By now, Tenel Ka knew what was coming — she just didn't know what she would see. An important moment from their lives — would it be the loss of her arm, or something... something she had never seen before? In a way she had never realized before, Tenel Ka realized she dreaded the idea of seeing the future. That would make it immovable, unchangeable. And the idea that her future was immutable was unbearable.
Luckily, perhaps, it was neither. Instead the image that appeared before her was during the Yuuzhan Vong War — her preventing her father's assassination.
She remembers this as clearly as yesterday. Her father, the target of an assassination attempt, and she arrived just in time to thwart it. Here, in this new world, she had never said the word Jedi — no one knew of the power she had once been able to harness. No one knew of her lightsaber, her duty as one of the sworn protectorates of the galaxy who had served for a millennia. Since arriving she had been a person, one who contributed to the society they were in, but it was not the same as her role protecting the peace and order of the galaxy.
Now they saw her — dressed fully in Dathomiri lizard skin, her lightsaber quickly taking out two attackers, the way she switched it off in order to face the next foes bare-handed. They saw the way she moved with the Force, avoiding the blows of the assassins, kicking one down and avoiding the blows of the next until she tumbled head over heel and then quickly recovered to end up with her foot square in his chest, the man flying against the wall. Then they saw the last attack, and the way her lightsaber snapped to her hand and ended up at his neck in the blink of an eye, foe defeated.
And they saw how she did it all without losing her breath.
The vision ended, Tenel Ka looking at it stonily. What it did not show was more important— how she left the chamber, leaving those she knew (Jaina, Alema, Tahiri), and was soon alone with another woman. Teneniel Djo strongly resembled Tenel Ka, but at that point it was clear the other woman was dying. How she knew her grandmother was killing her mother.
Tenel Ka's past
Luckily, perhaps, it was neither. Instead the image that appeared before her was during the Yuuzhan Vong War — her preventing her father's assassination.
She remembers this as clearly as yesterday. Her father, the target of an assassination attempt, and she arrived just in time to thwart it. Here, in this new world, she had never said the word Jedi — no one knew of the power she had once been able to harness. No one knew of her lightsaber, her duty as one of the sworn protectorates of the galaxy who had served for a millennia. Since arriving she had been a person, one who contributed to the society they were in, but it was not the same as her role protecting the peace and order of the galaxy.
Now they saw her — dressed fully in Dathomiri lizard skin, her lightsaber quickly taking out two attackers, the way she switched it off in order to face the next foes bare-handed. They saw the way she moved with the Force, avoiding the blows of the assassins, kicking one down and avoiding the blows of the next until she tumbled head over heel and then quickly recovered to end up with her foot square in his chest, the man flying against the wall. Then they saw the last attack, and the way her lightsaber snapped to her hand and ended up at his neck in the blink of an eye, foe defeated.
And they saw how she did it all without losing her breath.
The vision ended, Tenel Ka looking at it stonily. What it did not show was more important— how she left the chamber, leaving those she knew (Jaina, Alema, Tahiri), and was soon alone with another woman. Teneniel Djo strongly resembled Tenel Ka, but at that point it was clear the other woman was dying. How she knew her grandmother was killing her mother.
For that omission, at least, she was grateful.