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[canofmanji]

Who: Manji and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Vanquish and Iskaulit
When: During the day

[Manji had seen Katie had left on the roster. He checked after hearing Makie had left and saw her name listed there. Still he waited another week before returning to the ship, half expecting them to come back.

He quietly looks around Katie’s abandoned room as if to assure himself she’s really gone before picking up an item and walking out again to return to the Iskaulit. It has been more of a home to him then the Vanquish has been. Which is why when he makes his broadcast it’s in the garden on the Iskaulit.]
Katie is gone if you haven’t checked the rosters. Don’t know if she left anyone anything as I didn’t check, but you can look at her room if you want. Sorry. I guess. [He’s really not good at this sort of thing.

He thinks he has turned the broadcast off as he tosses the communicator down on the ground. Maybe he did and it’s turned itself back on, but either way it gives a crocked shot of Manji standing with the item he stole from Katie’s room: her lightsaber.]
How’dcha turn it on again? [He gives it a couple wags in his hand before the beam erupts from the handle as Manji yelps in surprise.] SHIT! [At least he didn’t stab himself with it this time? He turns the handle over in his hand several times.] There we go.

Comments

[oratorical]

[okay that? that has her attention. Not so much the announcement about Katie leaving, because she'd been aware of that, but the lightsaber. That's new and she can't help but notice how similar that looks to, well, the lightsabers she's seen.]

Where did you get that?

[canofmanji]

[Crap. That thing is on again. Manji doesn't answer right away as it takes him a couple tries to turn the lightsaber off and stow it back into his kimono before he can come over and pick up his communicator with the one arm that he has.

Leia will also probably notice that the lightsaber is a bit smaller than most. Almost as if it might have been made for someone with much smaller hands. Like perhaps a child. It also will not look exactly like the lightsabers from Leia's home. Instead it looks more like someone tried to make one of their own using parts from what they could find around the fleet and on different planets. That could be why this lightsaber glows a faint yellowish white colour when it's turned on.] I didn't steal it. [Said every thief ever.] I'm just looking after it.

[A friend of Katie's? Is she going to try to take it from him? Over his dead body! He had to put up with Katie as a captain for nearly a year! He deserves at least her cool sword.]

[oratorical]

[To be fair, Leia's extensive experience with lightsabers is limited to only one in particular, and even then she hasn't really examined it. She's just more seen it a few times, probably even held it once or twice. So any differences between standard lightsabers and Manji's newly-acquired toy aren't something she notices.]

It's not very reassuring when that's your first response, you know.

[canofmanji]

Don't care. It's the truth. Besides, Katie's not here right now to miss it anyway. [Hard Manji.] Why?

[action]

[shroudedsecrets]

[She'll just quietly lean against one of the columns in the garden while he plays around trying to figure out how to use the weapon. When did she materialize there? Who knows. It's not as if he was difficult to track down.]

[oratorical]

[Harsh, but well. It's not like it's something she can argue when it is true, as much as she enjoyed talking with Katie here.]

It looks similar to something that a good friend of mine has back in my galaxy.

[Have? had? Probably still have, since there's at least two she knows of still in use. Tenses are hard with Jedi things.]

[canofmanji]

Oh yeah? Well, I can't tell you if she stole it to begin with or not. [That's not what Leia is saying, but that's what Manji is hearing.]

[action]

[canofmanji]

[Manji plays with the weapon a bit longer, jumping when he gets it to work. The first time he played with this he cut himself and it hurt really bad. One of the worst pains of his life. It's shortly after that is when he notices he's not alone.

Ah, crap. It's the one person who might have a legitimate claim to this weapon.] What do you want?

[action]

[shroudedsecrets]

[It's almost a treat to have at least one person to mess around with.]

What an excellent question.

[action]

[canofmanji]

And I'm still waiting on an excellent answer.

[action]

[shroudedsecrets]

You will just have to guess.

[action]

[canofmanji]

My guess is to piss me off. If that's what it is then you can fuck off because it's not going to work. [Although clearly it was already working at least a little bit.]

[action]

[shroudedsecrets]

[The smallest of shrugs.]

It would take very little effort to do that, but that is not it. Try another?

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[canofmanji]

Well, I doubt that you're not here to cry to me about your sister being gone. Because you came to the wrong guy for that.

[shroudedsecrets]

For someone who despised her, it did surprise me to hear that you would take the time out to announce it.

[She had already known, of course.]

Or were you hoping to keep something of hers for yourself as a reward for doing so.

[oratorical]

I didn't say she stole it.

[Manji what is your fixation with theft....]

What I'm wondering is if there was a planet the Fleet visited somewhere that had this sort of technology available.

[canofmanji]

She made it hard to like her, but for some reason some people did. Thought they outta know is all. That's all it is. [It's not that a part of him had started to grow a little fond of her or anything.]

And if I was hoping to keep something of hers for a reward I would have done it the first moment she left. Hell, if all I really wanted was something she had I would have just taken it and not said anything at all. [He has a feeling she's trying to allude to the light saber that he's hidden away in his kimono so he tries to steer the conversation away.] Just no one else had done it yet so I did.

[canofmanji]

[BECAUSE HE STOLE THIS FAIR AND SQUARE AND IT'S HIS NOW, OKAY!?]

Sorry, I can't tell ya that. She had this long before I showed up here. [But he can understand the feeling of wanting something familiar so he does feel a little bad he doesn't have more information for her.] Probably best to ask someone who's been here longer.

[shroudedsecrets]

That is quite an honorable intention.

[She's not buying that story.]

Do you always feel a need to justify yourself completely to others?

[canofmanji]

Only when people are accusing me of somethin' I didn't do.

[shroudedsecrets]

Seems like you must get accused quite often.

[She had made no avert accusations. He was just sensitive.]

[canofmanji]

[Manji snorts. Already tired of this game.] If you got something to say to me then say it. Otherwise we're done here.

[shroudedsecrets]

[The slightest of shrugs.]

I would like to see what you took from her.

[canofmanji]

[Manji stares at his for a bit. Silently debating if it would be worth the trouble of just walking away, but in the end decides against it. He pulls out the handle of the light saber for her to see.]

[shroudedsecrets]

[She's a little surprised he's acquiesced to that much.]

Have you considered that the weapon may not have been made with the intent for it to be held by one with hands your size.