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Right. Thanks. That's- well, I guess it's not helpful exactly, since it doesn't change anything. But I feel better knowing more about the experience?

At least Da- Sam was in his own bed when it happened.

[That gets a faintly amused sound.]

I snagged me a dad here too.

Well... I mean, I have a Dad back home? But Sam was just - in the breach, I mean - things were... different.

[She feels a little guilty. She genuinely adores her father, after all. But what Sam had been to Devana in that breach... it wasn't anything like what she'd been able to have with either parent. It's hard to let go of that, especially when neither she nor Samwise really seem to want to.]

Me too. Danny Hebert’s a good guy, and I love him. But he wasn’t the father I needed, growing up the way I did. Kaz healed a lot in me. Just being here.

B'Rt did the best he could, but... well, tradition is tradition. He was never going to get much say in how I was raised.

[Even her mother didn't have much of a choice, if she wanted their House and Tendi herself to survive. Especially before D'Erika was born.]

Spare dad club.

I got to reconnect with Danny after I graduated the first time - he supported me through my trial, and the time I spent in jail - but that was more friendly than parental. Kazuma's my dad in all the ways that matter now. I'll live near him when I leave here.

[And Danny thinks she's dead. She's keeping it that way.]

Yeah... I'll always be grateful for how much my dad taught me about starship systems. [As in, how to exploit them.] He's honestly brilliant with them, and it was one of the few sciency things I could really dig into and learn about without my parents thinking it was a waste of time.

But, well... he's a man. And I was the Tendi Prime. Technically I outranked him, even as a child? It... made things kind of complicated.

[Things like genuinely connecting with him.]

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