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Community Center, Friday Evening

When it came to Fandom, the typical alumni mixer type events tended to include a few key elements: food, drinks, and dancing.

Tonight? Not so much. Well, there was still the food and drinks, and probably nobody would actually stop you if you decided to go ahead and get jiggy with it, but the setup didn't exactly lend itself to dancing.

The setup in question? Well, the room was made to look as if a giant slumber party were taking place. There were ample blankets and pillows, and a big movie screen set up on one side of the room in order to play appropriately-themed movies.

[ooc: ocd up! post is open to all alumni, townies, teachers, and students]

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"I am very pleased to see you," Raven said, squeezing her friend. Her own shields were still wound tightly around her, though more directed inward than outward, so she did pick up on something bothering Tahari. But asking about that would come later. Now was for hugging.

"How have you been?" she asked. "I hope you have been well."

"Busy, but fine," Tahiri assured her. "It's been so long since I had a chance to get back -- how have you been?"

"I have been well," Raven said with a small smile. It wasn't lying, it was just exaggerating. "How much time has passed for you?"

"Since the Nothing took my galaxy and then gave it back?" Tahiri frowned slightly. "About eight months, I think."

She glanced across the community center and added, quietly, "This is the first time I've been back since Anakin got here."

Raven followed her gaze. "Is that him?" she said. "I had heard him mentioned on the radio, but I have not met him yet ~~because his player sucks~~."

She bit her lip, realizing that must be what was bothering Tahiri now. "Are you all right?" she said softly. "I know this must be difficult for you to see him."

~~I KNOW, RIGHT? HIS PLAYER IS A HORRIBLE PERSON.~~

"That's him," Tahiri confirmed. "It isn't difficult -- it's not as if I wasn't expecting this, when I got here. But it is a bit of a --"

She muttered something guttural in Yuuzhan Vong.

"He's so little."

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"I am glad you were forewarned, at least," Raven said. It must've been Jaina or Ben who'd done so, and she couldn't imagine it was easy for them to see Anakin there as well.

"Perhaps his fate will not be the same..." she started to say, but she was having trouble believing it.

Tahiri shook her head hard. "I don't want to think about it, no. Maybe, maybe not, but worrying about that for myself is hard enough. I don't want to worry about that, too. But never mind," she went on in a rush. "I came back to see all of you."

And Jaina. But that went without saying.

Raven was more than happy to seize upon a subject change. "You have been missed," she said. "What have you been doing for these past months?"

"Working, practically nonstop," Tahiri replied with a laugh, and she was never going to give Jaina a hard time about it again.

Okay, yes, she would.

"I've been working with the Yuuzhan Vong refugees, helping them to get settled in on their new world. It's . . . occasionally a real challenge."

"So you are busy, but are you happy?" Raven had to know. She had that concern about all her friends who'd left the island.

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