Zoe looked at Jaina for a moment. She looked her up and down, then looked her square in the eye and just stared. It was almost as if she were looking into Jaina's very soul. After several heart beats, Zoe smiled slightly and hugged Jaina.

Jai smiled and hugged Zoe tightly. She held her like that a moment and then pulled her away a bit, smileing and looking at her.
"Well, shall I show you your room, Young SunFire?", she said in her rattled Huttese.
She stood up and brushed herself off, holding out her had for Zoe to take.

Zoe smiled and then snickered at Jaina, before taking her hand.

Jai lead Zoe up to the upper levels of Uni-Sol's HeadQuarters building. Far up above the 200th floor was Jai's place. She pretty much had the whole floor to herself.
It had 3 spare/guest rooms, each with thier own full bath...a master bed and bath, which was all decked out with the latest and most high tech gadgets....a retro kitchen while all the trimmings...and huge living room and a killer entertainment room/lounge.
And Jai knew how to decorate...the floors were hardwood, the walls were bright and welcomeing, and each room was plush and inviting.

"Well", Jai said as she stepped off the lift and into the floor's foyer...."This is home. Why don't you go pick a room. Anyone you want...but the one with the green doors is mine."

Zoe smiled and looked around. She had enver seen a place so beautiful. She immediately ran over to the nearest windows and looked out. When she looked down, her face went pale and she began to shake violently, slowly backing away from the windows.

Jai grabbed the back of Zoe's shirt and pulled her away from the window, "Afraid of heights, eh? We've got cures for that."

Jai took Zoe into a colorful, playful room with a bright tones and beautiful toys. "This is a playroom I had done up for visiting royal's kids, just in case, ya know. If you like it, you can stay here. Plus..." She walked over to a window that overlooked the city, the view was breathtakeing, but scary to a kid with Acrophobia. So Jai just pushed a small button in the lower left hand corner of the pane and the cityscape change to a computer-processed motion-picture of a lovely meadow with flowers and butterflies and little poofy trees. "Better?"
It was very lifelike and quite soothing.

Zoe's eyes went wide as she saw all the toys and colors. Her brain was pretty much on overload. She had never seen such things in all her life. She looked over and Jaina and noticed the change in the window and smiled, then went back to looking at all the toys and so forth. She stood in the middle of the room, completely still, not sure what to do. Zoe looked down at her soiled clothes and then up at everything all neat and clean and was afraid to touch anything. When she was a slave, if she got anything dirty, she was severely punished, even at the age of twelve.

Jai noticed Zoe just..well...standing there. Any other child would have leaped into the pile of toys as if they were leaves.

Then she got it. She remember how badly treated the kids of slaves had been treated. How cruely they had been beaten if they messed up anything, even in the slightest. And Zoe was..to say the least...filthy with Tatooinian dirt and sand.

"Hey, what d'ya say ya take a bath, eh, Kiddo? The bathroom through that yellow door...just there." She pointed to a partially opened sun yellow door that lead to a rainbow patterned bathroom with a big tub/shower and kid sized sink and toilet.

"Um....you, uh....you can do all that stuff by yourself can't ya?"
Jai wasn't use to kids, even though Zoe was only about 6 years younger than she was.
"Ya know...all that....stuff.....yeah...."

Zoe managed to answer Jai's question with three simple words.


What's a bath?


She looked at Jaina thoroughly confused, peeking through the indicated door. Her confusion grew when she saw everything inside.

Jai looked at Zoe and then at the battub...and then to her now-dusty-yet-usually-spotless floor.

Something had to be done.

"A bath. Well, it what people do to get clean. You..well...you fill up that big thing there..(she pointed to the tub)...with water. And maybe some soap or bubbles...and you get in...and scrub down with a washrag. And...well you get clean...Or if you don't like that idea...you can take a shower. And that's the same thing, only you do it standing up as the water runs over you. Get it?"

By the look of Zoe's face, she had to guess that was a no.

"Hmm...alright. Well, let me help ya out, ok?" Jai was really uncomfortable, but since they were both girls and she was kinda Zoe's Mom now, she supposed it didn't matter. Therefore Jai went into the bathroom, put the stopper in the bottom on the tub, and turned on the water, adjusting it to 'slightly warm'. She yelled out to Zoe, "Hey, kiddo, start getting undressed, ok?"

Geez...this is so 5th dimension. I never taken care of a kid before, not since I was a kid! Minions of Xendor, this si going to be a life-scarring experience. This kid probably hates me! And, sweet minions!, I feel like a total retard haveing to help her...it's not her fault, but I wish there was a book or something I could give her on this. How the frell do you teach a kid to bathe?!!?!?!

Jai was becomming a bit frantic..."What's takin' so long out there, Zo'? Ya didn't have that much on. Hurry it up a bit, kiddo."

That made Jai start thinking again, Ugh, those clothes....she probably hasn't had any new things in her entire life. Well, we'll fix that. After a bath and a good meal, I'll take her downtown and we'll go shopping.

"Alright, the water's just right..."