Prologue

Plot: Kidnapped from her home and sold into slavery on Tatooine, Ashla Tano is Force-sensitive. She's also Anakin's best friend. They promise one another that they'll always be together, that nothing can tear them apart, but that may not be a promise they can keep. And then, the Jedi come. Even as a Jedi, Ashla's future remains uncertain.

Author's Note: I started drafting this so long ago, I can't believe we're finally releasing it now. xD Anyway. I have many plans for this, but I've hardly started drafting the Clone Wars, so if someone has... suggestions or anything, as always, I'd like to hear! :D

Ashla is... a complicated character, and I hope you'll enjoy her character arcs as much as I do. 💖 She's meant to be a complex person, not a Mary Sue OC type person who magically knows everything. She's going to make mistakes. She's going to screw up, just like Canon people. She's going to grow and change, and so will everyone else in her family.

This will diverge from Canon eventually, but bear with me – it'll be a while. I don't think adding one person in would change much right off, depending on who they are, but it couldn't not cause a divergence eventually, either.

~Rivana Rita

PS. Chapter 1 will be posted later this week, and then, updates will be weekly on Monday. ^-^

~ Amina Gila

Fifteen days. It's been fifteen days since everything fell apart.

And there's one day left. One day until my eighteenth birthday. Not that I care. It's just the day my fate will be decided. Whether everything I've worked for my whole life is in vain, or if it'll amount to something. What's worse, I don't know. I don't even know what I hope anymore.

I thought by become a Jedi, I'd gain everything, but I was wrong. I lost everyone. Once, and now again. I have nothing.

It's ironic, in a way. My worst fear has always been of loss, of rejection. And now, every last bit of it has found me. I'm lost here, alone.

But now that I have the chance to correct it all, I'm not sure I want to.

They betrayed me. They abandoned me. Are they right? I can't imagine they are.

I should have asked for more than just three weeks to figure this all out. More like three years. At least three months. I guess it's better than three days. But then again, I had a reason for choosing when I did. At least if I end up on my own, I won't be a minor anymore. How comforting.

I still can't bring myself to understand it. A month ago, I had everything I could have asked for, and more. We were together, still family.

Only to be ripped apart, when I swore it was the only thing that would never be taken from me. I failed them, and they're gone because of my failure. But they're still here, and maybe I can get them back.

It was a stupid mistake on my part. I should have known. I should have, but instead I ran right into a trap laid out so carefully for me.

But despite it all, deep in my heart, I know the truth. I've always hated the corruption, and now I've fallen victim to it. I don't belong there. But how can I abandon the only life I've ever known?

Anakin. I promised him. I promised that whatever comes, we'd be together. That's not a promise I want to break. Ahsoka. My sister needs me. Obi-Wan. He's taught me everything I know now. Almost everything. I can't just let him go. Drisor. My best friend. They're my family. I can't just let them go. They need me. I need them.

Why does this have to be so hard?

We've faced everything together. Why did something have to come and threaten to take us apart?

As a Jedi, I should know the answer, but I've never been so good at letting people go. I've lost before, but it just gets harder.

Which should I choose? My family, or everything they and I have believed in?

But there's no one who can answer.

And there's only one day left.

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