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The boy from Alderaan instantly perked up and hurried over. "What
is it?" Raynar asked. "Is there news?"
"Not exactly," Luke said. "But she would like me to escort you to
her fleet so you can be together during the search for your father.
She thinks it's best for your. personal safety."
"The fleet? Well, well, well . . ." Raynar frowned. "But how
would I get there? If we're worried that someone will try to kidnap me
as well as my father, I can't just " "I guess we could take you," Jacen
said.
"The Rock Dragon looks like a normal ship, so nobody would suspect
anything."
"Thanks for offering," Luke said, "but I'm afraid Raynar's mother
was quite insistent: I have to escort him personally. The Shadow
Chaser has quantum armor-to shield us from any attack, and I can help
guard him with my jedi skills."
"But what am I supposed to do when I get there?" the young man
said, tugging at his colorful robes. "I need to continue my Jedi
training and develop my skills. I can't be of any help to my father if
I'm stuck in isolation with the fleet."
"Hey, we could go along, Uncle Luke," Jacen suggested, still
trying to find a way to help. "We'll work on our exercises together.
Besides, Raynar needs friends with him right now."
Raynat looked at Jacen skeptically, and then at the other young
Jedi Knights. "You'd do that you'd all come along with me?"
"This is a fact," Tenel Ka said.

"Sure," Jaina said. "We haven't always

been very friendly to you, but maybe this is a good time to change
that."
Lowie rumbled his enthusiastic endorsement of the plan.
"I think that's a terrific idea," Luke said.
"Good," Jaina answered, slamming an access hatch on the outside of
the Rock Dragon and fastening it. "Then what are we waiting for?"
Lowbacca growled a comment, and Jaina nodded. "The Rock Dragon's
ready to go when the rest of you are."
ON THE HELLISH world of Ryloth, half of the planet broiled under
sunlight hot enough to soften rock, while the other side crackled with
a cold so intense it would make a glacier shiver.
The Twileks, the only sentient beings ever to make a long-term
home there, had settled in the narrow band of shadow between daylight
and darkness. In this twilight region, surface temperatures above
ground remained hospitable enough to support life, but the Twi'leks
preferred to build shelters by burrowing into the mountain ranges.
They'd carved great warrens, cities beneath the ground, where
their clan system had evolved into a complex male-dominated political
structure that had remained unchanged for thousands of years.
Until the Twi'lek woman Nolaa Tarkona had implemented sweeping
changes through a swift wave of bloodshed.
Forming the Diversity Alliance had been her key to freedom and