[center]~| Day 2, 7:15 - 7:36 GST |~
~| Aboard the Kaggath, Main Prison Complex |~[/center]

There's something to be said about waking up. Most everyone does it at least once a day, no matter where they're from or what species they are, yet it seems that no two experiences are really the same. There's always [u]something[/u] different, even if you can't tell what it is. Like, it's colder than the day before, or the light around you just seems, brighter. Suppose that just proves that each day is unique, a reason to be optimistic from the moment you open your eyes. 

However, as Shiri opened her eyes to find herself still in the Sith's prison, she couldn't help letting out a groan of disappointment. She closed her eyes for a moment and tried to convince herself that it was just a nightmare, and frowned when she opened them, still there. With a sigh she jumped off the bunk and onto the floor, looking around to see who else was awake. 

Noticing that Xid wasn't in his bunk, and telling herself she didn't care where Nazca was, (Even though in the back of her mind she [i]was[/i] worried about her.) She left the bunk room to go see where he had gone off to. It didn't take her long to find him, standing in front of the door to the sanitation room. She was about to walk up to him, say good morning or something, when he was suddenly pulled into the room behind him. 

She didn't see who had pulled him in when she got to the door, just him lying on his back in the middle of the room. She could hear the showers on now, and assumed that that's why Xid was standing at the door, to guard whoever was in there and give them some privacy. When she saw him get himself up and start to talk to someone else in the room, she stood with her back against the wall outside the door, facing away from the room to let them keep a bit of their privacy. 

She couldn’t help listening as she stood there, having practically replaced Xid as the guard to the room, and although she knew she was likely missing a lot by not being able to see what was going on, what she heard worried her. As if what Xid just said hadn’t made her want to go into the room and find out what was happening, hearing [u]Lea’s[/u] voice now was making her extremely confused and then, angry. 

She calmed herself quickly as she continued to listen. [i]“I’m alright.”[/i] A voice she didn’t recognize right away was saying, repeating the phrase twice more after a second, quieter. [i]“Please let me go.”[/i] Shiri was just barely resisting the urge to go into the room now. She couldn’t picture what was happening in her mind, and that bothered her greatly. 

Xid began to lecture the Echani, and as Shiri listened she felt her heart drop slightly. [i]He’s still blaming himself… It’s not his fault that the trooper died, he wasn’t even the one who killed him. It was that Sith, he would have died if left to bleed out, but the Sith truly killed him. Xid, you can’t keep blaming yourself.[/i] As true as what the rest of what he said was, Shiri couldn’t get over the fact that he still hadn't seemed to have gotten over the trooper’s accidental death yet.

Lea joined in on the lecturing, although her point was split in two by a rather confusing statement to Xid, which Shiri couldn’t tell if he responded to by anything he said afterwards. She spent the rest of her time listening to their conversation shifting between different emotions and trying vainly to calm herself down, while she invented different scenarios in her mind, trying to put the words she heard into a situation where they actually made sense in the order given. 

She could tell as the conversation ended that she wasn’t going to be able to come up with anything that would truly make sense, and her chance to find out the truth of the event had passed as she couldn’t possibly admit to eavesdropping on such a conversation. Unfortunately that left her feeling almost hollow, and she decided that when Xid did finally leave the showers she would try to ask him, or if she couldn’t bring herself to she could just take a shower herself. It might help her calm down.

The Echani, who Shiri now recognised as Arix, stepped out of the room. She motioned for him to be quiet about her being there, although she wasn’t entirely sure why she didn’t want Lea or Xid to know she was there. It’s not like they knew she had been listening to their conversation. Whether he had noticed her or not, he just continued into the bunk room, followed shortly after by Lea, who was carrying both her and Xid’s clothing, wrapped shamelessly in only a towel. 

Shiri smiled at the girl as she passed, and then settled outside the door to wait for Xid to finish his shower. The thought crossed her mind to just go in and shower. Whether he was there or not shouldn’t matter to her, they [u]were[/u] different species after all. She didn’t act on the thought though, as she knew if she did the shower wouldn’t help calm her at all, and what would be the point then?

As she stood there she started to think of different ways to get back at Lea for… What?

She shook her head to clear it and questioned why her thoughts kept going back to what words had just passed between Lea and Xid. She didn’t [u]know[/u] what had really happened, no matter what the words had caused her to imagine, yet she still felt this…

Jealousy

Unable to keep her thoughts clear or emotions calm, she gave up on the thought of a shower. She didn’t stink yet anyway. Heading to the meal room to see if eating something would help, she still couldn’t calm down until she finally acknowledged the thought that she had gotten the second she smiled at Lea. 

[i]Two can play at this game.[/i]