Kanan's Warehouse, Friday Morning and Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

On the one hand, it was warm today.

On the other hand, it was raining. Kanan sighed as he walked outside, and by the time he'd made it to the park (which was really just across the street), it was clear enough that today was going to have to be an indoor day, whether he liked it or not.

You win, Fandom.

So if anybody needed Kanan today, he was going to be spending his morning doing his usual meditations in the warehouse. On his knees. On the floor. And his afternoon was going to be spent running through Soresu forms with his lightsaber.

Because routine was routine, okay?

[OOC: Open!]

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[thatwaslucky]

Speaking of routine, there was Rey's weekly call, even if it was a little earlier than usual.

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Early calls meant something going down later in the day, didn't it? Kanan tried not to muse too hard on that (or fret or anything) as he answered the phone.

"Morning, Rey," he greeted, pleasantly. "How goes it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"All right," she said easily. "I had to drive out farther today, so I have to be done earlier. It's not too early for you, is it?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Too early? Nah, I was just getting settled in," and dried off, "for the morning. Heading out farther, huh? Get a good word on some new salvage or something?"

[thatwaslucky]

"More like some old stuff that got forgotten about," she said. "The sands shift things, hopefully I can get to more of it now."

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"Well, I'll send good thoughts your way," Kanan offered. "Hopefully the sand is on your side today."

[thatwaslucky]

"Hopefully," she agreed. "How are things there?"

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"At the moment, I actually have no complaints," Kanan replied, after a moment's consideration. "My first class wasn't a disaster," poor Sabine, though, "Skywalker is doing those weekly summer activity things, so we'll see how long it takes before something gains sentience and decides it isn't happy with us. The new students seem to be a decent lot, thus far."

[thatwaslucky]

"Tell me no one's winning a fish."

First things first.

[uncertain_dume]

"There wasn't a single prize to be seen this week, fish or otherwise," Kanan promised. "Skywalker did make us wear team shirts, though. I got puce."

Which still wasn't so bad. There were worse shades for his complexion than 'dried blood,' which was a color he used to wear on occasion mostly by virtue of being an idiot who got into trouble far too often.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't even know what that is," she admitted.

[uncertain_dume]

"Think that purple-red-brown color that human blood turns when you let it dry into your clothes," Kanan offered. "It's that. That exact shade."

[thatwaslucky]

"That is worryingly specific," Rey noted.

[uncertain_dume]

"I googled it," Kanan replied easily. "It's literally named after crushed fleas."

So, enjoy that mental image, Rey.

[thatwaslucky]

"So you had to wear the color of crushed fleas," she said. It wa grosser than blood!

[uncertain_dume]

"Either crushed fleas or flea crap," Kanan confirmed. Which really didn't make it much better. "Yep. The other teams got eye-blinding-green and an orange that didn't actually look like it was trying."

[thatwaslucky]

"And what did they have you do this week?" Rey asked.

[uncertain_dume]

"It was a relay race," Kanan replied. "I guess. I had to paddle a boat and steal a flag from some gulls, which at least is better than being the poor person who had to make somebody's ice cream order for them after knocking back something overly complicated from the Perk."

[thatwaslucky]

"That's... creative," she said slowly. "Could do without the gulls."

She liked them just fine but it sounded like it involved pecking.

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Eh, Kanan had cheated. Seagulls were still chattery little jerks, but at least they responded as well to a bit of communicating through the Force as any other animal around here.

"They were messy and loud," he mused, "but not the worst thing I've ever had to deal with around here. And more or less harmless."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey assumed that just meant other people got pecked.

"Did you win?"

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"Our team won," Kanan confirmed with a grin. "And the prize was that I don't have to wear puce anymore."

[thatwaslucky]

"Congratulations, I'm very happy for you," Rey grinned.

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"I'd say I won the greatest prize of them all," Kanan agreed. And then he barked a laugh. "And then I got to get my revenge on Skywalker for the puce by telling his grandson all about the fish last year."

So really, this had been a good week for him.

[thatwaslucky]

"Somehow it shouldn't surprise me that family members didn't know about the fish."

Because seriously.

[uncertain_dume]

"He mentioned the fish, momentarily, when introducing the games," Kanan noted, "but he left out all the important parts. Like how it was his damn fish in the first place."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not sure it was evil when he had it, though," Rey pointed out.

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"He did help me try to abandon it on the moon," Kanan offered.

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay, there is that," she allowed.

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"And he kept calling it back and passing it around to new people who hated it," he reasoned.

[thatwaslucky]

"Some people did like it."

Rey had had Kanan help her stick it in the freezer.

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"I think maybe Aphra did?" Kanan looked thoughtful. "Sidon liked the thing so much he kept it in the water the whole week..."

'Garbled waterlogged fish' had been a terrifying sound.

[thatwaslucky]

"I understand the reasoning there, aside from it not being an actual fish," she said.

[uncertain_dume]

"Is that reasoning, 'Sidon doesn't understand droids?'"

Chopper would've tasered him for trying.

[thatwaslucky]

"I was thinking more that fish generally go in water, but that, too."

[uncertain_dume]

"I almost, almost feel sorry for the fish."

... Except there really were better ways of establishing that one was sentient than attempting to murder everyone.

[thatwaslucky]

"I do, until all the attempted murder."

Remember this, Rey. For the future.

[uncertain_dume]

"I suppose there's some argument for how pain was the only thing it was ever taught through example, but that can't be right, either. I think? Like you said, someone liked that thing."

And Kanan still questioned their sanity for that, but... hey.

[thatwaslucky]

"That does make me feel bad about the freezer."

Sort of. She'd never trusted the thing.

[uncertain_dume]

"Considering it proceeded to stalk me for a full week after the freezer incident and the damn thing came back from the moon instead of savoring its newfound freedom in space... where it returned anyway after trying to kill us all... I'm less inclined to feel too bad about the freezer."

Fish was a jerk.

Kanan was also a jerk. Took one to know one?

[thatwaslucky]

"I never thought about it that way. It did have a hard time making up its mind," Rey frowned.

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"And never once did it actually try to tell us to stop before it went immediately to the murder option," Kanan added. "I'm pretty sure."

He figured he would have noticed. Maybe? Who knew. It was a droid, droids were tricky.

[thatwaslucky]

"People were busy setting it on fire," Rey pointed out.

[uncertain_dume]

"Or giving it magical healing powers and shiny new rainbow scales," Kanan noted. "And... presumably cuddling it while they slept at night in their water tank. Not everyone went with the freezer option."

[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe if we'd all cuddled it, it wouldn't have gone evil."

She would have never cuddled it.

[uncertain_dume]

"... I'm really not a cuddler," Kanan noted.

That fish would've been out of luck anyway.