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[last_kallig]

"As if I needed the reminder that my subsection of the Reclamation Service was built to fail," Ibani mutters as she walks in, staring at a datapad.

She looks up when she feels that she's in Milliways. "Thank the Force, I could use a drink."

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[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Reclamation Service?" Yamato asks mildly, as Ibani passes his booth. "What're they reclaiming?"

Really, who opens a conversation with a greeting anyway -- not Yamato, he just jumps right into interrogation.

[last_kallig]

"Anything that might be useful, particularly artifacts of the Sith," Ibani explains.

"How have you been? I haven't seen you in a while."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Archaeology and acquisitions, that kind of thing?" Yamato asks. "And I'm okay. Things are pretty quiet in my world right now."

Although that may be a recent turn of events, if the bandages peeking out of the collar and sleeves of his t-shirt are anything to go by.

[last_kallig]

"Exactly."

Ibani frowns at the bandages peaking out. "I'm glad you're okay now, although it looks like things were a touch too interesting for a bit?"

It's an invitation to talk about it, but only if he wants to.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"There was a battle in my world a few days ago. We won, I just managed to pick up some injuries along the way," Yamato says, rubbing the back of his neck. "I'll live."

[last_kallig]

"I'm glad you'll live. I'd offer to help, but I remember that your tenant doesn't like outside magic."

"A battle with those things from that world you couldn't stay in very long without going mad?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"No, no, not them. Beings from another world than that, under the command of an old ally of ours," Yamato says, just a little wryly. "It was touch and go for a while, but we fought them off. They aren't likely to try again anytime soon."

[last_kallig]

"You have entirely too may enemies," Ibani replies. Pot, kettle. "A former ally now, I presume? What made them turn on you?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"You're one to talk," Yamato says wryly. "And -- yeah, former ally. Maybe an ally again in future. I don't think he's entirely in his right mind."

He pauses for a moment, rubbing the back of his neck.

"His corrupted programming aside, though, he says I reneged on some promises. Ones I made -- I guess about twenty-five thousand years ago. Before I was me. I don't remember making them."

[last_kallig]

"Point," Ibani concedes.

"I don't think that ought to count as breaking a promise, in that case. It if it was before you were you, then YOU didn't make that promise."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"As far as he's concerned, being me is just a -- fleeting, temporary thing, a tiny portion of time where I'm slipping into a role that I'll eventually slip out of when I'm done," Yamato says, with a shrug. "And he doesn't see why that would have any bearing on promises I've already made."

[last_kallig]

"I suppose I can see that, sort of. Makes things a bit difficult for you though."

"If there's anything I can do to help..."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"We beat him back pretty soundly. He doesn't have a whole lot of moves to make anymore, so chances are he'll be quiet for a while," Yamato says. "I'd offer to help with your Reclamation Service, but I don't have much of a brain for bureaucracies."

[last_kallig]

"I wouldn't inflict that kind of thing on you anyway, would be cruel," Ibani replies. But she's grinning as she says it.

"I hope you get to enjoy the quiet for a bit."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I've never been a fan of too much quiet. I get antsy," Yamato admits. "But a few weeks of quiet will be good for the others."