Aravis POV

As we walked out of the Temple towards the ship, I noticed that Obi was not avoiding eye contact with me anymore. Once, I caught him looking at me, Not knowing what elseand he gave me a smile. (I love it when he does that.) to do, I gave him a nervous one back, and continued on my way. As we got on board the ship, I was more curious than ever as to what they had talked about out on the balcony for so long.

On the way to Naboo, we sat in on the conference with the Queen, I could not help but agree with Qui-Gon. Although I thought that the Queen's wish to take her planet back was noble and justified, I could not see how she thought four Jedi, a couple Captains, and her handmaidens were gonna defeat an entire Droid Army of no less than ten thousand. Even if you threw Jar Jar into the mix, well, wait, that made it worse. But the Queen's mind was made up, and there was no getting around the fact that we were headed for a war.

The Pilot touched the ship down on the planet as lightly as he could, not wanting to make much noise, and it helped that we were in the middle of a swamp. We walked the rest of the way to the large lake that we now knew had a large city at the bottom, and Nimowae and I were delegated to go to the city with Jar Jar to find the Gungans seeing as we were the only ones with the ability to stay dry coming back up.

I put a forcefield around us, and we headed for the water. As Nimowae concentrated on sinking us down, I could already feel that what we found at the bottom was not going to be good.

Long before we went through the plasma-like outside of the bubble, I knew there was no-one there. Just to be sure, we checked all of them, but with no results.

"Well, thats just peachy." Nimowae sarcastically remarked.

"So, smart guy, where are your friends?" I asked.

"My no no."

"Of course you dont." Nimowae said as she rolled her eyes. The classic Kenobi trait.

I floated us back to the top and reported to Qui-Gon that there was no-one there. As Jar Jar told them about the secret hiding place, (and I wondered why he hadnt just told us) my feeling of foreboding grew, to be completely honest, I was not sure that this was a battle that we could win, no matter how many Gungans came to our aid.