Wandering the Labyrinth, Friday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

It was funny, really. No matter how many times Kanan tried to get anywhere but the school, he seemed to wind up back at the school.

It had started out as an attempt to run a rescue mission, of sorts. If people were going missing, what better tool than the Force to help find them, right? And so he'd assembled his lightsaber, made certain there was enough ammunition for his blaster, and then he'd set out on a search for any... he didn't know what. Spheres that needed breaking? Kidnappers that needed shaking down?

He'd wound up at the school. Turned around, walked away from it, and wound up there again. Even stuck around for Rosa's class. He was there anyway, apparently this was what he needed to do, right?

Left.

Back to the school.

Left.

Back to the school.

"This is starting to get repetitive," he muttered to himself. And wound up, once again, back at the school.

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[uncertain_dume]

"The bad news is that the whole island has become a giant hedge maze and I think there are little people trying to kidnap everyone," Kanan offered. "And I left Stance at home."

Guess who was wandering the maze, Rey!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey paused. "Can't you just climb the maze?"

Rey was basically a monkey.

[uncertain_dume]

"I can jump the maze. From a standstill. The maze seems to have other plans, though."

Because jumping from here to there should have him headed toward the park. It should, damn it.

"... And I'm back at the school."

Sigh.

[thatwaslucky]

"So... Wait. What?"

[uncertain_dume]

"I know where I just was. I was on the side of the park opposite to home. All I had to do was cross the damn park, and then I'd be able to walk up to my apartment, go inside, maybe throw a ball for the dog or something. Jumping the hedge to get into the park shouldn't leave me standing outside the school again."

A beat.

"Or near the bog that seems to have bubbled up here."

It was... bad. The smell was bad.

[thatwaslucky]

"What if you did get atop the maze, and you could see where you were going? That doesn't help?" she wondered.

[uncertain_dume]

There was a moment's pause as Kanan turned around and... walked smack into the school's front door.

Not the most graceful moment he'd ever had.

"... Well," he muttered. "The good news is, my nose probably isn't broken."

[thatwaslucky]

"I heard that one," Rey said, wincing.

[uncertain_dume]

"That door wasn't behind me a second ago," Kanan muttered, reaching up to see if he could maybe at least staunch that bleeding. Ugh. He was going to have raccoon eyes from that one. "I'm going inside, at least while we're talking. I don't want to walk into any more doors."

[thatwaslucky]

"Is it like this inside, too?" Rey asked. "Or are there just fewer kidnappers in there?"

[uncertain_dume]

"The inside seems to be pretty straightforward, so far," Kanan hedged, cautiously stepping inside. "I'll let you know if I smack into another door, though."

A few moments later, "At least it smells better in here."

Seriously, what was up with that bog?

[thatwaslucky]

"It's a bit overkill to have a maze and a smell," Rey decided.

[uncertain_dume]

"You say that without even experiencing the smell," Kanan noted. "... I'm a little jealous right now."

Not even the nosebleed could save him from the particular odor of the Bog of Eternal Stench.

[thatwaslucky]

"There are plenty of other smells here, trust me," Rey assured him.

[uncertain_dume]

"Not like this one," Kanan replied immediately.

He'd smelled a lot of things in their galaxy, including himself after two weeks of being on the run, wading through garbage just to find food. This beat them all.

[thatwaslucky]

"Too bad you cant capture that in a picture."

She was okay not having smell-o-vision.

[uncertain_dume]

"... I'm not entirely certain this smell wouldn't transfer anyway," Kanan admitted. "The bog it's coming from is... uh..."

Flatulent?

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't think I need descriptors," she assured him.

[uncertain_dume]

"... Unpleasant," Kanan settled on. "Tell me you're doing better than I am right now?"

She probably didn't have a busted nose, at least.

[thatwaslucky]

"Nothing that exciting is happening here," Rey assured him. "There were Wookiees passing through for a day, that's the big news."

And it happened often enough to not be a big deal.

[uncertain_dume]

"Wookiees on Jakku, huh? I didn't think they cared much for the desert. They must've been on business of some sort?"

In fairness, Kanan didn't know many Wookiees.

[thatwaslucky]

"There are some that come through to trade with Unkar sometimes," she confirmed. "They're never around long but you can usually get some stories out of them."

She'd had to learn some things to understand them.

[uncertain_dume]

"I imagine they must've seen quite a bit, if they're in the habit of doing business on worlds like Jakku," Kanan mused. "You manage to get stories out of many traders out there?"

[thatwaslucky]

"A decent amount, when they're the type to talk. It's really the only way to find out what's happening anywhere but here."

It was how stories spread.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan considered that, and then gave a little, "Hmm," of agreement.

"I'd get a bit of that over the years depending on where I found myself," he admitted. "It's one of the reasons I enjoyed taking bartending jobs so much. You'd hear things."

It was a good way to keep an ear out for rumors on the movements of the Empire.

... It was also a good way to score free drinks.