A New Discovery

"A New Discovery" is the second part of the second episode of the second season the animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. It was released on Disney+ on August 14, 2024.
==Official description==
Lys tracks a rare creature.
==Plot summary==
===A fellow enthusiast===
The episode opens on the planet Tenoo with Lys Solay and a female human Jedi Initiate named Myra riding down a ridge on their dunnel steeds. While Solay is enjoying her ride, Myra is having a bumpy ride on her steed. The two bring their dunnels to the edge of a creek. While their animals drink from the river, Myra tells Solay that she is enjoying her time experiencing Tenoo's natural scenery. Like Solay, Myra has a love for animals. When SF-R3 ("Aree) brought these dunnels to the Tenoo Jedi Temple, Solay said that she had to try then out. While leaning over her saddle, Myra accidentally kicks her dunnel, which causes it to stand on its hind legs before crouching down. Solay talks about learning a lot from dunnels. 
The two ride back to the stables to check on Kai Brightstar and Nubs. While Solay is familiar with her dunnel, Myra is not as experienced and has some difficulty dismounting. The two girls are greeted by Brightstar and Nubs, the latter of whom is caring several bales of hay. When Brightstar asks Myra how was her ride with the dunnels, she quips it was terrible before saying that it was amazing and scratching the chest of her dunnel. 
===A new mission===
Aree and CAM contact them via holoprojector. Aree tells Solay and Myra that there is an uncatalogued creature in their area and asks them for their assistance in tracking it. Aree explains that the creature is called a Leepur, which is rare and undocumented. When Myra asks for more information, Aree explains that all that he knows about the creatures is that they are small, have a stripe on their backs, and make singing noises. Aree warns that leepurs don't stay in places for long and tells them to be fast. Solay promises to get an entry on the creature in the Galactic Society of Creature Enthusiasts' Creature Guide. Before ending the hologram conversation, Aree assigns Solay with leading the expedition.
Brightstar and Nubs stay behind to clean the stables. Solay and Myra depart on their dunnels. Both girls are enthusiastic. They ride deep into the coordinates into the Tenoo tree forest where the leepur was last sighted. Before they can conduct their search, the two girls are distracted by a rodent-like sciuridi, which Myra recognizes from the Creature Guide. However, the sciuridi suddenly growls before retreating up a tree. Solay thinks they may have made the sciuridi more nervous. Myra notices some unfamiliar tracks, which they decide to follow.
===The sinkhole adventure===
The two girls and their dunnels follow the trail, which leads to the edge of a deep sinkhole. Though the tracks have disappeared, Myra notices that leaves on a nearby bush are rustling. She hears some chittering and notices a small furry creature with stripes on the back. Recognizing the creature as the leepur, she begins to follow it down the sinkhole. Solay is wary about venturing down the sinkhole but Myra is determined to follow the leepur. The two girls navigate down the network of roots. 
While climbing down a network of vines, Myra loses her footing and falls. Solay follows her friend but also loses her grip on the vines. The two land in an underground garden of plants at the base of the sinkhole. Solay's holocam is damaged during the fall while Myra left her holocam with her bagpack at the top. Solay grumbles about losing the leepur and her holocam while Myra regrets letting herself get over-excited and unable to focus. Solay apologizes for rushing in her eagerness to prove that she is a good leader. 
Just then, rain starts pouring down the roots and vines into the underground garden. Solay finds the roots too slippery to climb. Myra discovers a passage which leads to a low incline covered by roots and stones. This passage is dry since it is sheltered from the rain. They find the leepur stranded on top of a rockface. Seeing the creature is trapped, they attempt to follow it. The rock that Myra is standing upon shatters but Solay pulls her to safety. Thinking that the creature is going too fall, Myra uses the Force to levitate it. 
The leepur is frightened. As the rock that it is standing on begins to shatter, Solay offers it snacks. As the rest of the rock disintegrates, the leepur leaps into the safety of Solay's hands. As their ledge disintegrates, the two jump to another ledge. Following the sunlight, the two climb up the passage back onto the jungle floor. Reaching the top, the leepur leaps away into the forest. Myra and Solay accept that they have a lot to learn from their jungle adventure today. 
===Mission accomplished===
The two head back to the Jedi Temple on their dunnel steeds. Myra and Solay recount their jungle adventure to Nubs and Brightstar. Though they believe the creature has gone, they are delighted to find that the leepur has followed them back to the Jedi Temple's training grounds. When Brightstar and Nubs approach the creature, Solay advises them to let it come to them. She gives the leepur a cracker while Nubs snaps a picture of the leepur with Myra's holocam.
Later, Aree thanks Solay and Myra for their work in cataloguing the leepur and tells them that he has added their research to the Galactic Creature Guide. Myra is proud of her first entry. Aree then assigns the girls with a new mission to catalogue the Federian erbling. 
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