Mara refused to discuss their miraculous escape — ever. But every year thereafter, Karrde sent greenery as gifts around the winter solstice of a planet Mara refused to name or reference, even obliquely — ever.
To add insult to botany, Luke insisted she refrain from eviscerating, burning, chopping or otherwise destroying the poor blameless plants, and she hardly had the heart to refuse a desert farmboy anything green and growing... except the name of that Force-forsaken planet — that, she would take to her grave, and she’d haunt anyone who dared leave her flowers.
Re: Because mistletoe is seasonal
To add insult to botany, Luke insisted she refrain from eviscerating, burning, chopping or otherwise destroying the poor blameless plants, and she hardly had the heart to refuse a desert farmboy anything green and growing... except the name of that Force-forsaken planet — that, she would take to her grave, and she’d haunt anyone who dared leave her flowers.