The Perk- Sunday morning

[solo_sword]

Jaina had meant to set out to see if the junkyard was still underwater, 'cause she had a droid to work on and was missing some key parts, but she'd gotten a little turned around in town and and ended up outside the coffee shop. And she thought, well, there weren't many people around, and she had always wanted to try caf... Her dad told her she

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[noearsyet]

The good smells led George into the coffee shop. He was sniffing around hopefully, well-aware that someone was going to throw him out of the shop very quickly.

The shopkeepers didn' like it when a lad wandered about.

[solo_sword]

"Hi!" Jaina greeted him, waving from where she was blowing on her coffee again. Maybe that would make it taste better, when it was cool. "You want to try the caf- coffee, too?"

[noearsyet]

He nodded eagerly. "Tis yummy? Won' they be mindin'?"

[solo_sword]

"It's... a grownup thing," Jaina said diplomatically, because she was determined to decide this tasted good. "I asked for directions and coffee and they gave me both!"

[rocksthescarf]

Yes, Chuck required more caffeine. He was not, however, going to order anymore cookies. He got enough of those yesterday. "Tiny Jaina. Nice to see you again."

[solo_sword]

"Hi," Jaina greeted him, smiling. "They gave me coffee."

[rocksthescarf]

Those mean, mean baristas. Clearly they didn't care that Chuck had to live in the dorms with these tiny people. "That's a very grown up drink. How are you liking it?"

[solo_sword]

She opened her mouth to talk about how great it was, then decided just to say what she was actually thinking. "I don't know what's wrong with coffee drinkers' mouths that they can stand this stuff."

[momslilassassin]

Ben wasn't much of a talker at this age. But he could wave excitedly with the best of them.

So that's what he was doing.

[solo_sword]

"Hi!" Jaina greeted him, waving back. "Did you get lost and need help finding your home too?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben shrugged. The nanny droid hadn't found him yet so he figured he couldn't be that lost.

He pointed inquisitively at her cup.

[solo_sword]

"It's coffee. It's not as good as caf," she said. "I think. I've never had caf but it has to be better."

[colourfulscents]

So, Angua had accidentally widdled on the carpet, which was why, now, there was a wee little girl trying to manage a very obscenely large cup of coffee. She figured it was the least she could do to try to make it up to Mister Vimes.

Of course, though, everyone knew coffee was actually really, really gross, and so she had also managed to get a chair over to the station with all the fun packets of sugars and creamers of flavour and what have you, climbed on top of it, and started making the coffee more like something someone would want to drink.

Too bad more sugar and creamer was making it onto the counter than into the cup.

[solo_sword]

Jaina had discovered just how gross coffee was, yes. Which was why she was coming over to find anything that would now make hers less sweet. "You've got the right idea," she said knowingly.

[colourfulscents]

"Thanks," said Angua, smiling over at the other girl. "Would you like some? This one's got a flower. An' this one's got a nut. This one's got a big mug of something and this one's got peppermint. This one hasn't got anything all, except words. This is another flower one. And here's another peppermint. And this is sugar. And this is the other sugar. And this is the sugar that doesn't taste like sugar. And this is another one with the nut. And..."

She could go on...

[solo_sword]

"That's okay," Jaina said, kinda getting that this girl could go on for a while. "What would you recommend?" She so thought she was a grownup.

[weetuskenraider]

The crayon radio notes that Tahiri had read last night had said that Jaina was here. But she'd only met Anakin's older sister a couple of times and didn't know how to find her using the Force yet, so she wasn't exactly looking for Jaina when she wandered into the Perk. And anyway, that girl looked like she was Tahiri's age or younger, so obviously it couldn't be her.

"Hi!" Tahiri said anyway when she saw her, wandering over in her bright orange jumpsuit and bare feet, wide green eyes sparkling with excitement kill me now it shouldn't be this easy to channel JJK prose. "I'm Tahiri, what's your name?"

[solo_sword]

And Jaina was years from the Academy no matter how many times she tried to take Uncle Luke's lightsaber apart, so this name was new for her. "I'm Jaina," she said. "Want some coffee? It's really gross."

[weetuskenraider]

"Why would I want it if it's gross?" Tahiri asked, frowning, and went on without even stopping for breath. "That's not a very smart way to talk me into having some, if you're going to tell me right off that it's gross. And you can't be Jaina. You're not big enough!"

Because, you know, it wasn't like either of them had height issues already or anything.

[solo_sword]

"I am too big enough, I'm eight!" Jaina protested. This weekend her height issues weren't so bad, since Jacen seemed to be about her size. But after this weekend.... "And I'm not trying to talk you into anything, I'm just offering."