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an unusual pet.
For now, though, he walked through the underbrush in search of
various colors of the polished button beetles. He had discovered a
nearly intact nest under some broken rocks blasted from the Great
Temple during the recent Shadow Academy attack, and he wanted to
complete his collection of specimens.
Instead, as he parted a stand of tall ferns and stepped into a
clearing, Jacen saw another young Jedi trainee, Raynat, sitting alone
on a rock. He found this quite unusual, since the young man usually
avoided the jungles, preferring to remain inside more "civilized"
areas. Raynar's brightly colored robes were as multihued and
iridescent as an entire swarm of button beetles. He sat with his hands
on his robed knees.
Jacen grinned and waved. he'd been working harder at being
friendly to Raynar since the boy's family problems had begun.
"Hi, Raynar. What are you doing?"
Raynar turned, startled by Jacen's arrival.
"Nothing."
Jacen laughed. "There's usually a lot more than nothing going on
.when someone says 'nothing.'" "All right," Raynar said with a sigh.
"I was meditating . . . using the Force to reach out with my
mind. I thought maybe I could find out something about where my father
went."
"Still no word, then?" Jacen asked.
Sadly, the blond-haired boy shook his head and stared down at his
hands. Though New Republic Security Forces and the bounty hunter Boba
Fett--and who knew how many others--were searching the galaxy for him,
Bornan Thul had not been found.
Jacen felt uncomfortable when someone else was in trouble or
dejected and there was. nothing he could do about it. Although he
often resorted to telling jokes, he knew this was probably not a good
time to try that. "I wish there was something we could do to help," he
said.
"If I can think of something, I'll definitely ask you, then,"
Raynar answered, looking slightly relieved, though not too hopeful.
He forced a smile. A small one . . .
but it was a smile nevertheless.
When Jacen and Raynar returned together to the Great Temple, the
workers had just finished restoring part of the hangar bay that had
collapsed during the Imperial attack. New Republic engineers had
pitched in with the large-scale work, while military ships hovered in
orbit over the jungle moon to protect against any further attacks from
space.
Arms crossed over his chest, Luke Sky-walker leaned against the
Rock Dragon and watched Jacen and Raynar as they approached.
Jaina and Lowbacca sat beside the repaired passenger shuttle.

Jacen waved. "Hi, Uncle Luke."

"I've got a message from Raynar's mother," Luke said.