Star Wars - The Old Republic: Close To Home (Book 1: The Beginning)

Revelations

The moments pass slowly for Lereana who was seated on the cockpit of the Thunderclap. She was already docked at the Waystation and she didn't care if she was alone for a while. She'd been thinking what really that Sith meant when she was called her "sister." Something inside that statement really ticked her the moment she kept replaying that scene in her mind. Why would that Sith woman call her a sister?

It seemed virtually impossible for her Lereana to process it in full and on her own but then she had an idea. There were times that the Jedi in Tython had to search their feelings, even if told not to. Some of the things they sense could end up true in a way. So Lereana closed her eyes to try relax herself. She tried to focus on the scene she was trying to replay. And she saw the way the Sith woman was looking at her... Sincere because of her eyes.

"She didn't have an inch of lying back then," Lereana thought to herself. "And her tone... she felt glad and comfortable of being with me instead of being resentful. I know those types of people when I face hostility. Wait... am I seeing this clearly?" She slowly opened her eyes, seeing the yokes of the cockpit that told her she was back from her meditative status. She felt different from when she searched her feelings unlike before she was able to unlock something from her session with Satele Shan. "I could get used to it, but the lure to either side... it becomes important soon."

"Major?" Aric Jorgan's voice, the one too familiar, was accompanied by a series of footsteps in the Thunderclap. He came from behind Lereana, and she stood up to greet him with her presence. "Ah, there you are. I thought you'd be comfortable if you use a shuttle."

Lereana immediately shakes her head. "I just wanna take the Republic Spaceport directly. The moment we usually leave Garza's place, something always comes up."

Aric crossed his arms. "Heh. You never know. We could just get random missions here at the Waystation." And although he replied, he was met with a pause from the Major. This made him a little concerned and he decided to switch his tone as if he was talking to her wife. "Ana? What's wrong?"

She noticed him call her nickname and she smiled, just before she frowned a little. "Nothing really. I just... I wanted to think hard back at what happened at Nar Shaddaa."

And Aric did something that could calm her down. She approached her and put his hands on her shoulders right in front of her. She even tried to massage her there. "I think you're gonna need a little relaxant."

"What? Like a massage?"

"Heh. Could be useful." And Aric received a chuckle from Lereana. "Finally. That's what I wanna hear. We could use a short break especially after what happened." And this just made Lereana lose her smile again. "Crap. I probably shouldn't have reminded her again. She hates it that way," he thought.

Lereana sighs. "Look... Let's just get to the Spaceport in Coruscant. Thanks for cheering me up. But I gotta make sure I drown it out with stuff to do if I could."

Several minutes later, Aric and herself had been in front of the Senate Tower, and they were walking towards the entrance. All she could think about in the walk into the Tower was what her identity really was. She was thinking of visiting her mother for that. It's been a while since she did.

Walking into the turns and staircases was no problem for her. It was too familiar to her unlike her first days in the Senate Tower after Ord Mantell when she was asking around on the location of Garza's office. Now that she knew how to get there, what she's wondering next is if she would find something new, now that she's praised to have been a soldier to be relied on in the Republic.

Arriving into Garza's office, she nods at Lieutenant Mai, who then salutes back at the higher-ranked Lereana. The two troopers then walk into the office area and Garza herself was dealing with some things on her datapad. As soon as she saw the two, she approached them.