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[encryptedlock]

[York's been...well, depressed lately. Maybe that's why he's feeling talkative when he notices the date and dictates to the journal.]

Earth Day...I miss Earth, you know? Not just the maybe-Earth we saw in LA--I miss that, too--but my Earth. Last bastion of the human race, headquarters of the UNSC. Last I heard, the Covenant found it and half

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[malachor_echoed]

[Hallin considers the world she was headed to when she came to Paradisa]

I'll buy you a round if you'll buy me one.

[malachor_echoed]

[she will when she tastes them! Hallin crosses her arms across her stomach and stares off across the room as she considers]

I don't really remember where I'm from--my home planet, that is. I was taken away to the Jedi Academy on Dantooine at a very young age. But Dantooine is a beautiful planet. It's sparsely populated, very agricultural. I loved it there.

[encryptedlock]

[He does get a sad look at that, because agricultural will always mean harvest, and Harvest was the first planet to fall. But hey, that's not what this was all about, was it? Or was it. York wasn't really sure where the boundaries were anymore.]

You were taken. It wasn't what you wanted to do?

[malachor_echoed]

I was barely out of infancy. I didn't have a choice.

[she shrugs and smiles--it doesn't bother her, because being a Jedi is--was--the only life she's ever known, so if she's missing out, she wouldn't exactly know]

[encryptedlock]

Damn. Well, did you at least like it there?

[malachor_echoed]

Dantooine, or the Jedi Academy? Or both? Both. I was very happy there. It hurt to visit after the Jedi Civil War... the Academy had been bombed out.

[encryptedlock]

Yeah. The Navy HQ was on Reach before it...before they found Reach. I don't even want to look at the pictures of what they did there.

[malachor_echoed]

And you're from Earth, correct?

[encryptedlock]

Right. New York City, if you were lucky enough to go there last year.

It's a lot more...dense than Los Angeles. And of course in my time it's a spaceport. [He takes a drink.] If I could go back there instead of to a battlefield when I go home? Hell, I'd take it in a minute.