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"Idona and Valda," Riebe murmured to herself. "Right."
Then, smiling at Idona, she answered, "In a way, I'm still trying to get used to being alive. When we Sith Hunters were first altered, I was..." she trailed off thoughtfully. "Sixteen or seventeen. At the time, I had lived approximately a fifth of a human's natural life expectancy." She shook her head as though still trying to comprehend.
"In some ways, I'm still seventeen," she said finally. "My body tells me I'm nineteen now, the logical portion of my mind tells me I'm more than two thousand, but..." she trailed off, at a loss for words.
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