Akasha Khan was beginning to reconsider her position on the virtues of soaking in water. It turned out that when it was in a tub, lightly agitated, steaming hot, and filled with scented bubbles, it was altogether easy to forget that she was wet. And after a longer time than she cared to admit roaming the tropical jungles of Onderon or the stale, oily corridors of an Action-VI transport, being clean was the important thing. The Orryxian laid back and streeeeetched, enjoying the way the hot, sudsy water swirled through every square centimeter of her fur, working out several months' worth of grit and spine-clenching tension.[/i]

*bing* "This is your captain speaking. We have just entered realspace in the Oseon System, and if you look out the portside of the ship you can see the Oseon star giving off a brilliant flare some hundred-thousand kilometers long. This kind of stellar activity is not to be confused with the Flamewind I'm sure you're all familiar with, but often we see elevated solar storms immediately preceding a Flamewind event. With any luck, we'll be fortunate enough to see some reactions in the surrounding asteroids by the time we pull into harbor in a couple of hours."

Akasha sighed deeply, not quite willing to give up the pleasure of a bubble bath so soon after discovering it, especially not just to see some pretty lights in the sky. Maybe if she stayed quiet, her master wouldn't realize she was still in the bathroom...