...and slammed against a wall of Force-essence filled with pheremones.

Pheremones? Huh...?

That little mystery was enough to jolt Shayla to wakefulness. Her greeny-blue eyes snapped open to reveal the lines of hyperspace...

...hyperspace? Since when had they been going somewhere? Hadn't she and Erik been on some planet...?

...and to reveal a blue-skinned pheremone-oozing Ch'iss standing nearby at her navboard.

Shayla leveled a unreadable greeny-blue gaze in his direction, keenly aware that a heck of alot of images in her mind weren't fitting together entirely.

How had they gotten here? How had HE gotten here?

She was also keenly aware that they weren't alone, and that all the force-presences she felt weren't completely new to her...

...she'd felt them somewhere before. Somewhere recently...

...but WHERE?

All the while, her eyes never left Dash, and she shoved any chemistry to the side as her Force-senses throbbed ominously. Nevermind that someone was at the controls of her ship...

...and Erik's...

...but this strangeness had her on edge. Finally she diverted the smallest bit of attention to assess that they were all heading for Sullust, and would arrive in a few standard minutes. Then she turned back to Dash, the unfathomable look returning. The holes in her mind were almost too much to bear...

...especially with Mr. Pheremones here. "Who are you?" she queried, even as her husband began to stir in the co-pilot's seat across the way...

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Just then Shayla roused from her seat and stared at me blankly. Again I took up a defensive posture. That was Stupid Dash!!! Stand unarmed by a complete stranger that you know nothing about!!!

Taking Jasyn's distrust of these two into consideration, I looked at Shayla. "For now you may call me Dash. And we should refer to you as?"

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"My names is Ruhatt Luthan and this is my friend Xam. He was hurt some how and I came to help him. We have to get him in a bacta or something." Ruhatt said.

He helped Xam to his feet and looked back at the stranger.

"Who are you?"

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Placing the man over his shoulder, he told his protocal droid to lead them to the closest medic center.

Doing so, the small group headed off. Before they entered the household sized medic center Lanlif finally revealed who he was to Ruhatt.

"You can call me Captain Berayen for now.." He said, entering the lounging area hastingly. Quickly heading to the desk, he placed the body in Ruhatt's arms as he informed the robotic counter clerk injured man, who needed immeditate treatement.

It wasn't far after then that a bundle of medic droids rushed out with their one wheel for transportive force. Taking the body and placing him on the table they headed off toward the bacta tank..

Meanwhile, Lanlif in the other hanged around in the lounging area, waiting for the first word about Xam's health.

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...and you're doing it again. I'm going in the back to see if by chance Galen is there. If not, when we do hit Sullust...

...I intend to do whatever it takes to figure out exactly where she is."

With nothing more than that, Jasyn turned and headed for the back of the frieghter, utterly ignoring anything else spoken in his direction.

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Just as I was about to erupt... I realized who else was in the ship with me. None other than Jebbua, Alexis's brother.

Jebbua stared at me with a confused look on his face. I gazed back at him awkwardly. Mentally I told him "You knew that Alexis and I were leading into a relationship. Don't go all big brotherish on me right now!"

I looked to Jasyn again who was almost at the back of the ship. "I wouldn't bother looking for Galen here. I've already used my force abilities to do a search for her. She is nowhere near us. I'd say she is at least 100 parsecs or more from our curent position, or else I would have sensed her presence. Now if you will come back here and work with me, maybe we can formulate a plan to find Galen"

I prepared for the worst. I was sure that I was the last person Jasyn wanted to work with after what I had just said to him. I half expected to see a chair or crate come flying at me from the rear of the ship.

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...but hadn't she left there, been taken from there...

...or something? And she certainly remembered marrying Erik and having...

Her heart skipped a beat, and for another eternity she sat in a cloud of utter confusion.

Why were there so many gaping holes in her mind? And what were they going to do now...?

Then the only immediate reality dawned on her: this must be her ship, and whether it was or not she was piloting...

...and the hyperspace indicator was getting close to the mark. Shayla snapped to alertness, her piloting affinity taking hold.

"Well, boys," Shayla interrupted quietly but not with just a bit of command, "Looks like I'm your pilot for this trip, and I can tell you I haven't any idea why we're all here together either. But this I know, reversion is immenient, and if you don't want to be thrown to the back of the ship, you'd best strap in."

With that she turned once more to the navboard and began the steps that would take them safely to Sullust, the back of her mind tingling with the pheremones Kelderon was producing...

...but the majority of her mind still on the pieces of incomplete thoughts within it...

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"But I'm not arguing with you over this one anymore. There's something much more important at hand, and I've got some ideas of places to start once we reach Sullust's surface. Whether you want to help or not is entirely up to you...

...the fact you are here now suggests that perhaps you care somewhat after all. I'm guessing you must have followed Matt and I after I left you behind."

He paused a moment, his eyes locked with Dash. "But, whether you did or not, don't expect me to trust you entirely...

...not yet."

That said, Jasyn merely took a seat and strapped himself in, completely ready to get off this blasted ship.

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Galen. Who the sam hell was Galen? Terrin Danner's wife, wasn't she? And someone's sister...

..someone important, it seemed like...

Dammit, the pieces just aren't fitting...

Shayla bit her lip, hard, her hands almost working in autonomously as her mind shifted to another keyword.

Sister...

Furrowing her brow, Shayla tried for the life of her to remember what this had to do with anything. She had a brother, but not a sister...

...or did she...?

But then, how could she remember that for certain, she didn't even know where she'd left her own son.

At this, her greeny-blue eyes grew impossibly more vague, something deep within her crying out in utter sorrow. She shoved it to the back of her mind...

...just long enough to finish final docking procedures and get somewhere where she could sort these puzzle pieces out. At last she set the Supernova's engines to cooling, and popped the hatch. Behind her, she could hear rustles as others began to move, and for the longest moment she didn't do a thing to stop them. Then suddenly she turned, shooting that vague and confused look in the other's general direction.

"Wait," she said quietly. "Maybe we can work as a team and put the pieces of this puzzle together? My son is out there somewhere...

...and like you can't remember where Galen is, I can't remember where he is either..."

Falling silent then, Shayla simply waited to see what anyone might respond.

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My eyes flashed back to Jasyn "And yes I did follow you and Matt. I just used the Force to follow you. Punching in new co-ordinates as you changed vectors. But
I really have no idea where we ended up. Obviously I found you, but not Galen. Now what is your plan on how to find her? Maybe we really can work together on this one!"

I pointed to the green eyed girl. "Hey, even she said she would help."

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Shayla suddenly stopped midsentence, frowning, as that name sparked yet another skewed memory.

What had happened to Terrin...? Something had...

...but what...?

Jasyn's brown eyes seemed to mirror the same sort of confusion across the way, so Shayla glanced to the side towards her husband. He shook his head minisculely, indicating he hadn't any idea either.

After a long moment of awkward silence Shayla finally spoke up. "Can we just get on with this before one of us remembers something else that doesn't fit together, because this is enough to drive me mad..."

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...or better yet maybe some Walknfall or that other stuff he liked...

...couldn't remember that either...

...really badly. But now was not the time for such things, especially considering that every second meant another wasted. And Stargazer was right about one thing: they all seemed to be in the same boat.

Seemed.

He frowned for a moment.

Terrin was probably rolling over in his grave...

...wherever that was...

...at the fact that his wife had suddenly just been lost...

"Allright," Jasyn spoke at last, "You're right." Then, turning to Dash, "And we'll get to what I have in mind very shortly. First, however, we need to get somewhere, so you're just gonna have to trust me on this one and let me take the lead."

Jasyn fell silent for a moment, letting these words sink in as he scanned the group. Somewhere in the cabin, Matt Stanza nodded in approval, and everyone else seemed ready to go and figure out the answers to this puzzle. So, with no further ado than that, Jasyn turned, stepped out of the hatch with everyone else behind him, and began leading the way towards a certain secret base where he hoped they would find a beginning, and not yet another dead end...

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I kept pace with Jasyn. I also decided to try and make peace with him as we walked.

"Jasyn, I need to talk to you. I know we don't get along too particularly well. But we will have to trust each others judgement if we are to find Galen. I finally realize why you hit me in the hallway of the Hornet. I wasn't reacting quickly enough at a time where every second counted. I am admitting my mistake. And would like a second chance to prove myself. We would make a good team, you and I, if we could show a little more trust in each others instincts and feelings. One day, Jasyn Lancaster, You will trust me! Let today be the day."

With that I held out my hand to him. "Let us put our rocky past behind us and start anew. Lets find Galen together, as a team."

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"i'm going to go home for a little while, but don't worry about me i'll be ok." She said.

Before I could even say anything she was gone around the corner. For the first time in a long time I stretched out with the force folling Alexis movements, but then I caught somebody else that was on the planet that i knew. Ruhatt Luthan.

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"I know the perfect place. Follow me if you would." Ruhatt said.

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"We'll let your actions speak for themselves," he said, his tone almost completely unreadable.

Then without waiting for any response, Jasyn merely turned and headed towards his destination once more. In minutes he finally reached the Eagle Enterprises headquarters that he and several of his friends had once called home; not wasting any time he punched in the code that would open the hidden entrance and stepped inside, making sure the door was closed securely behind him. Then, with no explanation to anyone who might have followed, Jasyn proceeded towards Terrin's office which both he and Terrin had set up so long ago, and accessed the secure comm channel immediately, dialing one particular frequency in. As soon as he was connected, Jasyn spoke across the line, hoping that Aaron would reply promptly.

"Aaron this is Jasyn," he said. "I can't explain what has happened, nostly because I suddenly don't know exactly what has happened. All that is clear is that I am now on Sullust, and Galen is gone; I can't even recall what planet she was headed for any longer. If you could fill me in on where the kriffing hell she was going, please respond immediately, cause I'm almost certain she crashed somewhere, and with the way my mind is full of holes I have a very bad feeling about all of this..."

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He had gotten himself in a sort of a bind, something that he'd have to wiggle out of after this gracious and free food ordeal. Lanlif would never pass up anything free, it was just the Squib way. A day without haggling was bad, but a day without haggling, yet free stuff was great he'd always say.

Without anyone else but Ruhatt to talk to since the droids stationed themselves in the medic center, he began with the conversation, which he hoped to be long.

"So, Ruhatt, why are you on Sullust?"

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"Well I Actuall went around finding information about the Empire, But i got n othing, so I came back here to wait on a friend. You wouldn't happen to know anything about them? I mean like what they are up to know and other stuff. If you do i'd be more than happy to pay for the information." Ruhatt said.

Ruhatt Ordered what he wanted to eat and looked back a Captain Berayen and waited for him to reply

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Sullustians, Dug, Bith, Gran all the exotic skin colors in the rainbow and facial features you could think of. The galaxy hadn't grown any more boring than it was when he was working with Tesk, but it did grow more solemn without him.

Lanlif's shivered suddenly, taking his mind off the past and back on the present. Moving his eyes back over to Ruhatt, he turned his lips up into a smile.

"Ruhatt, that's your name right. Anyways, why are you interested in the Empire in the first place?"

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The place was finely built and seemed to be good catch off the back of the hand, but Jamel knew something was up. Something this good couldn't be left behind without any trace of defense.

Heading slowly through the first chabmer of the ship, he headed into yet another. Catching the aroma of food, he quickly dashed forward, reaching for his stun baton to take guard.

Quickly stabbing out at the first thing he saw, it came out to be just a Jawa and he missed in the first place. Sighing in relief, he took a seat, still not noticing the other inhabitant of the ship.

"Man, wow--didn't expect a Jawa...good thing to. It'll be an easy catch now."

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Ruhatt thanked the waitress and took his food.

"what brings you to Sullest?" he asked.

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Too many bar fights He thought aloud in a murmur, as he looked down, still waiting for the drinks.

When they came, he sipped some of his and placed it back down. Smiling at just the taste, he took his eyes back over to Ruhatt, where he began with a response to the question he threw at him.

"Well, just looking for a job. Haven't had one since...." Lanlif suddenly paused, his eyes drifting off once again to the numerous people in the catina. "Well, for a long time now."

Ending it with that, he placed the cup to his lips and sipped a bit more. Placing it back down as he reached into his back of questions, searching for the best one to dish out.

"Are you a rebel pilot of some sort? It's confusing why your so interested in the Empire in the first place."

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He took a bite of his food and was about to ask Captain Berayen another question when a young looking lady walked into the cantina.

"Well. well. well. Look over there looks like a nice looking lady has entered. If you'll excuse me a moment, I'll let my charm work." He said as he rose from the Table and started to head in the ladys direction.

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"Hello miss and what might a good-looking girl like you be in a place like this?" He asked.

Oh brother. Did he think that would work for him?

"I'm sorry, but can I help you with something?" She asked him.

"Yes, if you don't mind making a few credits or so." He said.

The Nerve. Alexis felt the anger rising inside her and grabbed all the power she could and pushed the guy back with the force. He knocked over a watress droid and all the drinks she was carrying fell onto him. Alexis payed for the mess grabbed her food and headed back home.

As he caught her in his sights he pulled forward, taking her by the arm and quickly pulling her around. Turning her petite body about, he looked up to her. His short frame taken a more militant stance than that which was comfort and would welcome someone.

"I'm sorry for my friend, he is...how do I say it," He paused for a second to think, as he smiled a bit. "Confused and really doesn't know what he is talking about. It'd be nice if I could help in some way."

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