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The other junk-towners mocked her. “Crazy little Yoda Chika,” they’d laugh, watching her bow to a simmering pot or meditate over a pinch of salt. But she never wavered. She believed that cooking was a forgotten Force—one that bound all living things through hunger and memory.

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Yoda Chika looked at Mousie the droid, at the stormtrooper now washing dishes, at the Rodian planting flowers outside. She looked at her wobbly table made of scrap metal, at the stars beginning to pierce the twilight. The other junk-towners mocked her

One night, a wounded stormtrooper stumbled into her alley. He was young, terrified, and his helmet was cracked. He hadn’t eaten in days. The other scavengers drew weapons. Yoda Chika just looked at him, tilted her head, and said: She believed that cooking was a forgotten Force—one

Yoda Chika’s ears twitched up.

She wasn’t a Jedi. She wasn’t a scavenger. Yoda Chika was a chef.

Yoda Chika was tiny—barely three feet tall, with green skin, enormous amber eyes, and two long, expressive ears that drooped when a sauce split. But her voice was the strangest thing. It came out in backwards chirps and solemn, reversed proverbs.