She asks Jacen if there is no Force, how can there be life or will in the Vong? How can they live where there was no Force? As she leaves him, he begins to wonder and realizes that the Force is indeed there with him, but he just can't feel it.  More importantly, if he had never had use for the Force would he really even know it when he saw it and therefore would the Yuuzhan Vong?  Jacen neglects to tell Vergere that he has reached an arrangement with his dhuryam.  Since he is not affected by the pain, he convinces the dhuryam that his ability to heal the others made them work harder for the dhuryam and therefore he is left on his own.

Jacen contemplates Vergere’s question and realizes that the Vong cannot exist without the Force and therefore they must exist within the Force in a way the Jedi haven’t learned yet.  He knows that he has always had an ability to communicate with many creatures and he delves deep into that ability to communicate with the slave seed inside him.

Vergere updates Nom Anor that Jacen is progressing well, but Anor is hesitant to give him any freedom.  The ship they are on is made up a Vong home world lost so long ago that no one remembers its name.  As a seed drop on the new planet is nearing, Anor has several warriors infiltrate the slaves to keep an eye on Jacen.

Jacen begins to help slaves controlled by other dhuryams which angers his own, but they reach an accord.  Jacen decides that all creatures in the nursery are flowers and he will set out to help them all.  After one of the slaves is killed by a Vong warrior, Jacen realizes that there may be some weeds in the nursery after all.

After much work by dovin basals, Coruscant’s orbit is changed and it now has a ring of moon debris around it.  It is now time for seed fall and the transformation of Coruscant into the new Vong home world.

The day arrives to decide which dhuryam will be used on Coruscant.  Jacen is able to hide inside a grove of amphistaff plants that do not attacking him.  Nom Anor sends warriors to pick him up and take him to his ship, but Vergere doesn’t think it will work so easily.  The unarmed warriors demand Jacen come out from the plants, but Jacen tosses one of them into the plants and they kill him.  Then all the amphistaffs move to cover Jacen and become his armor!  When he disappears from Nom Anor’s display, Vergere tells him that he is not running, but attacking.
 
Jacen uses his telepathic bond with the creatures in the nursery to attack the Vong warriors and leave himself unharmed.  Nom Anor looks on in horror as slaves chase down the remaining warriors and chop them up.  In the attack, Jacen severs the connections between all other dyuryams and their slaves except for his own.  As he takes the slaves into the pond to kill the dhuryams, Nom Anor sends Vergere after him because killing them all will kill the entire worldship.  Jacen kills them one at a time, but as he goes for the final kill his brain erupts in pain and he hears Anakin tell him that the final dhuryam is a friend.  He becomes furious when he realizes that it was Vergere instead of his brother, but she uses her tears to knock him unconscious.

Jacen wakes up on Yuuzhan’tar and marvels at its beauty.  He tells Vergere that he’s sure he touched the Dark Side during his rampage, but Vergere says he did what he had to do.  Jacen realizes that the planet he’s on was once Coruscant!  In the evening, Jacen tells her that he knows she is training him for something and that his slave seed has been removed.  He takes a corridor down deep into the planet.

As Jacen and Vergere inspect a large crater that she tells him is strong in the Dark Side, thousands of warriors begin dropping from the sky hunting for Jacen.  They head into the crater to escape.  Once inside, Jacen realizes that he can still sense the incoming Vong and turns as one prepares to kill him.  He tricks the amphistaff into thinking he is a friend and it goes limp and Jacen kills the warrior before meeting up again with Vergere.

Overcome with anger, Jacen lifts Vergere off her feet and wraps his hands around her throat, but he throws her to the ground without doing any real damage. She reminds him that this place is indeed powerful in the Dark Side.  Jacen apologizes and reminds her that his grandfather was a Dark Lord of the Sith.  Vergere recounts the time she actually met Anakin Skywalker in this very building, and reveals that this was once the Jedi Temple!   Vergere again tests his mind and he tells her that he is and will always be a Jedi.  She turns on the lights to reveal the ring of Yuuzhan Vong warriors along with Nom Anor around them.  Rage builds up inside Jacen and he blanks out.  He wakes to see the room destroyed and Vergere lying on the ground beside him.  He slowly remembers that he had unleashed the Dark Side on the room and pulled the walls down crushing the warriors around him.  Weakly, she asks Jacen why he thinks the Jedi would build their temple above a wealth of Dark Side energy.  The answer of course is that they would not.  The real secret of the Jedi is that there is no light in dark side.  There is only the Force.  She tells him that what he calls the Dark Side is really just the raw force.  The only Dark Side Jacen needs to fear is the darkness in himself.