Jessi Kanata surprized everyone by showing up the next morning during breakfast. She strolled into the dining room, hopped into a chair and plucked up a slice of toasted bread, as if she'd been there all along, showing no curiousity toward the motley crew of the Solo clan all gathered around her daughter's guest table.

"Good morning." She said, chewing a small bite of the crunchy bread.

"Good morning." Rey mumbled around a bite of eggs big enough to puff out her cheeks.

"Mummy!" Ami admonished. "No see-food!"

Blushing, Rey chewed and swallowed quickly. "Sorry."

Jessi smiled at the child then turned her focus to Ben. "So, you're Han's boy? You don't look like him."

"He looks like his mother." Rey injected.

Ben squinted at her but remained silent.

"You don't like talking about Han." Jessi stated.

"I murdered him, so, yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled to talk about him with strangers." Ben said, carefully keeping his voice neutral.

Jessi stared at Ben for a moment. "I already knew that, but I didn't expect you to so openly admit it." She said thoughtfully.

"What did you expect me to say?" Ben asked, more as a challenge than out of curiousity.

Jessi took a bite of her toast and chewed slowly while staring at Ben. "That doesn't matter, now." She said finally after swallowing her bite. "You said what I needed to hear. After breakfast we'll talk, you and I."

Ben glanced at Rey. Jessi noticed. "And your wife."

Jessi turned to Chewie. "It's been a long time, Chewbacca."

Chewie responded affirmatively.

"I'm surprized that you've taken up with the man who killed your friend." She said.

Chewie bark-growled a few words.

Jessi shrugged. "We'll see if he is or isn't."

She turned her attention next to the boy sitting beside Chewbacca. "Who are you?"

Cal choked on a sip of pink juice then turned bright red as his coughs drew every eye in the room.

"That's Cal, he's our brother now." Ani piped in while Cal fought to get his coughing under control.

Jessi turned her eyes to the black haired twin. "I commend you for wanting to be helpful, but it's impolite to answer for people who are capable of answering for themselves." She said in a tone that was neither ungentle nor unkind, yet firm all the same, then turned her attention back to Cal. "So, boy," she said when he'd finally recovered himself. "Who are you?"

"I'm their student." He pointed toward Ben and Rey.

Jessi turned to Rey, "Watch out for this one." She advised. "He doesn't yet know he is."

Cal scowled at the little woman. "I'm Cal Shay, son of Yinu and Cam Shay, of the planet Uralia, who were murdered by Soul Reaper and avenged by Ben and Rey Solo - my teachers and benefactors." He said, summoning all of the haughty superiority of the son of a planetary monarch. "And they have no need to watch out for me, I would never betray them!"

Jessi smiled. "That's better."

She looked back to Ben. "You have a fierce young friend there." She said then nodded as if deciding something very important. "He does you a great credit with his obvious esteem for you."

Reaching into her breast pocket she pulled out a tiny disc and flipped it toward Ben.

Ben caught the disc and glanced at it then looked back to Jessi. "Is this…?"

Jessi nodded and replied, "Transcripts of the two-thousand, two-hundred, twelve journal entries that have anything to do with Je'di."

Ben's breathless excitement was nearly palpable to everyone at the table including Chewbacca - who was definitely not Force sensitive in anyway.

"You will not be able to find any other records to corroberate most of what you read there, but I've read every word of every page of Qela's journals and I can assure you that every word is the truth, exactly as she saw it." Jessi added then promptly hopped down from the table. "I'm finished with breakfast." She announced then strolled out of the room without saying another word or glancing at Ben and Rey.

Ben and Rey glanced at each other then hopped up to follow Jessi, apologizing hastily to the other diners.

The pair followed Jessi Kanata to the smallish library tucked away behind the dining room. Once seated Jessi began to speak.

"I'm not going to tell you everything that is on that disc, but I do need to warn you about a few things you'll find there." She said sadly then took a deep breath.

"My ancestor, Qe'la Qantami was a great person. Very noble, very honorable." She said as if someone might disagree with that assessment. "She was powerful in the Force and for many generations of your kind she lived as a Halcyon historian."

Jessi's eyes went distant and her voice hollow, "Until she fell in love with the most respected Halcyon monk who had ever lived."

Her eyes darted to Ben. "Je'di." Then to Rey, "And Je'di fell in love with her."

"Halcyon weren't allowed to love?" Rey frowned. That's not what she'd read in the books she'd stolen.

"They were… they were even encouraged to love." Jessi corrected. "But love wasn't enough for them." She sighed. "They wanted more."

"More?" Ben frowned.

"They wanted to bind themselves heart and soul." She answered. "For all time."

Rey glanced at Ben who glanced at her, both wearing identical looks. "They tried to bridge their own minds, didn't they?" Rey asked.

"They failed." Jessi said sadly. "Qe'la lost touch with the Force… she could sense it, but she could no longer connect with it…just like every one of her decendants "

Ben and Rey exchanged another glance. 'Then Snoke did bridge our minds… in an attempt to disconnect me from the Force.' Rey spoke into Ben's mind.

'Or me.' Ben agreed.

"Je'di became unbalanced by the guilt of what had happened to her. He had been the one to suggest they do it… and when she could no longer bear his pain, guilt, and sadness she left him." Jessi shook her head slightly. "She loved him, but she couldn't bear to be around him."

"What did he do?" Ben asked, some deep part of him desperate to know.

"He threw himself into his work." Jessi shrugged. "Like everyone else with a broken heart and important job. He tried to purge himself of his darker impulses, he blamed them for the failure that had cost him the love of his life."

"Was this before or after the birth of the Old Republic?" Rey asked.

"Before." Jessi answered confidently. "Decades before."

"How can you be so sure?" Ben asked.

"Because, he killed her during the Coruscant Coup." Jessi answered.

Rey gasped, Ben reeled, Jessi continued. "Her daughter was my daughter's age when Qe'la was killed… she took up writing the Histories after her mother had fallen. Je'di never knew he had a child with Qe'la. He never knew that our bloodlines will mix with anything… he thought that because they weren't the same species, Qe'la's child belonged to someone else."

Jessi felt it prudent to explain, "Only by mating with a male of our own species can we produce male offspring, all cross species children are female."

"Female, but still purely…." Rey hessitated unsure what to call Jessi's species. "Your species?"

"Yes." Jessi replied. "Cross species mating has no effect on our genetic make up, only our gender."

"What species was Je'di?" Ben asked.

"A very rare human-like species known at the time as Te'ki's'no'ke." Jessi grimaced over the name. "They are extinct now."

"Extinct?" Ben frowned.

"The last one died a few years ago." Jessi said pointedly.

"When?" Ben asked breathlessly.

"When you sliced him in half." Jessi answered.