Luke's, Sunday

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Today was actually a pretty normal day, at Luke's. The kitchen staff had gotten their weird animal costume thing out of their systems. Pancakes were being cooked. Nobody was trying to dress Kanan up in anything stupid. But there was some sort of family reunion event going on over at one of the tables at the far end of the diner. They'd specifically requested that the table be away from any windows in order to avoid injury for any of the family members, which Kanan had thought was a little weird, but at least he was polite enough not to say anything about it.

The kitchen staff was looking at him like he was a little crazy when he opened the door to let the family in-- a good many of them, tinier than most sentients that Kanan was used to, but dressed in little hats and scarves, and actually fairly polite. They ordered a few plates of pancakes to split between them all, and were happily minding their own business, beeping and chirping and being a generally adorable little family all the same.

Today's Specials:
Pancakes
Popcorn
Birdseed

"You, uh, know those are finches, right?" Asked the busboy, looking at Kanan a little sideways.

"Don't be rude," Kanan replied, glancing back at him. "They're some of the best behaved customers I've ever served."

[OOC: Open!]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Yo, BDG," said Summer, coming in quite a bit earlier than usual on her way to the causeway, bogged down with the largest suitcase she owned, a duffel bag, a backpack, and one of her bigger purses, "you can do shakes to go, right?"

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"We can do shakes to go," Kanan agreed, grinning and giving Summer a little casual salute in greeting. "You're heading off on the school trip, are you?"

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"Yup!" Summer said proudly, because it was so nice to be able to actually prepare and pack for a trip instead of just being flung wildly into something like back home. "So better make it a small. I don't know how well it'll travel through the portal, but I gotta have my shake, you know?"

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"It's tradition, at this point," Kanan agreed, making his way over to the shake mixer. "Chocolate, or did you want to mix it up today?"

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"Mmmmmm," she set down her bags for a moment to sit down, quickly glancing at her phone to see how much time she had; she was still probably good for a small visit. "Strawberry. That way I can kind of pretend it's somewhat of a healthy breakfast, because fruit."

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Kanan grinned a little.

"That's my favorite," he confessed. He was kind of a sucker for fruit, though. "And you can totally pretend it's healthy if there are actual blended strawberries in it, right?"

His logic was sound and nobody could tell him otherwise.

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Summer certainly wasn't going to even try. "Exactly," she said enthusiastically. "See, you totally get it."

She smirked a little, folding her arms on the counter and leaning forward while she waited. "So," she offered, "you think you'll be totally bored around here with probably more than half the population of the island shipping off to a foreign country, or you think you'll keep yourself occupied somehow?"

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Kanan grinned and reached for the ice cream. And the strawberries.

"I mean, I doubt Hera and I are going to stick around here all week when we could be causing hell back home for the Empire," he pointed out. "Boredom isn't likely to be in the cards. But I promise I'll heave a wistful sigh and wish I had some folks from the island around while I'm running and shooting blaster bolts at stormtroopers."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Awww, man," Summer said, with the expected sardonic lilt, snapping her fingers, "if I'd have known I could have gone and shot at storm troopers, I would have...." pause for dramatic effect, "still have gone to China. I mean, how many chances am I gonna get to go to China?"

Which was...a weird statement if you only thought about it a little bit, but if you thought about it more and remembered that Summer had been to more planets than she had other states, even...it kinda made sense.

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"I mean, any time we do a flying lesson and you want to make a pit stop on the way back from the moon," Kanan replied, smirking. "But besides that..."

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"Well, that's different," said Summer, "unless you're also throwing in an all-expenses paid resort visit in there, too. I mean, what the hell is that all about? Not that I'm complaining, but school trips here are nuts."

And she was a little pissed off that she'd only be getting two of them.

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"Yeah? Well, I'll have to live vicariously through you this time around, I suppose," Kanan noted. "I suppose this is what I get for not teaching for your last semester. I'm sure you'll take pictures, at least?"

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"Of course," Summer said, who totally didn't have another bag inside of one of her current bags that she totally didn't plan to stuff with souvenirs or anything, too. "Any time we do something cool, I'll make sure to totally spam you with pictures and texts to rub in your face that you're missing something really cool."

And then a thought struck her and her head tilted, "You know, they say you can see the Great Wall from space and next time we have a lesson, we are totally going to see if that's true so I can be all, 'I've totally been there!'"

[vdistinctive]

It was the start of break week, which meant things were about to be really quiet. Perfect time to go pester his favorite employee.

". . . Are you having some kind of bird party?"

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"Nah," Kanan replied, shrugging his shoulders. "The birds are having a bird party. We're just serving them."

Look, they were wearing little hats. Kanan couldn't be expected to assume they weren't sentient.

[vdistinctive]

How was it that after all these years Fandom could still surprise Eliot.

"Did they actually order the birdseed, or. . . ?"

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"That was the cook's idea," Kanan shared. "They just ordered the pancakes, though."

He shrugged. None of this seemed all that strange to space boy, here.

[vdistinctive]

Yeah, Eliot noticed that.

"They ordered . . . pancakes." Right. Okay. "They're not students, are they?"

Eliot had been a wolverine, you never knew.

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"No, they booked the table for a family reunion," Kanan explained. And then squinted a little. "You're looking quizzical, Eliot."

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"Birds don't typically have family reunions," Eliot said. ". . . In diners."

He had no idea what they did in trees.

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"... This is an Earth thing, isn't it?"

Look, there were thousands of sentient species where Kanan came from. Some of them were birds. It happened.

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"Nah, see, your trouble is this," he pointed to the birds. "Ain't an Earth thing."

Though considering that the squirrels reported the news and apparently required law enforcement was making that harder to say firmly that it wasn't a Fandom thing.

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Kanan glanced back at the birds. And then tilted his head a little as he processed that.

"Right," he said, slowly. "But neither is plenty of what happens here, exactly, is it? I was just talking about your hangup about avian family reunions."

Someday he'd drag you to his neck of the woods, Eliot. Introduce you to the Rishii or something. Though he supposed they didn't exactly have family reunions in diners, either.

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"It's not a -- I don't have a hang-up." Look, Kanan, you flipped when you found out dogs here had fur. "I just ain't seen it before is all."

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"You would get a kick out of where I come from, then," Kanan mused, grinning a little. "It's so easy here on the island to forget that the only really intelligent sentients your planet generally acknowledges are human."

Since the gremlins and the squirrels were, he assumed, native to the island. Or at least well established.