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THE LOST ONES
by
KEviN J. ANDERSon and REBECCA MOESTA

"Must be a sign of maturity," Jaina teased.

"Who, me?" Jacen said, pretending to take offense. "Nah." Then, as if to
disprove her theory, he flashed a lopsided grin that made him look like
a younger version of their father, Han Solo. "Want to hear a joke?"

Jaina rolled her eyes and tucked a strand of straight brown hair behind
one ear to keep it

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away from her face. "Don't suppose you'd take no for an answer?" Then
pretending to have a brilliant idea, she snapped her fingers. 11 Say,
why don't you go up to the cockpit and tell it to Tenel Ka instead?"

She knew full well that the young warrior woman, one of their closest
friends at the Jedi academy, had never even smiled-much less laughed -at
Jacen's jokes, though he tried daily to coax a chuckle from her.

"I want you to be a test audience first," he said. "Then I'll go try it
on Lowie-wherever he is. He's got a pretty good sense of humor for a
Wookiee."

"Shouldn't be too hard to find him," Jaina said. "The Falcon's not that
big, and you can be pretty sure he's somewhere near a computer."

"Hey, you're just trying to distract me from telling my joke," Jacen
said. "You ready?"

Jaina heaved a long-suffering sisterly sigh.

"All right, what,s the joke?"

"Okay, how long does Uncle Luke need to sleep?"

She gave a puzzled frown. "You got me' "One Jedi night!" He laughed out
loud, proud of his joke.

Jaina gave a melodramatic groan. "I don't think even Lowie will laugh at
that one."

Jacen looked crestfallen. "I thought it was THE LOST ONES

one of my best jokes so far. I made it up myself."

Then his face brightened. "Hey, I wonder if Zekk is still hanging around