Forgotten, But Not Lost

Chapter 30

The galaxy was starting to chatter about the infamous First Order, war was coming to the planets that lay within. No one wanted to be ruled by the First Order, but they had indeed grown immensely over the past few years. Supreme Leader Snoke had made a name for himself, while he sent out his minions to do his bidding. No one had actually seen the Supreme Leader himself, only in holograms. There was talk about a Resistance standing up for the galaxy that was secretly being backed by the New Republic.

A year had passed since the encounter with Kylo Ren, Amar had not heard a word from him. She had assumed he had forgotten about her and had moved on with his duties of being the Master to the Knights of Ren. Amar was saddened by the fact that he so quickly brushed her off, even though to be fair, he wasn't exactly privy to the fact of who she was exactly. Amar really thought the force would make things right, but if she had to be honest she was losing her faith just a tad.

She had spent the last year going over more training with the girls, they did daily runs through the jungle in the morning before Amar had to go to work at the den. The jungle was full with the force and it gave the twins some extra help connecting to it. Amar was very impressed with her girls, they were very strong willed with the force, but to be expected with their parents. She did carry worry that since she had left the Jedi ways only after turning 19, that she may not be able to teach them everything that they needed. For all Amar knew she was the only person left that knew and practice some of the Jedi ways.

Amar had heard rumors that Master Skywalker had lived and gone into exile, but no one knew where. That was of course a surprise to her, especially since Ben had told her what had happened and how he thought he had been killed by the fall of the hut. Amar had tried reaching out to Master Luke many times but failed to reach him, maybe they were just hopeful rumors.

Amar was on her own when it came to furthering her younglings teachings, they were 5 years old and would need to find lightsabers for the girls. That would be a very intense challenge, considering word was spreading of the First Order consuming Ilum and taking it over to build some kind of base. The crystals were far and few between with the planet taken out of the equation. Amar would have to be on the lookout at the antiquities den, she knew that Dok housed a fallen Jedi's lightsaber from back when the republic first fell. If Amar could at least find raw crystals that would be better, unfortunately it looked like the girls would never have an opportunity for their crystals to call for them, but who knew. If Amar had her saber, at least she could show them and then trade off with it, so they could gain some experience, but Snoke had kept that from her. Amar assumed she would never see her saber again.

Amar felt useless without her Jedi weapon, but she knew that was not what made the Jedi special. Amar did not even consider herself a Jedi, more so someone who practiced in the Jedi ways. She did not agree with all of the teachings and restrictions for the order, if they hadn't been so strict in certain areas, Amar believed it could have saved a few people from turning to the dark side. Amar taught her younglings what she believed to be important, she did not want her girls to live a life being suppressed for having emotion and feelings towards anyone.

The idea of keeping a private school on Batuu always interested Amar, but she feared since Snoke kept tabs on her, that it may be too dangerous, but the First Order was getting bigger and harder to manage. Maybe, Amar and the girls could easily slip through his fingers and go unnoticed. If Amar could get the girls off this planet and find the Resistance and explain to them what had happened, that could change the tides...

On Amar's way to work she began to sense another force sensitive being that now resided in the outpost. She was quick to locate the being, they happened to be in Dok's den. As Amar entered the building, she was met with an overwhelming feeling of the force and one of familiarity, but upon seeing the being, she knew they had never met before. There were two strangers standing in center of the den, waiting to be seen. One was a Togruta and that was the one that carried the intense force connection and the other was what seemed to be a Mandalorian.

"Hello, how can I help you?" Amar politely asked the strangers.

The Togruta was the one that spoke first to Amar, as the Mandalorian stood slightly behind her.

"Actually, we are in search of an item. We had heard that you carried a Scout Trooper helmet from the Empire days. It belonged to a friend of ours and we would love to buy it back from you. My name is Ahsoka and this is my companion Sabine."

Amar felt through the force to find a peaceful nature within this Ahsoka, which meant she may know something about the Jedi and could come handy to Amar. Amar also knew of that item they spoke of, it was a Scout Trooper helmet, but it was different. It was colorful like someone had tagged it afterwards and created art of it.

Amar smiled and led them to the wall that it hung on.

"Ah, Sabine, there is it. I can't believe it. The art has really stood the test of time." Ahsoka declared to Sabine.

Amar never knew or could find out any information about this helmet, it had been there ever since she started working there. It was the only item in the den that stumped Amar and now to have people interested in it, she had to know why.

"Not to pry or anything, but this is like the one item I know nothing about, please can you tell me what you know about this?" Amar almost seemed like she was pleading to them.

The Mandalorian Sabine scoffed and turned away, whereas Ahsoka smiled.

"Don't worry about her, she's just offended, since it's her art on the helmet. This helmet belonged to someone who is special to us and was a Rebellion hero back in the early days of the Empire."

Amar was so intrigued by all the information that she did not know this helmet possessed.

"Wow, I cannot believe I did not know that, how cool! Apparently, my father was a Rebellion hero as well. It's a shame this helmet was here all this time and I never knew, but I do now." Amar stated to Ahsoka, but what she said had sparked more interest to the strangers.

Sabine turned back to the group and was now interested in what Amar had just said.

"Rebellion hero huh? What was his name?" Sabine asked Amar.

Amar asked herself if this was a good idea to tell them, but I mean if they were part of the Rebellion then maybe they knew of the Resistance, that could benefit Amar and the twins.

"Uh, I mean I never met him, but I was told that his name was Ezra Bridger." Amar said but it came out as more of a whisper.

Ahsoka and Sabine looked like they had just been stunned by blasters by what they had just heard Amar tell them. No one spoke for what seemed like minutes. Finally, Ahsoka built up the courage to continue the conversation.

"What did you say your name was again, dear?" Ahsoka gently asked Amar.

"Amar, Amar Bridger."

Ahsoka and Sabine looked at each other and then smiled and stared right back at Amar.