"Nineteen, actually." Kai said, getting up and grabbing the oddly shaped bag of flesh that was his Daisy's insert. "Almost twenty. I ran away from home at seventeen. I'd rather fight for my nation than do something as menial as run a little shop. My parents obviously didn't understand my reasoning, and forbade me to go. So I decided that I was an adult capable of making my own decisions, and here I am, two years later, doing secret missions for the Yamatai Star Empire." The Yamataian carried (mostly dragged) the insert to the door and paused for a moment, turning back to look at the sprite and ask "Need anything from the fabrication rooms? I've got to stick this back in the system and check on my project. It'll only take a couple minutes.
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Yuzuki took a couple of moments to process the information.
"No, that's fine," she replied, sitting back on her heels and clasping her hands at the wrist, elbows on her knees, "Don't even bother. I can take it up when I am done with the rest of the armors, just stick it over there." She motioned to a corner of one of the temporary dividers erected in the bay. "Just lay it down, it doesn't have to be clean."
Hardly missing a beat, the sprite continued on. "So you worked at a shop on Tami for seventeen years, till you ran away. What did you sell?"