"No, i'm okay, besides, you told me about your past, so it's only fair.  My earliest memory is Mom.  She was beautiful, I know that, but lately I can't really remember her face even...  She disappeared when I was little.  My tutors told me she left, but they couldn't tell me any details about it.  I ued to cry about that a lot, I thought she didn't like me any more.  My father never talked to me about it, he was never around even back then.  But now that I'm older, I can think about it a little more logically, Mom loved me.  She was really only happy when she was with me.  The few times my father was around, she was usually angry, or scared sometimes.  Anyway, she disappeared when I was maybe seven years old."<br/><br/>"My father kept me in the house mostly, I didn't go to school, but private tutors came to teach me.  House staff would bring me things, money, jewelry, pretty much anything I asked for, telling me they were gifts from my father.  Honestly, I don't think he knew what any of it was, or cared.  As long as I didn't cause trouble for him, or make him look bad, the money kept flowing and I didn't see him."<br/><br/>"I know it doesn't sound that bad, getting everything you could want, and not having to work for it.  But my father's house was a prison.  I couldn't leave, if I even went near the gates the house staff patiently turned me around no matter how much I told them to leave me alone.  That's how I learned to sneak around."<br/><br/>Jean yawns again, her eyes starting to droop, but she fights it.<br/><br/>"The first time I ran away, I took one of his speeders.  I smashed it into a building, but I wasn't going very fast, so I didn't get hurt.  But CorSec picked me up and put me in jail for driving without a permit and destruction of private property, and called my father.  I actually got to talk to him for a little while.  He called me a 'stupid little shit' that he 'should have gotten rid of a long time ago.'  At the time, I thought he was threatening to disown me."<br/><br/>"He threw some money around, and it all went away, and I was back home with my tutors and my prison.  I couldn't take it any more, no one treated me like a friend or family, I was alone in a house full of strangers that I couldn't escape."  *yawn*  "I tried again, after a little practice on a simulator I had the tutors get me.  It was easy, and the speed was exciting.  I was driving so fast, CorSec came after me, but I lost them pretty easily.  I finally parked on the far end of town from my dad's house, and fell asleep in the speeder.  When I woke up, I was at the house again, he had tracked the speeder I think."<br/><br/>"The third time I got away, I didn't take a speeder, but I got caught stealing...  I know it was stupid to keep running away when I had no plan for what to do after, but I just couldn't stay there.  Especially when I started thinking about what might have really happened to my mom.  I don't think she ran away, I think if she did, my father could have brought her back the way he did me.  But if she didn't leave...  Well, with the things you've told me, it's not hard to imagine what might have happened."<br/><br/>Jean looks wide awake now, fear and pain warring in her eyes.