How long was I away for? Let's see, I left for the Academy when I was about fourteen. I got to visit occasionally, but I didn't really come back to my homeworld, till about a year ago, when I was assigned to make deliveries from there. [ There's a lot to be said, about what he'd been doing when he was there. Or that now it was gone.

Bodhi shakes his head. ]

About eight years.