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Luke's, Sunday

Kanan really didn't have high hopes for Luke's when he came in today, but was pleasantly surprised to find actual pancakes on the menu.

He was a little more dubious about them when the cook refused to tell him how the hell he'd managed to find the ingredients for the damn things, but...

Okay.

He'd roll with it.

Welcome to Luke's
Today's Specials:
The Big One Pancakes

... But he wasn't going to eat one for himself. Thanks, no thanks.

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There was at least one person on the island guaranteed to actually eat the shit out of those pancakes and not even question it, and she was flouncing eagerly into the diner at just that moment. "Good news, BDG!" she announced upon plopping onto her usual stool. "Pancakes has finally grown out that third tail!"

It was a very momentous occasion. She'd been waiting for that tail to grow out for weeks now!

Oh, just-about-right Summer, you were messing with Kanan's head big-time.

"Uh, good!" He blinked up from behind the counter. "So now she can... uh." A pause. "What do cats use the third one for, again?"

The most he'd seen on a cat was about one and a half.

"I dunno," Summer shrugged easily enough at her own ignornace there. "Balance three times as well? Have three times the better chance of getting a tail all up in my face or somehow in my morning cup of coffee? All I know is I'm glad it's finally done because she gets so cranky when new parts are growing out."

"Yeah, new parts'll do that," Kanan said, after another beat. "So... uh... what's the grand total at now?"

Paint him a picture, Summer. Kanan would do his best to not look mildly horrified over your cat.

"It does get hard to keep track of them all, doesn't it?" Summer allowed, since, really, she felt Kanan should know, but well...not everyone could keep up with the finer details of your cat's mutations, okay, Summer?? "So there's the three tails, obviously, and of course you remember when she started sporting those spiky things on her shoulders. There's the one leg that got all scaly, I think because of some fish she caught one day, and I think she's up to...seven toes on all her feet except the one? The extra-long snaggle tooth, the third sort-of eye, and that weird little nubbin on the back of her head that I think was trying to be another ear, but kind of, like, got confused about what ears looked like. So that's...." She quickly recounted the fingers she was keeping track on. "....eight! Eight new things since I got her, that we currently know of. And it seems like, just when you start thinking she couldn't get any more bad-ass, here comes another one."

"Right," Kanan said, having no recollection of any of this, but totally willing to roll with it. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say she was just trying to turn into something from my galaxy. Scaly leg like a tooka, spikes and extra eyes like a nexu, that snaggle-tooth could very well be from a narglatch, maybe..."

Cats with extra toes reminded him of absolutely nothing at all, though.

That was still very much a delightful Earth sort of happenstance, really.

Summer grinned a little at the comparrison. "Maybe! Seems like she's doing a pretty good job of it, then, if that's the case, but now that only makes me wonder if a good chunk of the stuff in your galaxy are things that've mutated so long ago no one really remembers it anymore. Maybe your galaxy was once just as boring as this one, but then things got interesting with radiation like right now, and then, poof, millions and millons of years later, you've got your galaxy far, far away, all cluttered with the results of nuclear-powered evolution. It might explain why, even with how big and vast and varied it is, there's still a very strong presence of humans and still-pretty-human-esque humanoid species."

A bit more varied than some aliens that basically just looked like humans with extra shit stuck on their face, like some galaxies, but still!

Kanan reached up a hand and scratched thoughtfully at his cheek.

"I always figured that the near-human races were just naturally evolved versions of humans who had adapted to be better suited to the worlds they had settled on," he noted. "Some of them with, admittedly, decidedly more extreme adaptations than others..."

Lekku came to mind.

No reason.

Yeah, right, no reason at all.

"I would suggest that maybe humans evolved from something else, but that wouldn't make sense because we're pretty dumb from an evolutionary standpoint, especially compared to what else is out there," Summer mused. "But now I'm just wondering if there's a galaxy or dimension out there where everything is just literally a bunch of random crap just thrown together. Like someone took a big old bag of evolutionary traits, shook it up, and then upended it, and whatever landed together, stuck."

And of course a universe like that existed. Infinite possibilities!

"I mean," Kanan mused, scratching his chin thoughtfully, "I've seen pictures of some Earth animals."

Platypus? What was that all about?

Hey, now, Australia shouldn't really count, anyway.

Summer grinned faintly, at that. "I guess some of them can get really weird," she had to admit, "but, who knows? Maybe those ones aren't even originally from here, it's just no one around here knows any better to think that."

"Doesn't Earth have fossil records that suggest otherwise?"

There had been dinosaurs just the other week. Kanan had done some googling.

"Or are we leaning hard into 'only suggestions,' for that one?"

"Evidence like that could totally be planted," Summer pointed out. "Humans, especially Earthlings, are pretty dumb. I mean, geez, look around. We managed to pretty much trash the hell out of this planet in, like, all of five-thousand years or so, most of it just in the last couple hundred years. Those are pretty shitty optics."

Kanan hesitated for a moment at that.

"Frack, I can't even argue that one," he admitted. "Humans messed this world up pretty damn badly."

He'd have found a gentler way of putting that if it wasn't for the way this world had been beating him around the senses for an entire damn week.

Summer's expression couldn't seem to decide if it wanted to gloat for being right in her observations or apologetic for her whole dumb, stupid race, so it settled on something in between before she ventured, "But, hey, speaking of messing up things pretty badly..."

Nothing apologetic in that expression now.

"How'd that detention go for you, BCG?"

Yes, she emphasized the slight variation.

He was obviously Bus Cleaning Guy, now.

"For the crime I didn't commit?" Kanan rolled his eyes, looking faintly pained. "No powers, armed with toothbrushes, toothpicks, and tiny little paint brushes?"

He looked a little bit like he was contemplating packing up and leaving the island for keeps.

"I'm never teaching again."

Ha. See how long that would last.

"You keep saying things like that," said Summer, because no matter which half-cocked, slightly baffling version of this timeline she was coming from, some things apparently just didn't change, "and yet here we are. That doesn't sound too bad, though. Why didn't you just, you know, make the guys who actually did commit the crime do all the work?"

Kanan sighed.

"Skywalker was supervising," he pointed out. "And I figure foisting this back onto them is a great way to get them to try to steal my damn ship again."

A pause.

"It was tempting to throw them all over the Causeway and make them swim back to shore, though."

See how many tails they had when they came out again.

"Gross," said Summer, making a face just thinking about it, "but not unfair."

Of course, she was the teacher who based her entire cirricullum on forcing the grossest foods that were still (somehow) edible on her students, so her guage for that sort of thing was perhaps a little untrustworthy.

"And we know I'm nothing if not fair," Kanan replied.

It was meant to be a quip.

... But it wasn't untrue.

"I'd start plotting some sort of adequate revenge against them for this, but presumably I'm the adult in this situation."

"Presumably," snorted Summer. "And there is such a thing as a chain reaction, too. You try to retaliate, they're just going to up the ante on retaliating on the relatiation, and you've got a bigger fish to fry in that respect anyway."

A fish with dumb flowing blonde hair.

Kanan's life was just going to be one blond fish after another, really.

"True enough," he mused. "I do want to keep my eyes on the prize, there. No distractions."

"No distractions," Summer agreed with a delighted little smirk. Which was, really, entirely all just for Kanan, because she didn't even really know the Dean, she definitely didn't have any personal issues with him before, but noooooow?

It was too much fun to not be on.

"Eyes on the prize."

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