"I only lived there until I was nine," Tahiri explained, and looked down at her bare feet; she decided she wasn't going to drop the whole story about being raised by a generally-feared nomadic tribe that had killed her parents (but it had been an accident really) on poor Sookie just yet. "That was when one of the Jedi teachers found out I had Force abilities and took me to the Academy on Yavin 4. It's more jungle there, and lots cooler, so I pretty much gave up on shoes after that. Fandom was a different kind of adjusting."