Suddenly Ben heard the door behind him open, and there she stood in the doorway still looking somewhat dazed but much better than just minutes ago.
Both Han and Luke starred at her, she was absolutely beautiful she was quite small, her long jet-black hair war hanging loose and was something of a mess, she had large brown eyes her skin was still pale but beautiful, she looked quite fragile but on the other hand her hole appearance was of someone with complete body control, and very well trained, she moved like at cat.
She looked at Ben with just a passing interest, then moved on to Han and on to Luke, and she almost flinched, stared right at him for a few seconds and then pretended like she did not care.
"I just wanted to see where I was", she said
Come along Ben said, "We will find you something to eat and drink"
She followed Ben out into the small kitchen where she sat down, eating what she was served without saying a word.
Ben stayed with her partly because he was curios, party because he wanted her away from Luke, he had not liked her reaction to him one bit.
Trying to learn more about her he asked, " I never got your name?" she looked at him , then saying, "my name is Maria...just Maria"
Ok that did not help much, but at least he did not sense any attempts to be lying
She looked up at him again " I did not think there where any Jedi's left, she said
Ben stared at her, she wasn't old enough to be suppose to remember the Jedi's , and no one talked about them, not if they likes staying alive that is !
"What makes you think I am a Jedi?"
"Well first there is the clothes, but your light sabre is a dead giveaway- the boy before also had one"
Ben didn't quite know what to say, he had the feeling that denying would not get him very far, the way she said had sounded a lot more like a statement than a question.
While Ben stood wondering what to say, she talked again " is there a fresher onboard? I could really use one, and maybe some clean clothes" he nodded thankful that the conversation had turned from the Jedi-
he lead her to the fresher and went in search of some clothes- there wasn't any women's clothes on the falcon but some of Luke's might fit.
While he searched he suddenly caught a glimpse of images and emotions from their new passenger
She was looking down on a dark granite floor and she was terrified, more than she had ever been in her life! Then there was a voice, Ben recognised it right away, it was the emperor:
" Get up girl, and come up where I can see you"
The flow stopped just as suddenly as it had started, Ben was shaking, still feeling the terror she had sent out, he tried to shake it of him and found the clothes he was looking for.
He went back to the fresher and put it outside the door, before he returned to the others, they where sitting in the cockpit and from the silence they where probably talking about her!
Luke jumped to his feet, "what happened?" I got this weird feeling just before and now it is gone again!
Ben looked quite worried, but he desired it was best to come clean:
"Yes I felt it as well, it was coming from our new passenger, and I do not like it one bit, I think she is force sensitive, not much, but it is there, and that is worse, she has been trained, she can block me out, but if she is not careful her shields drops, that was that you felt before, did you see anything?"
Luke: " No just that feeling of fear"
Han had been silent up until now
" Come on is this some kind of joke, I never meet a single person who "used" the force, until 2 days ago and now my ship is crawling with them, I think you might be overdoing it!"
Ben: "Han not now, we have to decide what to do, she has requested to be taken to the nearest imperial base, and I really feel we would be a lot better of without her, (Han looked like he was about to choke) but I know flying right into the arms of the empire is a really bad idea, so any ideas?"
Han: why not just dump her on Alderaan when we get there"
Ben: " my thought as well, it might be the best solution, but that would mean she is to stay onboard another 6 days, Luke I do not want you to talk to her, just stay out of her way, and put the light sabre away until she is gone!