"But there's something specifically about this time, this place, that called you forth."

In retrospect, there had been so much the Jedi Order had missed about the Force, about the webs of tiny coincidences that told just how right the time was for what had happened. His own long-ago words to his mentor rang in his ears, mocking him now in the echoing voices of King and stable-boy and ordinary villager.

They all sense it. Why can't you?

He would not allow a second world to be destroyed if he had any kind of forewarning. And he intended to decipher that warning this time.

"You aren't the main event," he said slowly. "You're only the messenger. And you wouldn't be here unless you had something to tell us."