Aria was all to pleased to skitter out of the compound and back to the ship, only to stop abruptly before the overhang at Yerbol's unexpected suggestion. In the back of her mind, she had considered the idea herself, but every time she tried to think about it in any great detail Aria found herself feeling upset again and she quickly had to abandon her train of thought or risk sinking back into that horrible feeling of all-consuming despair again. Though her throat tightened slightly, she found that Yerbol quickly ushering her onto Neta’s (it’d take a while to get used to calling the freighter ‘theirs’, it still seemed strange) ship and proclaiming that he had come up with an idea of his own helped her to maintain her calm demeanour. 
It wasn’t long before they landed again and Aria found that they were in a very familiar valley. She nodded slowly as she let her gaze sweep over the peaks, letting out a quiet contemplative sigh. “Yeah, yeah...I remember.” Aria murmured, nodding her head. Glancing sideways at her friend, she stepped forward to head towards their last dig site, it would be the easiest place to start. “Then let’s find the best one. It’s got to be perfect.” she mumbled, crouching down there and scanning over the exposed crystals that glistened in the rock face. She looked thoughtful again for a moment, her jaw quivering slightly as she swallowed the lump forming in her throat and spoke up again:
“I’ve got an idea, something….something similar. I...I don’t know if it’d work but we must be able to work it out with the Force somehow.” her hands were shaking ever so slightly as she plucked the saber from her belt; it felt heavy in her hands, and the sharp curve in the hilt made it awkward to hold, she never understood how he had managed it, or why her father had chosen to build a hilt with such a design flaw in the first place. She’d never gotten the chance to ask, she wished she had. But there was no time to think of that now. Aria managed to activate the blade, letting out a quiet breath before she drove it into one of the fissures they had made on their previous excursion, letting it imbed in the facets of the crystals. After murmuring a few quick words and some careful restructuring of the crystal’s molecules to ensure it would not come out of place, she sat back again.
“I-I was going to keep it but…..the crystal probably wouldn’t re-imprint to me and I can’t figure out how you’re supposed to hold a hilt that shape anyways.” she glanced at Yerbol again and smiled. “I guess it’d also be like part of him was still here, watching over everyone. We could carve a little inscription underneath.” she suggested.

She felt better afterwards, like the weight of Roan’s loss wasn’t pressed quite so heavily down on her shoulders. She didn’t need the saber. She could do this. Keep going. They’d won, now. It was time to go and relax and….do things normal people did. And meet Yerbol’s parents. She tried not to overthink that part on their trip to Taris, instead occupying herself by focusing on their piloting. It seemed like barely a day had passed before the planet loomed into view. Suddenly her nerves got the better of her and she jumped to her feet as Yerbol shut off the engines, flitting back towards the map console, where both Tuk’ata lifted their heads in surprise and snorted at her in concern. She waved them off and they returned to their nap, Aria pacing back and forth until Yerbol joined her again, flashing her a concerned look.
“I-I don’t think I can do this, Bol…” she mumbled, teeth sinking into her lower lip. “What if...what if they don’t like me or they think I’m weird or a bad influence on you…?” No. No, she HAD to do this, she kept trying to tell herself. They were just his parents, for Force sake, she’d faced far worse things: murderous, backstabbing acolytes, bloodsucking tomb beasts, a TIE fighter crash, intangible apparitions and a vindictive Sith Lord trying to wipe them off the face of the galaxy, and yet the thought of engaging in conversation with her best friend’s parents terrified her more than ALL of those things put together...