meanwhile, on the ss babysitting duty

[resnipstance]

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

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[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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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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[diplomacme]

[ Padme meets Ahsoka's worry with an outward show of calm. ]

It's complicated. We should go somewhere a little less public.

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[Apprehensively:] Okay... lead the way, I guess.

[And then, under her breath--] ... I'm not going to like this, am I.

[diplomacme]

[ She can't dispute that, honestly. Padme leads the way to the Heron. Her pace is faster than usual, though the urgency in her movements isn't from suspected danger. ]

What's the most recent thing you remember just before you got here?

[resnipstance]

Anakin and I were just finishing up a mission and we got a communication from the Temple giving us another deployment... [That would be right. No rest for Jedi. But she doesn't know if that'll mean anything to Padmé, so she amends:]

The last time I saw you was-- last week, after we came back from Alderaan together. Right? [She isn't so sure anymore.]

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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.

[resnipstance]

Wait, they're not fixed yet?!

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

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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?

[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.