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Well, today is the grand celebration day and the banquet and tomorrow I should be able to take a speeder out and see if my home and family survived the battle. I am going to try to get through the day without losing it. For once I'm glad that Handmaidens are so often treated like nonentities. I will be able to hide my face with the hood of my cloak and I can look calm and expressionless and blank rather than cheerful or happy and no one will probably notice.
At least I don't seem to be the only one not looking forward to the celebration. Saché has been really quiet. Sabé and Eirtaé are about as cheerful as I am, for the same reasons. Yané is cranky, too, but with her I think it's more because the battle is over. Not that Yané wants people to be hurt, but she was in her element with the fighting and now it's back to clothes and makeup and following Padmé wherever she goes like a shadow.
Thirty more hours. That's my estimate for how long it will be before I know. Only thirty more hours to get through.
Oh, and I almost forgot. The way things have been the past few days, I haven't had time to myself for my diary, but I have had time to think. I've decided to ask Padmé to support some new programs related to Nubé as soon as things get back to normal. I'm not sure what they should be, but I intend to find out. Who says Handmaidens can't get involved? From now on, I intend to speak up. After all, we Handmaidens are specially trained and expected to know at least a little about politics, diplomacy, and government, so why shouldn't we have a share in those things, too? I'm going to talk to the others about it and suggest that we have a revolution of our own.
A Handmaiden Revolution.
We are more than just shadows.
It's time for us to speak up and let the rest of the galaxy know that.
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