"You've got a lot of nerve showing up here, Solo." Maz's tiny frame shook with anger.

Rey stepped between the ancient alien and her husband. "He's paid for what he's done." She said fiercely.

Maz looked at Rey and adjusted the lenses covering her eyes. "I see you've found what you were looking for." She mused then looked at Ben and readjusted her lenses. "As have you."

"Fine." She shrugged. "What do you need so badly that you had to chase me down from halfway across the galaxy?"

"Information." Ben said.

Maz rolled her eyes. "I didn't expect you chased me down for brunch."

Rey glanced at Ben then said to Maz, "What do you know about the Halcyon?"

Maz's hugely rounded eyes snapped to Rey and the tiny being went stock still for a long moment. "What do *you* know about the Halcyon?"

Rey hessitated for only a moment.

"They were nuetral Force users, neither Jedi nor Sith. They had a strict belief that Force sensitives should never get involved in the power structure of politics." She said.

"That's all true…" Maz said thoughtfully. "But irrelevant."

"We know that the most powerful one of them all became disenfranchised with nuetrality and created his own order…" Ben spoke up. "The Jedi Order."

Maz looked at Ben and cocked her head to the side but remained silent.

"We know that at the time he created the Jedi Order, Je'di was desperate to stop a despotic ruler from creating a centralized galactic empire." He said.

Maz spoke then, derision in her tone. "A despot?" She shook her head. "Maybe to Je'di... but to everyone else, including history, Chancellor Loriath was a hero."

Ben gaped. "Loriath?"

Rey frowned. She had no idea who that was but a gnawing feeling at the edge of her conciousness made the name seem vaguely familiar. "Who?"

Ben turned his stunned face her way. "The first High Chancellor of the Old Republic."

Maz watched the pair closely for a moment then spoke in a lowered voice, "Come, there is much I need to tell you."

The couple followed the tiny alien through the garish streets of Canto Bight to her shuttle. Once aboard, Maz began to speak in a hushed tone.

"I have lived a long time. I've seen hundreds of generations come and go. But the birth of the Old Republic happened in my grandmother's youth, not mine." She said in an almost hollow voice. "My grandmother was a wise woman. Many sought her advice. Many... including a young Halcyon apprentice known as Je'di." She paused to study them both for a moment.

"Je'di had a knack, some might even call it a gift, for predicting the future." She stated cooly. "My grandmother always referred to it as his burden."

"Why?" Rey frowned. She had had futuresight occurences before and had made a near fatal mistake because of it.

Maz looked deeply into Rey's eyes. "If you had known beforehand that Kylo Ren would not be turned by your arrival aboard the Supremacy would you have went?"

Rey gaped at Maz. "How do you know about that?"

Maz looked at her blankly for a moment. "That is not important." She waved a hand dismissively. "If you had seen the actual outcome of your arrival aboard that ship, would you have went?"

"I would have." Rey said confidently.

"Even if you saw that by not going you could have saved all those who died on Crayt?" Maz pressed.

Rey frowned.

"Je'di was so good at predicting the future because he could see the outcome of his own decisions as he made them." Seeing that they didn't understand, Maz reworded her explination. "He could manipulate the future by deciding for or against an action and seeing the changes those decisions made, not just to his future but to all futures."

"So he knew that creating the Jedi Order would cause the rise of the Sith?" Ben asked, clearly perturbed.

"The Jedi Order?" Maz scoffed. "He didn't create the Jedi Order."

"But… aren't they named after him?" Rey was clearly confused.

"Are bounty hunters so called because their profession was founded by a man named 'Bounty?'" Maz asked with an almost imperceptible eyeroll.

"No." Rey blushed.

"No." Maz agreed. "The original Jedi Order was a group of five powerful Halcyon who were tasked to hunt down Je'di." She shook her head. "As if they ever stood a chance of catching the most powerful future seer of all time."

"They never caught him?" Rey frowned.

"During a hundred years of searching they never even got close." Maz shook her head.

"A hundred years?" Ben frowned. "How long did he live?"

Maz looked at him long and hard.

"Nobody knows for certain." She shrugged. "He disappeared without a trace shortly after his failed attempt to assassinate Loriath."

"The Coruscant Coup?" Ben asked though he knew what the answer would be.

Maz nodded.

"What species was he?" Ben queried as a chilling thought entered his mind.

"Unknown." Maz shook her head. "My grandmother had some theories about that, but he never said and she never asked."

"What were her theories?" Rey leaned toward the tiny alien eager to hear her answer.

"They're all laid out in her journals," Maz eyed the pair silently for a moment.

"Can we see them?" Rey's heart was pounding in anticipation.

"I no longer possess them." Maz replied evenly.

Rey's disappointment was palpable, but Ben eyed Maz knowingly. "Who does?"

Maz smiled tightly. "My daughter."