A small shuttle comes out of hyperspace near the planet of Ord Pardron. After one orbit, the ship enters the atmosphere and lands near the head quarters of the Uni-Sol smuggliong corporation. The shuttle powers down and it appears that there is no life inside. It simply sits there, near the main building, awaiting the only person that has access to open the hatch.

"Miss Jai, I swear...it just landed, pretty as you please, right on the sidewalk."

"That's crazy, Todd. Ships don't just slip into Ord Pardron and land!"

"Well...come see for yourself, Ma'am."

Jai sighed at the security guard on duty, Todd Parsil...Jai thought he needed to switch to decaf, and soon. She flipped off her desk com and rolled her eyes as she stood up, and headed for the office door.
"Jumpy jumpy jumpy...nobody trusts anything anymore. Geez."
With that, Jai went down to investigate.



"I told you so, Jaina."

"So you did. Hmm."

Jai and Todd stood stareing at the box shaped ship before them on the sidewalk just outside of Uni-Sol's HeadQuarters building.

"Absurb. Who would pull a prank like this?"

"I dunno, Ma'am, but we've tried everything to open it...seems to be some sort of finger-scan lock. And ya know only a person with thier fingerprints just so can open it."

"Yeah, I know."

Jai walked up to the craft and encirled it once, finding the finger-lock pad. She brushed her finertips over it and the loading ramp clicked, hissed, and began to open.

The ramp lowered to the ground with a loud groan. It was obviously a very old ship in need of some serious repair, but it had held together during the journey and that's what mattered. At first it seemed that there were no occupants, but shortly after the ramp lowdered, something jumped out and tackled Jaina. There was a string of huttese coming from it. When everything calmed down it was determined that the creature that had emerged was in fact a little human girl. She was about three and a half feet tall with long brown hair and blue eyes. She was covered in dust from head to toe and her clothes were a little tattered. She continued to speak in huttese nonstop as she looked at Jaina. The only posession she had with her was a small red duffel bag.

Jai was caught off guard by the young girl as she was tackled, but knew her the instant she got a good look at the child. It was the Sunfire's little girl, no doubt about that.

"Little Miss Sunfire!", Jai blurted out in Basic. Then she remembered...the Sunfire's had spoken Huttese and very broken Huttese at that. The slave-family hadn't been taught proper speech by thier Hutt master, obviously.

Slave-family...what an awful thing that was. Jai remembered that there was tons of them back on Tattooine. She had been a slave once herself, that's how she knew of the Tattooinian slaves.
She had been tricked deviously by a Hutt who held a grudge to the whole Solo family, Han most of all. She had been enslaved a year and a half on the desert planet...her first taste of smuggleing. She was the personal, private "supply runner" for the Hutt that had captured her, but she made her time there productive.
Jai had smuggled valuble goods and extra clothes and toys to the enslaved families that lived in the town and village settlements near the Hutt's palace. It was there that she had befriended the SunFire's and thier infant daughter.

But why was the girl here now? Jai couldn't remember much of the Huttese that she'd been taught over the months of her enslavement, but she tried her best to ask the young girl who she was (just to make sure) and why she had come...

The young girl stood and moved back a little bit. She handed the small bag to Jaina and started babbling in huttese again. THe gist of it was that Jaina was supposed to look in the bag. Inside the bag was a datapad with an inserted datacard. The message was actually in basic. During the years since Jaina had left Tatooine, Andris Sunfire had spent time with a young man in the desert that had taught him basic. He appeared tired and it was obvious that he was worried.


Jaina, is me, Andris. You 'member me? We have problem. Hutt is being worse than 'fore. He hurting all slaves. We need get away. But.....can only pay passage for one. So....we send you Zoe. She has longer life. She can be more. We get her out. Please make sure she safe. We try to get off soon, but don't think so. Zoe need you, Jaina. Please help her. I.......wait......

in the bacground is a sudden commotion, there's an explosion and blaster shots and then the screen goes blank. Zoe looks up at you with tears in her eyes and says, in huttese, that her parents are gone.

Jai's brow had creased a bit with concern as she watched Andris' message, and when it was over she looked to Zoe. Poor girl...just a child and all alone in the world. It was a shame.

Jai knelt down next to the little girl and put a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry, young one.", she said.

Then a thought hit her about what Andris had said, and it scared the hell of of her. Quickly she asked Zoe why she had come to her...

Zoe continued to babble on in Huttese

(everything in bold is the translation)

Papa sent me. He put me in the little ship and told it where to go and said that no one could open the ship but you. He said that I was only supposed to talk to you. That.....you're my mama now.

Zoe looked down at her feet and sniffled

I understand if you don't want me.

"M...m...m-ma....N...n-new....New Mama?"

Jai turned a pale shade of green and looked really close to hurling. Then suddenly her eyes rolled back in her head, and she fell promptly on her arse, out cold, totally unconscience.

She was eighteen years old, what did one expect her to do? An independant, single, sexy teen hottie suddenly saddled with a kid? That she barely knew, and could hardly communicate with?! It was too much for Solo, so she just blacked out. Plain and simple.

When Jaina passed out, Zoe did not panic as most children would have. She sighed heavily and grabbed her bags. She could tell when she was not wanted and she did not want to be a burden to Jaina. She leaned down and kissed Jaina on the cheek, then started to walk off. She had no idea where she was going to go or what she was going to do, but it was obvious that she needed to be somewhere else.

Jai wasn't one to blackout for long, and awoke almost as quick as she had gone. She sat up, blinked, and saw Zoe walking away from her. She guessed instantly what the girl was doing and grabbed the back of her shirt, holding her back.

"Zoe...", she said softly. She didn't know how to saw what she wanted to in Huttese and make it sound as sincere as she was, but her intense brandy brown eyes did the talking for her. They showed compassion, fondness, and understanding...and that Jai didn't want her to go.
"Stay.", she said simply.