driftfleet | V. Important Requests

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V. Important Requests

Who: Katie and anyone
Broadcast: Fleet
Action: The Vanquish if you want
When: 10 Feb

Dear Atrama, Can we please visit a planet with beaches next? I keep meeting people who haven't seen one and that's terrible. It's actually a crime where I come from. Please don't let anyone get arrested. I believe in you. Also if you take requests can I have my cat please. And some chalk and I was meant to have a sword I think I could be wrong. It's a short silver gold magical IT'S A LIGHTSABER A RED ONE Either that or just give me Mihawks.

[GO BIG OR GO HOME]

Please thank you love Dorothy.

[This has been a totally efficient use of your communicator, Katie, gj.]

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Well that's no good. You'd think the Jedi would notice and make sure everyone only had nice blues and greens nothing that would set their temper off

[Maybe Darth Vader would have been better off with blue.]

[ That particular sentence was so absurd to Obi-Wan that he had to pause and boggle at it for a bit. ]

Well. We do try and allow for many colours. Such as purple and white.

Purple!! You have purple lightsabers? I want pur

[Wait a second. She's a little slow, but--]

Are you a Jedi?

I am. My name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. I'm a Jedi Master.

trws

[That was. Probably Katie dropping her comm like a hot potato, to be honest.]

[She picks it up again fast enough, peering at it and wishing it wasn't text and-- oh yeah she can change that part, can't she? The video flicks on to show a small girl peering dubiously and too closely at the camera before she demands with a British accent hopefully:]

You're not just playing, are you?

[She's met Han Solo it's entirely possible]

I'm not lying, if that's what you mean. Though I'm not sure how to prove it to you.

But you're not old! [Sob sorry Obi Wan.] You're meant to have all this white hair and a brown robe and live in a desert!

--did you live in a desert before this?

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[ Ah. He knows what she's referring to. ]

Not yet. Though I imagine I will at some point.

[She opens her mouth for a second. Closes it. Does it again. It's-- questions. She wants to ask so many questions. He could be lying! But he sounds the same. (Sort of.) And Han is already here. And then she keeps shutting up again because it's probably not very nice to ask him if Darth Vader is Darth Vader yet, all things considered.

Though she really does want to know. Um. And Katie will take people at face value in most cases.] So where do you live now? How old are you now? Are you fighting lots of bad guys?

[ His lips twitch before it gives way for a smile. ]

I . . . live on Coruscant, so to speak, at the Jedi Temple. I am thirty-eight years old and I still fight lots of bad guys. Whole armies of them, in fact.

[She's never heard of Coruscant, but her eyes light up at the thought of an actual Jedi Temple.]

All by yourself? [Jedi really ARE powerful.] Oh, but you have other Jedi, right? Are you winning?

[She can't remember much about what's meant to have happened before the movies. But there had to be a war in there somewhere.]

Well, with a few others. My clone squadron, for example. Anakin tends to tag along as well.

[ "Are you winning?" makes his confident smile flicker, but it's barely noticeable. ]

We will. Eventually.

[She's about to ask what the heck a clone squadron is when he says the magic word.]

Anakin-!

[O-oh. She shuts up for a moment, then asks more tentatively:] What's he like?

[It's hard to go from idolising movie characters to meeting real people when she's nine. She's trying.]

[ Now that's an interesting question. He takes his time with it, folding his arms. ]

Well, he is a superlative Jedi. Compassionate, strong. Determined to do the right thing, even when the scales are against him.

[ Tormented, hurt, struggling with the weight of his destiny, the weight of it all. ]

I'm proud to know him and to have taught him.

[She's not sure what superlative means, but the rest is clear enough. Katie wrinkles her nose in thought. She does know how easy it can be to twist someone around completely, but even so.]

He sounds very nice. [And she sounds very uncertain because she's beating down the urge to ask do you know what happens to him? It's very rude, and she wouldn't be able to explain anyway. ...although.] I know someone just like him at home.

[ If he notices her hesitation, he doesn't comment on it. ]

Oh? Do tell.

He's very tall and he wears a lot of black. And he's not well. He makes lots of mistakes, but he always does the right thing in the end.

[ That paints an interesting figure. . . . In fact, it sounded a lot like Kanan's "Darth Vader". ]

He certainly sounds like someone who could use a little help to put himself back on the right path.

Everyone needs help sometimes! Even if you do very mean things. You should say you're sorry and try to fix it.

Saying sorry never hurts, especially when you've made a mistake.

Do you think your friend will be all right?

[Good question. Or a terrible one.]

I think he'll be all right at the very, very end. He gets to see you again.

-- me again. [SOMEONE DEFINITELY NOT YOU.]

[ His expression softens and he looks like just a man, who's barely holding it up together, but still finds time to reward kindness with kindness. ]

That's more than I could ever dream of.

[She doesn't quite know what to make of that expression, but it's one she doesn't like at all. He's not meant to be sad. She's only talking about her own supposed fr--

Oh. Unless. She can't help herself, peering at him worriedly across the feed.]

You already know, don't you?

[ Just to be safe, he locks it. It's one thing for Anakin to guess that he helps Palpatine. It's another to learn he has fallen into the Dark. ]

Yes. To some extent, though I don't know everything. But thank you. I do appreciate your kind efforts.

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