"Minder Four is indeed part of the story. She's in the back room," Thrass said. "She said that she had a feeling that I would want to be alone when you and your associate showed up. I've come to trust her when she gets such a feeling."

Stepping away from the two, Thrass stepped into a hallway and came back a few seconds later with a young woman. Thrawn immediately recognized her as the lone surviving Jedi from the ill-fated Outbound Flight. She too was just as young as she was when he last saw her. She nodded at Aden, "Hello, Keeper."

Thrass led them to the living room, sitting next to his brother on the couch, while inviting Aden to sit in the easy chair. Lorana sat on the floor, ever the Jedi.

"Now then," Thrawn said. "How are you alive and still young? Are you clones?"

"That would be the most logical conclusion," Thrass said. "The truth is much stranger, though." He then told the tale of how he and Lorana had chosen to sacrifice themselves to save the ship's survivors, and that right before impact, a strange anomaly in the Force had opened before them, pulling them within. The next thing they knew, they were on a backwater planet, lost and scared. It was a month before Keeper's agents had found them and recruited them.