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Oh, what's this? It's a Tahiri in the bar! Why, this hasn't happened in days!

Mostly because the Jeedai girl has been hiding up in her room under as many blankets as she can find, with occasional trips out to the greenhouse to get some much-needed sunshine and poke at the plants.

Plants are fun to poke at. Sometimes if she gets particularly bored she talks to them and tries to see if she can tell what they're thinking.

She's also spent some time in the simulators, but not too much because really flying isn't nearly as fun as poking plants, but if she doesn't keep in practice then she'll lose what slight piloting skills she has.

Anyway, what this all boils down to is Tahiri in the Bar, grinning at a couple of packages and a small fruit that showed up when she asked for hot chocolate.

Two more pairs of slippers! A dress thing! A music ball with holos of Tatooine and Zonama Sekot! Earth holidays are astral.

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Oh, hey, familiar face! "Hi, Tahiri!" Ray calls out.

Tahiri waves at Ray, still grinning like a kid. "Hey, Ray! Happy Earth Fete-- uh, Chris-mas."

"Close enough," Ray says. "Got a present for you, actually- here."

He hands over a small book with a purple cover. Inside, he copied out the text of a volume named In-door gardening for every week in the year: Showing the most successful treatment for all plants cultivated in the greenhouse, conservatory, stove, pit, orchid, and forcing-house- the original was in English, but the copied text is in Aurebesh. Quite legible Aurebesh at that, if showing repeated signs of the writer's cramp to end all writer's cramp.

"Thought you might find that useful."

Her eyes light up all over again as she takes the book. "Oh wow. Thank you!"

Tahiri leafs through the pages, admiring the translation work. Her handwriting was never anything spectacular, unless she paid special attention to it. "Did you write all of this yourself?"

"Yeah," Ray says. "I figured I needed the practice. I did one up for Master Qui-Gon, too, although his book is a travel and tourism guide to my native city. I figure he can come visit sometime. No one's really going to notice one more ghost traveling in the presence of the Ghostbusters. Of course, you're welcome to come visit too, but I'd recommend waiting for summer for your own sake."

"It's very nice work," she replies. "And thanks for the invitation. Your city's one of those big tall ones with the noisy speeders on wheels, right? Maybe I'll take you up on that when the weather turns sane."

"Tall by our time's standards," Ray says. "We're only looking at buildings of up to a hundred and two floors here. We had two taller than that, but they were destroyed in a transportation accident. Still, we'd love to have you visit when it's up to snuff."

"That's tall even for the places I've lived. Tents in the Sand People's camps are only one story, and in the big towns like Anchorhead and Mos Eisley it's still rare to see anything over four. Zonama Sekot hasn't got buildings at all, unless you count the damuteks. Which I don't, because those are grown instead of constructed and they spread out rather than up."

Tahiri is much more a country girl than a city one, obviously.

"Oooh. Well-" Ray thinks. "New York City looks kind of like it wants to be Coruscant when it grows up. At least, the part that I live in does- you get all the tall buildings on Manhattan Island, rather than in the outer parts of the city. There's a couple of parks, though- small stuff, but at least they've got green grass and trees. Most of New York is concrete and steel and glass."

"A lot like Coruscant, then. I didn't get to see the planet until after the Yuuzhan Vong had already captured it and started shaping, so it wasn't exactly a hot vacation spot anymore. But I've seen holos of what it used to look like..." She trails off, trying to remember something. "You know, I went to Val's New York once a long time ago but there really wasn't time to look around. What I saw did sorta look like that, I think. Wanting to be Coruscant when it grows up, in a few hundred generations."

"Yeah. We don't have flying speeders yet, although we do have aerial vehicles- there are laws about how close those can come to the buildings, though. Lord help the city if we ever get commonplace flying vehicles. The drivers are scary enough as it stands."

"Might turn out to be one of those self-regulating things," she suggests. "All the bad pilots crash and burn until only good pilots are left. Or you could slave everything to computers and let them handle the traffic."

"Well, we're not so much worried about the pilots as the people they crash into," Ray says. "Like I said, we lost a pair of hundred-ten-floor buildings because two pilots crashed into them. That's not something we want to deal with ever again if we can avoid it, although I do see where you're coming from."

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"Tahiri." Jaina's hovering near her, possibly looking a little awkward. "Zekk didn't mention any of the death threats, did he?"

Tahiri's smile falters for a moment. "Uh, from you? We sorta expected them, but hoped that after a day or three you'd calm down and not want to kill us anymore."

Jaina laughs dryly, shaking her head. "Think you're safe now." A pause. "Mind if we join you?"

"Yeah, go ahead and pull up a stool."

Tahiri shifts her pile of... stuff over to one side. She is much relieved that Jaina's over her initial outrage/shock/anger. It's a good sign.

"So what's up?"

She shrugs. "Not a lot. Got a new pack of sabacc cards."

Jaina grins as she pulls out a deck from her pocket, placing them on the table so Tahiri can see.

"Looks like you got gifts too."

"Starfighters," she says, looking over the deck. "Astral. you won free drinks off anyone with them yet?"

Tahiri looks back at her stack of presents. "Yeah, from your Aunt Mara and Sam. Slippers and a dress thing." She holds up the musical holoball with its pictures of Zonama Sekot and Tatooine. "I like this one best though."

"Nope. We do plan on giving Wes a run for his credits soon enough, though."

Jaina looks at the holoball and the alternating pictures. "That's beautiful."

"It is, isn't it. I'll have to thank Mara the next time I see her."

The little ball has a strange effect on Tahiri... it makes her homesick, but also happy to be seeing her homes again. Shaking her head, she tucks it into a jumpsuit pocket.

"Much better than what she got us. A children's hyperdrive kit." Jaina rolls her eyes. "Kriff, we were taking those things apart when we were two."

"Hey, at least it was something you liked, even if you've outgrown that kind of thing," Tahiri giggles. "I bet you've already taken it apart and started playing with it, haven't you?"