meanwhile, on the ss babysitting duty

[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka Tano, you
Broadcast: Video
Action: OUT AND ABOOT
When: 31st

ACTION
[Ahsoka is wandering around outside with her usual air filtration mask on, but something is different-- obviously different. This isn't the sixteen-maybe-seventeen year old girl of yesterday. This is a pre-teen. And she seems lost.]

... Skyguy? ... Master Kenobi? I know you guys are around! You can come out now...! "Prank the padawan" isn't funny any more...

[She shudders.] This planet is giving me the creeps.

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[The video is simple: a young, familiar alien graces the screen, except... something's off. Way off. It's not just that her clothes are different-- she's shorter, horns smaller, too. When she talks, her voice is more high pitched, and the cadence different too. Less... calm.]



Hey! Is everyone just okay with the fact that we can't go outside without air filters?! What sort of condition is this for people to live in? What's being done to help the local inhabitants? Or move them off-world?

I need to speak to the person or people in charge! Immediately.

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[diplomacme]

[ Padme has just finished shopping for supplies when she hears... is that Ahsoka? She moves toward the voice quickly and very nearly drops her bags when she sees Ahsoka.

Young. Fourteen. Exactly the way Padme remembers her. ]

Ahsoka? Ahsoka, are you alright?

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[resnipstance]

Senator Amidala!

[To say Ahsoka is surprised would be an understatement.]

What are you doing here? [It's not said meanly-- she's just taken aback. After all, Padmé doesn't often come on their missions with them... she's a Senator, not a Jedi.]

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[diplomacme]

[ Oh no. ]

Ahsoka, I've been here for five months. You've been here even longer. You don't remember the Fleet at all?

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[resnipstance]

Um... no?

[This only serves to make her ten times more worried. Anakin and Obi-Wan might be the type to make bad jokes every once in a while, but Padmé is not.]

We had tea together in your apartment only last week. Didn't we...?

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[forcesensitive]

[Finn squints at first and then looks excited - hey, it's another togruta, Ahsoka's going to be excited! He hasn't noticed it's broadcasting from her network ID yet okay.]

Hey! Uh, we're helping the government fix the terraformation machines so it'll clear the toxins. But I guess if you really want to talk to them, you can? It's been like this a while, though.

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Wait, they're not fixed yet?!

[ Her voice is indignant-- the injustice!! ]

[forcesensitive]

No, that's why it's all messed up like this. And they only just let us into the main core machine so we could check it out, but we did have a new template program in our files. So they're going to research and make sure it'll work instead of messing things up worse, and if it looks good, they'll implement it.

[resnipstance]

All right. Show me the way!

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[experiencepoints]

... Ahsoka? Is something wrong?

[Oh, god, please don't let this be what she thinks it is.]

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[ The look Ahsoka gives Nightingale is quizzical, and she tilts her head sideways. Little stubby nubs and all. ]

... Obviously something's wrong. Miss...?

[experiencepoints]

Nightingale.

[Deep breath. Okay, this has happened how many times, you can do this.]

I am so not drunk enough for this.

[resnipstance]

[This is a judging look. You are getting judged by a tiny.]

Why would you need to be drunk?

[action]

[nedstarksbastard]

[Horns, check. Facial markings, check. Height--a lot shorter.

Jon does not drop the snack he's bought himself in shock, but it's a very near thing. Until now he's been used to Ahsoka being about his age, and it's thus jarring to see her so much younger than he is. And acting so much younger too.

It's enough for his protective instincts to kick right in, and he almost forgets that he's wearing a gas mask that'd render him unrecognizable to most people.]

Ahsoka? [You are so small, what the fuck. He steps closer, holding his hands up so she can see he doesn't have anything in them besides his snack, still wrapped and vacuum-sealed in plastic.] Are you all right?

[action]

[resnipstance]

I... think I'm a little bit lost. [She looks none-too-happy about it, if the pout is anything to go by.]

Have you seen Master Skywalker or Master Kenobi? I swear, if they've left me behind...! All I did was take a nap.

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[nedstarksbastard]

[She's so young, she's as green as summer grass. Jon feels a moment's sympathy for her--he'd been that young too, once.]

I've not seen either of them. [True--he just doesn't mention he doesn't know who she's talking about.] Mayhaps they're looking for you right now. [That's a guess, and one made just to be reassuring at that.]

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka pauses, taking that in for a second. Well, that's got her stumped. What's the right procedure in this kind of scenario? She doesn't even know.]

How do you know my name, anyway? Are you our ground contact?

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[beardstrokes]

[ Obi-Wan tweaks his mask. He had been hoping to go take another look at those terra formers per Kirk's request when he spots a young Togruta. A far too young Togruta. ]

Ahsoka?

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[resnipstance]

Master Kenobi! [Ahsoka runs over to him, relieved.]

Finally. I thought for a moment maybe you guys had left me behind. What's the situation here on the ground?

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[beardstrokes]

[ He opens and shuts his mouth abruptly, a loss for words for the first time. ]

The . . . situation might be a bit more complicated than we last predicted.

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[sandhate]

[ NOOOOOOOOO. WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS BRATTY STAGE ALREADY AND HE PASSED. THEY PASSED. WHY ]

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[sandhate]

[ Clearing his throat before speaking: ]

Ahsoka... How are you feeling?

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[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka raises her eyebrow. Why does Anakin feel so far away? And why does their bond feel so weird? Obi-Wan and Padmé briefed her on the situation-- sort of-- but it doesn't feel right.]

Master? [For a second, she isn't sure how to respond to that-- her mind goes blank. Unsure. And it shows on her face. Instead, all she can think to blurt out is--]

... You grew out your hair.

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[steeledskin]

Lady Ahsoka? [ -- she seems a little more riled up than usual. hmm. sansa squints at the video, and believes she sees differences she can't quite name. ] Is anything the matter?

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[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka opens her mouth, about to go on another tirade again, when she pauses. Mouth slightly ajar, she stares at Sansa for a moment, realising that the other girl knew her name.]

... Sorry, I don't think I'm the Ahsoka you're looking for, Miss...?

[It's an obvious trail off; she wants a name.]

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[steeledskin]

Sansa. We're -- [ friends. but she doesn't speak the word. instead, the pain of being forgotten eats away at her tummy. sansa makes her face a mask. ] We know one another, here. Do you not remember me, my lady?