Nimowae's POV

As the pilot set the ship down on the small desert-looking planet, Qui-Gon, Aravis, and I prepared to leave for the small village we were on the outskirts of. ObiWan began to question Qui-Gon's judgement call that we should go and he should stay, but with a look of 'that's my final answer' from his master, he hung his head and prepared to go about his work on the ship as we left it into the heat of the day. We were not very far from the ship when the queen's captain followed us out with a younger girl. He told us that it was the queen's handmaiden and she was coming to observe only and tell the queen of the planet's people and villages. Aravis and I suspected something immediately, but were feeling a much stronger disturbance in the force and were curious to search for it.

As we walked through the village and entered a hardware shop owned by a strange creature named Watto, the feeling became much stronger. Then, a small boy entered, and the feeling came it's his strongest yet. We looked at one another, we didn't know what this strong a disturbance meant, but we mutually agreed with the looks in our eyes that this was one thing we would have to tell Qui-Gon about no matter what.

Having satisfied our feelings with this find, we began to turn our observation towards the handmaiden who had accompanied us. Aravis leaned over towards me in a corner of the shop and whispered in my ear: "If you ask me, she doesn't look or act like a handmaiden. And she looks very familiar as well."

Throughout the rest of the day, we walked about the village, all trying to think of a way to pay for the things we needed from Watto for the ship. Qui-Gon had told us of his attempt to convince Watto that the money we did have would be fine, and that he had not succeded. Suddenly, we noticed that Jar Jar (goldfish guy) had gotten himself into trouble yet again and the young boy from the shop had managed to get him out of it. 'Hmmmmm, he's good.' I thought to myself. No-one without talent can get Jar Jar out of trouble. I looked at Aravis and told her that we needed to tell Qui-Gon as soon as possible about him. A sandstorm seemed to be brewing, and the boy, who told us his name was Anakin, offered us shelter in his home.

We sat out the sandstorm and speant the night there, but neither Aravis or I got much sleep, so many thoughts were bombarding us on this strange planet, and not to mention the fact that we were wondering how the ship and those on it were weathering the sandstorm. Maybe I loved my brother more than I thought. The truth was, I didn't mind his protection over me so much, just that I wished he would trust me more. And I know that it hurt him to have to wait so long to be a Jedi when it had practically been handed over to Aravis and I. She thought that I took his love for granted, I knew she did, and I also knew that she really cared for him, despite her oalth to the Jedi. Deep down inside, I sortave wanted them to be together, if I could pick anyone for my brother, there would be no-one I would trust more. But I was not ready to overlook the code yet. They didn't like each other THAT much. Maybe someday in the future...

With all of these thoughts running through my head, I finally fell asleep.

The next morning, Qui-Gon left to speak to Watto again. It was then that the "handmaiden" made her biggest mistake. She talked down to a Jedi knight. No handmaiden in their right mind would have done that. She did not enter the shop with Qui-Gon, so we stayed out with her and Jar Jar. Aravis put a forcefield up around the three of us so that no-one would hear our conversation.

"Alright." Aravis said. "We know that you're not a handmaiden, and we aren't going to give you away, just give you some useful advice...Queen Amedala."

She looked at us in amazement, like she thought she had been being a good actress or something.

"Don't talk down to a Jedi." I told her, "we suspected you before, but that gave you dead away. You're just lucky he wasn't paying much attention when you said it."

With that, Aravis removed the forcefield, and we continued into the shop, as far as we knew, she hadn't left that spot when we came back out.

(If you've watched the movie, as we advised, you know about the pod race and everything that happened in between where we left off and where we're starting now. We never got a chance to tell Qui-Gon about Anakin, but he figured it out alone anyway, and had decided to bring him with us when we left to go back to Correscent. So we waited back with he and his mother while Qui-Gon took all of the parts to the outskirts for ObiWan to begin the repairs.)

When he came back for the last time to break the news to Anakin and his mother, we stepped outside to wait, feeling that it would be a private moment.

While we walked back to the ship, we hung back with Anakin, feeling that he needed companionship and was a little doubtful about leaving his mother. He had just started to say that he was feeling tired when Qui-Gon turned around and told all three of us to duck. Not wanting to see what would happen if we disobeyed, we all three fell to the ground, and I felt some sort of transport zoom over us, just missing our heads. What jumped off and began to fight Qui-Gon was one of the strangest things I had ever seen, and it fought with lightsabre, only a color that none of the Jedi would use, red.

I looked over at Aravis, and I saw something in her eyes that I had never seen there bofore, was it...dread? She stood there, not moving for a moment or two, until we both came to our senses. She ran towards the ship with Anakin, and I ran towards the fight preparing to draw my lightsabre, I wasn't sure how much longer Qui-Gon could last against this thing. ObiWan came down the ramp to the ship just as Aravis was going up, as I ran, I could see that she would not meet his eyes. OK, now I knew something was definitely wrong. I turned my attention back to the fight, running at full speed ready to jump in and help, when ObiWan grabbed hold of me, pulling me toward the ship.

"Let go of me!" I yelled. "He needs help, Obi! Let go of me!"

He dragged me back onto the ship despite my thrashing and attempts to draw my lightsabre. He sat me down once inside, looked me in the eye and said "Stay here" in the firmest voice he had ever used with me.

I was so angry that he had not let me fight, and Qui-Gon was still out there. I had no idea where Aravis had run to nor what was wrong with her, I was just frustrated. I jumped up, kicked the door with all the strength I had left, denting it, and began to pace back and forth breathing deeply. Anger was not good, and I knew it, but Qui-Gon was like another father, and he was out there fighting a losing battle, and I was scared and worried that he might not come back.