She listened attentively as he spoke about the time he had spent with his parents as a youngster, on Taris of all the planets in the galaxy. His mother worked in a bank, which sounded about as boring as having a Senator for a mother, but as he talked about himself and Lysa spending time growing plants and studying ecosystems with their father she couldn't help but smile along with him. It was strange for her to think of Taris as anything other than the nuclear wasteland it had become after Malak's fleet bombed it to rubble all those centuries ago, but then again she had never been anywhere near the Republic settlements, or taken the time to study the restoration efforts that had eventually begun after the native fauna began to creep back into the ruined cityscape. 
She felt a pang of sadness to think that the Jedi would tear apart the close kind of bond Yerbol described so easily, in the name of maintaining order in the galaxy, or whatever they called it. It was almost funny, maybe they weren't quite as different in their pasts as she had initially thought when their paths had crossed in that tomb. 
Her voice was quiet, hesitant, as she asked. "....Did you ever think about trying to find them again, after your trials? I know you said it wouldn't be the same, but they must miss you." 

Aria's lips pursed together at his question, blinking for a moment. "Well, it was....a bit weird, I guess. He'd visit a lot, to spend time with us, and he'd let me wave his saber around sometimes as long as he was there to watch over me, showed me some of the simple form one moves. My mother didn't approve, she said it was 'improper for a lady to be prancing around with laser swords and I should be learning something more constructive'. I liked his lessons though, and she was never brave enough to stop me from listening to him when he encouraged me to try moving objects around or throw stones at targets without touching them, though I wasn't all that good at it I kept practising when she wasn't looking because I wanted him to be proud of me." Aria chuckled as she recalled the memory for a moment, fondness apparent in her tone.
"Whenever he was away, she'd have me balacing books on my head learning to stand up straight like a proper lady, or sometimes we'd have little mock senatorial debates. That was the only part I kind of liked, guess I've got her to blame for my stubborn streak. We lived on Onderon, so it was pretty safe for her to take me with her when she went to work, nothing much in a Senator's office that could be THAT dangerous to a small child, after all." she shook her head a little. "It bored me to death; too much sitting down and having to listen to silly old men ranting and raving about trade routes and other stuff I didn't understand."

Aria sighed again, taking a moment's pause before she carried on:
"Once I got better at it, I started levitating things and trying to drop them out of her window when I got bored in the office, and she got so...angry about it. Of course, I just thought she was being a stick in the mud so I kept doing it anyway." she glanced sideways to meet Yerbol's gaze briefly, "By the time I was six I could pick stuff up without dropping it by accident but when I wanted to show dad, she got all defensive and kept cutting me off trying to change the subject. We got into an argument, I screamed....and the windows all broke. Mom lost it, she kept saying 'Roan, please, she's just a child'...I thought he'd be angry, too, but I'd never seen him look more impressed. He told me she didn't understand because she wasn't like us, and that's why she didn't like me using my powers. He snuck me off in the middle of the night to Korriban, and I didn't see my mother again for nearly ten years." 

She didn't go into her mother's death, still not sure if she was comfortable sharing that with Yerbol just yet. Maybe one day, but not now. She had to wait until she was sure he would understand. Her gaze became distant for a moment, as if she were in deep thought, before Aria concluded, her voice a little quieter. "I never understood WHY she got so angry back then...but I think I do, now. She loved me too much to give me up to the Jedi, but she wanted to protect me from my father and the Sith, too. Sometimes I wish I'd listened to her, y'know?"