The Perk, Monday Afternoon

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Booored. Bored bored bored.

Bored.

Vette was, possibly surprisingly, bored. Out of her skull. She'd gone to her class today, sat through the weird flat holo, been given some food for thought, considered wandering back to her room. Hadn't. And now she was bored. So she'd gone for a walk. Sure, the weather was... not good today. She had twin rivers of water running down her lekku by the time she'd ducked herself away into a nearby shop, and not five minutes later she was sitting down by the window with a hot drink in her hands, watching the rain come down. The weather was still better than Ryloth, she would even grudgingly admit that the town was leaps and bounds better than Nar Shaddaa, and she was slowly warming up to the rain all the same.

All that considered, she still sighed as she settled in to people-watch. The drink name was totally misleading. Pumpkin spice wasn't spicy at all.

[OOC: Open post, soggy Vette!]

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[unusual_sith]

With all the wet outside, Lana was feeling...well, a bit like she was home. And desperately in need of something hot to drink.

So, here she was. Ducking in the door, nodding to Vette, and heading to get a coffee.

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Vette glanced up to see Lana, offered her a tiny twitch of a smile, and lifted her drink to her in greeting.

Sigh, pumpkin spice. Everything about you was a lie.

[unusual_sith]

Lana got her coffee and added a little milk, then came to sit at the table next to Vette's. "Were you as confused by that holo - or not-holo - as I was?"

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Vette considered that for a moment, tilted her head at Lana, and then shrugged.

"Confused? Not really. What did you find confusing about it?"

A documentary about a girl standing up to fight for people like herself who had been held back in life was kind of right up Vette's alley, really.

[unusual_sith]

"Why would anybody insist half their population be uneducated?" Lana asked. "That makes no sense at all. And how does that girl expect forgiveness to work as a form of revenge? If everyone just worked together and killed those Taliban idiots, it would solve the whole problem."

Lana had a lot to learn about Earth politics, apparently.

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Vette frowned a little.

"It's hard to kill an ideology," she said, simply. "You can kill off or enslave a group of people, but people like those... they're built on ideas. All it takes is one person remembering, agreeing, and it starts all over."

She sipped her drink.

"And that first question?" She frowned at Lana. "The answer to that one is obvious, isn't it? The less a person has at their disposal, the easier they are to control."

[unusual_sith]

"They can believe whatever they like," Lana said. "You can still kill them when they try something. And teach the others why they're wrong."

She looked at Vette. "I'm smart enough to know I probably have very different views from a twi'lek about slavery. Perhaps we should leave it at 'the Taliban are idiots'?"

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'Evil,' Lana. The word Vette would have used, quite readily, was 'evil.'

Still, she knew better than to argue with a Sith, especially not on that particular topic. She couldn't be rational about that one.

Wouldn't be rational about it. Rationality had nothing to do with the matter, and she owed a cool head to exactly nobody.

"Let's leave it at that, yeah," she settled on.

[unusual_sith]

"So," Lana said, "it's raining pretty hard today, isn't it?"

When in doubt, go with the weather.

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It was probably a safer bet than discussing slavery from an Imperial perspective with a Twi'lek.

"Yyyyyup," Vette agreed, looking out the window at the rain. "That it definitely is."

She was still pretty much soaked through, herself.

[unusual_sith]

"Do you prefer the rain or the sun?" Lana asked.

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"The smog," Vette said lightly. "I'm from Nar Shaddaa."

None of the above statements were true.

[unusual_sith]

Lana snorted. "You can't possibly prefer the smog. Nobody prefers the smog but hutts."

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"I dream big," Vette replied, keeping her tone easy as she shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe someday it'll be so thick even they'll choke on it."

[unusual_sith]

"We should all be so lucky," Lana said.

Hey, hutts they could agree on.