A/N: From now on, I am going to put thought-speech in normal quotes! Half the convo from my last chapter was missing because the thought-speech wasn't uploaded!

Sorry if I don't write ur name when I reply to ur reviews; I can only be online at some points, and when I write the chapter, I don't have the names.

For all Star Wars movie fans, this fic will have maybe three ppl from the movies! This takes place during the New Jedi Order, in which a new species of aliens called the Yuuzhan Vong are attempting to take over the galaxy. At this point, they have destroyed the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, and the Jedi trainees have been evacuated to the Maw. For those who haven't even glanced at a SW book, Luke S. is married to Mara Jade, and they have an infant son, Ben; Han S. and Leia O. are also married with twin 19-yr-olds- Jacen and Jaina and a 16-yr-old son Anakin; and Chewbacca is dead. If u have any other questions, then send them!

Marco didn't realize that it was Star Wars because he only watched the movies, and Yuuzhan Vong show up years later. As for Jake, well, we'll find out…

Now, for the actual tale…

VALIN

I woke up with a start. Gisela was shaking me roughly, and had been doing so for a while, apparently.

"Vain," she hissed, "come with me."

I followed her blearily through the cool halls of the Maw. This wasn't the first time my sister had woken me up in the middle of the night for something "important", but she was usually right, so I had agreed to come with her on all of her escapades. When you're a nine-year-old Jedi trainee and your parents aren't within light-years from you, it's kind of a given that you and your sister are a team. But why did the younger half of our team have to be a night mynock?

"You know, Sella," I said conversationally, "just because Master Solusar is doing something, it doesn't mean that we have to be in the middle of it."

"Shhh!"

Now we had reached the docking bay, where a huddle of Jedi crowded around someone else. Then one of them sensed us and spun around. It was Master Skywalker.

"Valin and Jysella Horn! What are you doing here?"

"We couldn't sleep," I began timidly, "and we-"

Jysella cut me off. "Who is that!"

"That" was a beautiful, sleek alien. He had purple fur that covered his whole body, and had a humanoid upper body, with two stalk eyes, four hooves, no mouth, and a wicked-looking tail.

"Who is he?" I whispered.

One stalk eye swiveled toward me. "I am female, human," she said in a haughty voice that filled my mind. "My name is Aldrea-Iskilon-Fallan, and I am an Andalite. I was apparently turned in the wrong direction when I came here, because I usually end up on a planet called Kessel. I suppose I'm stranded here."

"Not quite," interjected Master Jade Skywalker. "We have some ships, and we could take you to Kessel, if that's where you want to be." She sounded doubtful at the thought.

"Hey," I said eagerly, "Why don't you stay here?"

Aldrea-Iskilon-Fallan looked down at me. "I came here with a companion. I must find him. He may already be on Kessel."

I'll take you," Master Jade Skywalker said.

"Can we come?" Jysella was ready for action.

Master Jade Skywalker smiled at her. "You two have your father's spirit. Corran would be proud of you."

So Jysella and I were permitted to come along to Kessel.

On the Jade Shadow, Master Skywalker was copilot, and the three of us were sent to the back.

"Umm, Aldrea-Iski…Iski…" I fumbled with the name.

"Just Aldrea," she told me.

"Yeah, whatever. Where are you from? The closest to you I've ever seen is a Jedi named Lusa, and she has horns instead of stalk eyes and no blade on her tail. Oh, and a mouth. How did you get here?"

"Well, I was supposed to be dead, and then the Arn carrying a vial with my spirit died. When Arn die, they leave a tear in space-time, and the person who found my vial, a bird named Tobias, passed through it. When we came out, we were here, and I was myself. We were moving at top speed, and entered Kessel's atmosphere. There, we met an alien named Nien Nunb who showed us around the mines of Kessel and took us back to where we started out. We passed through the tear in space-time, and returned to our home. Since then, we've visited your home many times. But this time…" She fell silent.

I moved away. I had the feeling that Aldrea wanted to be alone. Of course Jysella, being four, didn't understand this.

"Well, where are you from?"

"A different galaxy!" she snapped. "I'm not going to repeat my story again!"

Jysella backed away, looking scared. I put my arm around her.

"Okay, we're landing!" Master Jade Skywalker called out. "Aldrea, where do you usually end up when you fly here?"

"Near the administration building." She pointed it out.

"I read you," Mara said, landing just there.

A Sullustan hurried out of the building as we disembarked. "Masters Skywalker, this is an honor." Catching sight of our trio, he exclaimed, "Aldrea! I haven't seen you in a while! But… where's Tobias?"

Aldrea's eyes dimmed. "You mean he isn't here?"

One look at Nien Nunb's face told us the answer that we didn't want to hear.