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Wind and snow rushed around us as we walked. There was no reason that Force powers shouldn't work when I'm wearing a heavy coat, and as I stood there wearing just my thin robes, I didn't know how much longer we would be able to look for the parts.

"Alright you crazy young people, I need a break, and there is no way you can make me keep going without one." Jolee stopped and we all came to join him. I think it was then that most of us realized how tired we really were. Jolee threw himself to the ground, and many of the others did the same. I on the other hand turned away from them and their mindless chatter, attempting to see anything but snow on the horizon. Another gush of cold air came down on us, this one making me sneeze. At this point, it appeared like we might as well call this planet home, because finding any parts here would be impossible.

"Oak," Zaalbar came up behind me and put his huge paw on my shoulder. "You appear cold." I also realized this and quickly used the Force to warm the air around me.

"Thanks Big Z. I honestly hadn't noticed. I still can't believe any of what happened on the Levitation. Bastila is gone, Malak probably killed her by now, and I, well, that's the biggest shock of all, you know?" Zaalbar stood there listening to me, but I doubt if he really heard any of it. He is good with action, but words had never been his outlet in life.

"Yeah." He walked back to the others and I smiled. At least he was someone I could always count on to be behind me 110, unlike…

My thoughts stopped as I looked at the faces of my companions. One was missing. "Guys," I yelled over the roar of the wind. "I think we may have a problem." Juhani looked at me and then looked around at the others. They hadn't heard me. "PEOPLE LITSTEN! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!" I shouted louder and this time they all looked at me.

"Alright people, it's finally happened." Canderous got up and came towards me. "Oak has lost her mind, or at least what she had of it."

"No. I sense that there truly is something that bothers her, something is missing, is it not?" Juhani directed the question towards me.

"What if something really isn't wrong and the poor child is slipping back to the dark now that Bastila isn't here to keep her straight. Not that I have a problem with that, I couldn't care less one way or the other, but we don't know that something is wrong. She might just have the urge to kill someone. Right?" Jolee also turned towards me.

I opened my mouth to speak but Mission interrupted me. "You people are crazy. I know Oak. She's like a sister to me, and I know for a fact that she is not turning to the dark side, right Oak?"

I opened my mouth yet again, but was interrupted. "Yes Mission, she is still pure in the light. She must be. I know that there is merely something that she is missing, and something is not right, I feel an empty void also. There is something not right here." Juhani also stood, followed by Mission and Jolee.

Mission's eyes got wide as she shouted, "Oh my gosh! Carth got eaten by the snow and ice and wind!" The others looked around and then, they too noticed that Carth was not with us, as he had been when we left.

"He probably went off to find a gizka to steer the ship for him. That crazy boy takes things I say so seriously." Jolee chuckled. I turned and started walked back the way we had come.

"Oak! You must not go back. We must continue on. Think about what we did when Bastila was taken. We must do the same for Carth." Juhani was once again trying to force me into doing the perfect thing a Jedi would do.

"I wasn't happy about it when we let Malak have Bastila, and I am not happy about letting the planet have Carth." I looked at my friends and sighed. "But we must. Let's go."

I threw myself towards what seemed north, and over the roar of the wind, I could hear the others scrambling to pick up the few things that were scattered across the snow. After a few moments of walking in silence, I started mumbling to myself. "Let's go. Force, what was I thinking? Oh, yeah, I don't care, let Carth die. I was kidding, right? That was a dream. Well, actually, Carth can go ahead and die. Giving me the cold shoulder, it's not my fault I didn't tell him I was Revan. Heck! I didn't even know! No, I must not think that. Steer clear of the dark side Oak, just because Bastila isn't here to keep me from doing these things doesn't mean I can. But still, Carth, possibly dead. This is just another one of those things that happen to me and make me go semi-insane. Oh wait, I was already semi-insane. Now I'm just insane."

"I'll say. Talking to your own personal being like that. And with such a long monologue too! You would think that you were walking around in the snow alone. But are you?" Jolee suddenly was standing right next to me and was talking. His sarcasm made a small smile emerge across my face, but only for a few seconds.

"You're right Jolee. I do have people to talk to."

"That's right you do." He pulled his little cap further down over his bald head. I started laugh at him and his face twisted up. I stopped laughing.

"So Jolee," I tried to think of the best way to ask him this, based on my prior monologue. "How do you know if, say, someone that you have some sort of a force bond with was the only thing keeping you from falling to the dark side?"

"Are you asking me something rhetorical or is this about someone whose name begins like 'bast' and ends in 'ila'? Oak, you know how I feel about these 'which side of the force' conversations."

"Jolee, seriously. How much of that monologue did you hear?"

"I started at 'Well, actually, Carth can go ahead and die.' I wanted to laugh and shout 'I feel the same way! Gizka boy can blow up!'"

I stared at him for a few minutes, waiting for him to start laughing and tell me he was kidding, but he was silent as we walked.

Soon after, Jolee slipped behind me and I continued in front, determined to find anything but snow on the horizon before nightfall. The minutes and hours started to blend together until I was completely unaware of the current time. After a while, I noticed a speck of gray on the off-white horizon. My heart started racing as I took off running.