The Park, Friday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan didn't even want to know what might be lurking in the warehouse district this week. The scorpions had been one thing, the maniacs with implements of destruction? That was something else entirely. There wasn't going to be any meditation this week, but he was going to settle in and run through lightsaber forms, because if he was going to have to stop in the case of an attack, at least this way he was already well armed.

A little girl skipped by, singing a little singsong about angels.

Kanan left her and her protector be, giving the two of them a very, very wide berth. He had a deep, sinking feeling about the both of them. But then, he had that feeling about most of this.

Just a few more days. A few more days, and then... well. He still wouldn't complain about more dinosaurs.

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[thatwaslucky]

And here was Rey with her normal call, a little earlier than usual, not expecting that this would be a nightmare week back there.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan made certain to shut off his lightsaber so that he could sound at least vaguely like he wasn't sitting in some kind of dystopian horrorscape while talking on the phone today!

"Hey there, Rey," he greeted, putting his lightsaber on his belt and drawing his blaster instead. Just in case. "How goes it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay," she said. "I'm working at home today." If her voice sounded a little tinny, that's be why. "How are things there?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Well..." Kanan looked around the park. "The animals aren't talking this week, which is sad. But at least everything isn't radioactive?"

It was possibly worse? Kanan hadn't actually decided yet.

[thatwaslucky]

"Why does that still not sound great?" Rey asked carefully.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was quiet for a moment.

"It's beautiful," he offered, "if you ignore the people who have been so driven by their desire for drugs and power that they've become crazed cannibals?"

And the leaks. It was also beautiful if you ignored the leaks.

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh, the talking animals were much better," Rey frowned. "Where are you right now?"

[uncertain_dume]

"The park," Kanan replied. "... More or less. It's what's left of the park after you take the island and you cram it into an underwater city. There are plants, anyway."

[thatwaslucky]

"They're are cannibals and you're outside? Why is it underwater?"

So many questions about this one!

[uncertain_dume]

"Cannibals can still open doors," Kanan reasoned. "Besides, this way I can make sure anyone else out here has backup."

Kanan, you literally started this week with a sickle to the ribs.

"As for the why... hell if I know. Apparently we weren't under enough water the first time around?"

[thatwaslucky]

"That's why you reinforce things. Remind me to teach you how to make traps," Rey said.

Honestly, she would rock at this summer if she were there.

[uncertain_dume]

"I'd appreciate it," Kanan admitted. "Preferably something the dog's not going to trip, of course."

There would be so, so many traps.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'll send you videos once we're off the phone. You can adjust them how you like, I think," she told him.

They'd be very effective, in a desert-style Home Alone sort of way. But no one had ever successfully broken into her home.

[uncertain_dume]

"That'll be much appreciated," Kanan decided. "Considering how much this place has been changing lately, I'll want an option that's adaptable."

[thatwaslucky]

"How are you all holding up with all these changes?" Rey wondered.

[uncertain_dume]

"I'm basically at the point where I'm holding my breath every Sunday night wondering if I'll wake up again on Monday," Kanan admitted. "If this was me even a couple of years ago, I would be long gone and not looking back again, by now."

[thatwaslucky]

"There's an ending to this, though, I'm sure," Rey said. "Fandom always goes back to normal."

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah, sooner or later," Kanan agreed. "But when it goes on this long, I have to wonder if it's waiting for us to step in and give it a nudge or not. We still don't know if this is something the island wants, or if it's something else making it happen."

[thatwaslucky]

"How do you even find that out?" Rey wondered.

[uncertain_dume]

"Trust me," Kanan sighed, "if I knew that, I'd be looking into it by now. I can't exactly just ask the island, you know?"

A beat.

"Well. I can't expect an answer, anyway."

Another beat.

"I'll meditate on it."

[thatwaslucky]

"Do you think that'll help here?"

She understood even less about the Force stuff now than she did when she heard about it more, but it was still interesting.

[uncertain_dume]

"I have no idea," Kanan admitted. "But it can't hurt to try?"

He just wouldn't hold his breath expecting a reply.

[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe it'll surprise you?" Rey had no idea.

[uncertain_dume]

"If it actually answered, I would definitely be surprised," Kanan admitted. "But maybe I'll do that."

A beat.

"Sometime when I have the luxury of being able to sit around for a while without worrying."

[thatwaslucky]

"How long are you going to be out?" she wondered.

[uncertain_dume]

"Out today, you mean? A few hours, I suppose. I can't imagine I'm going to get anyone joining me today for sword practice, so I probably won't have to wait around for that, I could head back just about any time."

Just about, the real limit being his own stubbornness.

[thatwaslucky]

"But you'll wait a few hours." Sigh. "Can you at least fight them like normal?"

[uncertain_dume]

"The killers? Oh yeah," Kanan replied, "they're easy. They're barely human anymore. I've fought droids during the war who gave me more trouble."

[thatwaslucky]

"You say that way too casually."

Rey was a hypocrite who sounded way too casual about her own weird stuff!

[uncertain_dume]

"Sure," Kanan replied. And paused. "Which part?"

Probably all of it, Kanan.

[thatwaslucky]

"Mostly 'the killers are easy, they're barely human anymore,'" she answered.

But all of it.

[uncertain_dume]

"Ah," Kanan replied, pausing a moment. Considering that. "... It's been a long week."

It had been a long decade. And he didn't want to get into the ugliest bits of it, not particularly.

He'd seen a lot of ugly.

[thatwaslucky]

"Sounds like. Almost over, though. You can get through another couple days."

Like next week would be better.

[uncertain_dume]

Yeaaah, Kanan had Bad Feelings about... basically the rest of his life going forward.

"I can get through another couple days," he agreed.

Next week was going to somehow find a way to be worse.