Anchorhead said:
Now that I think about it, if she were mentioned at all, it would have most likely been Outbound Flight. Anakin and Kenobi are fairly heavy in it at the beginning, but are suddenly and conveniently jettisoned from the story completely.
Their sudden departure from the story had a weird feel, which I was more than ok with ;-)
In fact, I could never figure out why they were in the early part of the story at all. Their roles felt out of place and served no purpose.
Studio executives - or whatever their literary equivalents are called - love to force shit like this into a product thinking it'll make it sell better. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if Zahn's original draft was more-or-less Anakin/Obi-Wan-free until some corporate bigwig "suggested" he add them in.