Seikira cackled at the idea of the battle-hardened hero Jaina Solo being distraught at the idea of being caught in a candid holo â not that she was the only person Seikira could name who felt that way about dealing with the holonews despite having survived years of deadly battle and victories over impossible odds. Still, most of the other people Seikira could think of who fell into that group hadnât literally grown-up under the prying eye of holotabloids and celebrity gossip. One might think Jaina would be used to it by now â but perhaps it was exactly that familiarity which inspired her dismay.
Her laughter faded with a last contemplative chuckle as she pondered Benâs statement about homeworlds. âThatâs interesting. I never really thought about it like that.â She was now, though. âI wonder how common that situation is.â She grinned at Ben. âIâll have to start asking the folks I know, get a list together. For starters, I know that mom doesnât hate Bespin, although she does get antsy being there for too long â but thatâs because she finds it cramped. Sheâs not used to living in small spaces like that anymore.â
Not that the family apartment on Coruscant was particularly spacious â only the obnoxiously rich could afford spacious accomodations on the crowded city-planet of the galactic capital â but small spaces on Coruscant were different from small spaces on Bespin. Bespin itself â the city, at least, which was the only habitable place on the swollen gas giant â was small, so the space around the space you were in was cramped, too. Coruscant on the other hand was divided into billions of cramped and crowded little slivers, but the city itself was enormous enough to encompass nearly the whole world. A being could walk from one end of Bespin to the other in less than two time parts, and that at a sedate pace. There was no surfeit of space on Coruscant; the city often seemed to go on forever and in a way, it did. There were no boundaries to the city of Coruscant, because the whole planet was the city. You couldnât ever reach the end because it circled infinitely back on itself forever.
âBut youâre right,â she said to Ben, pulling her thoughts back to the present, âI certainly feel like Coruscant is my home, even if Ryloth is my homeworld. And yeah,â Seikira grinned, âI like it here just fine. The companyâs nice, for one thing.â
She smirked at his thanks for her discretion in the nightâs food choices and said, âWell, I kind of figured that drugging the son of the Grand Jedi Master would fall into the category of âmistakes you only make once,â so I think I should save that for some time when itâll be really worth it, you know?â Not that Seikira had plans to drug either of them for any reason â but it would have been funny (and terrifying) to have realized too late that sheâd forgotten to absent the ryl from their dinner. Thank the Force her mother was human too, and she was used to considering the non-Twiâlek palette or she probably would have forgotten.
And then she probably would have had to fling herself out an airlock or something.
âIâve only been to Bespin twice. Itâs nice there, but I can see what she means. It is a little cramped. Although, I lived aboard the Shadow with Dad for so long that I suppose I could deal if I had to.âÂ
As soon as he finished his sentence, he couldnât help but wonder if it was intentional that heâd left out the portion of the trip when there had been three of them on board. He wasnât keen to talk about Vestara at all, let alone while he was out with a very smart and very pretty girl. But, he and his dad had lived aboard with just the two of them for a long time, so he decided it wasnât really a lie or an omission. At least, not to the point where it made him uncomfortable.Â
âMy home world is...â he thought for a moment. âI donât really know, I guess. I mean, Iâve lived on Coruscant probably the longest, but I remember being on Yavin IV, too...â he shrugged. âI guess home is where you feel it is, right?â
He flushed at her statement about the company and he knew it was probably pointless to hope she didnât see. It always showed up on a complexion like his. Of course, it was a little dark. Maybe she would let him get away with it.Â
âI think the companyâs pretty good at the moment, yeah,â he agreed.Â
Her statement about saving her opportunity made him laugh fairly loudly. âYou know, not just any girl threatens her date with eventual murder on a first date,â he said, taking a sip from his water. âBut... if my family history is anything to go by, itâs probably somehow a good sign. Of course... thatâs probably worrying in and of itself.âÂ
The waiter had brought over a tray of different dipping sauces. A few of them, Ben knew, were basically just there to make the food less spicy. In fact, based on the way the waiter seemed to size Ben up when he put them down, that was probably what they were all for.Â
âSo,â Ben said, sitting back in his chair a bit, âI think that the last time that I saw you before today was at Wedge and Iellaâs anniversary prty, right?â
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