The Park, Wednesday Morning

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Kanan had made a grave mistake today. Kanan had wandered out beyond the Causeway, had actually explored some of the planet out beyond Fandom that morning. It had been pleasant. Uncomfortably pleasant. Aggressively pleasant. So pleasant that it had left him with sore eyes and a bit of a tic in one of the muscles in his cheek. Not to mention the

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Jalian noticed Kanan, but was happy to largely ignore him. She just wanted some time in the park away from all the bright, where she could practice her moves and run through exercises.

She nodded to him, though. And scowled a little at the dog.

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Kanan nodded back, smiling faintly. He'd given up on meditating a while before, and now he was mostly just content to sit on the grass and people watch while the puppy had little puppy dreams and kicked his little puppy feet.

"Morning," he greeted. "Looks like you've had better luck avoiding the bad spice trip beyond the island's borders than I did, huh?"

Lucky.

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"We went there for my class," Jalian answered. She scowled as she did a spin-kick and thrust. "I was nearly blinded."

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Kanan winced sympathetically.

"No just ducking out of that lesson to save your eyes, huh? I paid it a visit for all of ten minutes this morning. That was a mistake."

And now he had a dog.

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Jalian sighed. "The native species must have very poor eyes. Worse than most humans."

She made a feint and a strike, then belatedly added, "No offense."

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"None taken," Kanan replied, holding up his hands. "You'd hardly be the first person to talk down on human senses to me, I doubt you'll be the last. Anyway, we make up for it in other ways."

He smirked faintly as he watched her practice.

"And I can't complain if having bad eyesight means I got out of that place relatively unscathed."

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"I have dark glasses." Jalian grimaced. "They help a little. I won't be going back there again, though."

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"I don't blame you," Kanan decided. "If it's that overwhelming and there's no need to go there, there isn't really much of a point. Save yourself that sort of headache, limit yourself to the trees and the pink birds here."

Yes, he knew what they were called by now. He was calling them pink birds.

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Why shouldn't he? It was descriptive.

"If the island doesn't stop assaulting eyes soon, I will never be able to leave my room," Jalian said grumpily.

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"Between the constant daylight and this? I don't much blame you," Kanan admitted. "Maybe wherever it goes next will at least have a regular day/night cycle. I don't ask for much, island. Just the occasional nighttime."

He'd come to Fandom from Gorse. He wasn't used to this much light all at once!

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"I've tried mindspeaking to it," Jalian confessed, "but I haven't been able to."

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"Mindspeaking?" Kanan looked at Jalian with interest at that. "With... the island?"

Was that what that sounded like? Because that sounded like she was trying to talk to the island with her mind, to him.

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That was exactly what it was, yes.

Jalian shrugged. "It has a mind. We spoke to it a while ago, as well as we could. It was..." She went through several forms while she tried to come up with a word. "Different. Difficult. Not like a person. But I can't connect now."

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Kanan gave his head a little shake while he processed that. Alive, with a mind of its own, but at the same time, a machine, some kind of flying ship... There were so many things that apparently defined this place, Kanan really had no idea where to start.

"Well... how did you speak with it before?"

Maybe there?

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"There were several of us," Jalian said. "We connected to each other and to the island. She spoke in feelings and images, not in words. It took many of us to reach her."

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Kanan nodded, thoughtfully. That made some measure of sense, anyway, though it still raised more questions than he would ever dare speak aloud to somebody who wasn't also a Jedi at the very least.

He settled on, "So, there are a lot of people around here who can do that sort of thing?"