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As Leh’ threw the pastries up a woman fell down and threw up. She kicked and flailed, her carpet marks both jagged and surreal. An oreo donut stuck to vomit in her hair. Parents circled her and one even tried CPR. At the table further back, Jade sang in the child’s ear, “Count the Mommies and...

Jade smiled at Leh’. OK. Here's your antidote. It's all yours. She removed a pill from her pocket and set it on the table and switched off the forcefield. The pill seesawed on the table in little half-circles, rolling with the grains of wood before settling in a groove. It was a blue...

On hearing Leh’s voice, Jade’s eyes parted the crowd like a tiger dashing between trees. She knee-bobbed the kid, maintaining her perky smile. “Welcome, Lemonade was it? Friend of Jedi.” Cleared her throat. “Though I admit I’m a bit confused. We have space stations blowing up, school board...

The crowd muttered along. “Jade! Jade! Answer me this!”—a wild-eyed woman pushed her way forward—”Two years ago before you were on the board, were you teaching your kindergarteners magic?” The crowd responded: “It’s not magic. It’s the force!” “Those allegations are bullshit. That kid just...

A school in a city on Verona… Standing room only. That meant no emergency exits or first aid kits. Or panic buttons or bank vaults. And definitely no automated external defibrillators. Not that that would help. Box fans humidified sweat into tropical mists. The floor was sticky. The ceiling...

They called it the “tree tunnel”. It was a tunnel composed of broken branches, leaves, and tree bark, woven together so its thick layers blocked out most sunlight. Jade had trekked miles into the forest to see it. Finally here, she peered into it and stepped inside. Filtered patterns of light...

Jade twirled on her toes, the force flowing throughout, before dancing over to sit beside Hera. She ran her fingertips over Hera's armor, the weave clicking as her nails tapped against them. Then Hera's question came. Jade tensed up, hunching up her shoulders and lowering her head into her lap...

“Wouldn’t you get in trouble? I was officially exiled by the Jedi. Don’t you need someone’s approval?” she asked. Jade gave the Justicar another good look, squinting into his pupils as if she could pressure the answer to leak out of them. She chewed her nails. She hadn’t expected him to offer to...

“I can’t do anything right,” Jade said. She tried to levitate the package that Rath had brought with him. It rose in the air, hovered towards them, and plunged like an overloaded cargo ship into the ground. Jade frowned. When she was a little girl she had loved counting the stars. She would gaze...

Jade took off her holes-in-the-heel socks and holes-in-the-end shoes and rested her tired feet on the soft moss. She smiled at her feet and tried to make them smile back, wiggling her toes one by one. Then, nodding at Brutus’ explanation, she said, “Have you ever fought the Sith? Were you there...

Jade let Hera hold her hands like a little girl, and the force flowed through them both. It felt warm, like someone was piping pure bubblebath water into her being. She closed her eyes and imagined herself back at Yavin IV, the comfort and safety of Master Silex, breathing, slow, steady...

Jade watched Hera flow. At first, the girl seemed confused. She had never seen someone move as Hera did. It looked like an interpretive dance, except that the ground shuffled to the dance's rhythm. Before Jade's very eyes, this crazy woman was burying a corpse with the force. It seemed...

Jade didn't even hear the woman approach. When Hera put hands on her, her eyes blanked, her throat dried. She wobbled and trembled but stayed rooted. Gripping her neck she started struggling against something, maybe her breakfast of orange spiky peppers or maybe the winds of destiny for all...

Black Kashyyykian dirt dug into her toenails. History lived here. Way back, the Sith space weapon had rained pure hell on this planet. Now, that steady glow of orange was replaced by fields of flowers and rays of heavenly light, sprucing up the area postcard-style. Jade the Jedi Exile was in...

Jade reached out and grabbed Dash’s hand. A gust of wind unwound more braids of hair, brushing her cheekbones. She looked at him through her bangs, feeling him through the force. The air seemed thicker than ever as the sun wrapped around them and melted off the shadows. She gulped and sniffed...

Jade nodded and absorbed Brutus's teachings, plumping down on some lime colored moss opposite him. She wasn't sure when she would use his knowledge, but she was thankful that anyone was teaching her anything. It was unlikely someone would ambush her, but now at least she'd be somewhat prepared...

She gulped. It felt like she was choking on her own tongue. Summoning up some courage, she deactivated her lightsaber and followed his gaze to the trees. A lot of branches were falling now, partly due to the storm, but also because Kashyyyk Blue Primates were up there scampering across the...

Jade went and got her lightsaber. It had deactivated after she'd thrown it away. She returned and sat down on the ground across from Brutus and listened to him carefully. The less said, the better. She tried reaching out with the force to strengthen her weapon. The hilt vibrated as the mystical...

Jade watched the Justicar’s lightsaber fly there and back like some acrobatic drone used in fireworks displays. Its arc of flight printed on her retina as burning afterimages. Red fires and glowing trees, smoke and sweat and fur and... Jade blinked, and blinked again. Then she forced herself to...

Jade stopped shoveling at Dash’s question. She frowned at him for a long moment as if contemplating how much of herself was safe to dig up. “The Jedi said that me and my master Silex lied, that we had no remorse.” She shook her head and dug the shovel’s tip into the dirt with her heel. “They’d...