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Versé's last story

Versé once again made sure that Cordé's hair looked nice and presentable. She didn't have to do it, as Cordé's the whole costume was made to the limits of perfections a longer time ago and nobody would even think that the most important passenger on the ship was not the Senator Padmé Amidala, but her faithful handmaiden. The girl did it mostly to just camouflage her shaking hands. And Cordé didn't mind.

Versé wondered why she was so nervous, it was not the first time, when the life of Padmé was endangered. True, Cordé and Dormé, her fellow handmaidens, had been more often used as a decoys for Amidala, as they were much more similar to her than she and Versé was left to do what she did the best - being a slicer, gathering information or doing simple office/home tasks in the safety of her lady's apartment. Nevertheless, she also had been accompanying Amidala to the Senate, to various parties and meetings as much as other handmaidens. The threat could fall on them on each of those places! Moreover, Versé knew what to expect when she joined Senator's team. In her family, everybody was saying that she was the niece of her aunt (the captain of Royal Naboo Security Forces) more times that she could count.

Maybe Versé was trembling because the stakes weren't so high in the past like now? Her lady had to reach Coruscant and vote for what was good for the galaxy. She tried not to glance at an illuminator in the cabin to check on the female pilot in a smaller ship.

Dormé was ordered to come to Coruscant in other ship, also pretending to be Senator Amidala. There was even hired an additional girl as a handmaiden, Umé, to misguide a potential attacker. Versé managed to meet her and had a few hours conversation. Truth to be told... she had mixed feelings about the new co-employee. Umé was smart, but also... naive. Probably, because she was younger than Versé and grown up on the legends of Amidala's handmaidens during the invasion of Naboo. A few times when the topic came, Versé had to politely move the conversation in the right direction, as the younger girl couldn't stop talking about it. The handmaiden worried what would happen when (becasue it was certainly a case of 'when'), the girl would realise what was an illusion and what was not.

Or wasn't Versé calm, as Cordé was nervous as well? Even if her older friend was much better schooled in hiding it than her. Furthermore, Cordé got worried only when the situation was really bad.

As if hearing Versé's thoughts, the older handmaiden briefly squeezed her palm. The girl smiled back and for the first time she didn't have to hide her trembling hands under her long black robe (of which she was grateful anyway). Versé knew why she was there, she chose it by herself, she was hers aunt's niece and she would stand where she was until her last breath.

Soon they would be landing. Soon Padmé will be safe, that was all what was important.