The hidden past by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson [Watson, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Science fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books
ISBN: 9780439014472
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1999-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Starwars Jedi Apprentice The Hidden Past

Chapter 11

That night, Guerra and Paxxi shared their cramped quarters with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. It was a tiny room in the small house that Kaadi shared with her family. She had insisted the brothers stay with her once she'd found them, and she'd welcomed the Jedi just as warmly.

They bedded down for the night on blankets spread on the floor. Paxxi fell asleep immediately, and Qui-Gon was in the state the Jedi called restful-sleep-in-danger, his eyes closed but a corner of his mind alert at all times.

Obi-Wan could not sleep. He could not stop thinking about what it must be like to lose you memory. He could not imagine anything more terrible. He had worked so hard at the Temple, made deep friendships, learned so much from the Masters. What if all that was taken from him?

him.

?“Are you awake, Obawan?” Guerra whispered from the blanket nest to

“Yes,” Obi-Wan answered softly.

“Yes so, I thought so,” Guerra said. “I heard you thinking. You are still angry with me?”

“I'm not angry with you Guerra,” Obi-Wan said. “Maybe I was impatient with you. You never tell the whole truth.”

“Not so,” Guerra whispered. “Oh, I lie. You are right, Obawan, as you are always. I sense that you do not agree with the decision of Jedi- Gon to help us.”

“Not so,” Obi-Wan said. “. . . Or so. Maybe I lie.”

“Ah, you tease me,” Guerra said mournfully. “And this I deserve from you, I know.”

“Why didn't you tell me about your sister?” Obi-Wan asked. “Terra.” Guerra murmured. He let out a gusty sigh. "She is my

enemy, is she not, and yours? Yet it was not always so. You must believe

this. If you could have known her as a child! Sunny and bright and eager!

And funny! She was our tagalong, we called her, my good brother Paxxi and I. Baftu took all that was good and erased it, then filled in the spaces with hate. You see why we must crush them, Obawan? That is why Duenna risks so much - she and Paxxi think if the Syndicat is no more, they can reach Terra again."

“Do you think so?” Obi-Wan asked.

Guerra sighed again. “No, friend,” he said. “I do not. But I hope so. Just as my family does. In some cases, some strong-minded beings can resist the effects of the memory wipe. They can hold on to flashes of memory. Just scraps of things - a face, a smell. A feeling. I fear it is not so for Terra. It has been so long for her. I have not the belief that my good brother does. I have only this tiny hope in my heart.”

“It's something to hold on to,” Obi-Wan said.

“Yes so,” Guerra said quietly. “So if I tricked my friend, if I maybe did not tell him everything in the beginning, maybe my good friend Obawan will understand and grant me help again.”

A pause stretched out between them. Obi-Wan's irritation at Guerra left in a rush. He saw the terror and pain that Guerra had lived with.

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