Graydon grunted.
"How are you going to get Finn to agree?" Solal asked.
It was a legitimate question, given Finn's tendency to act as a wildcard. After the disaster with his last charge, he'd refused to take another. Convincing him to protect Kira wouldn't be easy.
"I'm going to appeal to his better nature," Graydon said.
Solal sighed. "You mean you're going to threaten him."
Graydon shrugged. Same difference.
CHAPTER NINE
Kira took a deep breathand released it, trying not to let the round blue orb floating outside the star deck intimidate her.
They were finally here. Only hours lay between her and meeting people who shared her blood.
No pressure or anything. Just a reunion with a long-lost child everyone assumed dead. Nothing major or anything.
"I thought it would be more impressive," Jin said, moving closer to the window.
"We're still thousands of miles away," Kira said in a distracted voice.
"You know what I mean," he rebuked. "I thought I'd feel different seeing it."
Kira made a wry expression. She'd forgotten. If this was her home, it was Jin's too. When he'd been alive in the traditional sense, he'd been like her, his abilities different but strange. Almost magical.
Her expression turned pensive as she returned to staring at the planet they were fast approaching.
She knew what Jin was trying to say. She felt the same.
There was none of that connection she thought she'd feel upon seeing the planet where she'd been born. She'd felt more nostalgia walking through the conservatory than what she felt for the approaching planet.
She searched her feelings. Still nothing besides a touch more nervousness than normal. That was it.
"Maybe they were wrong about us," she offered.
