After more nightmares, Tahiri wakes and wrestles with the thoughts that she is someone else inside.  She leaves her room and walks down the hallway wondering if Jaina has returned.  She finds a small item in the shape of Yun-Yammka and she reaches out to grab it.  As she does, the darkness sweeps over her and she passes out.  She wakes up surrounded by Han and Leia.  Leia reveals that she retrieved the pendant from Jag and set it out there intentionally expecting Tahiri to come for it.  Tahiri begins to detail what's been going on in her mind since her time with the Vong.  She remains insistent that she is who she is and not this other thing the Vong tried to turn her into.  Leia reveals that just before she blacked out, she called her by her Vong name and Tahiri had responded.  Leia also tells her that she yelled at her in the Vong language. 

Leia and Han recount the story to Jag and ask him why if he and Jaina suspected there were problems they didn't bring it up to them sooner.  They are interrupted by the P'w'eck fleet entering Bakuran space.

The Jedi arrive at Csilla and meet with the heads of the Chiss ruling families.  They are skeptical of the search and while they refuse to allow them unfettered access to Chiss space, they allow them two days access into their library to search for information of the Unknown Regions.  The library is not computerized and they have a hard time finding information.  Syal Antilles Fel and her daughter Wyn arrive to meet them.  Syal is fearful that Baron Fel will be drawn to the Alliance’s aid during the war.  Luke and Mara return to the Jade Shadow.  After someone takes Wyn away, Jacen becomes suspicious.  Suddenly they fall under attack!

Back on Yuuzhan’Tar, Nom Anor encounters a Shames one that knows his real name.  Fearing that his cover is blown, he poisons her only to learn that the girl, named Ngaaluh, is actually a priestess of Harrar who had come to join his crusade.  He cures her and she pledges loyalty to him by spying on Shimrra.  From her he learns of the Vong attack on the Remnant and the Jedi mission to the Chiss.

Meanwhile Malinza is leading Jaina away from the prison on the rooftops and down stairways and balconies.  They are intercepted by four members of Malinza's Freedom group.  They take Jaina back to their hideout to discuss more about their investigation into the missing credits that have been secretly diverted by someone high up in the government.  As they try to slice into more government files, they realize that Malinza has been embedded with a homing device and that's why her escape from prison was so simple.  Jaina offers to take the homing device and head off in another direction to lead the police away from them.  They agree to send Salkeli a group member with her to her navigate the streets.  After a hectic trip that includes body surfing an aqua duct, Jaina ditches the device, but as they enter an escape pod, Salkeli shoots her in the back!

Tahiri is deep in thought of what may have been with her and Anakin when she is interrupted by Goure, the Ryn that has been giving them information.  He takes her to an area where they can talk in private and tells her that he finds out things that people would normally expect including the fact that Jaina has a warrant out for her arrest.  Goure agrees to help her find Jaina, but she needs a disguise.

When Jaina awakes she finds herself in the office of the Deputy Prime Minister Blaine Harris.  While the two get off on a bad start, it appears that the Deputy doesn't have the same plan that Jaina thinks he does.  He asks her if she's noticed the similarities between the Ssi-Ruuk and the Yuuzhan Vong.  He hopes that through this ceremony it will be the first steps to converting Ssi-Ruuk into more of a peaceful group.  And to his dismay the Galactic Alliance has shown up to meddle in his triumph.  Malinza and the others arrive at Blaine's office.  They believe they been working in conjunction with him but he says his agenda is his own and pulls a blaster.  He hopes to unite the people behind him and will use Malinza's death and Jaina's betrayal as the spark.  Malinza makes a run at Harris, but he shoots one of her companions.  He thinks they've bound Jaina's hands, but she used a Force trick to keep them unlocked. Harris leads them off.

In orbit, Jag notices over a hundred flagships, referring to themselves as an honor guard, begin heading in their direction.  They say their motives are honorable, but Jag is suspicious.

At the ceremony to bless the planet before the alliance is complete, both Bakuran and P'w'eck leaders speak.  As the ceremony begins, in the stands, Han is unimpressed and takes a nap.

Tahiri and Goure notice that Blaine Harris is leading Jaina and Malinza into the stadium without any security hassle whatsoever so they sneak behind them and head in.

In a private area, Harris finally reveals his plan to the girls.  He has placed a bomb under the location where the Prime Minister as well as Han and Leia are seated.  He forces Jaina to hit the activate button on a timer thus attempting to frame her for the attack.  The idea is that the Jedi were so determined to keep Bakura in the Galactic Alliance that they would sooner take steps to prevent this union.  Malinza will apparently will show up and try to stop Jaina and will save Harris just in time, but she'll unfortunately be killed in the explosion.