Darth Maul allowed himself one last grin as he walked into his ship knowing the girl was following him. Finally. An apprentice with some promise. He thought as he made his way through the ships corridors. The ship was not his prized Scimitar, but it had extreme cloaking abilities. He had used it to orbit the girl's planet and gather data about this planet's surface. The problem was, the data he had gathered puzzled him. A polar ice cap was expanding at an extremely fast rate into the continents below it. A climate change like this should have taken thousands of years, but this planet was seeing an ice age develop in months. Maul didn't know what was causing the rapid change in climate, and he had a feeling he didn't want to find out. What he did know was that he probably had saved the girl's life. An unnatural climate change like this would most likely spell doom for the inhabitants of the planet. But, none of that mattered anyways. He wasn't likely to come back here. Sure, if things went well with the girl he may take her back to exact whatever petty revenge she had planned. That is, if the planet wasn't a large ball of ice by the time they returned. It made no difference to him. Right now, he needed an apprentice who would help him with his own endeavors. He thought of the girl and remembered what had drawn him to this planet in the first place. The pulse.

He had felt it shudder through him down to his core. It had been like a tidal wave of force energy crashing into him, with small residual force waves washing over him. Even now he could feel the energy coming off the girl. Part of it frightened him. This girl could become one of the most powerful entities in the galaxy. But could he control her if, or when, she became stronger than himself? The question would have to be answered eventually. For now though, she had much to learn. When he had initially felt the pulse, he was hiding in the Outer Rim at the edge of Wild Space. He was shocked to find that the pulse had originated from an unknown planet in Wild Space not far from his location. He knew he must have been the closest force sensitive being to it. Jedi and Sith did not travel this far outside the know parts of the Galaxy. Although, when he had first felt the pulse, he thought that maybe a Jedi collective had found him out. But that could not be. There were records of his death in the Jedi Archives on Coruscant. His investigative informant had assured him of that right before Maul ended his miserable existance. No. Almost no one knew he was alive. So, there would be no reason for Jedi to come searching for him. All he did know about the matter at hand was that the force pulse emitted from the girl was strong enough that the Jedi would most certainly be investigating this area in due time. He had wasted enough time in reconnaissance just to ensure that the girl was not some sort of trap. But now that he knew she wasn't, they needed to leave quickly.

"What is this place?" The girl spoke with slight awe in her voice as she looked over the screens and buttons on the walls of his ship. "Is it some sort of hidden temple? I've never seen this here before."

Maul looked back at her with no expression in his eyes. "No child. This is my ship."

Arya looked up with a start. "Ship? There is no way a ship this big could have gone up the River Trident. And even if it did, how did you get it all the way over here onto dry land?"

Maul felt himself flood with impatience. There was so much to teach this girl for her to be ready to aid him in his plans, and she clearly knew very little of the galaxy and its workings. How to explain a starship to someone who has lived their whole life in a world where even simple flight is impossible? "This ship does not float on water. It is a starship. It will rise up through the atmosphere of this planet and travel trough the stars to another planet."

Arya's face showed signs of confusion and disbelief. "Atmosphere? Planet? I know what stars are. But I'm unfamiliar with the other terms."

Maul was about to reprimand the child for her lack of knowledge just as his former master would have done, but he did not want to emulate that monster. "A planet is what you would call the earth, or the entire land you live on. The atmosphere is the breathable air that surrounds your planet. Once we leave that, we will be in space and you will be able to see your whole world at once. There are other worlds. Other earths where other intelligent beings live. You are smaller and more insignificant than you may have ever imagined. Come, join me at the front of the ship and I'll show you what I mean."

Arya followed Maul as she processed what was told to her. Different worlds? Ships that flew in the air? What had she gotten herself into? Suddenly the fate of Westeros seemed insignificant compared to the grand scheme of things. Maul led her down a corridor to a smaller room. The room had a window and hundreds of little lights and strange instruments. Some of them reminded her of instruments that Maester Luwin would tinker with in his study chambers at Winterfell, but much more advanced and foreign.

"What is this room?" She asked running her hands across some of the lights. Maul grabbed her arm and lifted it away. It was the first time he had physically laid a hand on her and she quickly pulled her arm free and backed away. Maul seemed genuinely surprised by her reaction.

"Relax child!" he grumbled. "I'm not going to hurt you. Those buttons are not to be touched. In fact, do not touch anything in this room unless I tell you to as long as you are on this ship."

Arya didn't want to bring this man's wrath upon her. Not while she was on his ship, so she just nodded. "Come and watch" Maul gestured out the window to the trees and grass below. Arya watched while Maul sat in a chair near the middle of the room and started pressing the buttons and levers. As he did so, a very slight humming filled the air and Arya started to feel afraid again, but she forced her fear down again and continue watching. Suddenly, she noticed the grass and trees getting farther and farther away. Almost as if the structure she was in was getting taller and taller. She had seen impressive heights when she had visited some of the buildings in Kings Landing, but eventually she was higher even than those great heights. The ship turned a small bit, and as it did the Twins swung into view. Her mouth fell open. They were so impossibly far below them that they looked like tiny squares with a silver ribbon laying between. Her head spun, and she started to feel dizzy.

"What is happening!" she yelled. She tried to keep the fear from her voice, but it was impossible.

"You are flying child." Maul said. "And we will be going much higher than this. You are not accustomed to seeing hights like these so your body is reacting negatively. The feeling will go away once we are high enough."

Arya could see that it was true. Her dizziness faded as the Twins became as small as two specs of dust, and then vanished completely. As she regained her composure, her fear melted away. What is wrong with you, stupid girl! She thought. This is more than you bargained for! The ground continued to fall away from her. As they rose through the air she finally noticed something. The land was taking shape below her. She had studied briefly the maps of Westeros and knew it's general shape. Now she could take in the entire realm all at once with her own two eyes. She watched in wonder as she started to notice the land across the narrow sea. Essos. She'd spent plenty of time there as well. It was all so wonderful, until she looked North. Judging by her knowledge of Westeros from her studies with Measter Luwin, she had a rough estimate of where Winterfell should be, and winter didn't normally extend much farther south than her old home. Only now it did. It looked unnatural and eerie to her, and she somehow knew there was a wrongness to it all. But that didn't matter now. Whoever this Darth Maul was, she was with him now, wherever that would lead. Eventually, she would learn what she had to from him and come back to complete her list. She only hoped she wouldn't be gone too long. All the while she thought this and still the world grew and disappeared below her until finally, she could see the edges of the world. And what she saw took her breath away even more. The entire world was laid out for her on a disk. She could see Westeros and Essos, the latter shocking her with how large it was when compared to Westeros. But now she noticed she could see other lands too. Lands that were not on any map, nor were taught by any Measter.

"It's beautiful." she whispered.