Kanan stared at Ezra, could he really believe him? He sounded like the old Ezra, but something new was in his place, something possibly better but also possibly worse. "Look Kanan, I don't expect us to pick right back up where we left off, and I don't even know if we will ever get to that place again, thanks to my stupidity, but I'm begging you to give me a 2nd chance. Please Kanan, let me make up for betraying you."
Kanan sighed, and thought to himself "Yes I can never trust him the same way, at least not now, but we are short on Jedi and can use everyone we can find." He looked at Ezra, his eyes filled with hope and a haunted look. "Ezra, I will forgive you and you can come with me. I may not be able to trust you, at least not for a while, but I have a feeling you will prove yourself to me again. Let's go see Hera, Zeb and Chopper."
Ezra smiled his old smiled and said "Thank you Kanan, for both me and Sabine. Come on, I will take you to where I was supposed to meet her if you turned me away." So they collected Sabine and went to join the others at the Ghost. Among the old crew there was much hugging and welcoming, though Zeb wouldn't admit that he had missed either of them later. That night, while the others slept, Ezra met Kanan in the cargo hold.
"You said you had found it, did you really?" Kanan whispered. "I did, here." Ezra handed him it, as he said "Kanan during my time on the… dark side, I was entrusted with a lot of knowledge. You should know that there are a lot of dark Jedi in hiding, waiting for an order, just like the clones did." "How many are we talking?" Kanan asked.
"I never did find out the whole number, it was a safety measure so that no one dark Jedi knew all the others. But I know of over a hundred. I also know that the order is to come soon." Kanan pinched the spot between his eyes, feeling a headache coming on, as he said "So over a hundred to four." "Hey we can take them Kanan, after all look at how many were on our crew originally at the beginning of the Rebellion."
Kanan chuckled softly before growing serious. "Ezra, it's my fault you went to the dark side, I should have known better to send you in at such a stage in your training. Can you ever forgive me?" "Kanan you may have been the one to send me there, but it was my choice to both agree to the order and to go to the dark side. If it makes you feel better, you are forgiven, but in my mind there is nothing to forgive."
The bid each other good night after that, heading back to their bunks for a peaceful night. Much later that night, Luke sat straight up in bed, the voice in his dream still haunting him. He quickly dressed then went to the top of the ship so he could see the stars. "What is troubling you Luke?" Came the voice of Ben. "Would you believe a nightmare?" "While I won't say all dreams and nightmares aren't just things your mind makes up, as sometimes the force uses them to tell us something, it is always hard to discern which it is."
Luke gazed up at the stars and said "Ben, my dream had the voice of something so evil, I don't know how else to describe it. It was always in the shadows, but it told me I would fall to the dark side. That part didn't trouble me really, but it also said I would betray my friends and Leia. I know that this could just be a dream, my fears manifesting, but it felt so real." "Luke just because a voice tells you that you will do these things, doesn't make it real. Besides visions of the force are often muddled, you can't see the full picture usually."
Luke sighed and said "Your right, I would just feel better if the fate of the Jedi wasn't resting solely on Kanan, Ezra, Ahsoka and my shoulders." "Ezra you say?" Ben said while reaching to hold his beard with his hand, "Luke I think you should go to Tatooine with your friends. Go to my old home, you may find some useful things there." And with that Ben was gone. Luke looked again to the skies, he hadn't been home since they had rescued Hans, and he hadn't been to his home since the day he buried his aunt and uncle. It was time.