Loving Skywalker - Book (3)

Takodana

Raina's POV.

Raina, Luke, Leia, Winter, and C3-PO all set out on a NewRepublic transport for Takodana. The day before, Leia had gotten word that a unidentified ship was headed for the planet. The descriptions of the ship matched that of the same one the rogue imperialists were flying.

Before leaving both Jedi left the temple in the hands of their top students, Dirk and Kyra, since Jacen was away on his own mission.

They were three hours into the trip when Leia gasped from behind the pilot seat. Immediately everyone turned around to look at her. Winter reached her hand across the small isle and placed it on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"

"Leia?" Luke asked, his voice laced with concern for his sister.

Raina looked to see that her hand was placed over her bump. She was breathing deeply and nodded to them all. "Y-Yes. Yes, I'm alright."

"What happened?" Raina asked.

Shaking her head she furrowed her eyebrows. "I-I don't know. I was just sitting here and there was a sharp pain. . . I'm sure it was nothing. Probably just the baby kicking. I'll be alright."

She and Luke glanced at each other, obviously worried.

"You sure?" He asked. "We still have time. Give me the word and I'll turn this thing around and head back to Coruscant."

"Yes, Luke. I'm sure. It's nothing to worry about."

"If I may, I believe the best thing to do would be to set our course for Coruscant. Too much excitement for one day could cause stress, which will then effect the-"

"Threepio, if you don't shut up, I will personally take it upon myself to deactivate you!" Leia snapped.

"Well, I never. . .!"

Before the droid could get too offended Luke spoke up. "Threepio? Thank you for your advice, but for now could you do what Leia says?"

"Alright, Master Luke."

Seeing that the droid was silent, Luke spoke to Leia again. "Leia. . . I really think you should think about this. If there's even a remote chance that somethings wrong then we need to get you back to Coruscant as soon as possible."

"I have to agree." Winter added, causing Leia to give her a look.

She huffed in frustration. "Luke, I'm fine and we're not going back. The sooner we find the boy, the sooner we can get him back to his family and restore peace on Corellia."

Realizing his sister wouldn't change her mind, Luke relented with a sigh. "Okay, Leia. We'll keep on course."

As soon as they landed, the five of them including and C3-PO got out of the ship. They landed on the east side of the planet in a forest with a lake nearby.

"So this is the last place someone saw the ship?" Raina asked her sister in-law.

"Yes. I believe so. The one's who saw it said the ship was headed for the east side of the planet."

"That could be anywhere." Luke concluded looking out at the horizon.

"Well, recently Han met a humanoid named Kanata on this planet. She's a so called Pirate Queen and apparently if you need information she's the one to go to. She has a castle around here somewhere."

"Kanata? I don't think I've ever heard that name before." Luke commented.

After a moment Raina realized who it was they were referring to. "Maz Kanata." She whispered, causing her husband to look at her. "What?"