Saga of the Bridgers-Year 2

Chapter 10: Homecoming

As promised, Ezra dined, waited an hour or so to digest and went straight to bed, with Sabine joining him another hour later, and he obviously woke up just to give her space on the bunk and allow her to hold on him while using his right arm as a pillow.

Night on Lothal. Ezra finds himself standing on a protruding rock in the middle of a prairie, the twin moons in front of him.

"Ezra."

"Mom?!" the boy asks in disbelief.

"Ezra, we're here."

"DAD?! Where are you?" he raises his voice.

A cell, similar to those Ezra saw in various imperial prisons.

Ezra looks around, confused.

The door of the cell is open.

A white loth-cat is silently staring at him.

Ezra tries to concentrate. What's happening?

"We're right here, Ezra." his mother says.

The loth-cat growls and hisses.

Something else. A shack in the middle of a rocky valley on Lothal.

TIE fighters coming down from a ship.

Jaral fighting in Garel's spaceport.

"No!"

"Ezra."

All becomes white.

"Ezra!"

Ezra gasped loudly and his eyes sprang open. He was still laying down on the bed. He noticed Sabine on top of him, calling him. Her face was very much worried.

He pants vigorously.

"It's okay." she whispers. "It was only a nightmare."

"No." he says. "It was a vision..." he sits up and rubs his buzz cut. Then he concluded. "I need to talk to Kanan."

Sabine nodded and the two quickly dressed up, although Sabine didn't put her armor on, only the undersuit, and the two walked toward the common room.

"No, no." they heard Hera's voice talking to Kanan. "We've checked these systems. There's nothing close to a viable location for a base."

The teens stepped into the room, drawing the attention of the adults from the star map projected on the holotable in the dark room.

"Kanan." Ezra said, still sweaty.

"Ezra, what happened?" he asked patiently. Hera looked more concerned.

"I...I had a vision...Kanan, I saw my parents!" he declared loudly, realizing what the vision was about.

The others in the room looked dazzled.

"It was so real. But...I'm not sure what it meant." he said sitting on one of the stools around the table and massaging his forehead. Sabine put her hands on his shoulders, trying to ease his stress.

"Why don't you tell us what you saw?" Hera suggested.

They were interrupted when they heard someone rushing up the ladder and the gangplanks outside.

It was Jaral, who was clearly running there with full haste.

"Ezra, did you have a vision?" he quickly asked.

Ezra was taken aback for a moment but he nodded quickly.

"Wait," said Kanan. "you saw that too?"