the weather vane will say it smells like rain today

[lancifolium]

WHO: Lily Evans & You!
WHEN: Throughout early June
WHERE: The farm mostly for now, hopefully branching out to the woods, the trials, etc.
WHAT: A catch-all! Some farm and forest based things, maybe the trials will make an appearance (hopefully)
WARNINGS: None so far, will update as needed

( starters in comments, both open and otherwise, feel free to hmu if you don’t see anything that suits either via pm or on plurk, or toss starts my way, whatever’s clever. if brackets are more your thing i’m good to match format. )

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[sergeant_slick]

"Got it in one." Lily might not be from the Republic, but it looked like she understood. No convincing required. That was... a much bigger relief than he'd anticipated. It probably showed.

"Anybody calling themselves a Jedi comes down here? Don't trust them. Beings in brown and tan robes, mostly, armed with lightsabers. They pretend to be all about peace and justice, but it's a lie. They're deadly, and they can get into your head and start changing things if they really want to." Best to make sure people here knew, even if he wasn't sure how much of his knowledge of Jedi was their own propaganda about themselves.

It still felt unreal, being able to talk about the whole thing, like something he still shouldn't be doing if he wanted to keep safe. But if they showed up here? Nobody would believe him over them, if they got the first word on the subject. They were all serene mystical authority, and he was just a sergeant.

Just a sergeant, stuck on a planet that was getting weirder by the second. "In the lake?" He'd heard that right? In the lake.

"Guess you're lucky to have that magic, then." And he was staying away from any and all lakes until he got properly armed. The kid looked like it'd put her through a lot, magic or no. "Do you remember where you encountered this thing?" He needed to start drawing up maps or something, pull together the basic intel about what in the hells was going on here.

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"Jedi?" A beat pause. "What's a lightsaber?" The mental feats he described sounded far too much like the dark arts for her taste, and the thought of encountering someone who could get inside her head and change her thoughts, or her memories was chilling.

"It wasn't magic, it was," huffing out a determined sigh she pulled the arm of her sweater up to reveal the handprint-shaped bruise around her wrist. "There's something, someone maybe, at the bottom of that lake and they know how to hurt someone." Dropping her arm she looked back up at Slick and shook her head. "I don't know how it is I didn't drown, it's all so hazy, but I remember the way it held my arm while I drifted down there."

[sergeant_slick]

"It's a plasma sword, cuts through just about anything." Before he'd seen one, it had never made sense why the Jedi used them. But then it made sense: Lightsabers worked for them, and nobody else.

He wanted to ask her what it was she'd seen, back on--Ingland, was that the name of her planet? Wherever that was, it seemed like it'd taught her to think about these things in a way the Republic didn't allow. But the kid had enough on her plate already. It could wait a moment.

He raised an eyebrow at the bruise. "Well that's a new one." And disturbing. "No swimming for me, then. Any other injuries?" She seemed tough enough for a civvie, but there was no point letting someone limp around for no reason when--

Well, he didn't have a medkit with him, but he at least knew some basic field medicine and how to rough it through injuries without breaking yourself more, for whatever little that was worth.

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His description left her with the image of robed, severe people with glowing swords, bursting into rooms and seizing control of one's thoughts. It sounded very familiar to Lily, who frowned thoughtfully at the ground while she considered.

"No," she shook her head and let her hand fall back to her side, looking down at herself as if she were making a last-minute check for any damage.

"And you?" Still appearing very concerned for Slick and the plight of his absolutely massive family she looked back up at him. "How did you come to be here?"

[sergeant_slick]

"Good." And surprising, given, y'know, night in a lake. "I'd say you got lucky."

He didn't, though. "I messed up. A couple of officers found me out, and I got captured." There's bits of it that he can remember distinctly, but there's more that the head injury's muddled into a haze of half-formed memories and raw anger.

"The last thing I knew, I was getting shipped away to somewhere. And then," he waves a hand vaguely toward Sa-Hareth. "Just woke up in the prison down by the settlement there. Don't remember what happened in between. I guess they dumped me here. Don't know why. I was pretty sure they were just going to shoot me." He was a traitor. As far as he knew, that was a capital offense.

"What about you? I can almost make sense of why I'm here, but you seem like a good kid."

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Hearing that Slick's arrival was as hazy to him as a good part of hers still was, was almost a relief. That she still couldn't recall how she came to be at the hands of the people in the forest was just beyond the reach of her mind unsettled Lily greatly, it was reassuring that she wasn't the only one confused arriving here.

While he had gotten away with it a few times, being called a good kid finally caught her attention, and Lily's narrowed her eyes at him, suddenly amused.

"How old are you? How old do you think I am? You talk as though you were twice my age." It certainly sounded like he had been through quite a lot, regardless of how old he was, but the way he referred to her as though he were twice her age struck her as somewhat odd, and a little funny.

[sergeant_slick]

"I'm ten." Which was a whole other bucket of slime the Republic and Kaminoans had dumped on them, but at moments like this, it could be funny. "And I'm a sergeant, which is the part that matters. Everyone corporal and below is a kid."

"At least, that's how it is in the army." And technically, that wasn't him anymore. "I've got a lot of habits to break," He pauses for a moment, smirking. "Though I'm not sure I'm going to work too hard on that one. What d'you think?"