Zonama Sekot, En Route Back to the Unknown Regions, GFFA (Monday Fandom Time)

[weetuskenraider]

Really, Tahiri could have been annoyed that all her evacuation efforts had ended up being for nothing in the end, but she was too grateful to have everyone back to focus on that. (Maybe later, once she'd slept off the exhaustion, there'd be a little room for that.)

Not helping with the exhaustion was the sudden rush of sensing everyone through the Force again, where a week ago that sensation had been dwindling rapidly. That part she didn't mind, though; that just reinforced the sense that everything was right again -- plus she could draw on that to keep herself on her feet just a little while longer.

She got back to her little cliff dwelling after conferring with Sekot and some of the local village leaders, took a nice long bath to deal with the fact that she felt unpleasantly like the inside of a sandcrawler, then curled up on her bed with her datapad and comlink to check messages on both. Jaina's voicemail, now that she finally had a chance to listen to it, made her laugh -- and send a quick text message back to her and Ben.

I knew you'd fix this. Thanks.

Firekeeper and her other friends should get messages too, she thought, half-drifting out of consciousness, but even drawing on the Force she was too tired to manage more words than she just had. Maybe after a nap . . .

[OOC: Oh god finally I get a chance to get back online. Open for calls with the usual daytime SP disclaimer, and feel free to assume handwavey messages of back-ness by, like, Monday evening gametime.]

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[solo_sword]

Jaina had actually managed to get a good amount of sleep last night/this morning. Well, a good amount for her, anyway. Blame exhaustion after the last couple weeks. So when she was finally awake awake, she picked up her comm.

Oh, look, an incoming call!

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri grinned when she saw who was calling and propped herself up against the pillows, because sleepy or not there was no way she was letting this one ring through to voicemail.

"It's unbelievably good to be able to say hi, Jaina."

Seriously, even if Jaina yelled at her for disappearing temporarily, it'd be welcome right now.

[solo_sword]

"Tell me about it. If you ever blink out of existence again, I'm kicking your ass," Jaina greeted her.

[weetuskenraider]

"It's also unbelievably a relief to hear that from you," Tahiri replied without missing a beat, laughing. "Not the least because I know you'd do it. Does this mean I'll have to schedule a trip back to Fandom at some point just so you can frown at me in person?"

[solo_sword]

"Yes. Though I'm not here for much longer so if you show up anytime soon you'll have to content yourself with seeing Ben instead."

[weetuskenraider]

"What a terrible alternative," Tahiri said lightly. "But I guess you've been away long enough, haven't you?"

Like she was going to yell about that. The whole sense-of-duty thing was how she'd gotten herself erased from existence in the first place.

[solo_sword]

"Two months."So yeah. "I'll be back when I can, though."

[weetuskenraider]

"Then if I miss you, clearly, I'll just have to come back." Two months was a long time for Jaina to be away from the action (not that Fandom had been short on it, she was guessing), so Tahiri wouldn't blame her if she was climbing the walls to get home. "Thanks for helping to fix all this."

[solo_sword]

"I think thanks shouldn't be needed for this," Jaina said. "Seeing as how it was partly selfish with me not wanting to disappear myself..."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri had to take a second and think about that. "I think if we're all pretty honest about it, there's always going to be a little bit of that, isn't there?" she asked. "The second I realized I wasn't going to get to my portal, I know I was wishing I'd gone while I had the chance."

[solo_sword]

"I guess so," she said thoughtfully. "I think maybe that's survival instinct poking its head out from under us doing the right thing."

[weetuskenraider]

"Hard to do the right thing if we're not around to do it," Tahiri went on. "But this is more deep thinking than I usually like to do, so I'm just going to settle for being glad to be back."

A pause, then:

"Though this doesn't get you off the hook for that basically-family thing, just in case you were wondering."

[solo_sword]

Jaina grinned. "Who said anything about getting me off the hook?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben called her back in the afternoon. "Jedi Veila, don't you do that again."

[weetuskenraider]

"Do I get a choice in the matter, Jedi Skywalker?" She'd gotten enough rest by now to manage a decent joke, and she was laughing as she asked. "Hi, Ben."

[momslilassassin]

"Ho, Tahiri," he said. "It's good to hear your voice again."

[weetuskenraider]

"Likewise." Tahiri grinned up at the ceiling. "And now I can stop being sorry I didn't get a chance to give you more of a hard time in that last message."

She hadn't been. She just liked teasing him.

"Everything all right back there?"

[momslilassassin]

"Well, it's snowing powdered sugar," Ben said, "so...yeah."

[weetuskenraider]

"I'm never going to understand the island's sense of humor," Tahiri decided, shaking her head. She took a moment to reach out in the Force and get a sense of the beings on the planet, just because she could again and the novelty (sort of) of it hadn't yet worn off. "Everyone here seems to be back all right, too."

[momslilassassin]

"Good," Ben said, not trying to hide his relief from her. "It got scary here for a while, and I've seen my share of scary."

[weetuskenraider]

". . . that bad, huh?" Yes, Tahiri knew him. "I do have to say, seeing that cloud . . . thing coming toward me ranks up there with some of the worst for me."

[momslilassassin]

"Did you have visitors dressed in gray who could make you disappear with a touch? That lightsabers couldn't touch?"

Not that Ben'd hated them a lot or anything.

[weetuskenraider]

"No, but . . ."

Tahiri growled softly in mild Tusken disgust.

"That sounds horribly, um -- inconvenient." Wait a second. "Ben Skywalker, are you trying to tell me you went and got yourself disappeared too?"

[momslilassassin]

There was a long pause.

"...maybe?"

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri sighed. "Well, at least you're consistent, gundark. I can hardly --" She grunted something in Yuuzhan Vong, realized how unintelligible that was, then awkwardly amended with the translation -- "throw stones, I mean, since I tried to scare off that thing with my lightsaber."