Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

by Claudia Gray

Qui-Gon stands in the cave. The orange crystals glitter around him, reflecting a source of light he cannot see. Then the crystals darken, turning red—as though with Sith fire. He hears a scream. No, several screams. He can no longer see the crystals, because the cave has turned white. Has turned glorious, with gilded walls and a glass ceiling that looks up at the sky. Beneath his feet are midnight-blue tiles. And ahead of him, he glimpses the colorless image of a blazing lightsaber superimposed over Princess Fanry’s face. “The Skykeeper!” someone shouts. Qui-Gon looks for whoever spoke—looks for anything he will recognize or understand—but he looks in vain. Another voice shrieks in terror as the lightsaber slashes downward. In the very far distance he hears somebody say, very calmly, “Even the Jedi can fall”—

Qui-Gon's vision