02 ★ good morning, sunshine

[diplomacme]

Who: Padmé Amaidala & you
Broadcast: video
Action: on the Heron
When: September 4th - evening

video

[ Padmé’s been asleep for about a month, but she still seems a little tired. As usual, she’s sitting in her office when she broadcasts. ]

Good morning, everyone. [ She smiles kindly, though it doesn’t dispel the glimmer of melancholy in her eyes. ] For those who do not know me, my name is Padmé Amidala. Apparently I took a month-long nap-- I apologize for any inconvenience I’ve caused for my crew. I may need a little help catching up on current events.

[ She pauses, unsure. ] I do have a different sort of question. Has anyone experienced side-effects from our stay on Hea-Guaa?

[ Because her telepathy augment upgrade seems to have finally kicked in. ]

action

[ Padmé is idly walking through the Heron. Officially, she’s checking their supplies and making sure there aren’t any pressing issues to take care of. She rather hopes there’s some kind of pressing issue, if only to take her mind off of everything and bring her back to her everyday life on the Fleet. But she’s clearly restless and distracted. ]

Comments

video;

[stefanged]

Well, I'm free right now. [Unless one of his crewmates ends up in space jail again.] Would you like me to head over, or would you like me to come later?

[diplomacme]

Will you be free this evening? I'm checking in on a few people at the moment.

[ Or they're checking in on her. Same thing. ]

[stefanged]

Of course. Just let me know when everything's been settled, and I'll be right there.

[For her, tbh, he'd make time.]

[diplomacme]

Thank you. Shall we meet on the Paisley at about 7, if that's convenient for you?

[stefanged]

That works perfectly! I'll see you then.

action;

[diplomacme]

[ Padmé arrives on the Paisley exactly on time. She looks a little more alert, a little less like she's forcing calm. She walks through the Paisley like it's her own ship-- all of that time she lived with Anakin here acclimated her to the layout of the ship.

Padmé seeks out the med ward, knocking on the doorframe and poking her head in. ]

Stefan?

action;

[stefanged]

Padmé!

[Stefan hadn't been working on anything important: since he was expecting company, he'd been sitting on one of the beds, with a history book in his lap and a notebook at his side. Setting it all aside, he approaches her.]

It's good to see you again. Side-effects aside, everything else going okay?

action;

[diplomacme]

[ She smiles, a little more genuinely than before. ]

I'm surprisingly well-- the malfunction must be more like a state of stasis than an actual coma.

[ "Nap" is just a less terrifying way of putting it. ]

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[stefanged]

That's the general consensus. I've yet to hear otherwise, and it's been well over a year for me.

[Still, he wouldn't be a good doctor if he left it at that, so...]

Tell me more about what you're experiencing? It doesn't sound like it's related to the hyper-sleep.