I just got a message from Corrine today. She's one of the other Hapan apprentices. Had dark skin, that crimson, fiery hair, is quite the angel, and I mean it past the Hapan way. I'm getting carried away again. Corrine is actually from Gallinore, but she's as Hapan as Grandpa. We've a Hapan Jedi Apprentice club and Corrine's our president.
Our next meeting is on Kuat, this time next week, so I've a week to write to her. We apprentices rarely return home, but we Hapans journey back to Hapes, to my sister's Palace, three times a year: the Queen's Pageant, the Moon Festival, and the Crowning Day.
The Queen's Pageant is a yearly pageant and as prince, I serve as a monitor. Crowning Day is the anniversary of our first Queen Mother's ascension and my knowledge of those celebrations is limited, as males are barred. The most important one for us is the Moon Festival.
According to myths, Harpa, our patron goddess, had asked one of her angels, Novor, to dance with her and they took a total of seven steps, leaving one moon to rise in the wake of each step. In honor of this, the women ask us to dance in the dance hall on one of the moons once a year.
I want Corrine to ask me, but I don't know how to convince her.
My Master suggested that I ask her instead, but that is unthinkable for a male.
I can feel myself choking, if only ever slightly, and I pray that it is merely the blanket of pollution and not my emotions.