Ridahne listened wordlessly until Darin finished, and then for a moment afterwards too. She knew the feeling of homesickness, though Ridahne had always held out the hope and eventually the knowledge she would see her beloved home again. Darin didn't exactly have that guarantee to look forward to, though secretly Ridahne was determined to find a way to bring her home one way or another, even if only for a moment. 
"I'm sorry you're homesick. I know the feeling. I wish I knew what to tell you to make it better, but I'm not sure that I do. Except, I guess, to do what you're doing and bring pieces of home with you to bring out when you need them. And anyway, I like hearing you play."
"Yeah, I've never heard anything like it before, it's good," Ajoran added, his voice soft and unobtrusive. Ridahne loved that he knew when to step in, and when to step back. He had to know that skill in order to love a storm of a woman like her. 

Ridahne sighed. "I also wish I could tell you why I'm so...I don't know...emotional? I mean I can tell you what happened but I don't feel like that explains why I feel like I do. Maybe because it's a lot of things. The Sota-Sol just asked to speak with me privately--just the two of us. We went to the gardens and the last time I was there I...I betrayed Takhun and I don't know that I was ready to face that. But she apologized--like really really apologized for what happened, all of it. And I thought I was ready for that, and had dealt with that but I guess I haven't, not all the way, not really. And I'm honored because I've never in my life seen a Sol so...candid. With anyone. She really was sincere, and she listened to the things I had to say, really listened. And honestly it was a good conversation, it was great. I feel like as much as I dreaded it, it needed to happen and should have happened. And I do feel better knowing my Sota-Sol does not hate me--that fear has been hanging over my head for a while. But I guess I'm mad? Yeah, alright, I am mad. Actually, I'm really angry and a little bitter but I shouldn't be, there's part of me, the logical part, that knows and understands how and why things happened as they did, and is even a little grateful that it ended up like this, because I'm here--you're here. But then another part feels like I did during the lonely months where I searched for you, Darin, and had no hope of ever finding you. Bitter, angry, resentful, guilty and yet wholly justified and resolute in my choices..." She had to catch her breath, she'd been speaking fast. It was a good thing Darin had learned Azurian through the Tree and not slow study, or she might not have been able to follow the native's speed. 

Ridahne's face twisted into a tortured expression. "Coming home has been everything I had ever hoped for and ever wanted, and then some. More than I ever could have asked for. So why am I so angry? I shouldn't be, and I don't want to be, but...well..." she threw her hands in the air and let them slap down on her thighs like two birds that had been shot from the air. "There's not anything to [I]do[/I] about it, either. Please don't worry yourself about it," she begged earnestly. "It's not like anything needs to be changed or solved, it's just...I have feelings I didn't realize I still had. And I need to deal with those somehow."