driftfleet | 01 | video + action

Who: Barriss + OPEN
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: July 6, later

[ for all she really doesn't appreciate waking up somewhere entirely unknown, barriss handles it well. she checks for her lightsaber, then for any lingering effects of being drugged, and then for communication devices. ah. making sure it's not broadcasting, just in case, the green jedi spends her first few hours aboard the marsiva investigating what she can. it's not much, but methodically going through everything she can access makes her feel a little bit better, at least. she's solitary, for the most part, unless eye contact is made, as soon as it becomes apparent that none of these people are her captors.

nope, all kidnappees here.

it's only once she's established that that barriss goes back to the network, presenting herself for a clearly carefully worded message. ]

At this point, it's quite apparent that we're nowhere near the planet I was last on. In fact, this isn't known space to me. [ she sounds like that's a big deal. she may or may not have a good handful of star charts from home memorized, just in case. ] So we're captive, but why?

And more importantly, who does a person have to negotiate with to get back to Republic space?

[ she's pretty sure she can kick their ass if it means getting back to coruscant, she means. ]

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[It sure is convenient that everywhere in the galaxy uses a standard calendar. Oh wait. But that's good enough for him, actually.]

I'm from a good five and a half decades after that. But you must know Ahsoka and Anakin, then?

[ barriss opens her mouth to respond and then stops, startled. she was willing to accept time discrepancies on the whole, but to think that people she thought were relatively safe on a mission might be here is something different entirely. ]

I do, actually. You know them?

[Thinking the startled response is more likely to be because he's from the future, Finn relaxes a little.]

Sure. I met Anakin a couple times, but Ahsoka's my friend. She's teaching me how to use a lightsaber.

[ her response is a bit delayed, due to some internal screaming, but at least she manages to school her features into just looking surprised. this isn't the first time barriss wishes she had clear-cut guidelines for all of the ridiculous conversations the universe seems intent on throwing at her, and it almost certainly won't be the last. ]

Ahsoka's an amazing friend to have. I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were a Jedi, too.

[Lawwwwwl he's the opposite of a Jedi. Finn shakes his head ruefully.]

Oh, I'm not. But people keep handing me lightsabers. Figured it'd be better if I could learn how to use one right instead of just swinging it around when I didn't have any other weapons.

[Even if Luke had said that you need the Force in order to do that. Even if the other Jedi were pretty convinced he had the Force. It's still something he doesn't think he's important enough to be.]

Oh. That's... fair. [ someone who isn't a jedi but isn't a sith doesn't seem like the right sort of person to be using a lightsaber, but if he's ahsoka's friend, barriss knows she can't read him the riot act about the significance of a lightsaber. she's too far away - not to mention too fresh to the situation - to rightfully evaluate for herself. she covers her hesitance with a brief smile. ]

Ahsoka's techniques are aggressive, but very effective in battle. I'm sure her teachings will be incredibly useful the next time you need to swing a lightsaber around.

[Some day he might accept that there's something more to it, but for now his life's been in enough upheaval that it's more comfortable to repeat the story as he knows it.]

General Kenobi recommended her to me--he's here too. I really only want to know how to hold someone off long enough for backup to arrive. I'll be just as happy if I never have to use one for real again.

[And yet, knowing how unlikely that is, he's doing the training anyway.]

[ this just raises further questions. ]

You must get along very well with Ahsoka for both Master Kenobi and Skywalker to leave your training to her. I don't know if you've seen them all in action, but she takes after them in talent.

Anakin I haven't. But Ahsoka's more my speed than General Kenobi, I think. Plus I bet she likes not being the most junior one.

[Also, she's not nearly as intimidating. That helps.]

Anakin is... like a storm, in action. Make a point to watch him once, if he has to fight around you. [ even if she sorely hopes they have no reasons to battle here. sparring, perhaps. she knows that anakin and ahsoka used to do that, at least. ]

But I'd have to agree that Ahsoka probably likes not being the inexperienced one. The first time I met her, that's the very thing she was all bent out of shape about.

[Like a storm in action? Finn's eyes widen at the description. Yeah, he'd like to see that, all right.] I will. Probably in practice, though. This is a pretty mellow planet.

Heh, I bet. Me, I got no problem admitting there's a lot I don't know. Never saw any Jedi out in the Unknown Territories where I'm from.

Well, Finn, if you ever come across any questions that Ahsoka can't answer, or you'd just like to talk to someone else, I'd gladly make myself available for teaching.

[ she smiles a little as she continues, the barriss version of joking around: ] My interests have generally been more academic than Ahsoka's, though.

I will. Not that I'm academic, but I'm sure you know a lot I don't.

[Like, you know, galactic history with an entirely different set of biases than what he knows.]

And you have decades worth of knowledge that I don't. Which... I won't ask you about, don't worry.

[ the future is tempting, and omniscience even more so. barriss knows this full well, but she also knows the sorts of rhetoric surrounding time travel and knowledge of the future. so a good jedi just won't ask. ]

But I'm sure we'll find plenty of things to talk about. Every person is interesting in their own way, after all.

It's a lot to explain. [And none of it is good for the Jedi. Finn would tell if pressed, but he prefers to avoid the subject - not least because of his own upbringing.]

I think so, yeah. There's a lot to talk about here that has nothing to do with back home.

There is. [ since this is all still sort of bafflingly new to her, but this conversation has helped. at least she has some idea of what's going on and who to expect now. ]

You've been of great help already at catching me up to speed, Finn. Thank you.

No sweat. I'm over on the Caprine with my friend Poe--he's an X-Wing pilot--in case you ever want to visit.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

[ and a nice polite nod. ]

May the Force be with you.

[No matter how many times he hears it, Finn still gets a thrill from that phrase. Maybe some day he'll even feel worthy enough to reciprocate it.]

Thanks.

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