Daddy managed to hide Luke until the end of his sentence, I don't know how.
We had actually gone to sleep that day, curled up together, so I'd had to wait until the next day to ask Daddy about choosing another name. In the end, we decided on Ben. That's what Obi-Wan called himself when he was watching over Luke on Tatooine, and it meant a lot to both of them. So now I was Ben, but they both called me Benji most of the time.
Daddy says that he's going to take us to Luke's Rebel Alliance. His master got really mad when Luke got out of prison early and he tried to kill us. Daddy said that being a Sith isn't worth putting us in danger and that he hates it anyway.
So Luke's trying to contact his friends. They'll take us back with them and keep us safe.
"Dad!" Luke called from the other room where he was calling from.
"What do you need, Luke?" Daddy went to join him. I followed.
"Mon Mothma wants to talk to you about all this. Here," he passed Daddy the comlink and took my hand, "Come on, Benji, let's get out of Daddy's way."
"Okay," I followed him out of the room.
Luke led me up the stairs to my room (we were back on Vjun) and pulled something off his belt.
"Do you still want to build that monster trap?" he grinned at me.
"Yeah!" I reached for what he'd taken off his belt. It was some string. He took another one off his belt and we started building together.
Luke took the string and climbed on to my bed. He tied it to the light then tossed me the other end, "Tie this to your chair, okay?"
"Okay!" I did as I was told. Luke gave it a quick tug and it gave a bit. He frowned.
"No, on second thought, tie it to the leg of your desk."
I untied it and crawled under the desk to attach it to the far leg. Luke gave it another pull and it didn't give.
"There we go. Perfect."
"Yeah." I nodded.
He jumped lightly off the bed and moved to the window. "Toss me the string, please." I did, and he tied it to the top of the window.
I sat down on the bed and watched him running around, rigging the entire room against monsters. He didn't seem to notice that I wasn't helping anymore. He used to apologise a lot when that happened, but I don't mind. I like watching him building. The same way I like to watch Daddy working on something.
When Luke was done, he came over to me and sat on the bed beside me, "Okay, do you see that string?"
I nodded.
"That string pulls that, which pulls that, which turns that which turns on the lights, okay?"
"Okay."
"Now all you need is a flashlight, and your room will be completely monster free."
"Okay!" I smiled and bounced. Then I heard Daddy coming. Luke looked up too, but neither of us thought to warn Daddy about the monster trap. Which he tripped on. I jumped of the bed and ran to him, but he was already sitting up laughing.
"Sorry, Dad. We set a monster trap." Luke came over too.
"You set a monster trap…?" Daddy laughed a bit.
"Yeah, Benji was having nightmares about monsters last time I was here." Luke smiled a bit and helped Daddy up.
I nodded too, so Daddy would know he wasn't making it up.
"So I guess that makes me a monster, doesn't it?" Daddy teased.
"You're not a monster! You're my Daddy!" I hugged him. He and Luke laughed.
When they were done laughing, Daddy got more serious.
"Okay, the Alliance leaders say they recognise Luke, but we have to do something to prove ourselves before Benji and I can join. Luke, you can join them, or you can work with us to gain acceptance."
"I'm staying with you." Luke said instantly.
"Wow, you had to think about that a lot, didn't you?" Daddy laughed.
Luke smiled, "No."
So now we have to get the Alliance to believe that we're not spies. I'm kind of nervous, but if Daddy and Luke are going to be helping, I'm sure we can do it!