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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It would be nice if you all got to live much happier lives, wouldn't it? [She phrases many things as a question, really, which is really just skirting by the whole truth-telling thing.]

You could tell Anakin when you go home! I bet he wouldn't turn to the dark side if he wasn't taken by surprise.

[Because that's totally how it works. She also has no clue she's already talking to Anakin, whoops.]

It would be nice.

[ But not particularly believable. Even without the war, Jedi lives are often tied with life and death. Tragedies are not common, but also not unexpected. ]

Do you think that's how it happened?

[ Or were the seeds simply there and Obi-Wan was too blind to notice. ]

I see it a little differently. My love is many things, and it takes many forms. But I don't think it has ever saved a life.

[She doesn't know how Anakin turned. All she has to go on is the line by a ghostly Jedi about how he technically wasn't lying when he said Darth Vader murdered Luke's father (good going, Obi-Wan, pooka everywhere would be proud).

So the question makes her bite her lip, chewing that over for a moment, until he distracts her entirely with that last part. No. Love is very important.]

Do you think so? There's a lot of different ways to save a life. What if nobody ever had any of your love at all?

[A little heavier topic than your average small child.]

[ That was a blow he was not expecting and he barely manages to suppress the wince.

What if nobody ever had any of your love at all?

Surely they knew. Surely he didn't keep it a secret. Surely, all of them knew, deep down that he . . .

It takes him a few minutes to reply. ]

That can't be true.

[That's not the answer she was expecting. She wasn't accusing him of anything-- hmm. Katie frowns. She's not really aware his thoughts have gone down a different path, so she wonders if she were just confusing. It's hard to explain these things.]

No, I mean-- don't you love the people around you? They're your friends, aren't they? They like that you're there, don't they? That can make a lot of difference.

[You can save someone just by being there for them, sometimes. Or maybe Jedi aren't allowed.]

Perhaps.

[ He smiles faintly, realizing that his thoughts have slipped in morose territory. ]

I can't say for sure if I have helped them much by being here. I suppose I'll only know when we've finally changed things around for the future.

Nothing's very sure ever, is it? [She grins a little.] That sounds like something Jedi would say all the time.

You're better off trying everything you can, anyway. You don't want to be sitting around thinking of all the things you didn't do much later on.

No. Nothing is ever set in stone and the future is always changing.

[ If it takes a little girl to show him wisdom, then Obi-Wan has a lot to learn. ]

I've never been good at sitting around anyway.

[She's older than she looks in some respects. This isn't the conversation she thought she'd be having today, though.]

Sitting around is very bad for you anyway, I think. You might melt from sheer boredom. Do you have much to do out here in space?

[ No one expects the Star Feels. ]

Not in this particular galaxy. In mine, I rarely had time to sit down anywhere. Fighting a war would do that.

Wars are very rude like that, never giving you a moment to breathe. They need to have recess like everyone else. [Huff.]

Is it true you know a lot about padawans? [She says the word carefully because she only heard it for the first time about, oh, five minutes ago.]

I do. I trained two, after all. A Jedi Master is often called upon to teach.

Why do you ask?

[Two! One would be Anakin. She wonders who the other is.]

Someone I don't know said I can't have a lightsaber unless I'm a padawan first! Do you know how I might become one?

Well, a Master would have to teach you. And you would need to be Force-sensitive. It is a lot of training and hard work.

[Oh. Well, the training and hard work thing she can deal with for something so amazing. It's not that different from being a squire. On the other hand--]

I bet I'm Force-sensitive! [This is either extremely unrealistic hope or denial. Or both.] How do I find out?

Well, I would have to meet you in person to know.

[ He's not sure about alternate versions of the Force, like magic and whatnot. ]

[...meeting Obi-Wan Kenobi in person--]

Could I? I'll try to be as not annoying as possible!

Certainly, if you don't mind. Would you like me to come visit you or vice-versa?

I can come to you! [She's practically bouncing on her toes now.] Which ship are you on?

I am on the SS Huntress. I shall await your arrival eagerly.

Oh, the Huntress! Really? I've-- I've never been on the Huntress. But I know which one it is! I'll come by very soon!

[Not as a human anyway, she's been visiting Koala as a kitten and-- she's been visiting Obi-Wan Kenobi's ship for weeks now and never knew and that's just terrible.

Oh well, at least she can make up for it now. By 'very soon' she means straight away. Hope you don't mind.]

[ He'll be waiting by the entrance, dressed in his Jedi robes and linens. In a way, he does look eerily like Obi-Wan Kenobi from the movies, just several years younger. His eyes light up when he spots her. ]

Hello there.

[Katie's dressed in her usual red pinafore and a pair of chunky winter boots Rogue bought for her on the icy planet, which look ridiculous out of the snow but that doesn't seem to bother. She stops very suddenly when she sees him, then jumps another step forward, standing very straight, fidgeting fingers vanishing into her pockets.]

Hello! It's really nice to meet you in person! Nobody at home will ever believe me if I tell them, you know.

Edited 2016-02-22 06:28 (UTC)

Is it really so surprising?

[ He's starting to wonder where people are recognizing him from. First Kurt, then FDR and now this? ]

Not really. Nobody ever believes me when I say meet anyone. You'd think I didn't talk to strangers all the time.

[I'm just going to remain really vague about this if that's all right with you.]

So am I Force-sensitive?

[...how does one try their best to look Force-sensitive. She wishes she knew.]

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