Chari Skale

Chapter 5: Palpatine or the Evil Chari

Barbara Bowers was at her home in Naboo talking to Sam's Sister,
"Let me get this straight, all this time it was
this evil Chari that has been after Sam?"

"It is much more than that, Mother."

Since Barbara was Sam's unofficial adopted Mother long before anyone knew about Dinotopia and Oriana, Barbara got Skyma to be part of the family too since she was Sam's Sister.

Skyma sighed and collected all she knew of both the evil Chari and Palpatine from her mind.
She finally said,
"It is true after Darth Vader reverted to Anakin Skywalker,
he killed Palpatine. What all of you have been dealing with was
Palpatine, but at the same time, it was not. What I mean is, she
was in him, like a symbiote, since ancient history."

"Good grief! What have we gotten ourselves into?"

"Because there were two Sam Carters that entered his stronghold,
he is dead as far as the physical world is concerned. Through the
Dark-side, he can cause trouble, but at least Brandon will not have
any more dreams — at least from him."

Barbara sighed,
"Are you saying she can give my son horrid dreams, too?"

"I doubt it. She's more concerned with Sammy. Palpatine in the
ancient past wanted to have a new host. If he had Sam before the
Clone Wars, he would have gained a lot more power than he did.
With my Sister's powers, The Alliance wouldn't have defeated him,
or he would not need Anakin to become Darth Vader."

Barbara looked sympathetic,
"How much all of you had suffered, because of him. What I am
concerned about is how Sam is dealing with an evil Chari. If I had a
baby girl and an adult version of her at the same time, I would start
to lose my mind. Now, Sam realizes there is an incarnation of her
Daughter out there to kill her."

Skyma gave a warm smile,
"Mom, you would handle it better than you may think. Because
we ancient Jedi know more about space and time, it doesn't make
us any kind of super beings. We all have the same feelings as
everyone else. Like always, our emotions become an annoyance or
a benefactor in our lives. If everyone on Earth, and all that is involved
in our Jedi affairs, do their best, then you will win over all that has been
thrown at you."

"To be honest, my Daughter, I don't know what they have thrown at us.
I mean — everything that has happened to us has been so wonderful —
it's like nothing we have ever experienced before. To us, it started when
Samantha found our son in Atlanta, Georgia."

"To everyone, there is a beginning. To you that is linear, but there's
more to time than all that. It is how time is to all of us, and why I think
a lot on Earth has an issue about time not being linear." While in thought,
for a moment, she continued, "look at it this way. Time is linear to an
individual, accurate enough, but there's more to life than one person, yes?"

Barbara nodded.

"Your life moves in one direction while someone else's life moves in another."
Since Barbara understood, she continued,
"How can time be linear if the flow of time moves in different directions?"

"Good question. I never thought about it that way."

"There's a lot more to time than what I have said, but each person has
a purpose in life. Sometimes it has to do with history, while to others
it is the future. For example, a historian's path is towards the past. Like
my life, I did all I could to learn about my life before I had to leave
because Palpatine wanted to kill my Sister and me."

Barbara asked,
"So you weren't killed right after you were born?"
She laughed,
"Of course not, or you wouldn't be here talking to me."

"I was, and I wasn't."