When Tahiri comes down to the bar for her usual strawberry milkshake, she is given
a letter as well.
She curses softly when she reads it.
She LEFT? The letter crumples in her hands, and she studies the door for a long, long moment.
Maybe... if she can... Bar will let me leave too?No harm in trying.
So, without really expecting anything to happen, Tahiri walks over and opens the door.
Opens the door.
Seeing the familiar sounds and smells of Zonama Sekot bring a wave of joy that almost knocks her over, and she stands in the doorway with a blissful smile on her face, drinking it in.
Then, suddenly frightened that if she hangs around much longer Bar might change her mind, Tahiri races back upstairs, hollering as she goes. "JAG! Jag!"
Ten minutes later she is back downstairs, full bag slung over her shoulder and dragging a pilot who may or may not be smiling by the hand.
He also has a bag with him, and
his own letter.Pausing only long enough to toss the rest of her unused lambents on the bar (there goes the rest of her tab, hurrah!) she pulls Jag over to the door.
He walks through without a backward glance, but something makes Tahiri hesitate. She looks around one (last?) time, as if committing everything to memory. The people, the exploding universe out the observation window, the door that leads to the lake.
She will miss this place.
The barefoot Jedi readjusts the bag on her shoulder, and finally leaves the bar.