Waking up to seeing my 'mother' hovering over me was not how I expected my day to go. I say 'mother' with air quotes even in my own head, because she was NOT my mother. I say that because she was an alien. I soon learned I was as well, but her alien beauty had entranced me for a moment. Probably a good thing too, as otherwise I would have freaked out I realized I was reincarnated.

  Of course, within days I was taken in by a jedi master, one of the 'seekers' that believed it was their duty to pick up the kids that got left behind by the otherwise 'perfect' jedi system. Having Learned I was in star wars, hard to miss the ubiquitous , I at first wasn't sure I wanted to leave with the famous child snatchers.

  That changed very rapidly as the jedi master conversed with my 'parents'. I mean, learning the force was cool and all, but jedi... Not that the Sith were any better, I knew better than to trust a drug addict. But no, first of all, my parents had apparently purchased me from the government 'not' slavers. Next they were very interested in 'giving' me to the jedi master as a favor, a favor they expected to be repaid as a blank check, and were very adamant about. Lastly, while my government made all orphans 'not' slaves and sold them as cheap 'not' labor to families that could afford them while still affording their education, I was now owned outright by my jedi master.

  This perturbed him greatly, and he eventually ended up just outright mindwiping my 'not' foster parents. Probably a good thing I wasn't very attached to them, for good reason too. Too much attachments, and the jedi wouldn't let me join their cool magic club.

  I was eating with my cohort, those younglings that were my age and learning level, when it happened. You see, my race*** was special and interesting. We were classified as near human, because we had apparently evolved form humans at some point after a toxin was introduced to our atmosphere. Nobody knows how exactly it got there, records are spotty, but it apparently got/gets everywhere. Easily tracked into anywhere and everywhere. So, my race had to adapt, and with everything in this crazy magic galaxy that meant things got weird. We had 'not' scales from our temples to our cheeks, black from the color of the toxin. Though technically it was a chitin covered fingernail like thing.

  But I also had stubby cute little horns that curled up into my hair on my forehead. I also had small ones that hid amongst my hair at the moment, colored brown but it was bone. These horns would later grow into a distinctive regal but feminine crown, as opposed to the domineering masculine ones found on the men. My hair was black like my scales, as well was my sclera, but my pupils held a shimmering blue/green to them. My ex family joked that I held tiny planets in the void of my eyes.

  The thing is, most of this stuff had the toxic impurities throughout them, as a way for my body to offload the toxins. These would slowly fade to white, and then clear without the toxins. The problem was that my race had gotten so used to and developed around these toxins is that we would soon die. it was to the point that special care had to be taken when administering medical treatment, as many medications and treatments, including bacta, would remove the toxins from our bodies. It was to the point that we had to have a special strain of kolto, cheaper than bacta, to be developed. It was kinda like ultra strength super yeast back on earth.

  Here's the problem, the way we get that toxin into our system when not in system? through food. And for some odd reason, the chefs took it as some kind of strange spice and thought it to be a challenge to create a recipe for this unique food. admittedly, the closest I could name the flavor of the toxin would be 'sweet', even though it's its own flavor, so when they put it in a muffin it kind of fits. The muffin itself was bland, like the rest of the meal, but it was a sweet treat, something to get the kids to eat properly. Even many masters didn't get the muffins or cookies that the younglings did, except yoda, because they were too proud to ask, and only younglings got them as standard.

  Now, one young enterprising youngling decided that they would take said muffin stating "it's not fair that you get to eat our meals but we don't get to eat yours, a jedi should share." Granted my whole meal was contaminated, and couldn't be eaten by anyone else, but that was levels for the muffin. The rest could be purged with a quick visit to medical. So for his own safety I smacked his hand, hard, and he dropped the muffin. But he also started balling like the child that he was.

  Of course, this attracted the caretakers, who usually wouldn't respond to this kind of thing, but they were right there and saw the whole thing. This meant they couldn't ignore the 'bullying' like usual. "How can you treat you fellow cohort like this? You will be punished for this!" stated one. More were yelling and scrambling but the jedi knight that was shepherding us moved in quickly. "You cannot treat your fellow younglings like that, especially for something as meager as possessions like a sweet treat. you will never become a jedi for being so greedy! At least not while I have a say in it!" She said.

  It took me a moment to get myself under control, not in anger, but in exasperation. I wanted to roll my eyes, and stare at these idiots so hard, but I could already see the caretaker trying to give the idiot the muffin again already. I smacked her hand with a force enhanced slap, and not the 'kiddy' slap I gave to the kid. She recoiled in horror and shock. I could see it on her face, how dare I do this to her? How dare I stand up to her? She was in control, she had the power over me, I was some kind of monster for defying her!... I had some teachers like that in school, luckily I was usually almost never their targets, and when I was, it was aimed at the entire class.

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  I broke a piece off and handed it to the jedi knight, the only one that might actually survive this idiocy. "Try it." I stated. She looked at me questioningly. I could see the kid trying to reach for a piece himself but my raised hand might as well have smacked him for how quick he took it back, going teary eyed again. I turned back to the jedi knight "Try it." I stated again. I saw one of the caretakers, some 'failed' jedi, some not try for a piece, but I took it back.

  The jedi, ready to end my rebellion and also prove her point, took the piece and ate it. Then she almost immediately regretted it. Having to start meditating on the spot to stop the poison, and spitting up some bile and saliva with it. The jedi stated "The muffin is poisoned, maybe the whole meal, stay back."

  To their shock and horror, I took the rest of the muffin and ate it. "It's not poison, well not to me anyway. My race developed to this compound, and we now need it in our diets. To me it's a supplement. I just saved that little runts life, and yours too while I'm at it." I stated and pointed to the caretaker I had slapped earlier. She glared at me, thankless people.

  "You poisoned a jedi knight! The temple is going to kick you out to the streets!" Said one of the caretakers. I noted that she was the original one to have rushed over and admonish me. " did no such thing, you people however, are trying to get yourselves killed. Miss Suwurla should be able to handle the toxin herself, and definitely last until medical can flush her system. The rest of you would already be dead." I stated.

  Well, the rest of things went as I predicted, Miss Suwurla did indeed flush most of it out of her system, even before medical could flush the rest with a simple hypo. Of course, things did not end there. My cohorts, and even several of the older cohorts, and most of my clan members, now ignored me. Honestly, fare, kids, what wasn't fare was that the jedi masters had gone up in arms against me. I had literally acted fast to save these peoples lives and they acted like I was the evil monster. The neutrals, which I learned was the faction behind Knight Suwurla wanted me gone.

  Knight Suwurla was, not quite ambivalent, but not quite hostile either. She understood, intellectually what I did and why I did it, but I could feel that she couldn't let herself except what I had done. Then the neutrals had stated that it was unfair and unsafe that I eat like I did. This put the other factions in an awkward position, but they decided to just simply let me eat alone from then on. Honestly, I was doing that anyways, not allowed to sit with anyone else, and the tables I was already at were cleared, if I wasn't shoved away from them. Something the caretakers conspicuously didn't react too... This may have something to do with why I never saw that first caretaker again.

  However, the neutrals, human centric as they were, correction 'pure' human centric, were not done. They stated that it was unfair that I was allowed the 'privilege' of eating alone. when I heard this I laughed so hard in exasperated anger, I swear all the caretakers and children had thought I had suddenly fallen to the dark side and saw a rising of a new sith lord as they watched. These ignorants were really getting on my nerves, and the politics at play here were stupid as they were disgusting. I hated them almost as much as I hated my government for being the inbred slavers that they were!

  But, that had simply been the the rousing cry of the war horns. Mine was not the only race or species with special dietary restrictions. And the aliens quickly saw this for what it was. Now, while humans did outnumber any other species at the temple by a large margin singularly, they did not at all collectively. I was sure the dynamic had nothing to do with core world policy and how the core was dominated by humans. Nor the fact that more humans below the cutoff were taken in, while aliens were at a much higher cutoff range for mediclorians.

  Anyway, the aliens were not going to let this lay. Sure, the techniques they could understand, the artifacts many even agreed with, but biology? Now that was crossing a line they would not stand for. And that shut up the neutrals hard and fast. Of course they were not done, but their hands were tied temporarily.

  So instead they ignored me, and forced masters to refuse to allow me into even basic, almost 'mandatory' as far as those things go, classes. That too was fine by me, I got what I needed from who I needed it from, almost at a one to one, if sporadic tutelage. The rest I spent in the library, my new home/sanctuary. Jacarsta Nu brooked non of this nonsense and was one of my major defenders besides. And , not even the neutrals wanted to mess with her on the warpath. Even Yoda seemed to get out of her way the few times she worked up steam on some individuals that had wanted to make trouble for me. And so there I stayed.

  I will admit, Anakin coming in when I was seven took off a lot of pressure. If my inclusion to the temple happening two years ago ruffled feathers. Or my mandatory dietary restrictions fell on their beliefs one year ago. Anakin's sudden inclusion to the temple gave them a rallying point to stand behind. And I did kind of feel bad for making his life worse, but he turned into an asshole and it was predestined soo...

  But, if the neutrals were rallying against, then that just swayed everyone else's vote for. As the neutrals were still on everyone's shit list after several of the stunts they pulled. Now, that meant I, and conversely Anakin were being included in separate, but regular classes again. But the rest of the council had simply shutdown the neutrals argument about his inclusion not being 'unanimous' even if it had a 6 to 4 in favor. This was because while the neutrals had 4 seats, they were on everyone else's watch list for the shit they were pulling. And they also stated a simple fact, the council vote was unnecessary and against procedure. No other youngling needed it to be included, in fact most wouldn't even be able to comprehend the test, let alone pass.

  This didn't dissuade the neutrals, even if it di stymie them. Me however, I knew I was screwed. Because I know knew where and when I was in the timeline, and what it meant for myself... I just hoped I was more chosen then I thought I was originally, because force, I was going to need it...