"Mother!"
Sandra sighed, rising from her desk and pushing a strand of her hair out of her face as she walked out into the kitchen.
"What's wrong, Obi-Wan?" she asked, but hesitated when she saw the unfamiliar man in the door, next to her own son.
"I'm sorry to show up like this, without telling", he said.
"No, no, it's alright", Sandra said. Why did he look so familiar? She'd never met him before, she was sure about that.
Obi-Wan, her son that soon would turn thirty one, looked at the newcomer with great curiosity.
"You must be Master Tornyk", the stranger said after some moments of silence. She blinked in surprise.
"Yes, but how did you know?"
"You were mentioned in one of the holocrons", the man explained. "Master Kenobi was the one talking about your leave, before the Clone Wars."
"Master Kenobi?" Obi-Wan said in surprise. "Mother, isn't that…"
"It is, Obi-Wan, it is", Sandra sighed. The man looked surprised at hearing the older man's first name.
"You must be one of the new Jedis then", Sandra said, pouring some drink in three glasses that she then carried out onto the balcony.
"I am, yes", the man said. "It was Obi-Wan Kenobi who introduced me to the Force, almost eight years ago."
"Is he still alive?" Sandra asked. The man shook his head.
"I'm afraid he died shortly after that, killed by my father", he said, looking out over the green forests of Teral.
"But I've been speaking to him after that as well", he continued. Sandra looked surprised.
"You have?"
"He urged me to find you and bring you to the New Republic", the man continued. "It was essential, he said, that you returned."
"But how is it possible that you've spoken to him if he's dead?" Sandra asked and frowned. "I've never heard of one being able to return from death, except for restless spirits but they can hardly talk."
"Master Kenobi joined the Force after his death", the man explained. "So did his Master, and my second Master, Yoda, and then also my father, Anakin Skywalker."
"Anakin was your father?" Sandra said, getting more and more confused about it all.
"Yes", the man answered. "I'm Luke Skywalker."
"But, are you saying that you are able to communicate with not only Obi-Wan, but also Qui-Gon Jinn, Yoda and Anakin?"
"Yes", Luke answered once again. "Well, old Obi-Wan Kenobi is the one who's shown up the most. I think he wants to make sure that nothing goes wrong again."
"I was told by a man fleeing from the Republic that the Jedi's had turned against it", Sandra said in a low voice. "Is that what you mean with going wrong?"
"No", Luke said and shook his head. "The Jedi never abandoned the Republic. They were all deceived by a Sith Lord, who ruled the Senate for quite some time."
"Palpatine", Sandra said in surprise. "He's the Sith Lord we'd been looking for?"
Luke nodded, taking a sip of the blue liquid.
"Who was your mother?" Obi-Wan suddenly asked. He'd been silent for quite some time, just waiting to ask the question that he knew also his mother wanted the answer to.
"She was a Senator", Luke answered. "I do not know her name, as I never saw her. She died in childbirth when I and my sister Leia were born."
Obi-Wan leaned back and gave his mother a long look. She understood it completely.
"We will accompany you to the New Republic, young Skywalker", she said. "But I can not say for how long we'll be staying."