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This afternoon was awful.
You can tell things aren't right when I write twice in just a few hours, as I have today. We are all on edge and it seems I am not the only one weary from fear and grief.
If there's another group of testier, snippier young women somewhere in the galaxy this evening, I challenge you to find them.
It's as if
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Sorry about the sudden cutoff there. We were still trying not to bite each others' heads off when Senator Palpatine returned from the Senate with Panaka. Apparently the Senator is one of the three nominees to replace Valorum as Chancellor. Is it just me or is that the tiniest bit suspicious? I really need to stop thinking about politics. It's totally beyond me and I let my imagination run away with me. I refuse to allow myself to believe that Senator Palpatine would use our planet's crisis to fuel his own career like this. Then again...he is a politician.
In any case, Padmé made a slightly surprising decision–to return to Naboo and work for our freedom from there. I'm not really surprised because there is nothing left we can do here. And Padmé is not one to sit around and wait for a solution to present itself when she could be creating her own solutions.
Just before the Senator and Panaka arrived, she was talking to Jar-Jar. It reminded me that there is another whole species of people on Naboo that have to fight the Trade Federation. Funny how easy it is to forget the Gungans, when they were probably on Naboo long before the first human colonizers.
In any case, we are now once again hurtling through hyperspace, but this we're going home.
The Jedi, Master Jinn and Knight Kenobi, are once again with us. (No, I am not getting any ideas.)
I am absolutely terrified. I don't know what we'll find when we get home, but I know it won't be good. I keep seeing my home burned to the ground, and my family with it. Or else taken to one of the camps and "processed." I get shivers when I try to figure out what just what exactly "processing" is. And there is the very likely possibility that we will be involved in a battle of some kind. If so, it will be the first real and actual battle that I've ever been in and I have the normal (I suppose) fear that I will freeze up or run or in some way fail. Or get hurt or die.
But, on the bright side, we're actually doing something.
And I can't forget the Jedi, now can I?
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