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Star WarsJunior Jedi Knights2Lyric's Worldby Nancy RichardsonAnakin Skywalker studied the girl in the front row of the Grand Audience Chamber. She sat alone on one of the stone seats that circled the stage. She was a small girl, and he guessed she was about eleven years old. Her long hair cascaded down to her waist in thick red ringlets, and her eyes were a pale yellow color. Anakin had never seen the girl sit with any other candidates. Maybe she was a loner just like he was.He knew what it felt like to be alone. Anakin had a brother and sister, twins named Jacen and Jaina, and parents, Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo. They all loved him very much, but ever since Anakin could remember, he'd been a loner. Even now that he was a candidate at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy, surrounded by Jedi students from across the galaxy, he spent a great deal of time alone. It wasn't that he always wanted it that way, it was just that there was so much to think about.Studying to become a Jedi Knight took peace and quiet, something that his new friend, a student at the academy named Tahiri, didn't seem to understand. Only a week before, Tahiri and Anakin had almost been kicked out of the Jedi academy. They'd snuck away from the academy to raft the river that wound its way through the lush jungles of the moon, Yavin 4. A violent storm had struck. Anakin remembered the broiling green of the river crashing against his body as he and Tahiri shot through the water in a sleek silver raft.His heart skipped a beat as he recalled the look of panic that contorted Tahiri's face when she was thrown from their raft and had to struggle to survive in the cold waters. Without the help of the droid, Artoo-Detoo, he might not have been able to save his friend. If that had happened, he and Tahiri wouldn't have uncovered the evil that lay hidden on Yavin 4 in an ancient palace. An evil that they were now both pledged to destroy.Anakin heard Tahiri's bare feet padding along the gray stone floor before he saw her. Tahiri was from Tatooine, a desert planet with two scorching suns. Ever since she'd arrived at the academy she'd refused to wear shoes. After living on a hot world filled with gritty sand, Tahiri loved to feel the cool stones of the Great Temple beneath her feet. Anakin's only friend at the academy slid into the seat beside him. She pushed her long blonde hair behind her ears and fixed him with large, green eyes. Anakin could sense Tahiri's impatience.He knew that she wanted to talk. But Anakin wasn't ready to talk about the evil they'd discovered deep in the jungles of Yavin 4. And he didn't want to discuss the strange creature that had visited his room in the middle of the night. A creature named Ikrit that he'd learned was an ancient JediMaster. A Master who had drawn both him and Tahiri into the jungles to discover a giant golden globe hidden deep within the crumbling ruins of the Palace of the Woolamander.A crystal sphere created by an evil curse, locked with a riddle, and filled with glittering golden sands and the cries of children trapped within its spell. Before Anakin could turn to Tahiri to tell her he wasn't ready to talk, Luke Skywalker entered the chamber. Anakin was always amazed by the reaction he felt when his uncle Luke came into a room. The Jedi Master's presence seemed to wash a sense of calm over all of the candidates. Human children and aliens alike stopped shuffling feet, picking through matted black fur, flapping wings."May the Force be with you," Luke Skywalker said as his pale blue eyes, almost the same color as his nephew Anakin's, scanned the room. "Today we will begin to learn how to use the Force to travel in our minds to places we have been, but cannot completely remember. In the time you have already spent at the academy, you've learned that training to become a Jedi cannot be taught with words, only with experience. So I won't tell you how to recapture your lost memories. I will say only this: Believe and you succeed. That is part of the Jedi Code, and you must truly accept it if you are to triumph. Are there any questions?""What if we fail?" a large, blue-skinned, birdlike alien named Chitter squawked.Luke Skywalker met Chitter's concerned, beady black eyes with a patient gaze."Asking the question means that you have already accepted that possibility," he said softly. "Remember, there is no try, only do, for a Jedi. In trying there is success, regardless of the outcome."Luke Skywalker stepped down from the stone stage and quietly left the chamber. The Jedi Knight Tionne, a humanoid woman with silvery hair and mother - of-pearl eyes, walked to the front of the room."Please choose partners," Tionne said to the Jedi candidates.Anakin watched as all of the candidates paired with each other. He and Tahiri were partners. Out of the corner of his eye he saw that the girl in the front of the chamber still sat alone."Today we are going to learn how to use the Force to travel in our minds to events and places we've experienced before but have difficulty recalling," Tionne began. "Part of working with the Force is developing the strength of your minds. All of you have heard stories from your childhood of places you've visited and events that took place. But sometimes it's hard to remember things that happened long ago. By using the Force you can reach into the darkest corners of your mind and find memories you can't quite grasp or never knew you had. Work together - this will be a difficult task for most of you."Anakin turned toward Tahiri, then turned back to look at the red- haired girl. He knew how she must be feeling. He remembered all the times on his home planet, Coruscant, when his older brother and sister had run off to play and left him alone. Quickly he slid off his seat and walked down the aisle to the girl. She was staring at the ground. Slowly she raised her yellow eyes to meet Anakin's blue ones."Come join my friend and me," Anakin beckoned.The girl quietly stood and followed Anakin back to his seat. She sat down next to Tahiri."My name is Lyric," the red-haired girl sang out in a voice that sounded like the bubbling of water over the smooth stones of a stream."I'm Tahiri, and this is Anakin," Tahiri began chattering. "It's strange that I haven't talked to you before now-I mean, I've talked to just about everyone here.... Come to think of it, I tried to speak to you the first day at the academy, after I learned that you'd been here longer than any of us, studying with another group of candidates. You were even shyer than Anakin," Tahiri said with a grin at her friend. "So, where are you from? What planet? You're humanoid, right? How old are you?""Tahiri," Anakin said sternly, "give her a chance to answer one question before you shoot another at her."Still, he was pleased that his friend was being so nice to Lyric. Tahiri, too, understood what it was like to be lonely. She was an orphan. Herparents had disappeared when she was three years old, and the Sand People of Tatooine had taken her into their tribe. They were a violent, nomadic race that wore strips of cloth over their entire bodies and dark goggles and breath masks that covered their faces. Tahiri had lived with them for six years. Six years without any contact with other human children.Tahiri grimaced at Anakin's interruption, then turned back to Lyric."So, where are you from?" she asked with a grin. Lyric met Tahiri's eyes with her large yellow ones. "I am from the moon Yavin 8," she began. "I'm a Melodie."The Jedi Knight Tionne walked over to Tahiri, Anakin, and Lyric."How is your memory work going?" she asked. Tahiri frowned. She didn't want to do the exercise right now. It was more interesting to learn about Lyric. She'd never met a Melodie before, and she wanted to know more about Yavin 8 and Lyric's species. Tahiri sighed. The conversation would have to wait until later. She smiled at Pionne, then turned to Lyric."Why don't you tell us a memory that you want to recall?" Tahiri said to the Melodie. Lyric shyly looked at Tahiri, her large yellow eyes earnest."Let me think for a moment," she replied, and closed her eyes. While Anakin waited for Lyric's memory, he began to doodle on a sheet of paper. He was drawing the strange symbols he and Tahiri had seen carved deep in the jungle, in the crumbling stones of the Palace of the Woolamander.Symbols which were not only carved above the entrance to the palace, but deep within its base, down a dark spiral stairway, in the place where Anakin and Tahiri had discovered the mysterious golden globe. In that place, they could almost taste the evil of those who used the Force to serve the dark side. Anakin forgot about Lyric and Tahiri and closed his eyes, letting himself drift back to the jungle-back one week, when he and Tahiri had rafted the river of Yavin 4 and raced through the rain-soaked jungle to find refuge from the howling winds.Recalling places and memories, whether they were recent or far past, was a skill he 'd always had. At this very moment, Anakin could smell the dusky sweetness of the Massassi trees that lined the lush moon, could see their dark purplish bark. He could feel the cool soil of the jungle, wet from the storm that had threatened to capsize he and Tahiri's raft.Anakin moved toward the place he and Tahiri had found to escape the storm, the Palace of the Woolamander, and stood beneath its entrance, staring up through the rain at the strange carvings in its crumbling stones. Then he moved inside the palace and down a dark corridor. He heard the skittering of hundreds of woolamanders as they raced away from his intrusion.Anakin found the crumbling spiral stairway he and Tahiri had descended and slowly dropped into the depths of the palace, to... [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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