"Some," Tahiri replied, speaking more slowly than usual while she tried to pick her words carefully. "The negotiations didn't exactly turn out as boring as he thought, I guess. He's helping his father, and Ender's with them. Unless they figure a few things out and manage to convince the -- right people, it'll be ten years before they can come back."
She really did want to blurt out everything, maybe use some of the more colorful Corellian language she'd picked up from Corran to vent her opinion of Daala, but Jaina was close enough to Ben's point in the timeline by now that she wasn't sure how much she could risk.
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She really did want to blurt out everything, maybe use some of the more colorful Corellian language she'd picked up from Corran to vent her opinion of Daala, but Jaina was close enough to Ben's point in the timeline by now that she wasn't sure how much she could risk.