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.

VIDEO
[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.

Comments

video

[experiencepoints]

... Ahsoka? Is something wrong?

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

[resnipstance]

[ 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?

[experiencepoints]

Because one of my good friends has apparently been turned into a child.

1/2

[resnipstance]

[Padmé's briefed her on the situation, but even so, it would be presumptuous to assume...]

... Wait, do you mean me?

[resnipstance]

--Hang on! I am not a child.

[experiencepoints]

You are absolutely, completely a child.

[resnipstance]

I'm thirteen. [She says, as if that demonstrates her point better than Nightingale's.]

And I'm a Jedi.

[experiencepoints]

Really? I was under the impression that you were still a... what was it? "Padawan"?

[resnipstance]

A padawan still counts as a Jedi!

Just... not a fully fledged one!

[experiencepoints]

And you're still a child.

What happened?

[resnipstance]

What do you mean?

[experiencepoints]

What's the first thing you remember in this place?

[resnipstance]

I just woke up on some ship here! I was getting some shut-eye on the Twilight on our way to our next mission and then-- all of a sudden I wake up on a different ship!

I thought it was a prank at first... or some kind of hazing ritual.

[experiencepoints]

Well... Okay, don't worry too much. In my experience, you'll probably only be here a day or two. A week at the most, I think.

[resnipstance]

A week? We can't wait that long. There are people in the Bestine Sector who need our help!

[experiencepoints]

It's okay. It's... a little complicated, but you can think of it like a little vacation outside of time. No time is passing back home while you're here.

[resnipstance]

Nice try. But I'm pretty sure time doesn't work that way.

[experiencepoints]

It doesn't. I'm oversimplifying to avoid freaking you out, and that is truthfully the basic effect of what is happening.

[resnipstance]

[If the pout is anything to go by, she doesn't seem happy with that. But she reluctantly accepts it. Petulantly:]

I wouldn't freak out.

[experiencepoints]

If you are half as excitable as you seem, then yes, you would absolutely freak out.

[resnipstance]

[WOW]

I can be not-excitable!

[Whose point are you proving here, Ahsoka.]

[experiencepoints]

[between that and the 'not a child' comment, I'm noticing a pattern.]

I find myself doubting that.

[resnipstance]

Fine. Doesn't matter. I'll just find out from somebody else.