A Quiet Part of the Beach, Sunday Late Morning

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Tahiri still made a habit of coming out to the beach on a fairly regular basis -- not out of necessity like it had been, but because it was familiar, and just felt right. The symbolism of it, the calming sound of the waves, the smell of the ocean -- it was a good place for her to meditate.

She picked her way down to her usual quiet cove and settled onto the rock (it hadn't really started to acquire a bit of a sheen from her perching on it, but it sometimes amused her to think so) with her eyes closed. She wasn't meditating yet, just enjoying the moment.

That was pretty profound in and of itself; the novelty of simply being able to do that hadn't worn off yet.

[OOC: Expecting one, but open if you happen to wander this way. Caveat for SP as I'mma be traaaaaaaaaveling later today, woe. Details of conversation with Ender NFB, please.]

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"How have you not whacked it with a spanner yet?" Tahiri had to ask.

Why, yes, the notion had occurred to her more than once.

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"Patience," Ender deadpanned, "A lot of experience, a firm grasp of rhetoric, and a long history of being accused of the same."

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"If any one of those was missing from the list," Tahiri deadpanned right back, "the spanner would've gotten it by now."

Then, more seriously, "Was there anything more specific you wanted to know?"

Of all things, it was the memory of a piece of flimsi she'd found in her quarters one night with a note in Jacen's handwriting promising she'd always be family that had just come to mind.

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Ender shrugged his shoulders lightly. "You said you were... awkward about his presence in your life because of everything you knew from Ben," he said, "But what were you two like before all of that happened?"

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If she thought of it strictly in those terms, it wsan't a hard answer to phrase.

"We were friends," Tahiri answered with a slight nod. "Not terribly close, and only the last couple of years, but yes. In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to say he isn't one, now. Just one I watch a little more carefully."

She thought of the note again, and smiled wryly. "Family doesn't always have to be close, necessarily, but you could call it that too."

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It made Ender think, fleetingly, of Other Tahiri, and Ben's loud disapproval of her recent choices. For some reason.

"I take it you've spent a lot of time hanging with the Skywalker-Solo tribe," he said.

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Well, it would be a pretty easy step to make from one to the other, thought-wise.

"It's funny, how that tends to happen when your best friend was one of them," Tahiri replied -- nice how she could say it lightly, now. "After Anakin died they sort of took an extra interest in me. I don't think I could get away from them now if I tried."

Not, mind, that she objected.

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"So they adopted you, in a manner of speaking," Ender concluded. "Did Jacen try to help you after Anakin's death?"