Three days after the botched unification summit, Jacen was transported back to Bastion, the capital world of the Imperial Remnant. There, he was given a new cell in the Wilhuff Tarkin Prison Center, where he would wait two days for the trial that would judge him guilty and sentence him to death.
And he couldn't escape via Aing-Tii teleportation method because of an ysalamiri that was no doubt near his cell, blocking out his Force-powers; and his Vongsense was completely useless to a non-Yuuzhan Vong-related organism. But even if that weren't the case, Jacen would have stayed here anyway because he needed to have someone from the Jedi Order, or even the Galactic Alliance government itself, to come here and hear his explanation for Pellaeon's murder.
At the end of his first day in the Tarkin Prison Center, he received two visitors in his parents.
After they stepped inside the cell and it closed and locked behind them from the outside, Han and Leia sat by their surviving son on either side of his cot.
"Your uncle sent us," Leia explained. "He and the other Jedi are too busy back in the Alliance handling the public scrutiny in the wake of Pellaeon's death. We're going to report back to him about everything you tell us." She then took out a commlink and pressed the activation.
And Jacen saw that it was not only activating for recording, but it was sending a transmission, most likely back to the Jedi Temple on Denon. Evidently, what with Pellaeon's death, tensions between the Galactic Alliance and the Imperial Remnant were probably back on as they were in the dying days of the Galactic Civil War. So Han and Leia, who were veterans in fighting the Empire, wouldn't trust the government around them not to kill them.
But Jacen sensed there was much more to this...
"You know I didn't kill Pellaeon, right?" Jacen asked his parents.
"Well, given what we all saw," Han said, "even I'm starting to doubt it."
Leia remained silent, indicating that she shared her husband's thoughts.
Jacen sighed. "Listen, I told this to the interrogator, but he wouldn't believe me when I told him that it was Garis Boric using a White Current illusion to make it look like I killed Pellaeon."
"If that was Garis, then how did he get out of there so quickly?" Leia asked.
"Aing-Tii teleportation method," Jacen answered.
"If that's the case, why didn't you teleport out of there as soon as Pellaeon hit the ground?" Han asked.
"Simply because the thought didn't cross my mind, Dad," Jacen replied. "I was also kinda surprised myself that Garis would be that bold, even after what he did to Tahiri."
Han groaned in irritation.
"Well, now you can't go anywhere because of that ysalamiri blocking out your powers," Han pointed out.
"True," Jacen said. He then waved at his mother, indicating that she shut off the commlink; he didn't want what he had to say next to be recorded.
Leia complied with her son's wordless request, and when he was sure that the commlink was off, Jacen said, "But I'm thinking that you two could do something about that."
Han and Leia then looked at each other and shared a knowing smile.
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Hours after Han and Leia left, the ysalamiri blocking out Jacen's Force-powers was removed.
Between one of the walls separating Jacen's cell from the one to his right, the ysalamiri lounged along an artificial tree branch and was given the right amount of water and food from a ceiling that opened up at scheduled times. But it was slightly disturbed when, in the dead of night, the dais that its tree was stationed on was lowered to the basement of the prison, taking it out of range of Jacen.
In the basement, an Imperial guard waited there, having pressed the button that lowered the dais with the ysalamiri and its tree. He then took out a commlink and asked, "Karrde?"
"Yes, Jeris?" the voice at the other end of the comm asked.
"The ysalamiri is out of range," Jeris the faux Imperial guard reported.
"Good, get out of there now," Talon Karrde replied.
With that, Jeris deactivated the commlink, replaced it in his pocket, turned around, and headed out of the basement before anyone in the corridor outside would take notice of him.
Meanwhile, Jacen awoke from his sleep when his awareness of the Force suddenly returned to him. He smiled from where he lay and, without hesitation, used the Aing-Tii teleportation method to disappear from the cell.
When he next manifested about ten seconds later, he was back in Danni's hut on Zonama Sekot.
Like on Bastion, it was nighttime here, and Danni was just dressing down for bed to the point that she in her bra and underwear.
"Hey," Jacen said to her awkwardly.
"Hey," she returned in the same tone.
"Do you think I'd be able to see Jabitha Hal right about now?" Jacen asked.
"You didn't come back for me?" Danni asked in a slightly wounded tone.
"Not this time," he returned. "This is a little bit more important. No offense."
Half an hour later, Jacen and Danni, who was fully dressed again in her signature green robe, reached Zonama Sekot's Magister Jabitha Hal's hut. The half-human, half-Ferroan answered the door to her hut, dressed in an organic bathrobe and looking rather dazed after being awakened from a bout of sleep.
"I'm very sorry to bother you, Magister Hal," Jacen said, "but I need your help."
"What for, Master Solo?" Jabitha asked.
"I need you to have Tahiri Veila released from the Prison Center as soon as possible," Jacen answered.
Jabitha looked at Jacen skeptically. "From what I understand, she still requires several more weeks of intense rehabilitation, at least."
"I understand that," Jacen said, "but I think that with her help, I can find Garis Boric."
"How would she be able to help you?" Jabitha asked. "And for that matter, did you not give up on that search?"
"Well, Garis kind of made things a little hot for me, let's just say," Jacen said. "But I need Tahiri because... well, I believe she has the drive that can keep me going in this search."
"The drive?" Jabitha asked. "You mean the anger and hatred within her for Garis Boric that prompted you to place her in the Prison Center in the first place?"
"Well, now, I think I can help her direct that anger and hatred and make sure that it won't consume her at the same time," Jacen said. "And besides, I think I may need some help in this search anyway; as I knew from when Garis originally escaped from the Temple, he's not alone. And I think he's part of a Sith organization."
"Sith?" Jabitha asked. "What makes you think that?"
"When Garis committed the action that prompted me to come here," Jacen explained, "he used a crimson-bladed lightsaber; the kind of weapon that only a Sith would use."
"I see," Jabitha said. "Forgive me, but did Sith not come in twos instead of a whole organization?"
"That's what I thought, too," Jacen said. "But I think things have changed with the Sith; they're back, and in greater numbers."
"Are you sure about that?" Jabitha asked.
"I'm just guessing, but I'm pretty sure," Jacen said. "It's a gut feeling, and I do have a premonition in the Force about this."
"Very well," Jabitha said grimly. "I'll allow Tahiri to be released first thing in the morning. Until then, I think we should all get some sleep."
Jacen and Danni nodded, and then Jabitha closed her door on them. The couple then turned and headed back to Danni's hut.
"You do realize that Tahiri is gonna give you poodoo over this, right?" Danni asked.
"I'll live with it," Jacen said.