001Beginnings

Vestara leaned her back against the wall of her cabin on board the Jade Shadow. Not that it was really hers of course. The only things she owned here were the cloths on her back. Actually, now that she thought of it, they weren't hers ether. She was just borrowing them. A sudden knock from the door startled her from her thoughts. That was only a formality.

"Come in." Vestara called, it was Ben, no surprise there. He interacted with her much more than his father, and, she found to her own mild dismay that her father was right and she actually was starting to like him.

"You missed dinner," the redhead said, shifting awkwardly from foot to foot, "I thought I'd bring you something."

"Thank-you Ben." Vestara patted the bed next to her, "will you join me?" Ben smiled, still looking slightly uncomfortable, and sat next to her. Maybe, she could-and would-enjoy the task her father had set her. She thought, smiling, just a little.