Tahiri turned bright red and ducked her head for a moment or two; she might be blunt, but in some ways she was still incredibly easily embarrassed.

"I --" She started to speak, and suddenly realized that I want her gone wasn't what she wanted to say. "What I said back then, in the shaper's compound, about wanting to feel whole again . . . that's what I want. I'm tired of being half of one thing and half of another. I don't want to be pulled in two directions at once."

She took a deep breath and continued more slowly. "Anakin had a vision of me, grown up, Yuuzhan Vong, and a dark-side Force user. He came after me by himself to keep that from happening."

In my world, half of that never comes true, Ben had said.

"I won't let it happen either."