"...hey, mom.  I dunno...Sleep-forcestuff?  ...I'm not leaving you behind.  You might not be at my side but - you're always going to be my mom."

They lie there for a while, not saying much, just taking in what's happened.

"...yeah, it's been a lot, all at once, hasn't it?  I...think I should probably make sure no-one's waiting on me for Jedi things, but...meet me for lunch, maybe?  ...Do you know why Padmé was here?  I swear I felt her yesterday but I was...uh.  A bit distracted.  There are so many books."

"I don't know anything about Padmé being here," says Shmi, as the door opens, revealing Qui-Gon.

"Shmi, have you - ah, that explains it. Kina, we're going to be skipping the standard Force exercises with you, but there are quite a few other things to teach you. Yoda is going to show you some basic meditation exercises that the Jedi use for self-control, and later today you should start your lightsaber training."

"Oh!  Qui-Gon!  Hi!  ...Was Padmé in the Temple yesterday?  I swear I felt her.  But, uh...didn't go looking then.  Because, y'know, books?"  That is actually a statement, despite the questioning intonation it takes - Kina's just not sure how much Qui-Gon agrees with her about the goodness of words yet.

"And yeah that sounds reasonable!"

"Padmé probably came in with the Queen, she was reporting some chaos in the Senate. Come on, you might be late."

Late?  For learning?  Oh no!  Kina hasn't learned Force Speed yet, but from the way she moves to prepare you'd be forgiven for assuming otherwise!

Aaaaand... that's why you don't run in the halls? Kina flies towards another student, and while they do both try to step out of the way, they both step in the same direction, and they collide.

"Oh dear Force are you alright I'm so sorry I'm normally better about that but I wasn't paying attention but I think I still get there on time so I don't know why Qui-Gon said hurry -" Kina is going to at least help them up!

She seems to be okay, if dazed. "Who are you?"

"Kina!  Who're you?"

"Bultar Swan," she says. "I don't think I've seen you before?"

"I don't think you would've, I don't believe I'm in any year-normal classes right now?"

"What do you mean? You're at an advanced level?"

"And I have almost no idea how to use this," she points at her lightsaber, "but it's stuck to me like glue.  No normal classes!"

"Is that a real lightsaber?" asks Swan, impressed. "You've already made one?"

"I wouldn't really say I made it, more, um, confiscated it from someone who really shouldn't have had one himself.  And then Force stuff happened?  And the crystals like me, apparently, and I'm not just going to - abandon them, y'know?"

"Wow. What class are you heading to?"

"...I don't actually know, I'm just starting on this one?  Apparently Master Yoda is supposed to be teaching meditation there?  And uh he's over that way a ways, so I should probably, um, get going; long way to go yet!  It was nice meeting you!"

And unless there are parting comments...Well, off Kina goes!

Kina finds herself in a small, somewhat dark room, where Yoda stands in front of several younglings. "Kina! Good to see you, it is!"

"Master Yoda.  Good to see you, as well."  Her response quiet, Kina gives a respectful head-dip as she finds somewhere to sit for the lesson.

"Meditating, we are. An important way to steady one's spirit, it is. Close your eyes, calm your mind."

And as the class quiets, Yoda begins to repeat the words of the Jedi Code.

There is no emotion, there is peace.

There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.

There is no passion, there is serenity.

There is no chaos, there is harmony.

There is no death, there is only the Force.

Kina...was meditating, probably.  Now she is not meditating, because that...does not sound right.  She's giving Yoda a look, instead.  That's, it's just, wrong.  Burying things like that...She tried; they come back, and worse more often than not, Yoda, so you had better have an explanation for this!  Though she's not sure how much of that actually gets across simply by giving a squinty calculating glare at him.

...If this is meditation class, she isn't going to learn anything from it except new and exciting ways people break.

...Though, she is the new girl...  "...Master Yoda?"  Her voice is quiet...but full of subtle determination.  "I don't think I've ever had emotion go away when I tried to...push it aside.  And um.  I don't think most people have emotions that work like that, either, really.  So...what is that supposed to mean?"

"A push, it is not. More of... a release. Within yourself, you must look, and all that troubles you, you must release. Hold you back from true peace, they can."