The general stood before them, she seemed so calm and collected as she barked out orders. Bao-Dur stood beside Ellsia as the soldiers and jedi began to take action, he had just finished repairing a droid and the young jedi had watched, fascinated at his meticulous work.

"You treat the droid as you would a patient," she said as he closed the droids processor.

"A droid's circuitry is just as intricate as the body and therefore needs to be shown the same amount of care and attention." he replied and smiled.

In the months since the war had begun the two had become firm friends, though Ellsia knew it was against the code. But when you are forced to spend so much time with someone, you can't help but get to know them. They were heading for Dxun now, in the hopes of flushing out a group of Mandalorians that had retreated there. The jedi had heard that a far off place called Malachor V would be the final frontier, how was she to know that would not be for another four years?

She looked at her lightsaber, it's blue crystal (the sign of a Jedi Guardian) sat brightly within, glowing faintly.

Doubts once again circled around her mind, she was after all, only an apprentice. Revan had said that didn't matter,

"In the eyes of the people you help, you are a jedi. You would not be here if you weren't ready."

These words strengthened her, though it troubled her how much she had to keep referring to them.

"You have that look again," Bao-Dur's voice broke through her thoughts, "What are you thinking aout this time?"

"Home," which, technically, was the truth.

"Me too."

A look she had never seen before passed briefly over the iridonian's face before returning to normal. He pointed out the window of the ship, "It's Dxun." As they approached the jungle moon, Ellsia's heart began to beat rapidly and her hand went instinctively to her lightsaber. Bao-Dur placed a hand on her shoulder,

"We will make it through this, you will see."

Ellsia woke to the sound of voices, she was on a passenger ship heading for Telos and the voices were outside her door.

"Have you heard? Peragus has been destroyed! Telos' only fuel supplier was blown up, and by a republic ship no less!"

She jolted up so quickly that her headhit the cot above her. She activated the door and looked for the source of the voices but they had moved on. It couldn't be true, Peragus was Telos' lifeblood! Now she knew why she had come back, she would not let Telos be lost again.

As soon as they docked she headed to the nearest Catina she could find in search of news, the whispers were there too, everyone was in an uproar.

Many were saying Telos was doomed.

"Do they know who it was?" she asked the bith bartender,

"I heard they had a couple of people in custody while they conducted an investigation."

"Do you know where they are being held?"

"That'd be the TSF station, but good luck getting in there."

Her expression was grim as she approached the station, a young woman in uniform stooped her, "I'm sorry miss but you can't go in there."

Ellsia raised her hand, "I can go in."

The woman's face changed, "Err, you can go in."

Ellsia felt a little guilty but she found every now and then that a little persuasion was necessary, it was the only one of her powers that she dared use.

She had gotten no further then the reception desk when a familiar face came into view, the general...Caitlyn Ackard.

She stopped in her tracks and gaped, it had been five years since she had seen her and she had not changed at all, the same could not be said for Ellsia. The general was accompanied by a young man and an old woman. Ellsia shook her head, what was she doing here? last she heard she had been exiled. Quickly she stepped back and pretended to be interested in a holovid that was playing. She listened to the conversation between the general/ex-jedi and the receptionist droid and found that she had been on Peragus before it was destroyed.

"This requires further investigation" she muttered and followed them out.