Seraphina’s dreams always started out the same. She was in a gray room; a cell of some sort. She could hear screams of torture coming from somewhere in the building. And no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get out of the cell. It was as though it was specially designed to hold her there forever.
The screams always sounded familiar. Sometimes it was more than one voice screaming in pain. This time, it was three voices that screamed in agony, begging for the pain to stop. And Seraphina found herself crying in that tiny cell. Pleading for the pain to stop though she was not the one being tortured.
And then her dream would change. This time, her eyes were closed and she could feel something soft underneath her. When she opened her eyes, six faces stared down at her. The faces were familiar, but she couldn’t place them. It was like she had seen them many, many years ago.
“Where am I?” she asked.
An older man smiled at her. “That will be revealed in time.”
A young woman helped her up. “You’ve been gone for so long.” She said. “But we hope you will come home someday.”
“Home?” Seraphina asked.
A man slightly older than the woman laughed. “You’ll see, Seraphina.”
Seraphina scanned the area. She felt like this was a place she knew but couldn’t place from memory when she had been there. They were on an island with an ocean stretching as far as she could see around the island. As Seraphina desperately tried to remember what this place was called, a name came to mind.
“Ahch-To,” she whispered. Spinning around, she asked, “Is this Ahch-To?”
But the people were gone. Instead, a man wearing black and carrying a red saber stalked towards her. Seraphina instinctively took a step back and reached for her own saber that wasn’t there. As the figure walked menacingly towards her, fear rose up inside her. She tried to shove it down but to no avail.
When the man reached her, he didn’t strike like she expected him to. Instead, he pushed out of the way where a platoon of Stormtroopers stood nearby and caught her, holding the Jedi in their firm grasp. When Seraphina saw who the figure was walking towards, she screamed.
Dabir, Nathan, and another girl stood at the edge of a cliff, watching as the man prepared to kill them. Dabir engaged the man in combat, only to be struck down. Seraphina let out a scream at seeing her master cut by the saber. Nathan did his best to protect the girl who looked terrified. Her black hair hung in tangles down her back. Her amber eyes were wide with fear.
The man struck down Nathan and the girl, causing Seraphina to scream again, louder this time as she struggled against the hold of her subjugators. This got the dark man’s attention.
He walked over to her and extinguished his blade. “We got what we came for.” He said in a deep voice and the Stormtroopers shoved her towards a waiting shuttle. A tremor shook the island, causing Seraphina, the Stormtroopers, and the black man to stumble. A voice pierced Seraphina’s mind, shocking her.
“Seraphina! Seraphina!” it cried desperately. “Wake up!”
Seraphina’s eyes shot open and she saw Nathan kneeling in front of her, shaking her shoulders. His deep blue eyes sparkled with relief. “Are you alright?”
Seraphina nodded. “What’s going on?”
“We were close to reaching Corellia when we got pulled out of hyperspace.” Nathan informed her.
Seraphina furrowed her brow. “Is that even possible?”
“Apparently so. We still don’t know who pulled us off course but I’ve got a pretty good idea who.”
“The First Order.” Seraphina whispered.
“Yeah. And this is not gonna be fun.” Nathan said as their ship was pulled into the hangar of a Star Destroyer.