☾ Twenty-Seventh Sacrifice | Audio

[pathtosacrifice]

[From the sounds in the background, it's obvious that Catty is outside. Her voice cycles from being loud and up close to being distant and almost hard to hear as she paces along the edge of the apartment roof.]

These weird comas are almost like an affliction at this point. It'd just be better if Revan took their bodies. [She sounds calm enough as

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[sand_wormie]

Catty?

[pathtosacrifice]

Hey.

[sand_wormie]

Are you - [Dumb question.]

You shouldn't be alone. Argh. I mean...

Can't I help?

[pathtosacrifice]

I'm fine, really. [Lol, no she's not. But she will pretend until the end of time.] I won't be alone... Well, not today, I guess. I don't know.

[Wow, she is really great at pretending, huh?]

[sand_wormie]

[He can't always tell people are lying over the datapads, but this time?]

Tomorrow maybe? It's... just better not to be alone. I can be good company. Quiet or loud.

[pathtosacrifice]

Tomorrow's good! What would you want to do?

[sand_wormie]

Well... what would you want?

We could go out, I could introduce you to a hawk-bat I know, we could try and commandeer a speeder, practice shooting granite slugs. [Though Luke's not old enough to legally drive or possess a gun and he's rather horrified at the thought of stealing either. Maybe there's another way.]

Or I could just hang around. Bring something to fix. Practice meditation... I'm not much good at that yet. Tell stories. Not Mnggal-Mnggal stories, happier ones. And I'm not a good cook, but I don't burn most things, either.

So I guess... Do you want to be distracted, or do you just want company? Either's fine with me.

[pathtosacrifice]

I think I'm in enough trouble with the law as it is. [:'| She's still, technically, under investigation for terrorism.] But meeting a hawk-bat could be fun. And technically, I have a blaster if you'd want to do that...

[sand_wormie]

Okay. I should go talk to it, so it doesn't... think you're food, or something.

[pathtosacrifice]

Would... it think that, really?

[sand_wormie]

[He has to hesitate.]

Um... probably not, but it's better to make sure. Hawk-bats really just think of any living thing as one of four groups - prey, danger, other hawk-bats, and not important. They do eat people's bodies sometimes, and there's rumors of them hunting live people, but I don't think that's normal.

[pathtosacrifice]

[o_o] I think I'll bring my lightsaber. Just in case...

[sand_wormie]

Probably nothing would happen. It would need to bring like twenty hungry friends.

[Of course, hawk-bats like to live in flocks.]

...I should talk to it very carefully first.

[pathtosacrifice]

You're really the best at comforting, Luke. [But not really.]

[sand_wormie]

I'll have to work on it, I know.

[pathtosacrifice]

You have time, at least, to perfect it.