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Caritas - Monday evening [Open]

Jolee had slept allllllllllllll weekend. And into this evening.

Which is why he opened up the bar ridiculously late. Tino didn't open it up earlier because Jolee had given him the night off just so they wouldn't have to deal with each other for the night.

[OOC: I'm getting this up ridiculously late for perfectly legitimate IC reasons. Really. I'm around for another couple hours.]

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The zombies started playing at the normal time. They don't care whether or not the place is open on time. They're zombies. They're gonna do whatever.

Jolee was back there with a glass of water for himself. The remaining T1 droid was also available. Jolee had a kill switch for it, though. When he was closing up, that thing was being shut down from a long distance.

Jaina had actually passed by about twice beforehand, worried when she saw Caritas still closed, and was happy to see on the third try that it was open. She took a seat at the bar, greeting Jolee with a smile and a "Hi."

"Evening," Jolee said. "I don't know what's better, three straight days of sleep after last week, or getting out of that damn bed after three straight days of sleep."

"Call it a tie?" she suggested. "So you're feeling better?"

"Much," Jolee said. "I feel like I'm only seventy years old now."

"I guess that gives me a little more insight into your actual age that you've still refused to tell me..."

"Not really," Jolee said. "I'm actually younger than seventy. But I felt about a hundred and twenty by the end of Friday."

"You did pretty well for a virtual one hundred and twenty-year-old," she admitted.

"Don't give too much praise. I stood back and let you and your family do the hard work," Jolee said.

"You hit him with lightning," Jaina said, just a simple statement of fact.

"From behind while he was distracted," Jolee said. "I don't think he saw that one coming. Or anyone else, for that matter."

"Not really," she admitted. "I'm not used to seeing it used by one of the good guys."

"There's a good reason for that, too," Jolee said. "I take a balanced view of the Force. Embrace your emotions, but control your passions. A power like Force lightning comes from a place of passion. Sith are able to use it more easily because they let their passions for death, fear, and pain run wild. Jedi rarely even try it because it acknowledges that they even CAN have passion. But if you can check that fire inside of you, it's entirely possible to use power like that without giving yourself to darkness. But there's a trade-off. It takes way too damn much out of you."

Jaina paused, considering this. This whole thing was making her think of Kyp way too much for her liking. "I know people who take the stance you do. But I don't think I'd trust them to keep themselves in check."

"I wouldn't trust most people to keep themselves in check," Jolee said. "Of course, I don't trust most people to do anything worthwhile, so that's probably not surprising."

"Good point," Jaina said, having to conceded that one. "So that took three days of recovery? Or was that just the week in general?"

"No, that's the reason I didn't lift a finger again to help until everyone else had done the hard work," Jolee said. "But I'm old. Being electrocuted for for even longer than you young people's going to take a good, long rest to recover from. Rest and herbal remedies. And some healing tricks I know. But mostly rest."

"Anything you still need?" she asked. "Well, besides the rest."

"No, I'm fine," Jolee said. "Believe it or not I've actually dealt with worse than this."

"I believe it," Jaina said. "I think it comes with the Force-sensitive territory."

"I usually think it has more to do with signing up to fight in wars, then taking some time off for smuggling," Jolee said. "So I'm counting this one as a fluke."

He practically sounded like a family member. "I didn't know you were a smuggler," she said.

"I had to find some way to help people after the Order left me," Jolee said. "And when I had some time to kill as a Padawan. And when I wanted to in direct violation of orders from my teachers."

"I wasn't the best student." He said that with pride.

Jaina smiled briefly, but asked, "The Order left you?"

"It's a long, boring story for another time, but yes. That would be why I take offense to Anakin's boy calling me 'Master Bindo'," Jolee said. "Officially, I never made it past Padawan."

"Oh," she said, getting it. "I don't think Luke really realizes. He's really only used to dealing with Masters."

"He's probably not used to dealing with former Jedi either," Jolee said. "He seems like a good kid. I'd owe you if you got him to cut it out with the formal stuff that doesn't even apply. I'd prefer it if I were able to like him."

"I'll do what I can," she promised. "I should be going. I just wanted to check in."

"Thanks for doing so," Jolee said. "Stay safe on your way back. I don't want to see any of us kidnapped for a second week in a row."

"You too," she told him, waving as she headed out of the bar. You know, with her lightsaber on her.

Nothing interesting there.

Just a zombie ear.

Slightly late.

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