Room 424 [early evening]

[momslilassassin]

Ben didn't have classes on Tuesday, so he'd spent the entire day going through the forensic evidence of his mother's crime scene on his datapad, so focused on the task in front of him that he forgot his normal Tuesday routine.

The photos...were grim.

Which was why the door was very firmly shut.

[OOC: But if you want to bug him...]

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[momslilassassin]

"Come in, Jaina," Ben replied, moving to shove the datapad under his pillow.

[solo_sword]

Jaina opened the door, stepping inside and closing it again behind her. "Hey," she greeted him. "How are you doing?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben gave her a smile. "Fine. Doing some work."

[solo_sword]

"Homework, or work work?" She wasn't sure she wanted to know what kind of work he had to bring home with him.

[momslilassassin]

"Work work," he replied. "Something I should've worked on a while ago, really."

[solo_sword]

"Anything you can talk about?" Jaina asked. Not that she'd be offended if he couldn't. She knew how it went.

[momslilassassin]

He shook his head. Telling one Jaina had been bad enough.

Which reminded him...he got up off his bed and reached out to hug her.

[solo_sword]

"That fun, huh?" she asked, wrapping her arms around him to hug him.

[momslilassassin]

"No one we knew died?" he offered.

[solo_sword]

"I've started to consider that the mark of a successful trip," she admitted. Which was sad.

[momslilassassin]

"I wouldn't get terribly attached to Centerpoint Station, though," he offered quietly.

[solo_sword]

"I've never been particularly attached," Jaina told him. It certainly hadn't done Anakin any good. "That sounds a little ominous."

[momslilassassin]

"It was the biggest weapon in the galaxy," Ben said. "Dad wasn't going to leave it there for someone to use."

[solo_sword]

"Meaning Jacen?" she assumed. It was very easy to figure that everything that went bad was because of his Jacen, while making her want to hug her own.

[momslilassassin]

"The Corellians fired it," Ben said. "It took out most of the Fourth Fleet and was possibly the stupid assassination attempt of all time. No one should've had it."

[solo_sword]

For someone who only heard bits and pieces of the situation, Jaina thought, "What the hell," pretty much summed it up.

[momslilassassin]

"No one has the high ground on this any more. Right now the Jedi are practically a third government," Ben said. "Because that makes things less complicated."

[solo_sword]

"And Uncle Luke must be thrilled with that," she said dryly.

[momslilassassin]

"He's had better years," Ben agreed. "I think if physically knocking people's heads together would do anything, he'd be doing that."

[solo_sword]

"I can't say I'm against that method," she said immediately.

[momslilassassin]

"You wouldn't," he replied with a small laugh as he sat back down on the bed. "How's your war going?"

[solo_sword]

The sigh he got in response was heavier than Jaina meant it to be. "It's busy," Jaina replied. "I'm probably going to have to go back there to take care of some things just so they can stop blowing up my comm."

[momslilassassin]

Ben nodded. "Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be here very long before heading home again."

[solo_sword]

"More problems?" It's be nice if the galaxy could stop throwing those at him.

[momslilassassin]

"Old problem," Ben replied, "and there's only so much I can learn from still holos."