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.

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[forcesensitive]

[Oh, good - that gets a look of relief.]

Yeah, come on. You been down to the planet before or do we gotta stop along the way and pick up a gas mask?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka holds up her gas mask in one hand.]

It was in my room when I woke up here. Thoughtful of them. [It's clear she's being a little sarcastic.]

[forcesensitive]

Lucky. I had to buy mine. [He holds up a heavy-duty mask he'd picked up for himself a while ago.]

It's about fifteen minutes ride from here. You got everything else you need?

[If so, buckle up!]

also i just realised the html in that link was borked whoops

[resnipstance]

Well, I wish I had my lightsaber...

But yeah, I'm good.

no worries!

[forcesensitive]

You and every other Jedi. The guns they give us aren't as good as real blasters, but there's not much on this moon they can't handle. We'll be fine.

[resnipstance]

[With a little bit of false bravado while she buckles up:]

Of course! I can handle myself just fine.

[forcesensitive]

[Considering there shouldn't actually be anything dangerous, well, he's inclined to believe her. Finn talks a bit as he navigates the shuttle carefully out of the cargo bay and down to the moon.]

So did you just get here?

[resnipstance]

That's right! I woke up on the Starstruck-- at first I thought Anakin was playing some kind of weird prank or training exercise...

[forcesensitive]

[Okay, now Finn's starting to look a little confused. It might finally be sinking in.]

Not the Marsiva? Most people wake up there.

[resnipstance]

No... [she seems to droop a little.]

Master Kenobi said I time traveled. Apparently I'm supposed to be older. Even though I don't remember being any older than this!

[forcesensitive]

Oh!

[He's quiet for a full minute, unusually for Finn, as he processes that.]

So how old are you now?

[resnipstance]

... Thirteen. --But you better not look down on me just because of that!

[forcesensitive]

That means I got a decade on you till you get older again. [Finn flashes a grin at her.] Course, you got all that Jedi training. Are you still good with a lightsaber?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka looks almost insulted.]

What do you think I am, a youngling? Of course I'm good with a lightsaber.

[forcesensitive]

[Finn holds up his hands helplessly for a moment before returning them to the shuttle controls. She looks like a youngling to him./...]

Honestly, I don't know when you learn all that. Never met any Jedi before I came here.

[resnipstance]

Never? Wow...

Your planet must be pretty remote.

[forcesensitive]

I wish. More like--I never got the opportunity. I mean, we were pretty isolated for a while, but I've been traveling more lately.

[resnipstance]

Oh yeah? Like where?

[forcesensitive]

Ever heard of Jakku?

[resnipstance]

That dustbowl? What's there to see over there? I heard it's even worse than Tatooine...

[forcesensitive]

I know, right? But my friend's droid got lost there, and then my other friend had to go back for--she never did tell me what. Anyway, places like that you don't see too many Jedi.

[resnipstance]

I'll say...

[forcesensitive]

And the rest of the time, when I wasn't in backwater junkyards, we spent out in the Unknown Reaches. So--yeah.

[He grins at her.]

It's good to have Jedi around.

[resnipstance]

What were you doing all the way out there?

[forcesensitive]

It's--where I'm from. All I knew for a while.

[He shrugs; it's the truth, just not the whole truth.]

Anyway, after I met my friends and we finally got away from Jakku, things got better.