you can call me great one

Amazingly, today hadn't gone badly as Jaina had feared. And she hadn't sung once, which, under the circumstances, was probably a really good thing. That didn't however mean that she was wanting to be spending a lot of time letting herself think too hard for too long. Besides, doing nothing when she came all this way was boring.

So if she ended up finding Eric, that really shouldn't be a surprise by now. And if one thing led to another, that should probably be even less of a surprise. And if it resulted in any sort of destruction of property... okay, well, that was new.


[This post always looked like this. For that guy who lives there! So to speak.]

Between the messages she'd gotten and what she'd seen on the board, Jaina would call herself anything but happy, but she didn't feel as if her brain was just stopped today. With yesterday's Portalocity email, she had to refocus, and there were some things she needed to do.

The first thing she did was call her Luke, to make sure he knew exactly what was going on. She didn't tell him about any of the disappeared that he might know. That wasn't going to do anyone any good. The second thing she did was record a message for Jacen.

( which would be here )

She ended the transmission and sent it, telling herself that as soon as this was over and everything was fixed she'd be able to threaten someone but good in order to get back home. It made her feel mildly better.

[Mostly establishy, as I'm leaving in like half an hour. But if you're up for SP, go ahead and knock.]

A lack of incidents requiring Jaina to explain why anyone was walking around sporting holes in their neck meant that by now, letting Eric see the Jedi Temple didn't seem like a bad idea. She thought he might as well see where she lived... or where her dirt stayed, at any rate. She'd never shown the place to anyone before, either, which she hadn't realized till now.

Luckily running into Jacen had happened towards the end of the tour. There were more awkward situations out there, yes, and Jaina promised herself that from now on, she'd try to keep better track of where he was to avoid things like this. Introducing Eric as "my terrifying friend" probably hadn't helped, either. And when she was able to extract them from that little meeting, she thought it might be better to get out of the Temple and find somewhere else to go for a while.

"Sorry for cutting the tour short," she said as they stepped outside.


[For said terrifying friend.]

When she had some time, Jaina took a medkit into the fresher to tend to today's cuts and bruises, leaving the door open so she could hear her comlink if it went off. There wasn't anything too bad, nothing that wouldn't heal in a few days, but the scrapes still needed to be treated.

When the dire-cat had attacked, it was Jaina who was able to calm it down and call it off. Which surprised her. She'd done something like that once before, when she'd first gotten to Fandom and the dinosaurs attacked, but she'd chalked that up to them just being really stupid animals. It wasn't even that it had been hard, it just meant calming herself enough to do it, which she usually wasn't very good at. Controlling them had always been Jacen's thing, with his connection to animals, and Jaina had been fine to let that be his thing. She was starting to wonder why she limited herself like that.

She wasn't the type to go looking to collect new powers or anything. The only time she'd ever really done that had been when she'd been falling to the dark side and apprenticed herself to Kyp, and it'd take a damn good reason for her to use those now. But she and Jacen were twins. If he was getting downright scary with what he could do, she had the potential at least to learn that much. If she was worrying about how things were going to go and train as hard as she did just in case, there was no reason to not see what else she could do with her powers, too. So, she knew she could do this, and now she'd find a way to practice it and get better, and that'd be one more thing she knew how to do.

And maybe next time they ran into any planet's native predators she'd be able to do something about it before she ended up needing to disinfect the scrapes down her arm. Jedi or not, that stuff stung.


[*plays with stuff, whee!* Open for calls or emails or whatever.]

Just as she'd thought, a day after Jaina and Zekk had both gotten to Coruscant, they'd been sent out on their first mission back together. Considering she'd blown up at him for running a day late through no fault of his own when she'd been here waiting to do something, that kind of quick turnaround was not the worst idea. Resuming life as usual had chilled Jaina out a bit, too, at least in that regard. It was good to put her brain to work and get back into the action and know for sure that she was in the right place, doing the right thing, at the right time.

Not that she didn't end up missing people when things got quiet. Like now.

Currently she was aboard a passenger transport headed to Mordagon, on the tail of one of the members of a particularly hard-to-find crime ring that was springing up more and more often. Rather than come in being all obvious in X-wings, they'd stowed them on the civilian ship and decided to play this as low-key as possible. She and Zekk had separate rooms, since while they hadn't been Joiners in nearly a year, their bond to each other was still just strong enough to make sharing a room uncomfortable. It was something they might have to get used to, but not yet. Besides, Jaina hadn't apologized for that blowup on Coruscant yet.

That was also the reason she wasn't going to bother him now they they had some downtime till they arrived at their destination: she was just being stubborn. So when she'd gone through all the information she had, and plotted out a plan as well as she could, she got out her phone and checked the time in Fandom. After a moment of wondering if it was maybe too early to be doing this yet, she dialed a number anyway and waited to see if she got voicemail or not.


[Apparently when I'm crabby and headachey, this is the right character to post. If you think you got a call, you did.]

So far Jaina was definitely not regretting getting away from Fandom for a bit. For one, there were no raining Peeps or chocolate eggs to be found, and she could shower properly. Plus, she was coming out of it a little richer than when she'd arrived with the bonus of not having attracted any attention for it so far, and the company didn't exactly suck. Figuratively speaking.

As they headed away from the casino and started walking past the shops, she noted, "You know, it's harder to brag when I can't offer to treat you to dinner."


[For that guy who is there, and NFB for distance and all.]