A soft smile came to her features at his remark, the Champion nodding her head as she glanced up at him. 
“She would have liked you a lot, I think. More than my dad did at least.” she patted his hand gently, her gaze shifting to the approaching Alliance tower. “Though even he was more fond of you than he wanted to admit, by the end. I don't think either of them would be unhappy about us, if they were still alive.” 
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“No actually,” Aria teased back from the little bathroom as she worked to let her hair down and change out of the glitzy attire into something more comfortable for sleeping in, “they always get the wrong side and make my nose look horrendously large.” she couldn't stifle her chuckle as she joined him in the bedroom. “I don't see a reason to put it off, Neta will be ecstatic I'm sure.” smirking playfully, she kissed him on the nose before adding: 
“Hm, but if you think I'm going to partake in said activities in the middle of the wilderness on a planet full of nasty bugs, you've got another thing coming, baby. I've still got standards.”
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Aria had sorely underestimated Neta's excitement at seeing the duo again, which was abundantly clear as soon as they arrived at the spaceport and the former spec ops soldier hugged her so tightly the Champion worried she wouldn't be able to breathe again when she was finally released. 
“Missed you...too Neta…” she coughed out, grinning back at the redhead who had moved to give Yerbol a hug of his own. 
“It's really, really good to see you again.” she affirmed Yerbol's reassurance. “We meant to come sooner, but….things got out of hand pretty quick and we got caught in the middle of it.” With another smile, she patted Neta's elbow and promised: “We'll fill you in on everything once we get there, okay?” 
The Tuk'ata didn't much like the look of Neta's speeder, trailing behind the duo with wary grumbles and distrustful looks cast in Neta's direction. They remembered the pilot of course, but as the human who Roan had made an ally of circumstance because of her skillset, a person whom they had learnt not to bring harm to because Roan had commanded it as such and not because they had any kind of trust in her whatsoever. Sighing, Aria dropped to one knee and patted each hound on the flank. “Chwuq, Taral, Neta's a friend, remember?” the question was met with grunts of understanding though the hounds were clearly uncomfortable. They did seem eager however, at the promise that they could wander freely for a while and return to the duo at their own leisure.
As Aria put it: “plenty of kiliks or other things out there for them to chase, it's not like they'd be at risk of attacking any people” In response to Neta's quizzical look as they settled into the speeder and headed off, Aria shook her head and chuckled.
“Yes, he gave them names. Don't laugh. We tried to chase them off and they kept coming back so I guess we're stuck with them now.” 
The beasts in question kept pace with the speeder at a reasonable enough distance, though as they reached the forest they peeled off to do some exploring off their own. They could of course, find their own way back and certainly could handle a few hives of kiliks if they came across them so Aria thought very little of it. 

As they reached Neta's abode, the Champions were set upon by a pair of exuberant “mini-Neta’s” (for they did indeed look very much like their mother, bar a few differing features which Aria deduced they got from their father). The young boy was more outgoing than his sister, who peered at Yerbol and Vivi hesitantly before approaching Aria. Smiling back, the Champion dropped onto one knee so as to appear less threatening and nodded. 
“That's me. And you must be Iris.” the girl nodded and proceeded to ask questions about her abilities with the Force which prompted the Champion to chuckle. 
“ ‘wicked awesome’, huh?” she shot Neta a look as the former pilot returned from putting away the speeder to promptly shoo the little group inside. There was much more chatter involved as they gathered around a small dining room table to drink beverages (mostly tea, or blue milk if they were so inclined) while the duo filled Neta in on the events that had occurred with the Xiis-omitting the gory details for the sake of Iris and Vivi, of course.
“So you got all the bad blue people?” Iris squeaked, tiny hands clutching her cup as she looked at the Champions with round eyes. “We saw them on the TV too, ages ago.”
“We got them.” Aria promised, tapping the young girl on the nose which caused her to giggle. “They aren't gonna come after anybody.” the signing ceremony had been televised of course, so naturally they talked about the academy on Zinuthra as well. This was a topic of great interest to Neta's offspring, who proceeded to bounce excitedly around the table with jubilant choruses of: “can we go, can we go pleaseeeeeee?!” after which the Champions had some difficulty explaining that using the Force wasn't something you could just read out of a book and learn to do. 
To quell their disappointment, Aria had smiled and told the kids that there was nothing stopping them from taking a trip out to Zinuthra to visit the academy for a look around or even to watch some of the training sessions  (except of course, their mother, who would have to agree to it and accompany them first!). Some time after that Chwuq and Taral had wandered back in and almost instantly wanted to disappear again after Vivi chased them around the dining area proclaiming that they were “soooo cool!” 
Neta had scolded the kids and shooed them off to play amongst themselves, Yerbol conjuring up a few whisps of blue Force energy which they took great delight in chasing about the ground floor, Taral even feeling playful enough to join them while Neta and the Champions talked further without any more interruptions from the children. 
“We're taking a bit of a ‘sabbatical’ from everything,  before we go back into teaching lessons again.” they explained, to which Neta simply shot them a knowing look and smiled. It had come as no surprise, she had told them, to hear that the pair had ended up in a relationship and insisted that it was no trouble at all when they thanked her for the mysterious gift she had left them on Coruscant. 
Leaning back in her chair, the former pilot sighed softly and listed off a few places of interest: “If you're up for sight-seeing there's a fair bit around here: House Organa of course, and the Cloudshape Falls of course, everybody loves that area, very romantic.” (this was met with flushed faces and protests of “Neta, please!”) 

“Alright, alright!” Neta flashed a grin and waved them off. “Then there's always Manaan I suppose, a lot of people say it's always relaxing over there. Plenty to do, the Selkath do like their visitors after all as long as you're not there to start fights.” this the Champions thought they would consider, if for nothing else but to get a chance to appreciate the planet’s atmosphere without being preoccupied with political matters or stopping power hungry Sith Lords. 
Aria hadn't considered returning to her home world until Neta mentioned Onderon as a possible stopping point on their travels too.
“There used to be a nice market in the square, and the view from the Skyramp is quite nice, especially if you haven't been there before.” the Champion shrugged. “We could go check it out, if you like.” 
Neta insisted however, that they should at least stay for lunch before they went wandering off. After all the trouble she had gone to in order to include them, the duo could hardly refuse. Vivi and Iris of course, were more than pleased to keep the duo for another hour or so, chattering excitedly about “how cool using the Force was” and persuading the duo to levitate various items of their crockery  (much to Neta's dismay). 
"Don't be a pair of strangers, okay?" Neta urged them as they were on their way out. "I don't want to be waiting four months to hear from you again!"