Keep Your Guard Up (ON HIATUS)

Chapter 7

A/N: sorry it's taken me so long to upload on this book! I've been trying to update 'We both know, what we know' so it can catch up with this book, so it took a while to update this.

Accalia strode down the halls, her cape sweeping behind her. Jesse and Echo shuffled next her, eyes locked on the target. This base had long been abandoned, and she couldn't blame the rebels. Horex III isn't the nicest place in the galaxy. Echo and Jesse split, running into opposite rooms. She walked ahead, to where she believed the quarters would be. She kept walking until the force told her to stop, so she did. She looked to the left, and saw there was a door there. She opened it, as stepped inside, and what she saw made her heart lurch in her chest. A small zeltron child, not even 4, was huddled in the corner, her eyes filled with fear. She stopped and looked at her. She guessed her parents were rebels, who forgot her in the rush to leave. Some parents, she thought. She crouched down, and offered her hand to the child. The child looked her up and down, and slowly reached out, taking her hand. Accalia slowly stood up, and walked out, guiding the child.

"Jesse!" The old clone snapped his head around. "Yes, Commander?" She was truly their general, but Accalia didn't mind the clones calling her that. But the last time a natural human called her that, his head ended up 6 feet away from his body. "Take this child, I want you to drop her off at Zeltros son our way back to Coruscant."
"Yes sir." He did a small mock salute, which Accalia also didn't mind, and gently nudged the girl onto the ship. She looked back at the base, tyn strode onto the ship, gangplank closing behind her.

Whether the little girl knows it or not, we may or may not have accidentally saved the galaxy.