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[ofherfate]

[Have a semi-nude woman who is only visible from the shoulders and up in the hologram. She's surprisingly calm despite wearing nothing but her undergarments with her hair loosely curled and long around her shoulders.This is Senator Padmé Amidala of the Galactic Republic. If there is anyone there and listening who might know of what has happened,

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[sand_wormie]

[Oh, she's pretty!]

This is Imperial Center! ...Or Coruscant.

The droids have clothes. You could borrow the ones in the room first, if you don't want to go looking.

[sand_wormie]

That was sixteen years ago, to me. Geonosis is pacified, now... I've always wanted to go there.

[He seems nervous.]

My grandmother's name was Shmi. Anakin, well, there's been several people with that name, but my father was called that.

[ofherfate]

[... It might be the news of Geonosis being pacified that startles her ... or maybe it's hearing about Shmi being this kid's grandmother and-- and Anakin being his father--]

Ex-excuse me? [Her surprise is choked, just like her words.]

But that-- you-- Anakin...?

[Instinct has one of her hands going to rest against her pregnant stomach. Padmé's eyes dart around the room; she needs to find a seat. She needs to sit.]

[sand_wormie]

[Uneasy though he is, Luke is empathetic. He does not like to see people in distress, and this overrides his own concerns.]

I - it can wait. Are you okay? Do you need something?

...If you tell me where you are, I can try to help...

[ofherfate]

I should be fine-- [She winces at a particularly strong kick and rubs at her stomach in an attempt to soothe the unborn child within.] I only need to sit.

[Oh. Seat is located! Padmé moves to it and takes along her communicator, taking a deep breath to clear her head of the lightheaded sensation that had threatened to overcome her earlier.]

[sand_wormie]

[And slice skills are go... well, no. Luke's good with machines, but he cannot slice the datapad to find out where this transmission is coming from.]

Really, where are you? I'm in D-6.

[ofherfate]

I believe it read D-7. You... would be in the room next to mine. [She thinks. Good thing she took Axel's advice to find a droid earlier and get some clothes!]

Really, I appreciate your concern... [Even if he's JUST NEXT DOOR, Padmé doesn't want to bother him. Even if he claims his grandmother is Anakin's mother and his father is... Anakin... she does kind of want to meet him...]

[sand_wormie]

Oh. [Luke turns his head to look in that general direction, then comes back.] That's some coincidence.

It wouldn't be any trouble... I do want to know what my grandmother was like. She was buried near the homestead, but Uncle Owen removed the stone.

[ofherfate]

He did? Why would he do that?

[sand_wormie]

He's never said. Someone asked, once, and Aunt Beru said he didn't want anyone to know where she was buried. Though it's where his blood relative were buried, too.

[Padme's actually talked to Beru... the topic was other worlds, and Beru asked about living on Naboo and confessed that she didn't like travel, preferring Tatooine.]

[ofherfate]

Your aunt must be the same Beru I met on Tatooine. [It might be starting to click together. She's very thankful to be sitting still.] Both Owen and Beru Lars, moisture farmers...

[...Shmi was Owen's stepmother. This is too much of a big coincedence...!]

[sand_wormie]

You've met her, too? Wow. Yeah, that's what they do. They're... happy with it. [He's clearly not enthused.]

[ofherfate]

May... I ask you a personal question, Luke?

[sand_wormie]

What is it?

[ofherfate]

Your mother... what do you know of her?

[sand_wormie]

Not much. [And commence unwitting cruelty:] She's dead, but she died a long ways from Tatooine. My aunt says she was kind - considerate, actually. ...And that's all anyone will say about her.