Zonama Sekot, En Route Back to the Unknown Regions, GFFA (Monday Fandom Time)

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Really, Tahiri could have been annoyed that all her evacuation efforts had ended up being for nothing in the end, but she was too grateful to have everyone back to focus on that. (Maybe later, once she'd slept off the exhaustion, there'd be a little room for that

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Jaina had actually managed to get a good amount of sleep last night/this morning. Well, a good amount for her, anyway. Blame exhaustion after the last couple weeks. So when she was finally awake awake, she picked up her comm.

Oh, look, an incoming call!

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Tahiri grinned when she saw who was calling and propped herself up against the pillows, because sleepy or not there was no way she was letting this one ring through to voicemail.

"It's unbelievably good to be able to say hi, Jaina."

Seriously, even if Jaina yelled at her for disappearing temporarily, it'd be welcome right now.

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"Tell me about it. If you ever blink out of existence again, I'm kicking your ass," Jaina greeted her.

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"It's also unbelievably a relief to hear that from you," Tahiri replied without missing a beat, laughing. "Not the least because I know you'd do it. Does this mean I'll have to schedule a trip back to Fandom at some point just so you can frown at me in person?"

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"Yes. Though I'm not here for much longer so if you show up anytime soon you'll have to content yourself with seeing Ben instead."

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"What a terrible alternative," Tahiri said lightly. "But I guess you've been away long enough, haven't you?"

Like she was going to yell about that. The whole sense-of-duty thing was how she'd gotten herself erased from existence in the first place.

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"Two months."So yeah. "I'll be back when I can, though."

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"Then if I miss you, clearly, I'll just have to come back." Two months was a long time for Jaina to be away from the action (not that Fandom had been short on it, she was guessing), so Tahiri wouldn't blame her if she was climbing the walls to get home. "Thanks for helping to fix all this."

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"I think thanks shouldn't be needed for this," Jaina said. "Seeing as how it was partly selfish with me not wanting to disappear myself..."

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Tahiri had to take a second and think about that. "I think if we're all pretty honest about it, there's always going to be a little bit of that, isn't there?" she asked. "The second I realized I wasn't going to get to my portal, I know I was wishing I'd gone while I had the chance."

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"I guess so," she said thoughtfully. "I think maybe that's survival instinct poking its head out from under us doing the right thing."

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"Hard to do the right thing if we're not around to do it," Tahiri went on. "But this is more deep thinking than I usually like to do, so I'm just going to settle for being glad to be back."

A pause, then:

"Though this doesn't get you off the hook for that basically-family thing, just in case you were wondering."

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Jaina grinned. "Who said anything about getting me off the hook?"

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Also a relief. "Just making sure we're clear on that, that's all," Tahiri replied.

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"We are," she assured her. "So how are things there with it all over?"

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"Back to as close to normal as we ever get, I think," Tahiri told her. "Although I have to admit I tried to send Jacen a message asking if he remembered dating Danni at any point. I don't expect to hear back any time soon. I think he's still off on his journey."