SEQUEL TO _Star Wars: The Jedi Reborn_
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Eleven years have passed since The Battle of Endor, and ten since The Battle of Jakku. With the discovery of _The Journal of the Whills_, an anc...
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Another year passed at the Jedi Academy. The Jedi held the darkness at bay. Naluma maintained her peace, with no indication of reverting to her previous despair, even with the constant pressure from Ben.
Luke kept himself around the academy a bit more during this year, alternating missions with Kalder. Except for slight gaps in scheduling, he assigned two Jedi Masters to the academy throughout the year.
He had switched Naluma's workload around so that she was teaching more academic classes and fewer PT and saber classes, but she still had not conceived.
Doubt we'll ever have children at this point. Maybe I could bring Breha here. Use a different name. I miss that little Kowakian monkey-lizard.
He thought back to the last communication he had with Leia. The four-year-old had yanked the communicator from her mother and told him he was supposed to come back immediately because there was a big emergency. When he asked what it was, she said, "I miss you."
Luke turned his attention back to the academy and the current dilemma. Over the last year, Padawan had graduated. Others had increased in knowledge. Ben, still under the threat of exile, had cooperated.
With constant pranks and insubordination, Luke could not tell if the boy was so desperate for attention he would accept negative attention or so desperate for power he would try anything.
Luke looked up as Ben entered his study with apprehension. Good. You're scared. You should be. Luke let that thought sneak past the edges of his shields. Ben blanched.
Luke motioned to his nephew to sit in one of the desk chairs. The master took a hardcopy of Ben's assignment from his desk drawer and laid it on his desk in front of Ben.
Ben looked at the piece of clear flimsi lit with red, cleanly handwritten words margin-to-margin.
"Can you explain this?"
"I didn't cheat."
"I didn't say you did," Luke said with peace as he leaned back in his desk chair looking at the papers. "I am concerned about your choice of topic. The assignment was an essay on the qualities and achievements of the greatest Jedi in history."
"I chose the one who was the most powerful and brought balance to the Force," Ben said, his anger rising in him. "Anakin Skywalker was the greatest Jedi to ever live."
"He had the greatest defeat, Ben."
"He also had the greatest career as a Jedi. And you turned him back to the light. You saw the good in him," Ben said with glaring eyes.
"Grandfather was the most powerful Jedi ever. He even vanquished his master, Darth Sidious. The only human ever to race pods. More powerful than even Master Yoda. More powerful than you."
Luke jerked in his seat. His insecurities of being a Jedi Master sprung up again. Luke was brought back to the Emperor's throne room on the Death Star over Endor. The Emperor had nearly turned him, too.
