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Thanks for all the reviews, sorry for the EXTREME delay...but I've been really busy with school and school stuff, so I'm sorry about that...but things I have to do get piled on top of each other and sadly it's writing this story that gets set on the back burner. :(

I'll try and get the next chapter up a bit sooner...I don't think my course work this quarter will be quite as bad as the last two.



Chapter 2: The Cloak of the Sith

The Orion was a good ship. Girard had been modest in his description of its abilities. It looked like a simple transport ship, but it would definitely hold her own in a firefight.

And that was something Carmena was glad for, for it seemed likely she would need it.

As she exited the atmosphere or Corellia, she began searching the star charts for a possible destination. Most of the planets she had some familiarity with were too close to Republic influence.

It had to be somewhere outside of Palpatine's powers, so it would be less likely she would be caught. Several seemed promising, mostly back-water Outer Rim planets with no outside influences, but at the same time plenty of inner-planetary powers and influences to take its place.

In the lists of planets before her, a specific one caught her eye.

Roon.

During her life as a Jedi, she had never been there personally, but she certainly had heard of it. It had a reputation as a legend, a myth. It was supposedly a place of riches beyond the imagination; any treasure seekers dream.

Only thing was, it was nearly impossible to get to if you didn't already know the way.

Or, if you happened to be a Jedi.

It lay just beyond a large nebulosity, obstructing the tiny planet from the rest of the galaxy. The nebulous was referred to as The Cloak of the Sith.

Ironic. Carmena thought dryly.

The tide-locked planet would suit her purposes fine. What better place to hide than an Outer Rim planet that some had come to believe didn't even exist?

Setting the course for the planet, she began the jump to lightspeed.

Carmena left the cockpit to check on Kiara.

She found her baby in the bedroom dangling off the side of her crib dangerously in an attempt to get out of her crib. Kiara was quite the little adventurer and sometimes her avid curiosity led too trouble.

Carmena quickly scooped her up from her precarious position and she gave a squeak in surprise to the interruption of her attempted escape.

Kiara looked up to her with her big hazel eyes with an expression of what could only be described as disappointment that her endeavor had been foiled.

"Where did you think you were going? Huh?" Carmena asked with a smile and sent the lighthearted accusation over the force bond between them.

Kiara of course didn't understand fully, Carmena hadn't expected her too she was still a baby after all, but the idea was still conveyed. Kiara responded with a mischievous giggle and smile.

She brought Kiara closer too her massaging her back soothingly and humming a lullaby she remembered vaguely from her childhood.

Carmena knew that Kiara would prove herself to be a difficult student and daughter in the coming years with her evident rebellious nature. Even though she had no experience as a mother or a teacher, and she harbored some doubts about her abilities as both, she knew that she would take the responsibility and she would raise Kiara as best she could.

Carmena placed Kiara, who was fast asleep, back into her crib.

She had to make sure Kiara would be ready when the inevitable happened, and she had to face her father. Carmena wasn't delusional, she knew it would happened eventually but she would prolong that meeting between father and daughter as long as she could. Kiara would be ready, Carmena would see to that.