Kanan's Warehouse, Friday Morning and Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

It felt kind of weird to be getting back into the swing of things on the island again after a week of travel. Even after a few years around here, Kanan's mind kept falling back into old habits, where a change of scenery meant a change of pace, meant something new and whatever it was that he'd needed to be in the last place in order to get by was long behind him.

And that was the point he was choosing to meditate on this morning as he took a seat on the floor of the warehouse.

In the afternoon, it would be lightsaber training as usual. His morning was going to be spent remembering how to be a Jedi in the first place.

Again.

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[thatwaslucky]

And here was Rey, once again calling to interrupt that.

At least she was back to around her normal timing.

[uncertain_dume]

Which still kind of broke Kanan's heart, honestly.

"Afternoon, Rey," Kanan greeted, shaking himself out of his meditation. "How go things this week?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Not too much. I'm on a break." No big deal, just sitting in a Star Destroyer. "Are you back from your trip?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah, got back a few days ago," Kanan replied, glancing around the warehouse. "Falling back into the swing of things, now. It's always a little strange to go somewhere for a while and then come back again. Too many years on the move, I guess."

[thatwaslucky]

"What's strange about it?"

She'd jumped right back into old habits upon getting back to Jakku, this was new to her.

[uncertain_dume]

"Used to change being a permanent thing, I guess. It's rare that I get to go back to the way things were before." Kanan's tone was wry at that. "You'd think I've been on the island long enough to shake that mindset, but apparently it still sneaks up on me sometimes."

[thatwaslucky]

"Some things are ingrained, I guess. Still, it's probably good to be back, though," she said.

[uncertain_dume]

"It's nice to sleep in my own bed again and spend time with my dog and not have to sit on a bus for hours on end every day wondering if one of the students is going to launch himself over a waterfall once we get to where we're going," Kanan offered. "So yeah, I'd say it's good to be back, even if there's an adjustment period there."

[thatwaslucky]

"...Launch himself over a waterfall?" Rey repeated.

[uncertain_dume]

"In a barrel," Kanan agreed. "Repeatedly. Once for every waterfall he could get away with."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm actually impressed," she admitted.

She'd be more impressed if she knew what a waterfall was actually like.

[uncertain_dume]

"I'm mostly just thankful we don't have to worry about that anymore. Just regular, everyday Beaker things."

It was a miracle the kid was still alive. Whatever Beaker had going for him, Kanan wanted in on that.

He'd make a ridiculous Muppet.

[thatwaslucky]

"It helps not having waterfalls there." Sadly.

[spectre_alenko]

It was Friday, Kaidan went to the warehouse for sword practice. Tilted his head a little at Kanan meditating again. "Is this becoming your new routine or is something bothering you?" he asked curiously.

He walked over to pick out his preferred sword and went to a clear area to begin practicing.

[uncertain_dume]

"It's not a bad routine to have," Kanan offered, glancing up at Kaidan and smiling a bit wryly. "Actually, I'm not setting aside nearly enough time for meditating, overall."

He pulled himself to his feet.

"... I am taking a little longer to get used to being back on the island than I'd like, though."

[spectre_alenko]

"No, I didn't mean to imply that," Kaidan assured him, "It was kind of a 'hey cool you're meditating more' thing, but I wanted to make sure that's what it was instead of anything else."

Kaidan processed that and asked, "Miss all the waterfalls? Don't try to make one. I have it on good authority that Jedi should not, under any circumstances, attempt to build waterfalls."

That whole thing would never not be funny. Not ever.

[uncertain_dume]

That... mostly just earned a confused squint.

Somewhere, Sparkle was laughing hysterically and didn't even know why.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan tried to suppress a smile at the squint. "Ask Atton about Mical's waterfall sometime. I got the story from Sparkle."

[uncertain_dume]

"... Master Mical... had a waterfall?"

Kanan was now torn, Kaidan. Because on the one hand, that sounded like a fantastic story. On the other hand, asking Atton would involve... you know. Asking Atton.

[spectre_alenko]

"Yeah," Kaidan answered, "But you should really ask Atton about it. Hey, so.. ignorant Jedi question. Atton's 'Master Rand', sleemo's 'Master Skywalker' - 'Master Mical'? Did the other Padawans call him that or is it a rank thing or.. does he just only have the one name?"

Kaidan idly wondered whether this was a question that was going to have Kanan go into teacher mode or make the little veins in his forehead throb but he felt it was a legitimate question and he honestly wanted to know.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan blinked.

".... I guess for all the records he kept, he never recorded a last name for himself," he mused. "But then, most of his histories don't even have that, it's The Disciple." He smiled wryly. "And he didn't correct 'Master Mical,' so I guess..."

He shrugged.

"Your guess is as good as mine."

Legitimate question! Or, at least, he was going to treat it as such.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan moved through the forms with slow deliberation as he processed that. "His histories that he wrote, or his histories that someone else transcribed?" he wondered.

He couldn't really see Mical referring to himself as 'The Desciple'. Though he could, without any effort at all, hear Atton calling him that. Hadn't, though. Atton had never called him anything but Mical. The only person he'd given a title to .. had not been Mical.

[uncertain_dume]

"Never asked that, either," Kanan admitted, frowning a little. "I had to ask every other question that came to mind, apparently. But we knew of him as one of our greatest historians. I always just sort of assumed it was him doing the writing."

[spectre_alenko]

"Huh," Kaidan said, thinking about it, "I mean, I'm sure he did the writing originally. It's just an idle wonder. Not worth bothering him with."

He worked the forms some more and then changed the subject. "Guess I'm starting self-defense classes for Hernando and Sparkle tomorrow. They got jacked while they were in New York."

[uncertain_dume]

"Jacked?" Kanan frowned a little bit more, then. "Are they okay? I mean, they made it back here, obviously, but..."

He spread his hands a little, then pulled his lightsaber from his belt and assembled it.

"It was bad enough to kick them into gear for self-defense lessons, clearly."