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Star WarsJunior Jedi KnightsBook 6Kenobi's Bladeby Rebecca Moesta###############################################################################In his room at the Jedi academy, Anakin Solo bent over a small worktable by the window slit. His ice blue eyes studied the project he was tinkering with. Although the thick stone walls of the Great Temple around him kept his room cool and dim, Anakin didn't mind. It was bright and hot outside today, and he needed the light low to see what he was doing. He found the dimness soothing. Having fewer distractions helped him to think. A fringe of straight dark hair fell across Anakin's eyes, as it often did, and he brushed the bangs aside so that he could see better."It's almost finished," he said.On the windowsill, basking in the sun, a furry white creature with long floppy ears, a fluffy tail, and large blue-green eyes watched Anakin. The creature sat up to its full one-meter height and asked,"Are you solving a puzzle?"Anakin smiled. "Sort of. This is a programmable laser puzzle, and I'm trying to make a picture out of it-a hologram, really. I think I've just about got it." Anakin concentrated on blending and focusing the laser beams into the pattern he had programmed for this light "painting." Suddenly the hologram came together just as Anakin had planned, and he froze it into the puzzle's memory."There. What do you think, Ikrit?"Ikrit, the white-furred Jedi Master on the windowsill, nodded."Mmmmmm. You show great skill for one so young."Anakin blushed slightly at the compliment. The red stain on his cheeks clashed with the orange of his comfortable flightsuit."I'm not that young," he pointed out. "I'll be a teenager next year."Just then a knock sounded at the door and, without waiting for an invitation, Anakin's best friend danced into the room."Hi, Anakin. Good afternoon, Master Ikrit," Tahiri sang.She took a few twirling steps on her bare feet, and her long blonde hair swirled around the shoulders of her orange academy flightsuit. "Guess what?" she said. "Master Skywalker has been called away to Coruscant, so we won't have any lessons with him for a couple of weeks."Anakin nodded and smiled to himself. He knew that his friend would probably keep talking whether he answered her or not."We'll be having all our lessons with Tionne and Ikrit for the next week or two."Tahiri finally came to a spinning stop beside Anakin's worktable. Her bright green eyes sparkled as she looked down at his project."That's a great hologram of your family, Anakin," she said in a wistful voice. "You're lucky to have such a nice family. I always wonder what my parents were really like. I don't remember much, except for what Sliven told me."Sliven was the leader of a tribe of Sand People on Tatooine. He had adopted Tahiri after her parents were killed when she was only a few years old. Tahiri kept talking, not even stopping to take a breath."Isn't that a bolo generator? Where did you get it? And why aren't you in the hologram? I don't remember seeing it before. Did you have it made last time you were at home on Coruscant?" She paused for the briefest moment, and then continued. "So, aren't you going to say anything?"Anakin shook his head. "I made this myself. I collected images of my family from everywhere I could find them, chose the best ones, and programmed them into this hologram. This one," he said, pointing to the image of Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo, "was from my last birthday. Mom left a meeting of the Senate to come to my party. To surprise her, Dad came back early from a trip to the Bespin System. I love that stunned and happy look on Mom's face."He pointed to the images of his brother and sister, the Jedi twins."I added the pictures of Jacen and Jaina from shots taken here on Yavin 4 before they went home on break.""Mmmmm. It is good to remember who your family is and what you are a part of," Ikrit said in his scratchy voice."I got the idea for it in Darth Vader's fortress," Anakin admitted."From the hologram he kept of your uncle Luke?" Tahiri asked."Yes. I like to think he kept it to remind himself of who he was. Maybe that's why-in the end, at least-he couldn't serve the dark side of the Force anymore," Anakin said."Sometimes I wish I had holograms of my parents," Tahiri said a little sadly. She put her hand up to touch the two pendants on the necklace she wore tucked inside her flightsuit; one held the thumbprints of her mother and father, the other held Sliven's."I do keep a little hologram of our instructor Tionne, though," she went on. "That's the next best thing. After all, she's the one who found me on Tatooine when I lived with the Sand People, and-Tionne! Yipes, I almost forgot! You'll never guess in a million years."Anakin didn't try to guess, but that didn't seem to faze Tahiri. Her face glowed with the excitement of her news."Tionne invited us to do something special because we helped her find Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber and the Holocron in Bast Castle. She wants us all to come and watch while she explores the lessons in the Holocron! She said to come right away. We're supposed to bring Uldir, too."Anakin looked at his wrist chronometer."In that case, we'd better hurry. You've been here several minutes already, and this sounds like something we don't want to miss."Tahiri grinned. "It's almost like going on an adventure-except there won't be as many stairs as in Vader's fortress."After stopping to collect Uldir from the kitchen, where he was working, the junior Jedi Knights and Ikrit trooped up to Tionne's chambers. They settled themselves in a loose semicircle around the Jedi instructor. Uldir wiped his hands off on the brown Jedi robe he wore and ran them through his shaggy chestnut hair. Tahiri noticed that he seemed more excited than any of them to be able to find out more about the Holocron.That was good, Tahiri decided. Uldir's parents were cargo pilots for the New Republic. He had stowed away on a freighter and come to Yavin 4 in hopes of becoming a Jedi. Even though Master Skywalker had found no Jedi talent in the sturdy teenager, Uldir had stayed at the Jedi academy to study the Force.Anakin, Tahiri, and Uldir had become good friends. But since they had all returned from Bast Castle-the fortress that had once belonged to Anakin's grandfather, Darth Vader-Uldir had been so withdrawn and quiet that Tahiri had been worried. Now that Uldir had found something to be excited about, Tahiri was glad. After all, she was excited, too. She always enjoyed taking lessons with her teacher Tionne, of course, but this was something special."We will start at the beginning," Tionne said in hushed tones. The silvery-haired instructor's face dimpled into a smile as she sat down and held the gleaming milky cube lightly on one palm. She spoke in a musical voice and her enormous mother-of-pearl eyes seemed to shine."This is a Jedi Holocron. Each Holocron contains the recorded teachings of a Jedi Master, like a small library of knowledge. It passes on the Jedi Master's wisdom to future Jedi."Tionne nodded to Ikrit, who dimmed the glow - panels for her. The teacher cupped her palms around the pearly cube. A glowing image sparkled to life in the air above it."Welcome, my children. How may I teach you today?" asked the hologram of Ash Krimsan, a tiny, plump woman with black hair. She wore a long, soft gown as red as wine."Please, tell us about yourself, Ash Krimsan," Tionne said. Tahiri shot her teacher a curious look. It seemed a bit odd to ask questions of a hologram.Then, to her amazement, the hologram answered."I have spent the last two hundred years of my life teaching the very young," Ash Krimsan said. Her face beamed with kindness and wisdom that came from the Force."How could she hear our questions?" Tahiri whispered. "She's only a picture.""When Jedi Masters record their Holocrons, they also program in answers to the 'questions they think will be asked most often," Ikrit whispered back. "That makes it easier to find information quickly."The hologram paused for a moment, then continued."I believe that unless we teach future Jedi to use the Force when they are children, they may never reach the full talent they were meant to have. "Uldir snorted. Out of the corner of her eye, Tahiri saw him clench his fists."Master Skywalker wasn't a child when he learned about the Force," he muttered, "and he's pretty powerful."In the image, Ash Krimsan opened her hands and held them out as if offering a gift."That is why I have gathered all of my lessons and placed them into this Holocron for you, my children. These words are for you and for all Jedi who are to come. Teach your children well, and trust the Force. I will put this Holocron in one of the great Jedi libraries, so that future Jedi Masters may share what I have learned when they teach their students.""Library?" the silver-haired Tionne said breathlessly.Tahiri perked up. She had never heard of a great Jedi library."Can you tell me where it is?" Tionne asked.With a sweep of the Jedi Master's arm, her image dissolved and a new one appeared. Robed figures with lightsabers at their sides walked through gleaming metal passages that curved away out of sight. Plasteel beams formed arches where corridors changed from one subject area to another. Large windowports framed triangles of multicolored transparisteel. Small alcoves filled with spot-lit artifacts dotted the walls. Crystalline data wafers filled row upon row of archive cases."The Jedi library," the voice of Ash Krimsan continued, "is on a space station in the Teedio System-Exis Station. The vast library there holds the collected knowledge of many, many Jedi.""Exis," Tionne murmured. "I've seen it before."Uldir jerked u... [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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