The Unchronicled Adventures Of Ahsoka Tano, Book Five

Chapter Five: Meet Chenai Offee

AHSOKA TANO

“And are you related to Barriss Offee?” Ahsoka asked, her goggles masking her crazed look, for she was very much afraid of the answer.

“Why, yes – I am,” Chenai Offee said. “Did you know my sister? She was a Jedi.” 

“I did, but she betrayed me, and the Jedi. I think she’s in prison now.” Waves of pain washed over her even at the most casual mention of what Barriss had done to her.

“Prison!” Chenai sat back in her seat with a thud. “Prison. I never expected that from her.”

“Neither did I: I thought she was my friend. I’m sorry.” Even though her first instinct was not to trust Chenai, she still felt pity towards her.

Just then, the speeder arrived at the border of the ray shield that had been installed around camp to protect it from meteor showers. Chenai leaned forwards to ask, “Are we there? I don’t see anything out of place.”

“Good,” she said with a smirk. “You aren’t supposed to.”

They got out of the vehicle and hid it in the bushes, with Ahsoka keeping the girl under close scrutiny. There was something about the way she carried herself, the way that she held her head up, the grace in her movement… it made her think of a Jedi Master.

She dismissed the feeling. This Chenai girl was nothing more than Barriss’s sister. That was no reason for her to have had Jedi training, and she knew it. Or was it?

Ahsoka slowed her speed until she was walking next to her. There was no room for doubt in the New Jedi Order, except for what was on the lunch menu. It’s just best to ask, she thought.

“Hey, Chenai,” she said. The girl looked up at the sound of her name. “I was just wondering – something about you makes me think of a Jedi Knight. Did you get any kind of training?”

Chenai looked startled. “Yes – I did. It was discovered two years after my sister had been that I was Force-sensitive. But I am no longer a Jedi – even if I did receive the training. But you are,” she said.

Ahsoka was momentarily taken aback, but then she remembered her lightsabers that were swinging merrily at her hip. It was obvious that she was a Jedi. “Yes. I left on my own free will. And I regret it, but I can see that it was meant to happen.”

“Why?”

She smiled mysteriously. “You’ll see soon enough.” She parted the curtain of vines, and led her into the camp.