Leia woke up to being poked with a cane in the leg. "hmm..." Leia grumbled, she nearly threw her pillow at Yoda, but slowly she came to, opening her eyes to the small green creature poking her in the leg. "Wake up, you must."

She looked around the hut, the dried herbs still on the wall, barely lit by the sun trying desperately trying to peek through the canopy, and almost forgot where it is she was, through her parched lips came the words, "Yoda?"

From the old Jedi master was a HMMPH! He was not pleased with his new apprentice, sleeping the day away. The master's face was unreadable to Leia, she didn't recognize the species, but her political training told her to know better than to ask. "I'm sorry, I'll wake up now."

"Yes, wake up you must, training we have."

"Training? Now?"

That reply received another whack from the cane, "Ow!"

Yoda replied, "Train when? When you are dead? Yes now."

Leia rubbed her leg where she had been swatted with the cane, somehow she doubted that was how he trained Jedi when he was younger. But then, no one knew much about the Jedi, they were for thousands of years surrounded in mystery. Yoda silently started walking towards the water's edge, motioning for her to come to him. "To me, your back turned."

"Okay, but no funny business."

Yoda cackled, "Funny I am not!" Leia heard some slight scratching, and after a few moments Yoda spoke again, "What have I drawn in the ground?"

Leia attempted to turn around to look, another whack, this time on the hand. She drew her fingers to her mouth, "Your back turned, peeking you may not!"

"Well how am I supposed to know what you've drawn!"

Leia could almost see Yoda's face crinkling up behind her, then soften, "Through the force, see you will."

Leia rolled her head around, attempting to use her new-found abilities. She was reminded of a similar game she used to play with the other children on Alderaan, children would hold up a certain number of fingers and with your eyes closed guess how many. Leia always won that game, which caused everyone in the neighbourhood to believe she was a cheater, no matter how much she protested. It wasn't until Mayli, a neighbourhood girl she used to play with, had her mother go to complain to Leia's father about his daughter's alleged cheating that caused Bail to become overly angry. Leia never understood why he was so mad at her for it, surely he knew that she was no cheater. Now Leia realized why he was so angry, he was afraid that someone would learn that she was in fact force sensitive. A dangerous thing to be.

Pretending this to be another game, Leia reached out and focused on the ground, attempting to quiet the mind. She was surprised when she began to see an image, fuzzy like a hologram coming through heavy interference. It was a triangle, no she thought as it became clearer. "A ship."

"Turn around"

Leia did so and saw that she was right, a smile crept up on her face, a constant over achiever she was very pleased with herself. "Again." Leia smiled and turned her back once more. This time the figure much clearer, she knew it well, "The Senate Building". Yoda nodded, "good, good."

Yoda starting walking through the thick jungle, motioning for Leia to follow. She noticed Yoda struggling to keep up, partly due to what she guessed was age, and his short stature, again her political training made her unsure to ask if she could help, as it may offend. "Help me, you wish to ask? This old being?"

"I didn't want to offend you."

"Offend me not, lessens the ego, age does. Taking your aid, I would agree." Leia knelt down for Yoda to climb up, he sighed in relief. "Not the young Jedi I once was."

"What was it like? The Order? I only ever heard stories from dad."

Yoda was very silent, Leia regretting asking, knowing what had happened there. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

Yoda shook his head, "Sorry? Apologize not, The Order, my home was. Yes, home."

Yoda cleared his throat, and pointed to a small clearing. "Here"

Leia dropped Yoda off on the ground, "Sit, sit."

The two both sat down, drawing their legs up in a criss cross. "Trained many young Jedi, I have, " Yoda nodded to himself, resting his chin on his hand, "Lightsaber is your life, I told them." Leia unhooked Luke's lightsaber and held it out, to look at it. Through using this weapon, it was keeping Luke's memory alive with her. "Many Padawan's made their journey to Illum, create their own saber they did."

"Will I do that?"

Yoda looked off to the left, in thought, "Perhaps."

"Stand up, engage the lightsaber."

Leia did as she was told, it still amazed her, the blue light emanating from the hilt made the entire jungle glow. Yoda walked over and using his cane moved her body into position. He made a HMMPH noise until he was pleased with the stance. Yoda walked over to a small bag and took out a grey sphere. "What is that?"

"Training, deflect the bolts you will."

Leia's eyebrow cocked upwards, "Surely you're joking, no one can deflect a blaster bolt, it's too fast!"

"Do or do not. There is no try" Yoda replied

"That doesn't even mean anything!" Leia rolled her eyes so hard she thought they would see the back of her head. She scolded herself silently to stop behaving like a teenager.

He turned on the sphere and clicked it on, and it began to hum and lift itself into the air. Leia remarked that it looked like a children's toy. "A children's toy, for a childish temperament!" Yoda replied to her thoughts.

Leia laughed, "alright, I get it. I'm sorry."

The sphere struck back and zapped her arm, which winced. "Hey! I wasn't ready!"

Yoda lifted his cane and pointed at her direction, "Ready not, the enemy cares. Now, use what I taught you."

Leia stretched her neck, and raised her saber in the form she had just learned minutes prior. To her amazement, when she focused she could feel where the shots would fire before they happened. "How, is that possible" she wondered out loud. "Through the force, anything is possible." Leia smiled widely, she liked to succeed more than anything. At first she only hit every third blast, then every other blast. Soon she was confidently deflecting every single one. She hardly noticed that the sun had moved from being on top of her to almost disappearing from the canopy. She decided to change her grip slightly to something more comfortable, moving her weapon a little more loosely, shifted her weight. She was deflecting bolts very easily, she wondered if she could choose where to deflect the bolts like a blaster. The tree to her left? BING! The bush to her right? BING! She felt a wave of power over herself, she felt more powerful than she had ever felt before. She wondered what Luke had felt like taking down the Death Star, now she knew. She felt like she could...do anything.

Yoda lifted the sphere and turned it off. Leia noticed a sadness in him, she supposed that he was remembering his own past, she figured he was a teacher before as he was to her now. "A natural your father was as well. Many things, easily they came."

"Tell me more about him, my father never spoke much about him."

Yoda shook his head, "Tired, very tired. Must rest."

"No more training?"

"No"

Leia was slightly disappointed, she wanted more. But she nodded and followed him back to his cramped hut.

Looking into her muddled reflection in the root stew she decided to press again, "Yoda, why won't you talk to me about my real father?"

"Long time ago, it was." Yoda fidgeted, poking at the fire.

Leia frowned, and placed the bowl beside her, and crawled to her blankets and laid down, her eyes staring into the fire. She wasn't going to get any answers tonight, she closed her eyes wondering about the past she never knew.