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[daddypond]

Um. Hello again. Or, hello for the first time, if we haven't met before. Rory Williams here. [Rory is looking rather confused, which isn't out of the ordinary. The camera is quite unsteady, which is.]

This may just be a silly question from the relatively new guy, but is it normal for people who show up here to suddenly be able to... do things

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[sand_wormie]

I hadn't thought of that. Hang on.

[Luke proceeds to make his datapad float, pulling one hand out from under while having the other half-raised. It's relatively steady, but then an expression of pure wild delight spreads across his face aaand he's gesturing and the videofeed is circling him and looking like something out of Cloverfield, since his 'grip' on an object with momentum isn't entirely certain. He's laughing, fairly crowing.]

I love it!

[daddypond]

[Rory would be more relived to find out that other people are doing this too.

Except he doesn't know what it is.] Yes- but what is it, and why can I do it too?

[sand_wormie]

Oh, sorry! [It stops... upside down. Good job, Luke.]

It's the Force. They say a lot of Outworlders end up with it somehow. I probably had it before.

[daddypond]

[He tilts his head a little, trying to get him right side up again]

But- [and this is where he has to stop because, for once in his life, there are too many questions] ...how?

[sand_wormie]

I have no idea. Isn't it amazing?

[And the grin fades.] You should... It's more than moving things around. It's feeling things, too. Maybe...

[daddypond]

But I'm grown up. Aren't people with the Force supposed to be found when they're little and taught properly? [someone has seen the movies too many times.]

[sand_wormie]

And I'm thirteen. I didn't know until I got here.

- Though I've always been kind of weird. Even here... well, whatever. I read a little, and if you don't grow up knowing they say you might never know.

[Ah, right, the datapad's upside down. Luke rights it, touches it, apparently skims a list or something.]

Are you... lucky? Do you sometimes know what's going to happen before it does? Weird things happen around you?

[daddypond]

[Weird things happen, but not because of Rory.] I- One of my best friends is a Time Traveller, and I've been travelling with him for almost a year now... I suppose that could have triggered something?

[He moves the datapad back and forth in front of him a little. Maybe he should ask the Doctor.]

[sand_wormie]

A time traveller? Like... huh. That must've been interesting. There are stories, here, but nothing anyone's sure of.

[daddypond]

That's what I thought too, until my friend turned up.

[But back to the matter at hand] Is there some kind of test I should take? To make sure this is the real thing?

[sand_wormie]

There probably are, but I've never heard of - um... well, I know one way. [He seems nervous, but also kind of excited.]

...yeah, okay. Rory? Can I try to Jedi-talk to you? It's not mind-reading, I promise.

[daddypond]

Um... Okay?

[sand_wormie]

All right. I don't know if you have to do anything, but... I guess hold still. Try to - I don't know, feel like you're expecting someone to knock.

[He puts the datapad down, closes his eyes, takes a deep breath. Luke has been practicing... and he learns these things quickly. He learns very quickly. So it only takes a moment before he's only vaguely aware of his body, and imagines that he's standing on the head of an impossibly huge krayt dragon. There are others on the dragon - well, everyone is on the dragon - but he knows who some of them are. It's a metaphor; he's fully aware that there's no dragon.]

[The metaphor breaks, of course, as he reaches out to what he's fairly sure is the right presence. It feels funny, layered in a different way than he's felt before, like there's something weighty and only half-there, wrapped up and threaded with a tang of yearning. Metaphors again, but less coherent.]

[Hmm. This isn't like with Jacen, who's a full Jedi. Luke... sort of brushes his presence heat two-suns small empathy excitement

[daddypond]

[Rory sits and waits, waiting for some kind of spiritual knocking and feeling incredibly silly about it

Until something is there. He doesn't know how he knows, but that's definitely Luke, or a feeling or Luke, or something. He wants to reach back to it, say hello- but he can't.]

That was pretty impressive!

[sand_wormie]

[Luke beams.]

That was the Force. You're Force-Sensitive!

[Ah moment of serious. This kid has such mood whiplash.] Make sure the local Jedi don't corner you. If you want them to train you, great, but if you don't you have to let them know. They can be pushy. [Mostly because Luke's potential is hard to ignore, but he doesn't know that.]

[daddypond]

[Rory grins with him and then- oh. No more grinning. Okay.]

Should I expect them to come knocking on the door?