Before this starts: all technobabble in this chapter will not make any sense and I made it all up, so if you actually have any sort of degree in Electrical Engineering, please don't crucify me.

Autumn on Lothal is breathtaking each and every time you see it. The wheat turns into a golden crescent, with the sunlight playing across water and a asphyxiating sunset. From a high viewpoint, the view is just beautiful.

From lower down, you can't describe how pretty it is. Thank god that I was moving out of the Tower soon. Specter House was almost totally finished, with just the doorways and windows to complete, as well as the TI-S-X1 shield. Techs call it the Thermo-Residual Magnetic Shield (Prototype). I call it the Totally Indestructible Shield Prototype, because it is just that: totally indestructible. Well, at least it is at full power. Theoretically, it can withstand a full orbital bombardment and still have enough energy to prevent dust from escaping, through air is still allowed in. The major downside of the shield is that it is A) very expensive and B) has a very limited range, because it has to have set points that the shield anchors to. To put it mildly, it's not exactly portable. Plus, it uses AS-21BC3JT Power Converters with J03 Connectors to draw power from a synthetic Kyber crystal (yes, we did manage to make one, but Ezra basically had to breathe the Force into it) to make a Tier 5 planetary shield, with a HK-113-DBK technical board that has to manage 300,000 gigawatts of power. This means it's incredibly easy to destroy from inside the shield, so we have to give it enough power to keep humans out. Of course, to do this, we store half the power inside R4FJQ-ZH93-1209 capacitors when it's not being used at full power and we store the all of the power inside of eighteen A8-DFJ capacitors when it's not in use. If you understood none of that, don't worry: I copied the specs right off an engineer datapad and put them into Basic instead of… whatever you call this tech-babble.

(One recently told me that they do speak Basic on their datapads. I disagree.)

But, the shield basically gave Specter House permanent military base status. I actually said the shield wasn't needed, but the House quickly became a major source of pride for Lothal and as such a permissible military target, so a tech team put it in. Apparently, all of the major buildings on Lothal were getting these shields installed. I was indifferent about the shield now. They could install it, as long as they didn't blow up the house. I had insured it for almost two million credits, which means those techs would be totally out of money and probably in some level of debt. As such, they had a pretty good reason not to blow up my house.

I stood on the balcony of the Tower, watching as two X-Wings flew next to a T-6 shuttle. That would be Ahsoka and probably Lux with her. Rex was battling it out on some Imperial holdout in the far, far 'Rim. Actually, Rex and Cody had been finding clone deserters for quite a while and sending them to Kamino for help with their rapid aging, which had actually been reversed and was now letting Rex and Cody age at a normal pace. It's a lot of genetic shebsie that I won't copy from a datapad because a lot of the words are really complicated and really hard to spell and I don't have the patience to spell-check this fifty times.

The X-Wings set down on the landing pads at the LDC. The T-6 set down on the cleared area we used as a landing pad for the Tower. I walked back inside the Tower, grabbing Ezra by the arm and dragging him with me into the elevator.

"Wha- Sabine, wait!" he said, stumbling out of his chair and over a vidscreen remote that had fallen. I keyed the elevator controls and waited, giving Ezra time to regain his balance.

"Where are we going?" he asked as we waited. I smirked to myself.

"To meet some friends."

"And who are the friends were meeting?"

"I dunno, we'll have to wait and see."

"There is no way you don't know," Ezra said, his voice ringed with doubt.

"You're right. I do know. But I'm not telling you their names until we meet them."

"Aww, not even a hint?"

"Okay, fine. A hint. Only one of the people we're meeting is human."

"So, it could be literally anyone in the galaxy, accompanied by someone from another race."

"Yup."

"That's not much of a hint."

"Can't you use your Jedi mind powers to figure out who I'm talking about?"

"Not when you're shielding your mind."

"I shield my mind?"

"Yeah. I'm guessing it's not intentional?"

"No, it's not."

"Huh. That's… not normal," Ezra mused. "I can't find any cracks in your shield. You're letting nothing through. Try and broadcast your thoughts."

"Uhh… how?"

"Imagine all your thoughts behind the biggest durasteel wall you can…"

"Okay…"

"Now destroy the wall."

"Okay." I destroyed my mental wall.

"Well, that worked, at the very least. Try opening a small hole in the wall, instead."

"I'll try."

"Do, or do not. There is no try," Ezra said, smiling widely. I groaned.

"I walked into that one."

"You really did."

I opened a small hole in my mental shield. Ezra smiled. "You're thinking of a T-6."

"Yup."

"And, because of the fact that you're thinking of a T-6, it means Ahsoka is returning to Lothal, probably either for her marriage or with her husband."

"Who is she with?"

"Either Rex or Lux Bonteri."

"How do you know Lux?"

"She mentioned him to me once. We were talking about… I don't remember. I just remember she mentioned Lux Bonteri."

The elevator doors opened and Ahsoka Tano stood just a few meters away, holding the hand of her fiance, who was indeed Lux Bonteri. He wasn't bad-looking; he had chocolate hair and a nice face. But my heart was set on Ezra and nobody could make me love anyone else. Ezra and I already knew almost every inch of one another. Plus, Mandalorians only love once, and I know Ezra would never even look at another girl with any sort of longing in his mind. Even so, I could see why Ahsoka had fallen in love with Bonteri.

"Welcome to the Tower," I announced. "Please, come in, so we can talk in the elevator for thirty seconds as we ride up to the living areas."

"We'd be glad to," Bonteri said, lacing his hand with Ahsoka's. They stepped forward in unusion. I smiled at the sight and hit the button for the elevator to take us back to the top floor. The doors swished shut once again. Ezra and Lux looked each other over.

"So, you must be Lux Bonteri," Ezra said. Lux smiled slightly.

"That is indeed me. And you are the legendary Ezra Bridger, hero of Lothal," Lux responded.

"Not sure if I'm legendary, but I am Ezra Bridger."

"At the very least, you cause a spectacle wherever you go. Sabine did tell me you made quite the impression on her."

"I said that? I don't remember saying that," I protested, just before I remembered that yeah, I did say that. "Nope, now I remember. I did say that."

"Yes, we heard," Ahsoka said dryly. "I believe you mentioned it to General Calrissian… how many times?"

"Seventeen, my dear," Bonteri. I raised an eyebrow.

"Only seventeen?" Ezra said. "Sabine, you've disappointed me."

Ahsoka clucked disapprovingly. "Lux, I thought you had a better memory. It was 170 over a week for about two weeks."

"That sounds more like you," Ezra said, totally deadpan. I nodded.

"That is very true," Ahsoka responded as the elevator doors opened. Lux and Ahsoka stepped out into the apartment, followed by Ezra and I.

"Nice place," Bonteri commented. I nodded my thanks and grabbed one of four cups of caf off of the kitchen counter. Ezra grabbed another one, then used the Force to float the final two over to Ahsoka and Lux, who accepted them eagerly.

"You'd make a first class waiter," Bonteri said to Ezra. Ezra laughed.

"I think I'd weird too many people out," he responded.

"But you'd have amazing service."

"And be bored out of my mind."

"Touche."

I sat down on one of the fluffy armchairs and very nearly spilled my caf, but Ahsoka caught it with the Force and put it back in the cup. Bonteri raised an eyebrow. "How come you never do that with me?"

"Because the carpet is white here and it would be a pain to clean it up. Besides, you've only spilled caf once."

"So you're saying we should get white carpet? I thought you liked grey."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Try me."

"Children, children," I clucked. "Stop fighting."

Ahsoka took a deep breath to calm herself before passing a nine-by-eleven piece of flimsi to Ezra. He took it and read.

"I'm trying to establish a new Jedi Order," Ahsoka said, "But the Old Order was flawed and the Sith and Jedi are both wrong, in my opinion. This is the Code for it. Do you want to help establish it?"

I looked over Ezra's shoulder and read the code.

There is no Dark Side, nor a Light Side

There is only the Force

I will do what I must to keep the Balance

There is no Good without Evil, but Evil must not be allowed to flourish

There is Passion, yet Peace

Serenity, yet Emotion

Chaos, yet Order

I am the Wielder of the Flame, the Protector of the Balance

I am the Holder of the Torch, Lighting the Way

I am the Keeper of the Flame

I am a Guardian of the Balance

I didn't understand why Ahsoka seemed so serious about her Order. Wasn't Luke starting a new one as well? Couldn't she just join his? Why was this new 'Balance' making such an impact on Ezra? My bond with him was lighting up with all sorts of feelings. Like duty and peace, but also a bittersweet mix of sadness and happiness.

"I think the old Jedi could have used something like this," Ezra said after a long pause. "I'll help you."

"Wait, why are you guys so concerned over this?" I asked.

"Sabine, remember when I told you about Luke's Order?"

"No."

"Well, I'm telling you now. His Order is doomed. It has no chance. One of his students will destroy it all. Ahsoka had the same vision. But both of us could see between the lines; we can't tell Luke. If we do, we'll only make it worse. This is our solution."

Bonteri stared at me. "You have to keep quiet about this, Sabine. Luke can't hear about this. If he does, this situation could become drastically worse."

I looked between the three people sitting in my living room. All of them had a look of steely determination on their faces.

"I'll keep it a secret."

"Good," Ahsoka said. "Can we use the old Jedi Temple here? We're probably going to set up a camp around it."

"Go ahead," Ezra said. "Luke isn't using it."

"Very true," Ahsoka said. "You know, he approached me and asked me if I could help reestablish the Jedi Order."

"He did the same to me," Ezra responded. I looked at Bonteri, who mouthed I have no clue what they're saying. I smiled and quickly nodded, before mouthing back, You'll understand later.

Bonteri shook his head as the two Jedi blathered on for five minutes. In the meantime, Lux and I communicated through hand signals and whispers. I didn't realize that Ahsoka and Ezra had ceased talking until Ahsoka said, "So, Sabine: You're looking…. fertile."

"Yep, I'm pregnant," I responded, subconsciously placing a hand over my stomach, where little Mira was growing. "And within four months, I'll be fat as well."

"You are aware there is a difference between fat and pregnant?" Bonteri commented. I shot him a glare.

"I am aware, Bonteri," I said pointedly.

"Run," Ezra stage-whispered. Everyone laughed at that. Looking back at it now, it reminds me of earlier this evening, right after repelled that big FO attack with no casualties.

But that's for later.