The Gig, Sunday

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Once the horses had been fed for the day, Firekeeper and Blind Seer led them outside as usual. And, as usual, it wasn't long before Blind Seer and Duke began their game of chasing each other around the paddock.

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It was brownies, today, and the usual marrow bone for Blind Seer when Tahiri headed over to the Gig and straight out into the paddock.

"Somebody's having fun," she observed, handing over one of the brownies.

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"There is times I wonder if he is no still a puppy," she commented, taking the brownie gratefully. And, yes, neatly ignoring the fact that she acted puppylike herself sometimes, of course.

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Random wrestling matches in the grass probably didn't help much with that, did they?

"Enjoy it while you can," Tahiri opined, sprawling out in the grass. "Force knows, people keep telling me not to grow up too soon."

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"Why?" Firekeeper questioned. Her own views on puppyhood and adulthood were slightly skewed, given that she could remember a time when the One Male and One Female of her home pack were nothing but helpless little balls of fur. Despite this, because of the differences in the way humans and wolves aged, she (and they) considered them 'older' than herself.

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Tahiri shrugged. "I don't know. I haven't really been a kid, really, not in a while. But Master Skywalker says being an adult is no fun, and I guess he'd know."

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Firekeeper snorted. "I have been thinked of as a puppy for far longer than I like. They no think this anymore," planning a siege against the humans who had tried to colonize their lands would do that, "but is close enough in my memory that is not a thing I wish to be once again."

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Tahiri considered this, chewing on her lower lip until she decided the brownie was better for that. "Are puppies always considered helpless and troublesome? Or do they get treated a little more like adults when they get older? I mean, is it just like you're one thing until all of a sudden you cross the line?"

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Firekeeper nodded. "There is no being in between, like I have seed sometimes with humans," she said, thinking of her adopted brother especially.

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"Oh, well, that's where I'm getting confused," Tahiri decided. "How do you get to not be a puppy any more? Is there some kind of trial or something?"

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"Trial?" Firekeeper frowned, trying to remember what the word meant. "No. Not as humans think it, I think. When a wolf think they is old enough, they leave to make their own pack, or challenge current Ones for leadership," she explained, leaving out the part where failure at either of those usually meant death.

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The Yuuzhan Vong part of Tahiri's mind could fill in the omitted part well enough. "You and Blind Seer aren't with your pack now," she put in dubiously.

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Firekeeper nodded. "When Earl Kestrel and Derian comed north, the One Male telled me of the trust my human mother had placed on the pack, that they should let me learn of human things. So, I goed with them and learn many things before I find Wise Wolves on Misheemnekuru. Blind Seer and I was Ones of our own pack, there," she boasted, her grin fading slightly as she realized that Moon Frost's pups must be fully grown by now. She'd missed so much being here.

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Tahiri nibbled at her brownie throughout what was, for Firekeeper, a surprisingly long speech, then rolled onto her stomach in the grass with her feet up in the air. "So then . . . you're not really puppies any more, are you? At least in a way?"

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Firekeeper nodded. "Wise Wolves and Royal Wolves both is seeing us as adults now."

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"Well, now I feel behind the curve," Tahiri said, not complaining really although she was frowning slightly. "You and Blind Seer are adults, Jaina's a full Knight, Ben's one now too, and I'm still just an apprentice."

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"Is being knight like being adult?" Firekeeper asked. She'd only known the one knight back home, and from what others had told her, Doc wasn't exactly a typical example.

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"Pretty much. It means we're full Jedi, not just learning how to be Jedi, so in a way, yeah." Not that she was under any illusion that either she or Ben were actually adults yet. Tahiri shrugged. "It's not a big deal, anyway. I'm not good enough yet for that."

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Firekeeper nodded. "Being human and not adult is not same as puppy, anyway," she pointed out. "I know human children back home, and they is not treated the same as students here," another pang of homesickness, this time as she thought of Citrine.

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"And kids here don't get treated the same way as kids back home." Tahiri was blissfully unaware of the fact that most Child Protective Services bureaus on this particular section of Earth would have an absolute fit over her and most of her friends from back home, actually. "Most kids here aren't even allowed to drive until they're sixteen. That's insane. I guess it's different depending on where you're from."

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Firekeeper had to laugh at that. "Only thing humans is driving where I am from is horses. This was a thing I could do even when my human parents was alive." Not that she knew how old she'd been then, or now even, though Doc had once said she'd probably been about fourteen when the Earl's company had found her.

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"Most of the people I know have been learning to fly starfighters and speeders since they were old enough to walk." Tahiri rolled her eyes, clearly failing to comprehend why this was a concern for people in this galaxy.

Most of the people Tahiri knew back home had not had normal childhoods by any stretch of the imagination.