Kanan's Warehouse, Friday Morning and Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

Well, Kanan had figured after yesterday that he'd been pretty much finished with flowers for a while, since the apartment was hopelessly full of them until they had wilted enough to convince him that it was safe to throw them out without guilt, or something.

And then he'd shown up at the warehouse today, Stance trotting along at his side, to see... the giant pineapple built out of yellow roses and green carnations courtesy of Kaidan. And the much less insane bouquet of rainbow-spotted carnations with the card covered in quokka prints. He just buried his face in his hand and laughed helplessly for a few minutes. What the hell was this week, anyway? He made a mental note to bring treats to the T42 for the quokkas, to shake Kaidan by the shoulders, and to potentially go into business selling potpourri here on the island for the foreseeable future.

And then he made a point to pose Stance with the boquet of rainbow-spotted carnations tucked between his front paws - with very stern instructions to not eat the carnations - and sent the resulting photo to Rey and Summer both before moving the flowers up onto the top of some of the stacked crates so that Stance couldn't make himself sick by chewing on things he really shouldn't.

... There was really no meditating to be done with that pineapple there today, though. Running through forms with a practise sword would do, instead.

Huh. Had they moved?

[OOC: Open!]

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[thatwaslucky]

There was no early call today, because Rey was actually putting off doing that this week because she only had bad news and she didn't want to say it out loud. So, thanks for the cop-out.

This is perfect.

[uncertain_dume]

Thought you might like that. Stance says Happy Valentine's, though a day late. How goes it?

... The cop-out couldn't last forever, Rey. Sorry.

[thatwaslucky]

There was a long pause.

Not a great week. Yours seems better.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan frowned. That pause was...

Are you okay? What happened?

Well. It was damning, really.

[thatwaslucky]

Everything's fine. The ship is gone.

She never had any problem just doing something. Just saying something was another story.

[uncertain_dume]

Those... those were two very different sentences, Rey.

And so he was going to ask it again.

Are YOU okay?

[thatwaslucky]

That question actually confused her.

Yeah. It's just a ship.

She was okay. She wasn't even mad. It'd caused her to think about some things and now she was burying it all in denial.

[justice_undone]

"You got flowers too I see," Breq said as she stepped through the door. "And you cut your hair."

[uncertain_dume]

"The haircut was a bit of a lapse in judgment last weekend," Kanan replied, smiling wryly. "The flowers..."

He glanced at the pineapple and shook his head again.

"Well, they're definitely interesting."

[justice_undone]

"They're impressive," Breq said, her amusement not obvious to anyone who could only read her face. "At least the beard will grow back soon."

[uncertain_dume]

"At least the beard will grow back soon," Kanan agreed, sighing and smiling crookedly. With almost a week's worth of stubble on his face now, he was kind of beginning to look a bit like the drifter that he'd been pretending to be for years, now.

... Less pretending, more just was, maybe. After a certain number of years just wandering the galaxy aimlessly, you kind of had to accept that it was your lifestyle eventually. "And how has your week gone?"

[justice_undone]

"Not bad. I was lucky not to do anything stupid last weekend. We watched a movie in ballet class, so I could definitely do with some exercise."

There were other reasons too, of course, but Kanan knew that already.

[uncertain_dume]

He did. And he was going to just nod and acknowledge that without really calling attention to it.

"Well, then we'll put you through your paces today. I trust you've been working on your form since last week?"

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan showed up for sword practice looking as if butter would not melt in his mouth. He'd already seen the arrangements when he'd brought the swords back from Jack's theft yesterday.

"Stance! Buddy! Come here, boy! Did you get Daddy flowers too? Awww! That's so cute! They match your spots!"

Hi Kanan.

[uncertain_dume]

"Wasn't Stance," Kanan called, lowering his sword and shaking his head a little. "I think it was Dave."

The card certainly suggested it was Dave. And as Stance stampeded across the warehouse to say hello, Kanan just rolled his eyes and nodded toward the pineapple.

"And some other menace."

So mysterious.

[spectre_alenko]

It was probably Hernando, but Kaidan wasn't admitting that. "The cranky quokka sent you flowers that matched your dog," he grinned, "That's adorable."

It was.

Kaidan pretended to have no idea what Kanan was referring to. 'Other menace' indeed.

[uncertain_dume]

"Really, I'm just impressed the cranky quokka could afford carnations," Kanan replied, faintly amused.

Look, he also figured it was Hernando, but he was clinging to the illusion, here.

"And that he knows what Stance looks like."

Ah, these two, just not addressing the pineapple in the room.

[spectre_alenko]

"It's Dave. It's possible he just terrorized one of the students into giving them to him," Kaidan pointed out.

[uncertain_dume]

"Nah," Kanan replied. "That's too much effort. He'd have to actually find one of the students selling them, terrorize them, learn how to write so that they can be delivered to the right place..."

[unusual_sith]

"Kanan." Lana nodded as she stepped in.

She looked at the giant flower-pineapple. "What is that?"

[uncertain_dume]

"An abomination unto flowers," Kanan offered.

This was not untrue.

Stance didn't seem to care-- he was trotting over to say hello!

[unusual_sith]

"Hello, Stance." Lana knelt down to let him welcome her.

"Why is there an abomination unto flowers in the middle of the room?" she asked.

[uncertain_dume]

"Because," Kanan said, looking at the pineapple and laughing a little, helplessly, "because of pizza."

Stance was totally jumping up, Lana. Hi! Did you have a face? Could he lick it? He was gonna LICK THAT FACE.

[unusual_sith]

"Piz-ack! Yes, hello, Stance, hello!"

Congratulations, Lana was now very thoroughly licked.

She did her best to hold his face back by the ears. "You are the wettest land mammal I have ever met, you know that? Yes, you're adorable, and your tongue is a menace!"

[uncertain_dume]

"I'm sure he could be far more soggy if he had a mind to be," Kanan said, smirking a little as he watched his dog attempt to cheerfully bowl a Sith girl over. Totally normal stuff, truly. "He hasn't has his besh-aurek-trill-herf yet this week."

Just imagine the ruin that was the entire apartment when that dog tore through it before anybody could apply a towel to him.