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tatooines & coruscanti
When: 5/21 aka 1/08 just barely before the intro log.
Where: Bus to theintro log venue.
What: We didn't want to clog the comments on the log with Anakin making sure that Tahiri is a functioning person on the log.
Rating/Warning: Warning for Tahiri may punch Anakin for SPOILER dying.
tatooines & coruscantiWhen: 5/21 aka 1/08 just barely before the intro log.
Where: Bus to the
What: We didn't want to clog the comments on the log with Anakin making sure that Tahiri is a functioning person on the log.
Rating/Warning: Warning for Tahiri may punch Anakin for SPOILER dying.
[ Alien planet. Sure, why not. Tahiri hadn't paid close attention during the presentation, didn't understand why anyone couldn't just grab a ship and leave, but she was having trouble actually caring about that at the moment. Well. She cared she just didn't see any urgency in worrying about it. It didn't feel like a kidnapping, not by Yuuzhan Vong or any other aliens, so. So there was that.
Getting shoved onto something called a bus, Tahiri takes a seat near the back and just... casually bonks her head against the window, leaning against the cool glass. She knows she should be more concerned or maybe excited (though who would be excited after being casually yanked from wherever they were to this unknown planet), but can't bring herself to quite care. All she can think is-- Anakin would be interested in this bus thing. and I wish Anakin could see this city. But Anakin is dead, so he can't. ]
Getting shoved onto something called a bus, Tahiri takes a seat near the back and just... casually bonks her head against the window, leaning against the cool glass. She knows she should be more concerned or maybe excited (though who would be excited after being casually yanked from wherever they were to this unknown planet), but can't bring herself to quite care. All she can think is-- Anakin would be interested in this bus thing. and I wish Anakin could see this city. But Anakin is dead, so he can't. ]
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Tahiri feels someone sit next to her, but doesn't look up until they speak. Then looks again great wild banthas what the fuck
It's impossible. It's Anakin. Has she completely lost her mind, now? It takes her a moment of staring, a rare speechless moment before she remembers how to use her voice. ]
Anakin...? [ Her voice cracks on his name.
She reaches out with the Force at the same time she reaches out with a hand to almost touch him. Is this real? ]
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Well, not okay by any stretch of the imagination - he can tell that much - but she's alive and that's important. He should feel the same in the Force as always, and he doesn't throw up a wall; there's no fear and anger in him right now though there is worry and remembered pain and sadness. ]
Hey. I thought you liked it better when I was the one who didn't talk that much.
[ It's a cautious prompt to get her to say more than his name, and an awkward avoidance of "so about that dying thing". He's seventeen, give him a break. ]
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But you weren't wrong about the violence, Anakin. With her free hand, she aims a punch for his gut. ]
Don't you start making jokes! And don't you dare go and-- and do what you did ever again!
[ She can't bring herself to say "die", afraid that if she does he'll stop being alive. She's also not sure she can let go of his hand, ever again. ]
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He tries for a grin, because - well, she already wants to punch him, but at least she won't try to kill him. It's a little weak, but he's hoping she won't call him on it. ]
I'll try not to make any more jokes. [ He...can't promise he won't sacrifice himself for others again at some point, though he'd like to avoid the necessity. It's just that if it came to a choice between a mission and himself - the people he loved and himself - he'll choose to lay down his life every time. ]
Are you okay? [ He means: you're not injured? He doesn't spot anything, but... ]
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Good, your jokes aren't even that great. [ Her voice still sounds cracked, but she tries to give him a grin as well. Tahiri notes he doesn't promise to not sacrifice himself again, which isn't surprising since Anakin is Anakin, but if the situation arises she won't let the past be repeated. She's not sure she could survive Anakin dying a second time. ]
Yeah, I'm fine. My arm was broken when-- [ we retrieved your body. She cuts off. Clears her throat. ] Are you okay? [ Since you were really dead. ]
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After ascertaining there isn't a break any longer, there's a pause and a nod. ]
Just a scar. [ Let's...not talk about how he's doing mentally, although he'd fully accepted his death and met it calmly, so he's better than he could be. Probably better than Tahiri. It's being alive again that's throwing him for a loop. ]
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A scar. [ That's better than being dead.
A pause. She's having trouble finding words to say-- again, a rare problem for her. But she doesn't want to talk about his death and at the same time wants to berate him for it but also wants to pretend it never happened but they clearly can't do that.
She finally releases Anakin's hand, just so she can wrap both arms around him, tightly. ]
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There's a brief second where he tenses when she leans forward - another punch? - but no, it's a hug. And while the pause lasts an instant longer, Anakin's soon enough hugging her back, perhaps a little too tightly. He hadn't expected that he would see Tahiri again - not for a very long time. ]
Hey, [ But he has no idea where he wants to go from there, what to say next; it just feels like one of them should be talking at any given time, and if Tahiri isn't taking up the task... ] I'm not going anywhere.
[ Not for now. ]
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You better not, or else I'll have to come after you. [ Don't go where she can't follow. Then you'd have to rescue her from rescuing you, and what a mess that would be.
Lifting up her head, in a lighter tone, ] Though, it looks like we're both going somewhere on this bus vehicle.
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He hasn't said the words "I died" yet, either. ]
Apparently. I hear there's going to be food wherever we're going - have you eaten recently?
[ He somehow doesn't think she has. ]
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Yes. No. Probably. Have you eaten recently?
[ ... the answer is probably no since he's been dead, and Tahiri regrets it. ]
Hopefully it's not weird food. Who knows what people eat here.
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There seem to be a lot of humanoids, so I expect there's going to be something we can eat.
[ Don't be picky, Veila. ]
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I would hope so! Otherwise everyone is going to be hungry. But I hope it's at least good, you know? It could be weird meat from weird aliens we haven't even seen, or processed differently, who even knows.
[ She doesn't really care that much about what they eat, but it's something to talk about. ]
Have you met any of these humanoids, or sensed anyone we know? I haven't, there's a lot of strangers.
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This question, at least, invites a pause. ]
Jaina and Jacen aren't around, but...
[ A tilt of his head to one side, as though listening. ]
...I think Mom's here. Can't sense anyone else. [ Han's lack of connection to the Force has always made him hard to find. ]
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[ Tahiri switches to looping her arm through his, keeping a hold on him. ]
Can you tell where your mom is?
why did i never reply to this
[ He'd know her Force signature anywhere. It wouldn't matter how much she'd changed, he thinks; Tahiri's been through too much with him for him not to be able to find her. It was easier this time than the last time, at least. ]
Anyway, if she's here, dad might be as well.
because you're mean
It's a start at least, so we aren't completely stranded alone on this place. Though I think we'd be fine just the two of us if we had to.
[ Neverminding that time they were with several people and SOMEONE went and died anyway. ]