had a strange feeling of relief. She was no longer around for him to disappoint. In a way he was glad for her. He watched over the years the light and joy inside her slowly fade away. He hated that he was the cause of it. At least now she was finally on a path he could not derail. He just never thought she would abandon her children.

"Son," Riv began. "Your mother is gone."

"Gone where?" Lee asked.

"I'm not sure," Riv admitted and looked at the neighbors that had helped him search for her. They exchanged looks and quietly left to give Riv some privacy. "But I don't think she's coming back."

"Have you told Lenore?" Lee asked, concerned. He hadn't fully comprehended what had happened but he knew he would be alright as long as his sister was around.

"Well, no one knows where she is at the moment," Riv said and saw the fear grow in Lee's eyes. "I don't want to give you false hope Lee, but it's possible your mother took Lenore with her."

"No," Lee protested and looked down at the ground at the blurrg tracks.

"I know it's hard to hear, but it may just be the two of us now. So we need to watch out for one another, help one another, and I think we just might make it," Riv placed his hand on his son's shoulder hoping it would comfort him.

"Lenore!" Lee pushed his father's hand off his shoulder and raced out into the plains following the blurrg tracks.

"Don't Lee! It's too dangerous!" Riv called after his son who disappeared into the tall grass.

Lee ran a few miles out into the grasslands before he started to grow tired. The tracks were still fresh which gave him hope he could still catch them. As he slowed his pace to catch his breath, he saw her. It was Lenore sitting on the ground. He stopped running and slowly walked over to her. She was holding a small loth-cat.

"She's young," he said, breathing heavily. "You shouldn't hold them when they're that young. The mom might reject her 'cus of your scent. Where'd you find her? I'll help you put her back."

"Mom's gone, so is the litter," she said monotone and in a daze. "This little one got left behind."

Lee could tell Lenore wasn't only speaking of the kit she held. She was speaking about the two of them.

"She didn't even say goodbye," Lenore continued. "Why?"

"Maybe 'cause if she did, she would never leave," Lee wisely said and sat down next to his sister and reached out to scratch the loth-cat's head. "I suppose we'll have to ask her one day when we see her."

"Mom's not coming back," Lenore said.

"I know," Lee admitted. "But we're not always going to be on Lothal. So don't lose hope just yet."

"What do you mean?" Lenore asked, puzzled.

"We're Tersus," Lee said brightly, trying his best to cheer her up. "We're meant to adventure throughout the galaxy, like dad before us."

"Grow up Lee," Lenore shook her head. "None of those stories are true."

"Then we'll make our own," he said matter of fact and gently nudged her.

"Does dad know?" Lenore asked.

"Yeah, he thinks you're gone too," Lee explained.

"Guess he'll be disappointed when he sees me go back with you," she sighed.

"Hey! What kind of talk is that?" he asked her. "He'll be relieved. We need to stick together, Lenore. Watch out for one another, help one another, that's the only way I think we'll make it."

"That's dad talking," Lenore sassed.

"Well nevertheless it's true. I need you," he said. She turned and looked at him finally. "And knowing how much trouble you like to get into, you need me."

"Do you think Dad will be annoyed if I bring a loth-cat home?" Lenore asked, ignoring her brother's comment on her behavior.

"Of course," Lee smiled. "So you better do it."

The Tersu twins rose and returned to Tarkintown.