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The corridor outside the Tams' apartment

Apr 08, 2006 09:12

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padme_politic April 9 2006, 13:14:14 UTC

Padme passes by Simon's apartment and pauses to look at the sign. It's still hard for her to read English letters.

"The colors are really pretty," Padme says quietly. Force knows that they needed a bit more color around here.

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 15:53:39 UTC

Kaylee beams as she steps away.

"Thanks. I thought we could do with a bit of colour around here."

She extends a bold hand in the woman's direction at the same time as turning on her that same beaming smile.

"Hi. I'm Kaylee."

padme_politic April 9 2006, 18:09:41 UTC

Padme smiles in return. "I'm Padme. Sometimes I help out in the infirmary. I take it you know Simon and River," she says, indicating the sign on the door.

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 18:49:27 UTC

"Sure do," Kaylee says brightly. "Been on the same ship goin' on a year now. Simon and I started with the sex a few weeks ago."

padme_politic April 9 2006, 18:54:25 UTC

Padme laughs a little in surprise at her bluntness. "I'm sure he was so glad to see you. And...I'm glad you're here--he seemed so lonely. How long since you've come to this world?"

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 18:59:51 UTC

The smug look falters as Kaylee loks for a way of answering that without bringing up painful subjects.

Then she realises she can't.

"Goin' on... 'bout a week, now? Maybe more."

padme_politic April 9 2006, 19:03:20 UTC

Padme isn't going to ask about anything painful. Unless Kaylee wants to talk about it. "Time runs strangely here, with no sun. I've been here for a few months, myself. There isn't an Earth, in the galaxy I come from."

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 19:18:51 UTC

She really really doesn't.

"There ain't been an Earth in our Verse for centuries," she says instead. "That stopped bein' able to support us all."

padme_politic April 9 2006, 19:20:39 UTC

Padme doesn't blame her at all.

"Sometimes a planet's resources do run out. At least you knew how to relocate. I used to do that when I was younger, help species relocate to other planets."

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 19:34:15 UTC

"That's awful good of you," Kaylee says, before she realises what was said. "Species? Like aliens?"

padme_politic April 9 2006, 19:38:16 UTC

"Well...other beings, from other planets. I don't really think of them as aliens, really." She pauses. "It's hard to think of them as alien when you serve in government with them."

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 19:44:47 UTC

"Oh no, I didn't mean anything bad by it!" Kaylee insists, suddenly afraid she's offended her. "We just don't have any, our 'verse. It's just the human people."

padme_politic April 9 2006, 19:47:43 UTC

"Oh, it's all right," Padme says reassuringly. "At the very least, it's given me the ability to look upon our more non-human looking denizens with no real problem."

She grins. "I am from a small planet called Naboo. I do not think I have met anyone yet who has heard of it."

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 20:00:40 UTC

"Well, I sure ain't," Kaylee confirms. "But the moon I grew up on was too small to even get a name we knew of, so you're doin' OK by my way of thinking."

padme_politic April 9 2006, 20:03:42 UTC

"It seems that human beings have really spread out over your galaxy. How did you come to be on the ship where you all met?"

meimeichanic April 9 2006, 20:12:04 UTC

"Oh well, they were forced to land there a few years back with engine trouble," Kaylee explains. "The mechanic at the time was kind enough to give me a tour of the engineroom, and there it was, plain as day. Cap'n gave me a job straight away after I rerouted the G-line."

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