High Council Chambers (Ahsoka)

I slid in there, and I heard silence. Good I had time to think. Did I really want to do this? I had to make sure that this was what I wanted, what was right, as Queen I would have to make some tough choices, and I, as a Jedi had learned that some choices are harder than others. Like, back when I lost my light saber, on Coruscant, I had to decide if I was going to tell my master, before I left, or if I was going to leave with what I knew, and be spared the 'I told you so'. I decided to go on my own, and I came back with my lightsaber, but I was changed. What would have happened if I told my master where I would be going? He probably have told me not to go, either that or he would have gone out himself to retrieve it. I couldn't have that.

I walked around.

Everyone sacrificed themselves for me, and I was a bit tired of it. That little talk with my future potential, helped inspire, a want to escape this life of danger, and war, to return home and restore my spirit and the greatness of my people. My dad sacrificed himself, gong in the nothing lands, where he was not to go, just to save me from the evil waters, of the nothing lands, where Uncle Roku took me swimming. He could have been killed, by all the scum living here, but he risked his life, my mother kept me from getting the deadly hypothermia that would have taken my life, rendering me unable to assume the throne in my dawning hour.

It was all coming back. I pressed my fingers to my temples, sensing a vision, hiding behind my memory banks.

My uncle ruled the Netherlands of Shili. He ruled over the nothing lands, and the dark places, any place that never needed to see the light of day. My uncle seemed content with what he had, at least the last time I saw him. He wasn't a King, though. He was a king to the juveniles and fallen angels he ruled over, heck they even had respect for him, they called him King Ruko. He always took me out to do things fun, telling me negatives things to try to get me to trust him, and drift away, from my parents.

My parents grieved every time I passed off a voyage, for a play date with my uncle Roku, whose was strikingly just as good-looking as my father, only darker, with a scar on his cheek, he was also a darker red than my father. That scar made him a little scary. He bought me everything I wanted, so I never questioned him. Roku gave me a tour of his part of the Kingdom, I went there against my parents will, my dad came after me after my caretaker lost track of me, my dad instantly thought of his younger brother, who I spent my days mostly around. He was like my second father, he gave me things my father, could, but he just refused to, not wanting to spoil me.

Then, a reminder of the day, during my childhood, I nearly died.

Roku took me deeper into his Kingdom, as we passed by the nothing lands, to go swimming in the ocean, that was like a big lake to me.

I had never gone swimming before in anything bigger than the royal kiddy pool, you'd think me being a princess would have her own Olympic swimming pool, but I would get that when I was older, daddy promised.

I was tiny then and I was homeschooled.

I wanted to see the outside world; Uncle Roku helped me to do that. So that day, Uncle Roku, took me swimming to the Ebony Sea in the southern nothing lands, he assured me that he would hold my hand, and I wouldn't get eaten by the water. He promised that he'd stay and watch me, he scooped me up, plopping me gently in the sand near the mouth of the miniature sea ruffles.

I was two and a little too bold for my age.

I felt the sand under my hands as I sat down, in my other hand I played with droplets of the sea water, tasting a droplet. When a wave came up to eat at the sand, I watched anxiously drawn in by, the rolling waves. I heard Uncle Roku encouraging me to come in. I knew my mommy and daddy wouldn't like it if I went into the water, Uncle Roku told me it was okay and that nothing would happen. I wasn't so sure. Mommy and Daddy knew best. I could feel his hand next to mine

"What if mommy and daddy find out?"

(Third)

She turned her big eyes toward her uncle, whose whole sole purpose of this trip wasn't to have a good time, or to please the child, but was to kill the child. So that one of the criminal refugees, or the caregiver would take the fall, so he could have a stable position to assume the throne, knowing his brother's wife, The Queen, could not produce another child. Once his brother died along with his wife, he would become the only heir who could claim the throne, and he could rule without that pesky brat in his way. He could come out of his brother's shadow. The crown would be his. All his.

(First- Ahsoka)

I looked at him, "What if mommy and daddy find out?"

Uncle Roku grinned, "Then I'll deal with it. Don't worry your pretty little head."

Uncle Roku stroked my head tails, and he was always over affectionate.

"Are you sure? You promise to not let go?"

He tightened his fingers on my wrist, which made me feel like he really wasn't going to let go. I tipped a toe over the dock into the water, the coldness didn't seem to bother me, the water was so dark, "What if mommy and daddy get mad at me?" I knew I was disobeying my parents, but I figured my daddy had to like his brother enough to let him take me around. Uncle Roku sighed, and I felt his hand squeeze a little tighter for a second. He sighed again, "They love you too much to be mad." He smushed my cheeks up.

"You're too darn adorable."

I kept asking questions, as I started to get a funny feeling in my tummy, like something was going to happen. My only mistake was not listening.

"Pinky Promise?"

I held out my pinky, and he put his big fingers, around my fingers sealing our promise, "Pinky Promise." I took in a deep breath, and dropped myself into the water, diving just as my swimming teacher taught me, I heard Uncle Roku laugh, I went deeper into the area bellow the dock, touching the sea shells, and watching the small water animals swim by me, tickling my ankles. I tried not to giggle.

I heard screaming and that bad feeling got worse. My tummy started to hurt, I started to cry, as I couldn't get up, I was tired, I kept sinking and I felt like a Huttlet. Uncle Roku was supposed to hold me. He broke my pinky promise, he was scared too. I closed my eyes, I wanted to sleep. Someone grabbed me, and pulled me back up to see the light. I refuse to open my eyes, I was afraid of the dark.

I felt something soft and a hand patting me on the back, I coughed up the water that was making my tummy hurt. My tummy still hurt a lot,

"Daddy?"

I reached for my mommy. I hoped Uncle Roku was okay, I hoped that he was the person who pulled me up and saved me. So daddy won't hate him so much. Uncle Roku was my best friend and he was my hero, but he made me do something my parents didn't want me to do. I could pay him back, he was my Uncle Roku, he didn't deserve my daddy being angry.

I opened my eyes and I peered at the sky, which I could barely see. I saw someone holding me crying, as my daddy held me close.

"What happened baby?"

"The water."

That was all I could tell my parents, my mom took her shawl off, wrapping it around me holding me close, that I thought she would set me on fire. I touched her face, and she relaxed a little, giving a small smile, holding my hand to her face. My father snapped up a single diamond ring from the sand,

"Roku."

He clenched it in his fist, then he released as he stroked my cheek holding my mom close, as Roku was a fleeting shadow in the nothinglands, Zaros saw his hide stifling to a jog.

Zaros straightened up without facing the messager, he ordered, aware that he couldn't cross the Netherlands territory, only his messenger could gain access to the nothinglands. Roku couldn't cross unless he had permission from King Zaros, and his messenger, "When he crosses over, find him. He will have a trial, he will be banished to the Ebony Sea. If he lays a finger on my dear 'Soka or my wife, he will know, that his fate is without trial, and is to rot in the village dungeon that he used to dominate. He will never see that light of day, if he chooses that path." His messenger turned to leave.

He cued his messenger to stay.

"One more. Roku is playing a game, a dangerous game. A game that my daughter will not die for."

With that his messenger turned on his heels bowing hopping into the canoe that Zaros had provided for him to travel the route to the nothinglands.

A/N: Zaros is Bekk. Zaros is Ahsoka's father.