LUKE...I am your kitten. Maybe.

[flickerflash]

Who: Katie and you!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The horrible no good moon.  Probably close to the Vanquish
When: Today!

[By and large, Katie hates this moon.   It made her sick when she first got here and she's largely shunned it ever since.  Today marks the first day she's voluntarily gone out in it.  Why? 

Because she has a lightsaber.  And she wants to practice with it and swing it around and generally have fun with it and maybe cut down a few sickly dead branches.  And while she could do this in the cargo bay of the Vanquish easy enough, out here she has to wear a mask.

A mask and a lightsaber is just too much to pass up, oh my god.  She's found a black one, which in fact looks nothing like anything you might find in Star Wars, which is probably for the best all round, really.  But it's black, and it's the best she can do, and if you head into the gloom of the smog this fine day you might find a small child waving a pale white lightsaber around that makes all the appropriate lightsaber sounds and doing her best to make breathing sounds like Darth Vader because black mask, and to be honest if she's not quoting some part of some lightsaber battle when you wander past it'll be kind of surprising.

...unless you are of course recognisable as a Jedi and thus she'll choke on her breath pretty quickly and turn the saber off and look as innocent as she possibly can.

On the bright side, it's clear to anyone with any powers of observation she actually knows how to use a sword and is taking care not to cause any accidental damage with it.  So... bonus?  It's just a small child having fun.  Vmm vmm.]

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[beardstrokes]

[ The breathing and hum of a lightsaber is what catches his attention and he activates his own unconsciously. Tightening his grip, he headed towards the noise --

-- only to see Katie playing with something that appeared to be an actual sword made of light. He deactivates his saber with a sigh. ]

Having fun?

[flickerflash]

[Katie's so caught up in her own imagination that she doesn't hear Obi Wan's approach at all, and the mask and pollution between them will well mask his scent. She jumps at the sudden question, whirling around. Oh shh-- actual Jedi, abort, abort--]

Just-- practising! Very hard! [She switches her own saber off, vanishing it up a sleeve, then panics more and pulls the mask itself off to regard him with wide eyes and a hopeful smile. I WASN'T PRETENDING TO BE ANYONE YOU KNOW, HONEST]

Hello! Um. Lovely night for a walk, isn't it?

[Given it's neither lovely nor evening. Put your damn mask back on, stupid child.]

[beardstrokes]

[ He smiles, indulgent. ]

Oh, yes. Very charming. What was with the noises?

[ That's hardly a common thing to do with a magic sword. ]

[flickerflash]

[Ah... the noises. Um. Yes. She scrunches up her face in confusion.]

Do you mean the noise it makes when I swing the lightsaber? I thought it was meant to do that.

[That's totally what you mean, isn't it?]

[beardstrokes]

I'm familiar with that noise. Not so much with the odd breathing sounds you were making. Was your mask malfunctioning?

[flickerflash]

Oh, that noise. [She shakes her head vigorously.] I think it's fine! I just have a toy one at home that makes that noise, so I was... um. Pretending. That's all.

[Well, it's sort of the truth.]

[beardstrokes]

[ Obi-Wan can tell it is "sort of" the truth, but he doesn't pursue it. ]

Well, I doubt you need to add sound effects to a breathing mask.

Video

[bb_wolf]

[Just when a girl is trying to have fun, someone has to be a jerk and call her on the communicator.]

Katie?

Text

[flickerflash]

[It won't ruin her fun at all as she doesn't have her comm with her, so hah.

She gets this message some hours later, though, and that's when her good mood does evaporate some. She's kind of annoyed with you, Bigby. It's why she responds in text.]

what

[bb_wolf]

There's a guy I know, animals hate him, and meeting a kitten would make his day. Would you be up for it?

[flickerflash]

if animals hate him what makes you think ill be any different
i like my blood where it is thank you

[bb_wolf]

Because I don't have an instinctual revulsion for him, meaning you may well not either.

Okay, so you've heard of Sascha. He's not a danger. He doesn't bite. And especially doesn't do anything stupid when I'm around.

[flickerflash]

i have ears
very good at hearing
i hear lots of things i don't like
what makes you thinjk i would have instinctual revulsion for him as an animal?
you know about geese maybe you should know the answer to that

[frigidaire]

[ This moon has made Isaac sick in general, and he's only just resurfacing after a long few days. Werewolves don't like moons, it turns out, but even he is getting tired of condensed and powdered food product.

He's just acquired some weird, alien take-away when he spots the kid. ]

Probably shouldn't be swinging that thing out in the open, but do whatever you want. This place doesn't really like angry kids or people. [ Sorry about the cranky teenager. ]

[flickerflash]

[Katie pauses mid-swing to cock a curious look at him, though most of its effect is lost through her gas mask. Then she lowers the sword and switches it off.]

If I were all sick and poisonous I'd probably hate people too. What makes you think I'm angry?

[It's a bewildered question in a British accent, made a little tinny. Katie probably should pay some attention to how wildly swinging a sword around looks to other people. Maybe.]

[frigidaire]

I mean, sword fighting can be pretty angry. But I think any kind of fighting they think is all angry here. They have weird laws.

[ Isaac should really temper his words to suit the girl, but he doesn't have much of a filter. ]

That and you're sword fighting by yourself. Means you're sad or angry. I guess. [ Isaac shrugs, and maybe it's sarcastic, maybe not, but he grins and shrugs his shoulders. ]

[flickerflash]

Oh! I'm just-- I found my sword! I missed it, I was just playing. Do you have movies where you come from?

[Wait a sec--]

What weird laws do they have?

[frigidaire]

So that thing's real?

[ Well, it looks real enough, but Isaac doesn't believe anything in space. He keeps a health distance, just in case. ]

Yeah, we have movies. It'd be pretty dumb without them. [ A shrug. ] But this place has those games in the streets -- can't actually hurt people or even act like you are, might cause a fight. Dunno if it's a law, but they don't seem to like it.

[flickerflash]

No. It's very fake. Couldn't hurt a single fly. [Though there's a pile of seared, singed dead branches nearby that might tell a different story.

...but oh now she's curious. Games in the streets? She hadn't paid any attention to this place but that sounds kind of fun.] What sort of games do they play? Can kids join in?

[sandhate]

[ He knows it's not a real lightsaber. Kirito did a good job at imitating one. It's different, but still dangerous. He had a thought that she might injure herself, (Temple maimings do happen, after all) but if anything he would be able to turn the saber off.

He smirks, knowingly, when she turns it off herself. He taps at his own Kirito saber clipped to his belt. ]

You too, huh?

[flickerflash]

[She doesn't recognise him, really, until he speaks. And then of course the fact he has a Kirito saber on his own tells her exactly who he is. Katie stiffens a little in surprise, but then she lifts her mask briefly to give him a hopeful smile.]

And they're not red! I rather like mine.

[sandhate]

[ He chuckled through his own black mask. It sounded like short raspy breathing for a moment until his usual laugh filtered through. ]

Kirito worked hard on these. I don't think he's really focused on color right now.

[flickerflash]

[.....She stares at him wide-eyed for a moment. That's kind of creepy. But at least there's a laugh following, and she drops her mask back down with a faintly relieved look.]

I suppose it's very hard to add colour to a laser. [She has no clue when it comes to anything scientific.] But white seems nice. It's very pure. And you can use it as a torch if you get lost.

[Hee.]

[sandhate]

[ Another chuckle. ] I don't think red matches you anyway. But a blue lightsaber would fit you.

Did any of the other Jedi here tell you what each color means?

[flickerflash]

[She's about to complain that red would totally match her dress, but that's an interesting question that catches her attention.]

Only that red doesn't suit me. What do the colours mean?