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It would be unfair to say that Kanan was in a mood today. He wasn't in a mood, damn it. He was just... wary. Not that he expected Darth Vader to pop out at any moment or anything. He was pretty sure the Emperor's protege had better things to do than lurk around this place, waiting for potential Jedi to come back from vacation. Not that he didn't think Vader wasn't going to send somebody to do just that if he had suspected Jedi activity on the island, either...

Basically, he'd seriously considered just not coming in to work today. Or ever again. Once they'd returned to the island, he'd actually gone to Portalocity again to try to shake them down for a portal home. Didn't even have to be a big one. He could leave the ship here, vanish from Gorse entirely once he was in the right damn galaxy, and pretend that the Expedient had been jostled somewhere between Gorse and Cynda and there just hadn't been anybody around at the time to watch as the load of baradium went boom. Easy.

Today's Specials:
Cider-Brined Pork Roast with Potatoes and Onions
Butternut Squash Soup with Ginger
Roasted Acorn and Delicata Squash Salad

The busboy set a cup of caf down in front of Kanan and he nearly jumped out of his own skin. Beyond that, the staff actually let him be. They'd been there when Vader had come in, too, and even they could see that there had been some issues, there.

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There are probably less jumpy people on staff today who would be happy to help you!

... Okay, but it's your funeral.

Thanks to a combination of laziness and the trip, Sarah didn't really have any food at her apartment. And she was heading off to London tonight, so there was no point in buying too much of anything right now, either.

So. Diner food. Possibly takeaway, but she hadn't decided yet. For now, she was just making her way in. "Anything good in the specials today?"

Oh, hey, there was a face Kanan was happy to see.

Preferable to Vader's by far, anyway. He gave Sarah a little smile, nodded his head a bit in greeting.

"Depends how much you like squash, I suppose," he shared, going for casual and managing at least a 'probably not too antsy today, really.' "The soup isn't bad, or there's pork roast if you're looking for something a little more filling."

Sarah would've been pleased to know she at least ranked above Vader. Not that she knew who that was, but it was the thought of being better than someone that counted.

"Not a fan of pigs so I dunno if the pork roast's for me," she mused as she came up to the counter. And actually took a look at the specials list for herself. "The fuck's a 'delicata squash'?"

In fairness, it was an easy bar to step over. But Sarah managed to rank higher than a good many other people on the island, too. They just weren't the ones that were currently on Kanan's mind.

"You ask me that as though it's my job to know or something," he said, smiling wryly. "It's definitely a gourd of some kind. I managed to gather that much while the staff was preparing the salad. Doesn't taste half bad, either. Like..."

He frowned a little.

"Actually, most of my comparisons aren't from this galaxy, so that doesn't help any, does it?"

"Not really," Sarah agreed, but she didn't look like she minded it a whole lot. "Guess I'll give that one a go. Even if it is kind of on the rabbit food side."

Eating healthy wasn't really her thing in the slightest, but then again, she knew London would be several days of nothing but junk. And also beer.

"But there better be a dessert with chocolate or cream to go with it."

"I will shake down the cook for something with extra chocolate and cream, just for you," Kanan solemnly swore, and then smiled faintly. "If you want, I'm about due for a break anyway. I can eat the mystery squash with you as a show of solidarity."

Also for the company. But, you know, solidarity was important, here.

Look at that, Sarah even quirked a little smile back at him. "I think I'd like that."

Sure, they'd been around each other a fair bit over the last week, and she was more on the anti-social side of things as a person in general, but she was also about to go away for a bit. Also, he was nice. Which was... refreshing, really.

"But if the squash is rubbish I'm putting it all on your plate."

"And if it turns out I've mislead you about the squash, I'll eat it all as penance and then whatever you get to make up for it'll be on me," Kanan decided, giving a little laugh that... well, it was much-needed, really. He flagged down one of the servers, and placed the order. "So, how goes it? Wishing you were still on vacation, yet?"

"Going back home to London for a bit, actually," Sarah replied, shrugging as she leaned against the counter. "Don't know if that counts as an extension to the vacation. Prob'ly not, but it'll keep me from getting stuck in my apartment for another week or so."

"Already, huh?" Kanan raised his eyebrows a little. "More paperwork? Or just visiting for visiting's sake?"

He really didn't know the first thing about London, beyond that Sarah was from there, but he really couldn't help but be curious, either. Or maybe it was nosy. One of those.

"A friend wants to go shopping with me," Sarah drawled, rolling her eyes. Because of the next part. "She doesn't really have any other women as friends."

Look at how excited Sarah was to go help out! Just look at it.

(She wasn't. She was going to bitch her way through it.)

Okay, Kanan kind of needed to bite the inside of his cheek a bit. His mouth wanted to smile at that in spite of him, and he wasn't about to let it get away with that impulse unchallenged.

"Ah," he said, attempting to hide that smile by putting a hand over his mouth. You know. Casually. "So she's got you going to another continent for the sake of a shopping trip, huh?"

Sure, portals made that easy, but still.

Sarah was giving him such a dry look for that attempt at obscuring his smile from her.

"More or less, yeah," she said, about equally dry. "I wouldn't go, but then I'd nver hear the end of her moaning about it."

Kanan would be sorry, but really, he had to take his amusement where he could get it, today.

"Ah," he replied, giving a knowing sort of nod. He... really had no experience in that area. There had been a girl on one planet who had decided after about a week that she'd wanted to marry him, once? He... left that planet. Fast. "So the best approach here is to just go along with it and then you're free until the next time, huh?"

"Pretty much." She shook her head, then shrugged. "Plus side though, get to go down to my regular."

And, y'know. See her friends, Jen included. But she didn't really like talking about that kind of thing, because she didn't really like admitting to having those kinds of feelings.

Functional adult, here.

"All my old favourite drinks I could possibly want. So that's something."

"Sounds like something," Kanan agreed. "I wouldn't mind having easy access to my corner of the multiverse these days. Even if I didn't stick around, I do miss Okadiah's cantina. Watch the bar, get free drinks... it was a good arrangement."

Sarah pulled a face. "Norsey would never let me watch the bar."

Yeah, because you already stole from the bar (even if it was just from the cigarette machines), Sarah. Not exactly trustworthy.

"But I guess we're even since I can still go to mine."

"We'll call it even for now," Kanan agreed, if only because he didn't think he'd be making it back home any time soon. Dammit, Portalocity. "But hey, if that ever changes, you can come along to the Asteroid Belt sometime. There's not much in the way of selection, and the cantina is on a stinking mudball planet on the side that's stuck in perpetual night, but it's definitely an experience."

In the way that a cantina patronized mainly by pilots and miners generally was.

"Dunno if space is really my thing ––" She had trauma related to it, like the fact that the love of her life had gone and left her for it. "–– but I could give it a whirl should the opportunity arise. Really prefer to get to know different cultures strictly through bars."

"Well, we'd be planetside, generally," Kanan noted. "Space is the part that doesn't involve having your feet parked on solid ground. But considering the way Portalocity isn't being terribly cooperative, the point is pretty moot anyway."

Give it time and eventually he might snap and pick up a gnome and start shaking the little bastard.

"I guess we'll have to see."

Sarah shrugged a shoulder. "Well, I tend to count everything not on Earth as space. Didn't really have a reason to think in other terms prior to this place."

Come to Fandom and expand your horizons! That should've been in the broschure.

It was amazing just how far those horizons could be expanded, really, wasn't it?

"Makes sense, I suppose," Kanan allowed. "People from Earth haven't gotten much farther than your own moon, have you?"

It was... well... 'quaint' was one word that came to mind. Kanan at least had the good sense not to say that part aloud.

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