Week 12 - 12/1/08 - UDC 3

56. Comet

She watched the traveling point of light in the sky with interest, at once comforted and feeling safe. It wasn't home, this new and strange place she'd found herself in, and she was still adjusting to things, but that point of light… in a place of such oddities, it was nice to see that some things were the same.

"You're up late," his soft voice whispered next to her ear. "Tell me?"

"Just a comet, Drev." But it was more than that… it was a pleasant reminder of home. "Nothing important."

"I don't believe that any more than you do."

57. Star

The lights had yet to come back on as they sat in the darkness, and it had been unnerving at first because this was their first power failure since arriving on Coruscant. When her eyes had adjusted, she'd had to fight a chuckle at noticing something that didn't belong. "I can't believe you brought those things, Chris."

"What?"

"The glow-in-the-dark stars."

He snorted in laughter as he put his arm around her, considering his response. She beat him to it.

"I miss our home constellations already, too."

Up there on the ceiling, he'd made an approximation of Earth's sky at night.

58. Planet

They'd come out of hyperspace an hour ago to find a normal looking planet, and as Mara landed the Jade's Fire on the landing pad with practiced ease, she smiled.

"Nice landing," Luke told her as he stood up and stretched. "What'd you call this planet again?"

"Lamarred." She turned to find him smiling at her with raised eyebrows. "What?"

"You," he said as he pulled her into his arms.

"What about me?"

"I have you all to myself," he told her, and bent his head to kiss her soundly.

'I could stay right here all day,' Mara thought to herself.

59. Moon

Han frowned as he heard a frustrated grunt coming from the other room, and got up to go investigate it. He found Leia sitting at the computer terminal, appearing very frustrated and seemingly about ready to punch something. "Leia?"

She glanced at him and some of the annoyance shone very clearly in her eyes. "None of these are right."

"For what?"

"A new facility." As she looked at him, comprehension seemed to dawn. "Unless… was there ever an Imperial training facility on one of those?"

Han turned to look. One of Corucant's moons was visible in the window. "Probably."

60. Nebula

Luke frowned as he looked in on his daughter to find her ransacking her bedroom. "What are you looking for?"

"Nedula. Can't find him anywhere!"

Curious, Luke took a good long look in the corners… and found it. "Um…"

She sighed and glanced at him. "What… um?"

"Over there on top of the bookcase?"

"Thank you, Daddy," she said as she went to retrieve the stuffed animal from the top of her bookcase. It was a stuffed Bantha that she'd had since infancy and had, for reasons unknown to either of her parents, named after an interstellar dust cloud.