The Park, Friday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

So it was a little wet today. It was warmer than it had been recently, and Kanan was over whatever that stupid bug was that he'd picked up over the weekend, and so he was out here today with his swords. The bamboo training sword and his lightsaber, yes. There were moments between bouts of rainfall when he'd pull out the bamboo sword and attempt to recall some two-bladed forms he'd touched on in lessons back when he was little, otherwise he had it tucked under the park bench to keep it from warping in the rain, and he had his lightsaber out on its own.

It was entirely possible that he took some comfort in the sound of the water hissing against plasma whenever the rain came close to the blade. It was an old familiar sound, one that he hadn't really heard since he was a kid at war alongside his Master.

Look, you find nostalgia in your own way, and Kanan will find it in his.

[OOC: I'm back, sort of. Hiiii. Open park.]

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey hadn’t planned to be out this long, but she really didn’t mind the rain, so she wasn’t exactly going in a straight line back to the dorms. And when she saw this, she stood off to the side a little to watch.

And gawk silently, shh.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was kind of getting used to being gawked at while he worked with his lightsaber by now, but this particular gawker was a new addition to the 'Friday afternoon staring at the glowing sword in the park' club. He considered that for a moment, and then decided to finish his Soresu forms - he only had a couple of stances left to go - before lowering his sword and turning to look toward his audience, offering her a little smile and a casual wave with his off-hand.

"Hey, Rey," he greeted, remembering her as one of the students from that class he and Hera had taught last summer. "Kind of a wet day to be taking a walk, isn't it?"

Said the guy training with swords in it.

[thatwaslucky]

“You should talk,” Rey said easily. “I didn’t mean to interrupt.”

[uncertain_dume]

"If you train with swords in the park, you have to be ready for a few interruptions," Kanan replied, shrugging his shoulders and glancing down at his blade, still hissing and steaming in the rain. "You ever see one of these before?"

Really, it could go either way, couldn't it? Pretty much half the people around here either knew what it was, or had made one of their own at some point.

[thatwaslucky]

“No. Only ever heard of them, really.” Aside from the occasional person being spotted carrying one on their belt, but that didn’t count. “There aren’t a lot of Jedi where I come from.”

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan gave Rey a wry little smile at that. Right. Got it in one.

"There aren't a lot of Jedi where I come from, either." The Galaxy was kind of like that, these days. "I guess around here, that doesn't seem to be a problem."

[thatwaslucky]

“I don’t think I’ve met more than a couple,” Rey said. Not that she met a lot of people in general. “Are there really that many of you?”

[uncertain_dume]

"More here than there were in my unit during the war," Kanan replied, shrugging his shoulders and deliberately leaving that reply somewhat on the vague side. "That's already more than I've seen in years. And I barely count."

He shut off his lightsaber and clipped it back to his belt.

"A handful of Jedi is better than none, though. I'll take it."

[thatwaslucky]

“Especially in a place like this,” she agreed, a little disappointed he was putting the lightsaber away. “When are you from, anyway?”

[uncertain_dume]

"Eight years after the end of the Clone Wars," Kanan replied, "if that means anything to you. We've got people from our Galaxy spanning a few thousand years around here, last I checked."

It, too, could go either way.

[thatwaslucky]

“All right. I think I’m about fifty years or so after you.” Use real years, Star Wars. “I wonder what’s so special about our galaxy that so many of us end up here.”

[uncertain_dume]

There was always BBY and ABY! But those were really only useful if you were from a point in the timeline where people knew what the heck the relevance of Yavin even was.

And then there was the Lothal calendar, but that was more or less useless unless you were living on Lothal.

"Maybe our galaxy is just full of interesting people," Kanan suggested, only half joking. "This place tends to pull in the exceptional. Or even just the exceptionally unlucky."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey knew which category she fell into. “It does make it feel a little more normal, I guess.”

[intotheout]

Tip was here, enjoying the warmer weather and not minding the rain in the least. She also wasn't nearly concerned enough about her bamboo practice sword warping. It honestly hadn't occurred to her.

"Are you making your own steam bath?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Something like that," Kanan replied, grinning a little. "Honestly, there's something about the way the rain hits the blade..."

Okay, no, he wasn't going to go running down memory lane today on that note. He shrugged and smiled sheepishly.

[intotheout]

Tip tilted her head and considered it. "Yeah, I can kind of see that. Like ASMR."

[uncertain_dume]

"I have no idea what that is."

It sounded kind of like a badly named droid or something.

[intotheout]

"It's --" Tip said, and realized she actually didn't know a precise definition. Or what it stood for. "Like, soothing noises. Stimulates some part of the brain or something."

[uncertain_dume]

"Like white noise?" Kanan was taking a shot in the dark, now. "Sounds you can meditate to, that sort of thing?"

[intotheout]

"Maaaaybe?" Tip said. "It was a whole big thing on YouTube a little while back."

[uncertain_dume]

"That's that site on the internet where people can just upload whatever weird vids they feel like, right?"

It was so hard to not say 'holo.' But there was nothing 'holo' about any of it.

[intotheout]

No, but some of it was pretty damn hollow. . . .

"Yep. You're getting better at your 21st century Earth pop culture."

[uncertain_dume]

"I have to do something to pass the time around here when I'm not waving a sword around or walking the dog," Kanan replied, smiling faintly. "I might as well spend some of my free time learning my way around the internet."

It was useful, in its way.

Depressing in its way, too.

[intotheout]

"You do other things?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Sometimes I also pester Hera at the scrapyard," Kanan confided, leaning in a little as if it was some sort of big secret. "She hasn't kicked me out yet."