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Kora
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"Mmmmm . . . General Kenobi."

"What did I tell you about that?"

"You told me last night that certain circumstances
entitled me to call you by your first name."

"Exactly."

"How about some, ah, 'circumstances,' Obi-Wan?"

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Ardith
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"Good morning, sleepy one."

"Uhhhh . . ."

"Well put."

"Blehhh . . . Zandru . . . gnnnnneh blehh uhhh."

"Yes, I'll bring you a cup of tea."

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Elsah
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"Hello?"

"I trust you're well, darling."

"Much better, now that I'm talking to you, Rinan."

"When do you land on Draecia?"

"Two days."

"I wanted to surprise you, but I couldn't keep it to
myself. I'll be there."

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Later, lunch at the usual place
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"WHAT?!" bellowed Elsah.

"Wow, boss. On the *desk*? You did it on his
*desk*?" Ardith hooted.

"Louder, please, Deputy. I don't think they quite
heard you on Tatooine." Kora rolled her eyes, but
couldn't stop beaming.

"And would you look at that? She's eating her
salisbury nerf like it's her last meal ever," remarked
Elsah.

"I worked up quite an appetite." Kora smirked at her
two friends. "What did you do last night, Elsah?"

"Fixed a droid," replied Elsah.

"You're always fixing droids, Elsah. One day, I swear
you're going to wake up and find that your hand and
your hydrospanner have become one," teased Ardith.

"And on that day, I will wake up a happy woman,
because I won't lose my hydrospanner ever again."
Elsah declared. "Speaking of waking up a happy woman,
I certainly did. Rinan commed me. He's going to meet
us when we land on Draecia."

"Elsah, that's wonderful! How did he manage to get
away from his, er, work?" asked Ardith, referring euphemistically to Rinan's business in the Corellian system, a business which Elsah had hinted wasn't completely legal.

"I didn't ask, because I probably didn't want to
know."
Elsah grinned. "Kora, you'll like him quite a lot."

"I'm sure I will, if he's half as great as you and
Ardith have said." Kora smiled. "Now, Ardith, you
nerfherder, you've looked like the felinoid who
swallowed the avian since you walked in. How was
tea?"

"Oh, it was just as nice as last time." Ardith smiled dreamily. "I fell asleep on him on the sofa while he was massaging my back, and I woke up in his bed this morning."

"And your laser cannon training?" Elsah waggled her
eyebrows.

"I was asleep. Besides, Zandru is shy. But Jedi
sleep pants . . . rowwwrrr." Ardith waggled her
eyebrows.

"I didn't get to see Kenobi's sleep pants." Kora
waggled her eyebrows.

"It'll be nice to not have to fill out *surplus
reports* all the time now, boss," commented Ardith
snarkily.

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FIN