Chapter
one: Twelve Years Later
Maltiera
awoke, her she had seen the picture of her laying on a huge bed on a
spaceship, soundlessly sleeping, again. She had seen things like this
before and they had all come true, when her younger brother, Jako had
been severely hurt by a speeder bike, she had seen him in the bacta
tank around a week before it happened, she had not known what it
meant but she thought it was weird. Sometimes even, she read her
friend's minds for fun, she could not do it all the time of course,
but when they asked and she tried hard, she could get some stuff
figured out, it was a small source of entertainment for her but never
anything huge. Now this picture had shown up not once or twice, but
three times, and she wanted to know why...
"Momma" She yelled, to her mother, in the kitchen like usual preparing breakfast.
"Yes Malta," she heard her mothers reply as she saw her fathers face at her doorway, and watched him move aside, to let her in.
"There is a picture I keep seeing of me fast asleep on a big bed in a ship. If felt like the time I saw Jako floating in the bacta tank, and then it came true. But I don't remember any vacation we are taking soon or any trip where I'd be sleeping on a ship." She finally stopped talking when she recognized the look on her mothers face: pain. That is when her father entered the conversation.
He spoke to her mother, "Mea, I got the holo letter yesterday, they are coming" She looked back and forth between her parents, trying to figure out what was going on when her mother finally spoke up. "I think we need to shed some light on your past, seeing as your not really our daughter. You were given to us by two Jedi when you were two weeks old, we don't know who they are, they only told us they would be back to get you when it was safe for you to be with them, and we received a holo letter yesterday saying they would be by today to pick you up, and take you to your real parents." Maltiera looked up at her father, hoping her mother was joking, but she saw only truth in his eyes, and then she looked again at her mother.
"You won't let them take me will you?", but she already knew that they had no choice. Fine, but I am not going to peacefully she thought.
"Jace, I don't know. What if she does not like me, I.." Her voice trailed off as she felt him give her confidence through the force. "But Jace, I saw her, she, she was running away from me."
"Sweetheart, this is going to be new. She is a schoolgirl right now, not a princess. How would you have liked it is you hadn't known about your Hapan heritage and were brought up solely on Dathomir, and then, all of a sudden, your uprooted, and brought to be a princess and a Jedi. This is going to take time." He wrapped his arms around her neck in a comforting embrace.
"How long will it take?"
"It's too early to tell. Tenel, stop stressing, Kith went to get her, and by the time she gets here, she will know what is going on, and then we worry about adjusting her, why don't we find out what she like first. It will end up ok" He said it not only reassuring her, but reassuring himself as well.
