[Home Sweet Home LTC] Honey, I'm home

Smakrtos and his group were stationed in pamba, they were really involved into the creation of settlements and decided to reside there with their company as long as the community depends on the Confederation. Now the group is back on the main Pam'ba settlement after a thirty rotation fight for Balmorra, and Smakrtos Husband, Xan Tippe, awaits for him, with their daughter, questioning the role of his lover in the confederation compared to his role in their family.

Smakrtos

-Xan, thanks for the meal, I was too tired to make myself.

Xan

-Its alright, i understand. Besides, you were the one that kept us with fine food when i got the carbonite sickness.

They both laughed in harmony, but silence would come as soon as Smakrtos said the following.

Smakrtos

-These are hard times too... -He paused. -I know ive been absent, if im not fighting for the cause on the other side of the galaxy, ill be busy building houses all day, or exploring the ancient temples to find nothing here. 

Xan

-You have perfectly described your schedule since you asked my advice when you longed to join the free systems, but tell me, what is this cause you speak of? since then I do not remember that it included months of your absence.

Smakrtos

-I know my absence well, and I really don't intend to excuse it, but it is part of my role in this community, to fight for a tomorrow different from yesterday. A yesterday where we lived in the shadow of a force that oppressed us and took so many people from us that we were fed up with it. -He tended to pause when he was thinking too much about things, or when he was prevented from materializing his ideas in words. -If it were up to me, I would give myself the ability to separate my body and mind. The first to be where I always wanted to be, in the refugee camps of the factories, and the second to fight for the free systems that have been oppressed. But the force did not give me what I desire, however it did allow me to return to you.

Xan

-You're right, that doesn't justify the nights I've slept alone, the walls I've had to put up, the cries that will never be consoled. But for all of that I forgive you, it's a resentment that would eat me up inside if I carried it with me. All of that is, in fact, something I've already forgiven you, because if I didn't love what you do for the galaxy I wouldn't be loving you. But it's not my forgiveness that you should seek... it's hers, she who I'm afraid is not as understanding as I am, who has known you for years.- Their daughter who he was reffering too, se was in the other room.

Smakrtos was heading to see his daughter, but before opening the door, he turned back and said.

Smakrtos

-I am so sorry I left like this, and I will be, in this life and in eternity, indebted to you for waiting for me. I always admired your stubborn persistence. I love you too.