Jeni sees some of herself in the warrior. She asks him why he chose Raxus Prime for his initiation duty, a world so far away from his home. He tells her that he wanted to get away from Kesh and see the galaxy at large, Raxus Prime being only the most recent stop on his journey between many worlds. No other aspiring Keshiri warrior has ever gone so far away from the homeworld.

When the New Republic made first contact with Kesh in 6 ABY, the natives were hesitant to join the galactic community. They had already built a small pocket empire in what Republic astrogators call “Wild Space”. The Republic sent an ambassador by the name of Leia to make peace with the Keshiri. Amnar, still a small boy at the time, was captivated by Leia’s tales of adventurers traversing the galaxy and of mystics wielding “the Force”. The last known Force-user on Kesh died centuries ago. Amnar resolved to see a thousand worlds before his dying day.

He says that perhaps it is the will of the Force that he has been brought to aid in the quest of Leia’s daughter. Jeni smiles. She agrees that it is indeed fortuitous that the two of them are now companions.