As some of you asked for, here is a look into Leia's life! I am not planning on focusing a lot on Leia's training now, but she will come into it later, once she gets older, and finishes her training. Sooo you probably won't see her again for a while. ;)

Chapter 6

She watched as the nudj sat unmoving on the tree. Its black, beady eye stared through her, but Leia knew it was not actually looking at just her. It took in all things, keeping an eye on the wide scope around its body for any predators. Yet even though the nudj was doing so much, it sat entirely still. No one would know that it was aware of movement or danger.

Leia liked to study these creatures. She wanted to be like them. To be unmoving, calm, yet to have all the senses alert and ready to act. She kept her eyes glued on the lizard-like creature as she sat on a rock. Her eyes locked on its black ones, and she seemed to forget all else.

"Keep practicing you must."

Leia fell off the rock and her hands landed in the sticky mud next to her that led into the swampy marshland. Crinkling her nose at the sudden dirtiness enveloping her ligaments, she rose to her feet and shook all the grime off her hands.

"You snuck up on me again," Leia mumbled.

Yoda hit her back with his walking stick, making her cringe. "Harder you must work! Time you do not have."

"I am working hard," she complained. Any signs of progress on her part seemed to elude her. She hadn't even noticed Yoda was behind her. Not even his force presence. She absent-mindedly kicked at a rock.

Again, Yoda's stick found her back. "Listening you are not. Only complaining, yet never acting."

Leia's eyes shifted to a tree to the left and her lips pouted.

Yoda sighed. "Nudj's you look at. But what do you learn?"

Leia shrugged, although she did turn and move her gaze over the creature on the tree. Yes, she watched. Yes, she knew what she wanted from the nudj. But what did she learn?

"They are calm creatures," she began. "Patient and still, but active. They watch for predators, yet the predators do not realize."

"Affecting you how does it?"

"That is how a Jedi should be. That is how I want to be."

"Hmmm," said Yoda as he walked around her. "Meditation you need. A steel mind. For this, time is needed. Learn you will. But not now. Now practice you must. Train you must."

"Yes, Master Yoda."

He nodded his head and began to move forward. "Come. Clear your mind we must."

After training, Leia and Yoda sat around the stove pot over the fire and readied to eat. Leia watched as the stew began to bubble, and as she watched the liquid swell and burst in successive movements, she thought of something.

"Master Yoda, where is my mother?"

At first, he did not respond. Leia was about to repeat the question, but ten he said, "When you are older, explain all this I shall."

She scrunched up her lips. "Why can't I know now…?"

"Very complicated this matter is. Worrying over it is not needed." Master Yoda began to serve the stew into the bowls.

Leia scuffed the tip of her boot against the floor. "I want to see her. It's hard to remember her face."

"In time you will meet again. The Force—"

"—works in strange ways," Leia finished.

"Know it very well you do."

Leia took a small bite of the food. Although she knew that phrase well enough, she still couldn't understand it. She had asked Master Yoda many times about her mother, but it always had the same answer; it always led to disappointment.

Master Yoda continued. "More training is all you can do."

Leia looked at the ground and ate more of her stew.