Ezra had stayed by his Master's side until Nema had kicked him out of the room, telling him to go get some rest. But Ezra couldn't rest, after all not only was both his Master and Obi-Wan Kenobi injured, but one of his best friends had turned to the dark side and the other had basically lost his sibling and all these thoughts and what ifs swirled around in his brain. Worst of all, he felt like it was his fault that Caleb got injured. He knew better than to let his guard down around Maul, he had the scars to prove it, but he went and did it anyways and Caleb had lost the sight in one of his eyes for sure.

He sighed as he wished he was allowed back into his Master room, but for now.. he suddenly realized someone was calling his name. Looking around he saw Luke headed towards him and he actually had a small smile on his face! Luke settled in next to him and told him all about the mission he had been sent on, his talk with Maz and his talk with Tiplar. Finally Luke asked Ezra "How is your Master doing?"

Ezra sighed and said "He's fine, but he never should have been injured. I let my guard down and I knew better than to do that, but still I did so and look at what it cost Caleb." Luke put a comforting hand on his friend's shoulder and said "Hey, it could have been worse, he could have lost sight in both eyes." Ezra slammed his fist on the ground and spat back "That's not the point Luke, I could have prevented it just by paying attention."

Luke shook his head and said "You are always so hard on yourself Ezra. If you want to go that far, I should have been able to save my Master's hand and kept my sister from falling to the dark side to begin with, let alone that I should have been able to bring her back. We did our best Ezra, and we survived against Maul, you have now done that twice, don't you see how lucky we are?"

"I guess, but I still feel guilty for letting him get hurt." Ezra replied, putting his chin in his hands. "It's okay to feel guilty Ezra, I admit I do too, but we can't let it pull us down. We need to look on the bright side and keep moving forward." "What is the bright side?" Ezra mumbled. "That your Master still has his other eye, that both of our Masters weren't more seriously injured and that my sister is still alive, which means that there is still hope for her." Luke replied, looking towards the setting sun. Ezra followed his gaze as he let his thoughts take him to where Luke suggested, the bright side of their circumstances.

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Ahsoka looked at Anakin and said "I can't believe you didn't think to have this taken care of when we returned from saving the others. Now we'll need to hire a ship." "Don't get snippy with me Snips, I'm sure we'll find someone willing to take us there." Anakin replied. Ahsoka rolled her eyes, remembering the first time her Master had said that statement to her, before replying "Come on, we better start asking.

They had stopped and asked several pilots, but either they weren't heading in that area or they weren't planning on taking off for some time. Just when Ahsoka was starting to lose hope they walked in to see a man passing something to someone inside a ship. While it looked promising, Ahsoka wouldn't let her hopes get up as she asked, "Excuse me, we need a flight to Lah'mu and we were wondering if…" "Lah'mu you say? It's your lucky day, miss, my friend and I happen to be going to Lah'mu ourselves."

His friend hopped out of the ship and said "Cassian, don't be rude." Turning her full attention to the Jedi she said "My apologies for the lack of introductions. I am Jyn Erso and this is Cassian Andor." Ahsoka smiled and replied "Oh don't worry about it. I'm Ahsoka Tano and this is Anakin Skywalker." "Skywalker? Do you happen to know a Luke Skywalker?" asked Jyn. "He's my son, you know him?" Anakin asked. "Well if this isn't a small galaxy, I don't know what is. We just flew him and Maz in from Takodana." Answered Cassian.

They soon worked out a price and, after helping Jyn, Cassian and K-2SO load up the remaining boxes, they were soon on their way to Lah'mu.

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They landed on an old lava bed and Jyn led them towards her home after discovering on the flight over that her father had been the one that sent for them. The Jedi weren't quite sure why he had asked for them, for the connection had been bad, so much so that they only got his first name and it was only by asking that Jyn had told them who it was, seeming to be pretty certain that it was her father.

As they entered the small, but orderly home, Jyn was struck by the fact that something seemed out of place. Her mother, Lyra Erso, greeted them as her father rose from his bed to greet the Jedi. It was only then that Jyn noticed he had been badly beaten. "What happened to you father!" she exclaimed. "Someone came and attacked me." Galen said, giving her a stiff hug. "Who was it?" asked Anakin. "We didn't see who they were." Replied Lyra, "They came in the middle of the night."

Ahsoka frowned and said "What did they take?" "Everything. Oh I don't mean money or valuables in the traditional sense, but years ago I was hired by the Jedi to do and in-depth study on kyber crystals. They took all of my data on it and that's not a good thing." "Why not?" asked Cassian. "I had been testing it to see how it would do as a weapon, not just lightsabers, but blasters that the Jedi could use. My research showed that they were more powerful than anything we could imagine, though it was incomplete in the sense of I don't know what its barriers are."

"So what you're saying is not only did they take your life's work, but that some of this information…"Anakin started, before Galen cut in and finished "could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Everyone was silent as they tried to comprehend just what the future could hold for them, especially if the Dark Forces were the ones that got their hands on it.

Poor Ezra, ended up having to share his chapter again! I was going to have the part with Ahsoka and Anakin be the Epilogue, but since Ezra's was so short since I didn't want to start anything more in this story, I ended up just combining them. Well that concludes this part of the story. We are at about the halfway point, next one might be longer as far as more individual chapters, since Luke, Ezra, Rowan and Leia will each be getting their own chapter. I wasn't planning on having Jyn's parents in this part of the story but then I was like oooh this kind of works better than my original thought/idea. The next story bit will be called Where Is The Hope look for it in my stories as I will be posting the prologue today too! Total End Word Count 33673.