Family Ties

[Lilaena De'Ville]

The first thing she realized when she woke up was that her head was killing her. The second thing she realized was that she was crying.

Wiping her face, a black smear of makeup transferring to the back of her hand, Lilaena looked around. She was lying on a bunk, a thin grey blanket thrown over her. She was wearing the filthy clothes that she'd been wearing on Duros.

Duros.

Jax!

She sat up, nearly hitting her head on the ceiling of the niche the bunk was built into. Surrounded by the hum of a ship's engines, she realized that she was not on My Vengence, her TIE Avenger, headed towards Onderon and Silus Xilarian. Nor was Jax, her five year old son, anywhere nearby. Probably not on the ship at all.

She turned slowly and painfully to her side, looking out into the small cabin, seeing a shadowy figure seated across the room from her. Lilaena drew back, pressing against the bulkhead behind her. Who was it? What had happened there at the end, on Duros?