The public library, or archives, was huge. It seemed to me that everything on this planet was completely blown out of proportion.

I'm an avid reader. Actually, I'm one heck of a book worm but the stuff they have in this library is amazing!

They don't use real books, of course. I mean, technologically advanced worlds wouldn't be caught dead with pen and paper, huh? Kind of sad actually. I love old books.

Anyway, the archives are a computer, I suppose. You can download anything you want and upload it onto your personal data pad, which in my world would be a laptop. At least I think so. Valin explained it to me but I wasn't really listening. I was too much in awe of everything to be found in these archives.

And reading up on the Jedi would take me three lifetimes. Way too much information. I had no idea that the Jedi went back so many thousands of years! And they were this big thing in this universe/galaxy/whatever.

Heroes, bad guys, good guys, destroyers, warriors – you name it. According to the files, the Jedi were the bad asses of this place.

It made me grin. Finally, I got to meet the cool people.

So I sat down in front of a see-through monitor. It was a square glass with flowing blue letters and numbers. At least I think so. I couldn't read a damned thing.

Thank God for Valin! He read aloud what I wanted to know. Until his com link – the cell phone equivalent I realized – chirped. He picked up while I scrolled through a few pictures on the screen. Jedi, or in this case Sith Lords, with strange markings on their foreheads; Jedi swinging their lightsabers and I had to admit these weapons were seriously cool. And deadly because the next picture showed a sawed off arm and a decapitated body.

So the Sith weren't people to mess around with it seemed.

"I'm sorry." Valin said after a moment and smiled apologetically. "I'm needed elsewhere. My sister's gotten herself into a situation that I need to handle. Again."

I laughed. "Yeah, sisters do that sometimes. Do I get to stay here alone then?"

I sounded hopeful. I know I did. He shattered my hope of course.

"No, sorry. Master Durron's on his –"

"What?"

This so could not be happening! I didn't want to trade in the nice, talkative, informative kid for the jerk!

"He just got done with class and since he's only around the corner – well, he'll be here in a few minutes."

I sighed. And sighed again.

Could this day get any worse?

And on that thought I heard heavy boots coming our way. I shifted my gaze from Valin to Master Durron walking into the public archives.

Just. Perfect.

I had much to learn I decided after skimming through various articles I couldn't even read. This writing was odd, to say the least. I couldn't make sense of anything. You'd think that you could at least decipher separate letters or numbers but I suppose I had a flaw in my logic because it was all gibberish to me.

The photographs – or holopictures as I learned – were interesting though. I found a few of these Jedi in combat stances with blazing lightsabers in every color imaginable. The pictures reminded me of a science-fiction fairy tale. There was something bizarre and yet fascinating about these Jedi, I had to admit.

And with Valin gone to help out his sister, my only source of information was the Jedi who'd dangled me upside down in mid air.

I sighed as Master Durron sat down opposite me. He and Valin exchanged a few quiet words before the young man waved and hurried towards the exit of the archives. I watched him go, my eyes wandering upward to more data card things that reached the ceiling. There had to be thousands, if not more stashed away for readers. For a bookworm, this was a dream come true.

If only I could read any of it. Can you imagine how annoying it is to be stuck in bookworm heaven and not being able to read?

"What do you want to know?"

Master Durron's voice ripped me out of my thoughts and I sighed. "Everything."

"How about being a bit more specific?"

How to be specific about something you didn't know squat about to begin with? I rubbed my eyes roughly and stifled a yawn. "How about we start with this place then?" I said quietly. "This planet? How many planets are there? How many aliens are there? What's a Jedi?"

I had tons of questions and I suppose it would have taken half a life time to answer them all. I doubt my brain could handle that much information anyway.

Master Durron activated a hologram that appeared above the table in a flickering blue light. I recognized a planet. And that's about it because I couldn't read anything.

"This is Coruscant." Master Durron said and he began reading all the details from the hologram. I was surprised that the man could actually be nice and he took his time trying to explain what I was seeing and answer my questions as best he could.

Imagine my shock when I realized we'd been sitting in the public archives for over two hours when Master Durron's com link chimed. He turned away from me as he whispered heated words. I thought about eaves dropping but I decided against it, concentrating instead on the neat little pictures in front of me. I could zoom in and zoom out – it was a simple little button on the flat keyboard in front of me. That much I was able to memorize at least.

Coruscant is huge. I do believe it's actually understating the fact. Enormously huge. Gigantically huge. It's just one major city spread out on the entire planet. It doesn't really make sense to me because I find it easier and less complicated when you have separate cities and such.

But hey – new world, new logic, new rules.

I guess.

I concentrated on the hologram again. It was a park on top of a building. That fact alone was odd. A park atop a roof? It was so ridiculous to me that I wanted to go see this park. The pictures were beautiful. Tall trees, a few plants, flowers – but different still. Everything seemed so exotic to me, like something out of a rainforest or some such, you know?

I really, really wanted to go see this park on a roof.

It still cracks me up, by the way.

But I found out later on that Coruscant has lower levels that are all dark and gloomy and stuff. Another place on my list of Things To Visit On Alien Planet.

"Can we go here?" I asked when Master Durron was done with his little phone call. Oh wait – comm call, right?

I pointed at the hologram and smiled. "I'd really like to see this park on a roof thing."

He shrugged. "I suppose so. I'll speak with Master Skywalker."

"How about the lower regions then, too?"

Okay, now that look said it all. It looked like a way to tell me I had completely lost my mind. One brow shot up while one side of his mouth moved up into a smirky kind of smile. "No." Was all he said and that was that.

According to him.

I, on the other hand, would bug him and any other Jedi for a very very long time. He just didn't know that yet.

"Why not?"

"Because it's not a place where you go voluntarily. Especially if you don't know your way around Coruscant in general."

I sighed. "Please?"

"No." He got up and tucked his com link into the folds of his bathrobe. "We need to go."

"I don't want to go yet. I'm quite content here with all this new information."

"Information you can't read when I'm gone. Let's go."

I snorted. "There are more than enough helpful people around here. I don't need your special expertise. You go. I'm not done here yet."

I stared blankly at the hologram, zooming in on an image of a flower that looked like a star. It was really pretty and I wondered if I would be allowed to pluck flowers in the park.

I heard Master Durron heave a deep sigh when he came to stand beside me. "Get up, please. We really need to be going." I do believe he was having a hard time being nice to me.

I have to admit, I might have been enjoying this a bit too much.

"You need to be going. As I said, I'm not done yet." I smiled at him, then returned my attention back to various images of this extraordinarily beautiful park.

"I'm not going to ask nicely again. Get up."

"No."

I tapped a few keys on the board and another group of images appeared, this time of trees with long slimy looking vines. Ugly things, I tell you. Ugly.

Before I knew it, Master Durron grabbed my arm and yanked me off the chair. I swear, this was getting old.

"Are you really going to make a scene out of this?" I asked, more than just a bit peeved with this man.

"I'm not the one making a scene."

"Hey! You're dragging me again!"

"Seems to be your favored way of transportation."

I fought him because I really wasn't ready to go. This was heaven for me and the mere thought of returning to my little tiny stupid room was making me claustrophobic.

But in the end I ripped my arm out of his grip and followed him towards the exit, all pouty with arms crossed in front of my chest. Like a spoiled little brat, you know?

"What's so important that we have to leave?" I asked a while later, standing next to Master Durron inside a turbo lift that headed back downward towards a wide, open hallway. It was astonishingly beautiful, with pillars on each side, glittering like golden marble. There was even a red carpet. Reminded me of the Oscars.

"Classified."

I groaned. "Are you always this difficult?"

He actually laughed at me.

It only took us a few minutes until we were back at my cool new quarters. Don't to miss the sarcasm here, please.

"So I'm stuck here for the rest of the day?"

Master Durron shook his head. "Someone will come get you in a little while."

"Who's someone?"

"Not me."

"Yippie." I drawled at him while I sat on my bed and waited for him to leave. A few seconds later I looked up and he was still standing there, smiling at me. "Why are you still here?" I snapped.

He laughed and then he left.