Chapter IX
Sitting at the terrase of her room, Mayra Solo thought of the events of the last months. The Empire that her parents had so bravely fought was now nothing more than a memory. She took a deep breath and smelled the slightly scented air of the presidential gardens. Her meeting with Luke Skywalker had leave her completely upset. Perhaps the fact that he had bored her secret or uncle Ani... She closed her eyes and drove out this thought of her head. She had promised to Han not to spoke about the bond which had linked the Solo and Anakin Skywalker thirty years ago. How could she hide it from Luke? As soon as he would start to look into the jedi files he would understand...
Mayra: What am I going to do?
She return into the room and started to search into her mother's diary. She wrote about the first mission the council had entrusted her after her nomination as a Jedi Master and as a member of the council: going with Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, on Naboo to negotiate the end of the blockade of the peaceful planet with Nute Gunray, the viceroy of the Trade Federation. Every had quickly led into lightsaber negotiation.She wrote about the escape of Queen Amidala, their crash landing on Tatooine. On this planet covered by sand they had met a young boy, a slave named Anakin Skywalker, that Master Qui-Gon recognized as being The One. Mayra then jumped some pages. She knew the rest by heart: the fall of Valorum, the rise of Palpatine to the rank of supreme chancellor, the battle of Naboo, the death of Qui-Gon... And the event who was going to change the life of Maya Kale: her meeting with Jayson Solo.
The young Jedi Master had given up all to be with him: her place at the council, her rank as a Master jedi, her membership of the order... By love Maya Kale had left her other family. "Happiness more than the order Jayson Solo will bring you" had said Master Yoda.Then she wrote about the birth of her children and, one year after her daughter's birth, her return on Coruscant. She then note that some things had changed: Anakin had grown and he wasn't a little boy anymore, a group of separatists was shooking the Republic... A few day after their arrival, Maya and her child had leave with Anakin and senator Padmé Amidala Naberrie, the former queen, for Naboo. Too young person at the time, Mayra had forgotten this voyage, but she was certain that Han remembered it. After the beginning of the Clone Wars, Maya Kale-Solo almost ceased to write in her journal. She started again to write in it at the time of the return of the presidential family on Coruscant, two years later. The memories that Mayra kept this time were much more vivid. She remembered the concern of Master Windu, the hasty departure of Master Yoda for Kashyyyk and the happiness to see Master Obi-Wan and uncle Ani. Of all the jedi that Mayra Solo had met Anakin Skywalker had been her favorite. She liked it when he used the Force to make her toys fly and his stories were by far the best. She turn her attention back on the diary. Her mother wrote about Padmé who was several months pregnant. The young woman suspected that the father was Anakin, but she had abstained herself from all commenct by respect for her two friends. She wrote with horror about creation of the Empire, the decimation of the jedi order, the death of Master Windu, killed by Dark Vader, the apprentice of Palpatine aka the Sith Lord Dark Sidious, the death of Anakin, another victim of Vader, the mysterious death of Padmé and finally the disappearance of the both Masters Yoda and Kenobi. The following years were, for the Solo family, years of concern and fear which stopped with the death of Jayson and Maya Solo three years after the beginning of the jedi purge.
Mayra: What should I do? Why Han doesn't want me to talk about Ani with Luke?
She went back to the terrase, while strongly sighing. She pressed herself on the edge and admired the landscape. Perhaps he had his reasons just like she had hers to kept her secret. She made her decision: tomorrow she would speak to Han about the promise that Drake had made to Luke about their mother's jedis files. She wouldn't question Han about his way of acting, but sooner or later they would have to reveal the truth to Luke and Leia.
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