Thal-ion Serr gladly joined Alethea in the common room, and there sat across from her to have the meditation they so badly needed for guidance in their current situation.  Without guidance in what was to come; they were worse than blind.  They would be fumbling about, and he could think of no worse way than that at the moment.  Sitting across from his Jedi companion; Thal-ion soon closed his eyes...his last glance was of her face...and focused on the Force.  Immediately, he felt her so open to him.  Part of him wondered if this came from their newly formed bond, but he also sensed she was deliberately keeping herself open to him.  In answer, Thal-ion did likewise, and could feel her resonate in the Force so powerfully.  Not from any great increase in strength on her part, but from just how much he could now sense her - though she had clearly grown after the two encounters with the Sith.  This brought up his desire to find the possible Sith Warrior they might have to face some time soon on Tatooine.<br/><br/>Yet, the Sith Warrior did not appear as the young Sentinel let his mind roam across the hot burning sands of the planet they now found themselves on.  What he did find was a boy...perhaps eight to ten years old, and the boy glowed within the Force.  Never had Thal-ion ever felt such strength...well...almost never.  He had actually felt such power coming from Grand Master Skywalker and his twin sister, Leia Solo.  He wondered why such power resembled these particular two Jedi, but he was not sure.  Everything he saw or felt in the Force he shared with his companion sitting across from him.  Somehow this boy was important in what was to come.  With him was a woman...tall, worn with care and labor of a hard life, but kind.  He suspected this was the boy's Mother.  The boy was looking up at his Mother with great sadness, and in the background was Qui-gon Jinn.  Thal-ion wondered what it all meant.  A moment later showed the same woman tending to some plants outside a moisture farm when she was suddenly set upon by Sand People.  Something about the encounter told him this was in the future...one possible one at least, and it worried him.<br/><br/>The visions did not stop there.<br/><br/>From there, the Force showed a podrace...one that was quite intense, and again the Force focused on the boy.  To his surprise, the boy was actually one of the racers.  In the Force, Thal-ion heard the voice of a very old Obi-wan Kenobi...something he had only heard from holocroms:<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">'When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him.'</span><br/><br/>Thal-ion was puzzled at to the reference, but the Force did not stop.  A scream there was...one of Qui-gon as if from very far away:<span style="font-style: italic">'Anakin...Anakin!  NOOOO!!'</span><br/><br/>The young Jedi Sentinel now was even more confused.  There were only two Anakin's he knew of:  Anakin Solo - who sacrificed his life to save the Jedi strike team he had been leading...including his sister and brother, and Anakin Skywalker.  The first seemed to be impossible as Qui-gon was not around when Anakin Solo was even born.  Anakin Skywalker, on the other hand, made more sense.  The same Anakin that would later turn into Darth Vader.  Yet, why was he hearing this in his meditation?  It worried him...something about these visions and voices made him wonder what the Force was trying to tell him.<br/><br/>At last, there came the red and black tattooed Zabrak Sith.  He wored black robes, and was carrying a longer than average lightsaber handle...one that he had a feeling would turn into a lightsaber staff.  His eyes were filled with rage...burning with a need for revenge.  Maul was coming here...there was no longer any doubt, but he had not yet arrived...not yet.  Thal-ion wondered what could be done to stop his arrival, but the Force went back to showing the boy and his Mother, and the podrace.  What these had to do with events to come was beyond him, but clearly they were important.  Still, he dared not ignore the warning of Maul's imminent arrival.  More was going on here than he knew.  Of course, whatever his companion saw would also help them, and perhaps between them solve the mysteries of what to do next.