She's here. I can't believe it, after around two months, a familiar face! I must have the dumbest smile on my face right now.

I was setting up more homes so our Floran tenant wouldn't be lonely, and I built something that reminded me of a place...It reminded me of Wutai, made from Hylotl items I picked up here and there on one of the planets. Then, when I placed the deed on the wall, I was greeted with a loud squeal and a rib crushing hug.

And so many tears. Yuffie called me a "big spiky-headed jerk" for disappearing on her like that, and I couldn't help but laugh and hug her back tightly. I missed her. I missed that silly little materia thief that understood what it means to have motion sickness. I must have held her for a good half an hour, rubbing her back. She said she had been wandering about with Avian sky pirates and had just recently put in for the tenant program, because 'Omigawd Avians don't know how to handle a babe like me!' I'd bet all my pixels she was caught stealing from the ship's captain and decided to escape through this.

When I brought her to the farm, Tifa nearly knocked her over when she ran up to embrace her. Yuffie stayed for dinner, and boy was she happy to eat something other than beakseed. The kids were happy to see their 'Aunt' Yuffie again. We told her we didn't know what the hell happened, but that we weren't too upset about it at all. Seeing her alive just gave me renewed hope that the rest are out there, too. It'll be great to see them again. We showed her our small ship, and Yuffie asked if she could come with us on it. We were fine with it as long as she didn't try to hijack it. I'm pretty sure today she was trying to weasel a matter manipulator out of Pete. Wonder if he'll agree to it?

Regardless, Tifa and I are going to set up a house close to the farm for her with more of those materials we acquired from that abandoned Hylotl palace or whatever it was...Yuffie can tell us how she wants it set up and everything tomorrow. I already flattened the area and gave her a patch to farm. She scoffed at the thought of having to grow food, but I told her she can go back to her beakseed diet if it was a problem. Yuffie's already saying she'll have the best produce this planet's already seen...Yeah, okay. With what seeds?

My EPP is finished. A couple of days before Yuffie showed up I took it out for a test run on a dead moon that orbits the gas giant we see almost every night, and the ship AI warned me that there were 'strange' energy signals on the moon...I wasn't sure what to expect. The EPP is pretty cool, it sends out a "bubble" of protection against the elements, and in this case it gives me air to breathe on airless worlds.

So, being on a moon is...interesting. The gravity is low, so I'm not as worried about falling to my death when I can't prepare a proper landing. I'm still a hard to kill freak, but some of those drops in the dark are too much, even for me. Here the pits are deep as hell, but the landings are soft. Anyway, this is where I'll find fuel for the ship. I went pretty far into the moon's caverns until I found this huge deposit of Erchius fluid and ore. I sucked up as much as I possibly could, but the moment I started harvesting I felt this...tingle in my back. Like something was hunting me. The AI warned me that I was getting the attention of some dangerous creature, and I should probably keep moving from cavern to cavern and get back to the surface.

That was a tense few hours. I had to dig through stratum(at least it was soft) and swim through fuel that I couldn't suck up just getting to a place I could teleport. I did get a glimpse of the thing searching for me...It was some purplish, monstrous spook that was clawing the air as it floated closer. To hell with that. I did get a lot of fuel for the ship, however. I'm going to put our home system coordinates in the system so it's easy to find, and next week I'll search another star system. I'd like to see an ocean planet, maybe the family can go to the beach for a day. It'll be almost just like that time we all went to Costa del Sol together, except there's probably Hylotl instead of humans...Somehow I don't think that would be a problem for the kids at all.

Oh, our Floran tenant mentioned there was going to be a big hunt soon, and asked if I wanted to join. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. I kill enough things on a daily basis. It sure knows how to stroke my ego though; apparently Stabs(Yes, that's its name) approves of my giant sword, said "You have many ssswords to ssstabs the prey, all in one sssword!" Guess even here the Fusion Sword is one of a kind. Kind of thinking about upgrading it somehow. I know it can handle a lot, but I won't say no to improvement. Well, here's to hoping for another friend appearing out of the blue this coming week. Until then...