EPILOGUE

From the private journals of Qui-Zell Dhanna

The Doctor took me that day from Corusant, my former life now gone forever. And he took me to, as he promised, an apple grove. The TARDIS, as he called it, had stopped moving. He laughed ever so confidently at his piloting skills and urged me to go out the door. My heart in my throat I approached the white double doors with the odd shaped phoned bolted in one of them. I remember taking a deep breath and listening to the Force for any sign of danger. And funny enough I felt none. I pulled open the door and stepped outside. Sure enough I was in a different planet in a different galaxy. I stepped out and he followed me. I was surrounded by big luscious green trees. The sky out side was a clear blue sky with puffy white clouds in the sky. The planet seemed to only have one sun, and it bathed me in warm light.

I could see hundreds of trees before in the grove with dozens of apples on them. He pointed his tool that he called a " Sonic Screwdriver" and two came down. He gave me one as he chomped on his. He explained we were on his favorite planet in the entire universe. A place he called Earth. It was a tiny planet in a tiny galaxy in the small corner of the universe. Its people were busily running about in their lives unaware of what really existed in the universe. He loved them, and their innate capacity to understand their place in their universe.

I smiled as I saw several people busy in their normal routine, climbing ladders to pick buckets full of the green fruit.

He then took me to a tiny restaurant at the edge of the grove. He said he loved their apple pie. We ate lunch and talked and he explained to me his life. How he was the last of his kind, left traveling in a machine that could go anywhere in time and space. How he is capable of changing his entire appearance when severely injured and he was now on his tenth life, with three more to go. He told me over the pie and a odd drink he called "coffee." He told me that if I wanted too he could take me, backward or forward or anywhere to live the rest of my life, or I could travel with him.

I then said something I don't think had ever heard.

"I don't know Doctor, I may need to meditate on it"

So now I sit in my temporary room, typing my thoughts into this communicator. I think I am the last of my kind. I saw my friends die before my eyes, my whole life ended. I know right now there is nothing for me back at the Temple. I am not even sure if Kaiya survived. But I really don't know for sure if she died. I think I at least owe it to her to find out, and maybe in the process find my way again. In all this at least the Force is still with me. I feel it now as I write. The Jedi are the crystal of the Force.

I don't know why the Republic chose to betray the Jedi Order that day, and I suppose in time I will find out the answers. But I think in the meantime it may be good for me to travel with this out of the ordinary man, we may yet teach each other new things….

Qui-Zell finished her journal and placed it in her utility belt. She got up from her room and went back to the console area where the Doctor was. He was busy deciphering some readings when Qui-Zell joined him

"Ahhh! Qui-Zell! I am going to cut into that pie I got, you want some?" He said. Qui-Zell smiled.

"Sure I would love some, and I have meditated and thought about your offer."

The Doctor stopped and looked at her inquisitively.

"It was the will of the Force that brought me to you, and I will listen to it, there is much I can learn from you, and I know there is much I can teach you…."She said.

The Doctor grinned. "Oh, is that right? Well now Jedi, Where do you want to go first? Your choice!"

Qui-Zell thought for a moment, "The planet you love so much, Earth. I want to see more of it."

The Doctor smiled as he worked a switch and pulled a lever, the green column began to bounce, "I know the perfect place too!"

The Doctor was happy as he looked at his new companion. He had long heard tales of the Jedi and their heroic deeds. Now here was one in the flesh.

Suddenly the TARDIS wasn't so lonely anymore.