While last week's Portalocity email had maybe made Jaina a little paranoid, she'd talked to enough people since then to be reassured that at least she could talk to people. And then came today's email, with words like "have become almost impossible to contact" and there went all that reassurance. Nice going, Portalocity.

Luckily she was playing bodyguard for a diplomat right now, which wasn't exactly high-maintenance work most of the time, so she had more time to hang out by herself and make calls to people to make sure she could still get in touch with them.

That whole pushing people away thing was obviously going great.


[If you think you got a call, you did. Pick up!]

It was really really early and the stupid comlink had been going off all night. It took her a couple times to realize that her mom wasn't going to come and answer it just because she sleepily whined for her to.

When she finally answered a call, she was thrilled to see her dad's little blue holographic form in front of her. "Dad!" she said excitedly, grinning. "I'm glad it's you! The comlink wouldn't stop going off and I think it's broke, so I'm gonna take it apart and see if I can fix it."

Somehow it didn't seem that Han had been expecting to see his seven-year-old daughter when he woke up this morning, and after a, "Hi, sweetheart," he turned to look somewhere out of range of the camera and said, "Uh, Leia?"


[Establishy, but can be totally open if you don't let a little closed door stop you.]

Jaina had had a pretty busy day, playing Space Vampires and trying to break into Anakin's shuttle and all, but she was bored. She was bored and Jacen wasn't here, so she was going to have to make her own fun. Which meant she had to go exploring.

It was probably best not to ask how she found the entrance into the sewers, except that she had a lot of practice wandering into the lower levels of Coruscant, and this was pretty much the reason she came down here at all. She didn't like it, though. It was boring and it made her want to take a bath and there was something wrong with anything that made her want to do that.

She sighed and thought about giving up and seeing if the ruins of that one building would be any fun, but kept going for a while anyway, just in case. And she lucked out when she saw the little gremlin, who saw her at the same time, and they both stopped in their tracks. She knew it was a bad idea to go near it, but it looked more scared than harmful, or at least she thought so in all her infinite six-year-old wisdom, so it was probably okay. And Jacen didn't have one yet and they didn't even have gremlins back home.

"Wait right there!" she ordered, and took off running to get back to the surface.

She returned some time later with a box for the gremlin to go in, but it didn't listen to her and wandered off, and no matter how far she kept walking, she couldn't find it again. Finally she gave up and turned around, muttering things about stupid gremlins.