Kanan's Warehouse, Friday Morning and Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

Damn it, weather. As if the rain wasn't bad enough, the island had to double down and add thunderstorms to go with it? Kanan was starting to wonder if he'd ever get to train in the park again, especially since he had a growing sense of unease, a combination of the usual uncertainty leading up to the influx of new folks on the island and that gnawing feeling that something was going to happen.

He hated that feeling. It was never a good one, but it was almost always difficult to tell if what was looming was a weekend spent in a hellscape world or a weekend spent with fur.

You messed with Kanan's head, Fandom, and it irritated him enough that he was skipping meditating to go right into Soresu forms in the warehouse, drawing a certain sort of calm simply from old, familiar movements and the rumbling patter of rain on the roof.

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[thatwaslucky]

It'd been a while since Rey has had a bad week, so she was definitely not trying to sound like it today when she called.

[uncertain_dume]

And Kanan-- well, he'd be happy for the distraction. And any week Rey could call had to be better than it could be, right?

He was going to tell himself that today until he was given cause to think otherwise.

"Rey," he greeted as he answered his phone. "Hey there."

[thatwaslucky]

"Hi," she said back. "How was your week?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Quiet, mostly," Kanan offered. "Everyone's off the island, nothing especially weird's been going on. It's kind of just... been."

Which, sure, left out that feeling he had, but hell, feelings happened all the time, right?

"And how about yours?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Quiet," she agreed. "Won a fight. Otherwise it's been slow."

[uncertain_dume]

There were a few beats of silence from Kanan's end before he zeroed right in...

"A fight?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Not a big deal. I didn't get hurt," she said, completely casually.

[uncertain_dume]

"Well, that's good," Kanan hedged. "Any fight you can walk away from..."

Someday he'd have to reconsider that line of thinking.

"... Was somebody getting into your business again?"

[thatwaslucky]

"He wanted a part I had, didn't appreciate I wouldn't give it to him, and I didn't have to give it to him."

And then she got underpaid for it, anyway.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan nodded a little, not completely surprised. Not thrilled, but at least she'd pulled through.

"You give him a sound enough beating that he's not going to try a stunt like that again?"

... Kanan was not a good Jedi sometimes.

[thatwaslucky]

"I always do," Rey assured him. "Most people know by now and just leave me alone."

[uncertain_dume]

"Good," Kanan replied, apparently leaning into 'proud Space Dad' mode for this one. "Give 'em hell when they try something like that. They can find their own damn salvage, lazy sleemos."

So Jedi. Much peace.

[thatwaslucky]

"Exactly! I've never stolen from anyone."

She also couldn't exactly blame people for trying sometimes, though, even if that didn't extend to just letting people have her stuff.

[uncertain_dume]

"I... have," Kanan admitted, after a momentary pause. "But generally from people who actually have it coming."

...

Generally.

[thatwaslucky]

"People do what they need to do," Rey said simply. "Just not when it involves my stuff."

[uncertain_dume]

"Well, yeah. You need that stuff. It's your stuff."

Rey had him beat hands-down in the morals department. But this wasn't really news to Kanan, no.

[thatwaslucky]

"Thank you. So at least that worked out."

Not well. It did not work out well.

[uncertain_dume]

"At least there's that," Kanan agreed.

He'd been having weekly conversations with Rey for long enough to know that the best he could really hope for is to consider an 'it could have been worse,' situation to be something of a win.

[thatwaslucky]

It'd get better someday.

"Why is it so quiet there?" Rey wondered.

[uncertain_dume]

"The spring semester just ended," Kanan offered. "So people are taking advantage of the break to travel, I suppose." He paused a moment, and then added, "I don't trust it."

[thatwaslucky]

"Wait, that's now?" She wasn't sure if she was more surprised that it'd been so long, or that it had come up already.

[uncertain_dume]

"That's now," Kanan agreed. And paused. And added, "Time's a weird thing."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not even sure how that happened."

She had a wall full of tally marks that she only vaguely knew the number of, it was so easy to lose track.

[uncertain_dume]

"I ask that question all the time," Kanan admitted.

It was generally about much uglier things than 'where did the spring semester go,' granted, but all the same. Time kept steadily marching onward.

[thatwaslucky]

"At least I feel like I haven't missed much," Rey considered. "Thank you for that."