Thyla was standing by Hera, watching her daughter converse with Ezra and Sabine. Zeb had started mingling with some of the others and Kanan was still talking with the Pantorian (Hera couldn't remember her name). Chopper was... well, being Chopper.

As they stood together, Thyla hesitated before quietly asking, "How... how did you meet him? Ezra?"

"By chance, really. We were stealing food for a refugee town on Lothal and he tried to steal them from us. One thing led to another, and now he's a part of our crew," she remembered, crossing her arms. "Of course, if you asked him or Kanan, they'd say it was the will of the Force. I still don't really understand what that means."

"I'd ask, but if you don't know..."

"You've heard of the Force?" Hera asked, surprised. "Most people I know have never heard of it unless they've met a Jedi before."

Shaking her head, Thyla looked at the captain. "I've heard of it, but I have no idea what it is. Not really."

Hera chuckled, leaning up against a counter. "I know how you feel." She glanced over at Kanan, knowing she was going to butcher this explanation but wanting to try anyway. "From what I can tell, the Force... wants certain things to happen. It has some kind of influence over Jedi."

"What kind of things?"

"I have no idea," she admitted, groaning. "Most of the time, it's something good, but I don't know what it wants."

Thyla looked away again, back at the kids. She stared for a long time, not responding to Hera. It took a minute, but Hera figured out that her eyes were trained on Soka, her daughter. "What is it?"

She looked down, then laughed at herself sadly. "You know, we really should have seen this coming. We name our daughter after her, and a few years later..."

"She has the Force," Hera guessed quietly.

"We've never told her," Thyla whispered. "She calls them her superpowers because we haven't told her there's a name for it. I've begged her not to use them outside the shop in case the Empire sees her. I don't know if she listens."

Hera looked at Soka again. So far, she hadn't used the Force in the presence of the rebels. If she knew the Jedi had the Force, she'd be asking Ezra all kinds of questions, she reasoned. She has no idea. "There's a Jedi Knight in the Rebellion," she told Thyla, "a good one. He could help her."

To her surprise, Thyla shook her head. "I'm glad some of them survived, but they're still in danger. All of them, even your friends. If anyone, even Jedi, find out she has the Force, she could die."

"They'll take care of her."

"And what if they die? What does she do then?"

She couldn't answer that. Skywalker didn't talk about any other Jedi, at least not to Hera. Maybe there was another Jedi friend that might be able to help if something happened to him, but if not, Kanan and Ezra were the only other people that might be able to do something.

"She's safer here than anywhere else," Thyla insisted, looking around. "The Empire doesn't have as strong a presence on Alderaan because of the Rebellion. They won't look for her if they never have a reason to."

"I certainly hope so, but if I've learned anything about Jedi recently, it's that reason doesn't always win out in the end. Some things happen whether they're supposed to or not."