Alona: Daughter Of Heroes Book 2

Chapter 19: Meditation

I know that the few credits I have won't do much to pay for the water damage. I barely had enough to pay for the seeds I needed.

I went to the closet where I had stored the crop seeds and got them out. The tiny bags are barely big enough to hold the seeds that were in them.

I don't have all the machinery that most farmers would have, so I do it all by hand. I know that I'm inexperienced, but I can learn quickly, and I can get the job done.

I had parted the dirt where the garden field was, and made small holes so the seeds would fit inside them. I had a small clearing, only large enough for me to sit. I walked over, sat down and closed my eyes.

I was finally at peace with myself since the stressful situations I had been in the past few weeks had gone away.

I could feel the Force flowing through the seeds. They were taken out if the little bag by my hands and I held them. I let the Force take them to their rightful place in the dirt, and the ground covered the seeds up.

I could instantly feel a slight change in the weather. The wind was colder, the sun was gone, the clouds became black. I felt small droplets of water falling.

Rain.

The first time in a long time since I have felt it. Soon the rain had become a full storm. I could feel electicity in the air, not letting it bother me. I didn't care that I was soaked, I was at peace even though there was no peace around me.

Once I had felt enough rain to drown me for a year, I went inside to shower and change my clothes. It had been a while since I had last showered. The relaxing heat from the water felt different than the rough clothing I always wore. It was soft, relaxing, and warm. Unlike the clothing, that was rough and scratchy. I had changed into some comfortable clothes, and sat on the small sofa. Meeka was sound asleep next to me. I turned a small device on and the holonet screen came on. I listened to the local weatherman, not hearing any sign of the unexpected storm clearing up within the next three days.

I didn't really do much. I felt the presences of Obi Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker around me. They were watching me from beyond my control of life.

The ghosts were somewhat keeping me company. I could hear them talking while I slept. They were hovering over me as I slept. I knew that they were preparing themselves to take on a living being, something I didn't know if they did before. I knew that they had trained Luke while he was learning to become a Jedi.

If I ever became a Jedi, I would hope to do things to keep the galaxy safe and peaceful, to it's own extent that is. I can't control crime and smuggling, but I can do my own part of protecting.

I had high hopes when I was small, but that was before I had all the visions, before Ben turned on us all, before Luke exiled himself, before I met Snoke, before the academy and all the students and teachers were massacred. Before the galaxy was flipped.

Before everything changed.

Change has two sides: good and bad. This change was going downhill. Fast. It's been slowing down in the past couple of years, but it hasn't been very good.

I know that when the time comes, my life will end, but right now, the galaxy needs me. I know that if the time comes for me to fight Kylo Ren again, I can't kill him. It would kill me if I had to kill him. It's physically impossible for me to. I'm his sister, I have to turn him back. I can't and won't kill him.

I've already had visions of him being almost killed by some girl. I know that if I die trying to turn him back to the light, I will have died doing something for someone who I love. My family means everything to me, and I'll do everything to protect them. Even if they aren't on my side, doing the same thing I am.