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.]

Comments

[beardstrokes]

No. There are only ever two Sith Lords at a time. Never more.

[ And whenever that happens, even then the Balance rights itself. Maul must be dead by now.

. . . He hopes. ]

[flickerflash]

[...squint.]

Are Sith Lords very powerful? More powerful than Jedi?

[beardstrokes]

No. They simply prefer to work alone for the most part and use other people to get what they want.

[flickerflash]

That doesn't sound very balanced, then.

[She's legitimately puzzled. If there are only two Sith and dozens of Jedi, how does that even out?] I suppose if they cause more than enough trouble for all of you, it works out.

[beardstrokes]

Not in term of numbers. But the Sith are stronger alone than they are together.

[ After all, unity is a Jedi trait, not a Sith one. Their knowledge of Darth Bane had proven that much. ]

And they certainly can cause enough trouble.

[flickerflash]

So how is Anakin going to bring balance?

[beardstrokes]

I don't know. I'm afraid they left out that helpful tidbit from the prophecy.

[flickerflash]

[Boo. She makes a face] Prophecies are annoying like that. I think the writers just like to make fun of us.

Is it written down somewhere?

[beardstrokes]

Back in the Temple, I imagine. I haven't seen it for myself.

[ Obi-Wan trusted Qui-Gon. It was enough. ]

[flickerflash]

But it definitely exists? They don't just tell new Jedi that there's a prophecy without showing it, do they?

[beardstrokes]

It exists. It's in the annals of our library. Unfortunately, I've never memorized it myself. I never deemed it necessary.

[flickerflash]

Does Anakin know about this prophecy?

[beardstrokes]

Of course. It concerns him, after all.

[flickerflash]

I hope he's not worried about it. That sounds very important.

[beardstrokes]

[ He softens a little. ]

I think it hangs over him sometimes, but Anakin has an amazing tenacity to survive the worst outcomes.

[flickerflash]

He's like a cat, then. I bet he'll manage in the end.

[beardstrokes]

[ He grins. ]

Like a cat, you know? Why?

[flickerflash]

I have a cat that gets herself into all kinds of messes, but she always comes through in the end. And strays are especially good at it.

Do you like cats?

[beardstrokes]

I don't have any strong feelings for them. I haven't spent much time with cats in general.

[flickerflash]

You should fix that! There's a cat on the fleet, you know.

[beardstrokes]

There is? I'm afraid I have yet to meet them.

[flickerflash]

Well, I think so, anyway. It visits Koala a lot. She told me.

[How far can she push this.]

[beardstrokes]

She never mentioned it to me, but I'll keep an eye out for it.