Star Wars -The Jedi And The Bounty Hunter

Part 13

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We stopped by bars, shoppes, the records department and the closest thing to a police station. And my imaginary friend was nowhere to be found.

"No matter where we look, we can't seem to get any news about your friend," Seji sighed.
"Could she be closer to a city? Or could we contact her by hologram?"

I think quickly. This lie is growing stale. If he were to suspect me as leading him on I could be hunted by the Jedi or the mobs of Coruscant. I need a new lie.
"I have tried calling her over and over. She never used to miss a call. A week or two ago, our regular communication dropped off and she never answered her holocom again."

He looked at the ground in silence with a look of deep thaught.

I hate to do this but here it goes. I force tears. Soon, my face grows moist, like an emotional  female. I cross my arms and sniffle as I pace as if
I was nervous, "If she hasn't been seen and she hasn't tried to contact me..." I sob and more tears pour over my eyelids and down my cheeks. " That must mean... she's"
I remember the grief I had felt when Qeya was... I cry harder at that thaught. How he looked when he.....hiccuping  sobs and snot.

I feign like I am going down on my knees or stumbling in total grief, which I partially am. But before I get too far Seji catches me and sits on the ground with me, cradling my head to his chest.

"Hey, Hey, don't  think like  that." Seji says as I'm still crying.

By now some snot is coming out of my nostrils, " How can I not think like that?"

He grew silent and just held me there in the cover of trees and the sound of waterfalls.

After I had slowed the crying to sniffles Seji asked, "Who was she?"

I looked off into the grass in defeat, " She was my best friend. We grew up together, did stupid stuff together, had our first drink stolen from the liquor cabinet, raced speeders....she had the brightest smile and a special twinkle in her eyes"

All of this was true with Qeya. The only part I had lied about was that it was a girl.

What I had said gave Seji a small, sad, smile. "She sounds wonderful"

"Yeah." He was.

We sat for a moment in silence watching the sprawl of cascading waterfalls below us.

Now is the perfect time to say something interesting. "She was the only family I had left in the galaxy. Now I don't know what I'm going to do."

This new information could get me on the good side of the Jedi incase the mob starts coming after me for not delivering. I could kill any Jedi but it had to be this high profile Jedi. I had to pick the winning side that I could count on to go one way or another and not kill me. Seji was my only hope now to get out of this mess.

He turns to me, "No parents?" I shake my head no. "No siblings?" I shake my head no.
He sighs. I know he is thinking about what to do with me. I know that he is thinking that it isn't the Jedi way to leave a teenage girl entirely alone in the world... more or less.
" I have an assignment in the capital then I will go back to the Jedi temple. I will see what I can do for you when we get there if you would like."

I gaped in disbelief, I hope. "Really? You would do that for Me?

Seji met my eyes, "Of course."

I smiled and looked appreciative, if that's a thing. I hugged him so he didn't regret helping me or go back on what he had said.

He looked up at the sky that had turned pink and purple.
"We best be going and did find somewhere to stay."